The Top 100 Restaurants Near Gli Allocchi
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Rank 1. San Domenico
Classic Italian
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Rank 2. Da Gorini
Romagnolo Italian
A Michelin-starred restaurant in a small hill town in Romagna, where the kitchen leans hard on the grill: lamb, eel, and pigeon pick up smoke and char before anything fancier happens to them. The chef builds from local tradition, foraged mushrooms, game, and Mora Romagnolo suckling pig, then quietly pivots toward the unexpected. The kind of creative tasting-menu destination that gives you a reason to drive somewhere you'd otherwise only pass through.
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Rank 3. La Campanara
Regional Italian
Outdoor tables beside a village church, trees overhead, hills in the distance: the setting alone makes a case for driving out to this trattoria in a hamlet outside Galeata. The kitchen leans on regional cooking where Romagna, Marche, and Tuscany quietly overlap, so the menu drifts between traditions in ways that feel earned rather than confused. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, with a small shop selling house-made provisions on the way out.
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Rank 4. La Baita
Emilian Italian
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Rank 5. Casa Serafini
Contemporary Italian
Three tables face the kitchen directly, with a wood fire burning behind the pass, and those are the ones to ask for. This is a contemporary Italian restaurant in the Emilia-Romagna hills, run by a young chef who trained in starred kitchens before coming home to do things his own way. The menu comes in three versions, ranging from an open-handed tasting format to a vegetarian route, all built around a cooking style that shifts as he goes.
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Rank 7. Serrae Villa Fiesole
Contemporary Italian
Floor-to-ceiling windows frame Florence spread across the valley below, which is a lot to compete with for a Michelin-starred restaurant inside a boutique villa hotel. The open kitchen keeps things honest, turning out creative Italian cooking with a Tuscan accent, meat and fish alongside a serious vegetarian menu. The summer terrace, predictably, is where everyone wants to be.
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Terracotta floors, exposed brick, and shelves of bottles stacked floor to ceiling set the scene at this farmhouse restaurant outside Pontassieve. The menu moves between charcuterie, classic Tuscan meat dishes, and a few seafood options that keep things from feeling predictable. The wine list leans toward bottles that are considered rather than expensive, which is its own kind of statement in a region where the opposite is easy.
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Rank 9. Il Cedro
Tuscan
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Rank 10. Ristorante del Lago
Modern Italian
The drive up to Acquapartita, a mountain village at nearly 800 meters, is the first clue that this Michelin-starred restaurant takes commitment. The chef's cooking is rooted in Romagna's hills, mushrooms, trout, and game finding their way into modern plates with real conviction. The wine list runs to two volumes and nearly 1,600 labels, roughly 40 percent French, overseen with warmth by the chef's brother out front.
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Rank 11. Casa Rusticale dei Cavalieri Templari
Emilian Italian
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Tucked into the forests of Casentino, this contemporary dining room opens onto the trees through floor-to-ceiling French doors, so lunch arrives with a side of absolute silence. The kitchen leans into its surroundings, building tasting menus from the kind of ingredients a city restaurant would call a sourcing story and a local one just calls Tuesday. The crowd runs to couples who drove a while to get here and don't mind at all.
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Rank 13. Enoteca Pinchiorri
Contemporary Italian
A seventeenth-century palazzo on Via Ghibellina, frescoes on the walls and fresh flowers everywhere you look. This is formal fine dining at its most Florentine, and it holds three Michelin stars. The cooking leans on luxury ingredients and deep Italian roots rather than trend-chasing, and the wine cellar has a near-mythological reputation among people who care about such things. The soufflé from the pastry kitchen is the thing everyone mentions.
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Rank 14. Il Grifone
Contemporary Mediterranean
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Rank 15. Il Palagio
Modern Italian
The dining room of the Four Seasons Florence, all frescoed ceilings and impeccable linens, holds a Michelin-starred kitchen that doesn't lean on the grandeur as an excuse to coast. The menu moves between land, sea, and vegetable without a fixed ideology, with tasting menus that split between the chef's own ideas and a Tuscan-rooted version. The service is expert without being starched, which, in a room this formal, takes some doing.
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Rank 16. Benso
Contemporary Italian
A modern bistro tucked into a small garden in Forlì's historic centre, where the big windows and summer terrace do a lot of the heavy lifting. The kitchen runs contemporary Italian, with meat and fish dishes that lean personal rather than traditional. Lunch brings a lighter menu for anyone who has afternoon plans. Come evening, the cocktail list pulls real weight as an aperitif stop, and the digestif selection suggests nobody is in a hurry to leave.
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Rank 17. Trattoria 'petito
Romagna Italian
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Rank 18. Santa Elisabetta
Creative Mediterranean
The oldest tower in Florence, circular and Byzantine, holds just six tables on its first floor, lit by a Murano chandelier. That's the room, and it sets the tone for what comes next: a two-Michelin-star tasting experience built on Mediterranean cooking where the sea keeps surfacing in unexpected combinations. The chef's approach is deliberate and architectural, each course constructed rather than assembled. Book well ahead and dress accordingly.
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Rank 20. Atto di Vito Mollica
Contemporary Italian
A Michelin-starred fine dining room set inside a Renaissance palazzo a short walk from the Duomo, with sixteenth-century frescoes on the walls and a fountain you can actually hear. The kitchen leans into technique and balance over novelty, letting high-quality produce do the arguing. Service handles wine pairing and the closing coffee ritual with equal care. Dress accordingly.
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A Michelin-starred creative restaurant on the Arno where the chef splits his time between the open kitchen and the tables, wandering out to explain what he's just cooked and why it matters to him. Tasting menus or à la carte, your call. The wine list runs from solid contemporary labels to genuinely rare bottles from the '80s and '90s that serious drinkers will want to linger over.
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Rank 22. Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura
Contemporary Italian
A Michelin-starred restaurant inside the Gucci building on Piazza della Signoria, which is the kind of sentence you have to say twice. Massimo Bottura lends his name and his three-star sensibility to the project, while chef Takahiko Kondo runs the kitchen, threading Japanese instincts through an Italian frame. The tortellini in Parmesan cream is the dish regulars circle back to. Dress accordingly.
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A small L-shaped room tucked inside Hotel La Gemma, its walls done in an original green boiserie that somehow feels both old-Florence and quietly modern. This is a tasting menu restaurant, Michelin-starred, where the kitchen keeps each course to just a few elements and lets the precision do the talking. The cooking is creative without being showy, the kind of place where a goat's milk flan finished with aged balsamic vinegar makes complete, unhurried sense.
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Two tables on a narrow balcony hang over the Arno just past the Ponte Vecchio, and the waiting list for those seats tells you everything. Inside the Hotel Lungarno, this Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant serves creative meat and fish dishes with a quiet Tuscan undertow, across tasting menus and à la carte. The chef keeps things refined without tipping into ceremony, which is harder than it sounds in a room this beautiful.
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A bistro overlooking the Sant'Ambrogio market, which sets the tone for everything on the plate. The room is spare and the cooking matches it, straightforward Tuscan with flashes of imagination, the kind of place where squab turns up in agnolotti and feels like a completely natural idea. The wine list leans regional and runs across price points without making a fuss about it. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and a small terrace for when Florence cooperates with the weather.
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The lampredotto on the menu tells you exactly where you are: a no-frills Florentine trattoria sitting next to its fancier sibling, Cibrèo, without any apparent envy. The kitchen sticks to old-school Tuscan staples, the room fills fast with people who know not to look at the prices twice, and the Michelin Bib Gourmand suggests the value is not accidental. Go for the stewed offal or the vegetable soup, and stay for the caramel panna cotta.
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Rank 27. Da Burde
Tuscan
Part deli, part trattoria, Da Burde sits just past the western edge of the city where the tourists thin out. The front counters piled with charcuterie and cheese aren't just decoration; they become the starters. From there it's braised meats, grilled meats, and the bistecca fiorentina as a matter of course. The wine list is broad and personally curated. Book ahead, because the regulars have no intention of giving up their tables. A Michelin Bib Gourmand.
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Rank 29. Paca
Modern Italian
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Rank 30. Il Latini
Tuscan
Hams hang from the ceiling and bottles line the shelves, retrieved by staff wielding long tongs that slide along rails above the tables. This old-school Florentine trattoria has been doing Tuscan classics with no apologies for as long as anyone can remember: ribollita, peposo, cantucci with vinsanto, and a bistecca fiorentina that drives the bill accordingly. Michelin gives it a Bib Gourmand. The room is loud in the way a good trattoria should be.
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Counter seating on tall stools runs the length of the room, sushi-bar style, which makes for an odd first impression in the Oltrarno. The food, though, is straightforwardly Tuscan: a blackboard menu of ribollita, peposo, and pici that shifts with the season and whatever the chef feels like that day. No reservations at lunch, which keeps things lively. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand.
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Rank 32. Nugolo
Contemporary Italian
An open kitchen anchors this cheerful contemporary Italian restaurant near the Sant'Ambrogio market, where the menu shifts with the seasons and the cooking shows real precision without taking itself too seriously. The chef pairs duck breast with bao alongside the expected Tuscan touches, and the room's colourful furnishings match the energy of a front-of-house team that seems to be having as good a time as the guests.
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Rank 33. Cibrèo
Tuscan
The dining room feels like a private salon someone forgot to lock, all warm hush and gracious old-Florence manners. Cibrèo is a proper sit-down Tuscan restaurant that has been cooking the same dishes long enough to make that a point of pride, not a limitation. Pork liver with lemon, squab stuffed with mostarda, rabbit with sweet-and-sour onions: the menu reads like a letter home from a Florence that still exists here.
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Rank 35. Konnubio
Modern Italian
The table on the staircase books out weeks ahead, which tells you something about how Florence feels about this place. It's a modern Italian restaurant with an informal but polished room, and the kitchen runs tasting menus organized around land, sea, or garden alongside an à la carte menu. The cocktails get the same attention as the food, which is rare enough to mention.
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Rank 36. Akira Back
Fusion Japanese
The ground-floor restaurant inside the W Florence runs on pulsing music and a metropolitan buzz that feels more Tokyo-by-way-of-LA than Tuscany. Akira Back is the chef's Italian debut, and the kitchen plays with Korean, Japanese, and American flavors in a way that's loose and a little theatrical. Cocktails are the natural pairing here, and the bar leans into that obligation happily.
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Rank 37. Del Fagioli
Tuscan
The open kitchen greets you at the door at this old-school Florentine trattoria, which is either charming or alarming depending on how you feel about watching your lunch happen in real time. Pici, pappa al pomodoro, a proper bistecca, cantucci to finish: the menu is a short tour of Tuscan cooking done without fuss. Book well ahead, because the regulars have claimed their spots and are not moving.
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Rank 38. Il Gusto di Xinge
Contemporary Chinese
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Rank 39. Degusteria Italiana
Contemporary Italian
Tucked between the Uffizi and Ponte Vecchio, this small contemporary Italian restaurant earns its location without leaning on it. The room reads quietly chic without trying, and the kitchen applies the same logic to cooking: Italian ingredients handled with restraint, meant to settle rather than dazzle. A well-chosen cheese and charcuterie spread rounds things out, and the all-Italian wine list gives the Supertuscans plenty of room to make their case.
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The name nods to the old Florentine prison next door, and the chef leans into that with a dining room frescoed in gold leaf and a kitchen so open it practically pulls you into conversation. A fine dining restaurant tucked behind the Uffizi, serving creative contemporary Italian that moves comfortably between meat and fish. The crowd tends toward people who've done the museum and want the meal to match.
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Rank 41. Winter Garden Florence
Mediterranean
Carriages once rolled through the courtyard that now encloses this glass-roofed dining room inside the St. Regis, Murano chandeliers overhead and a pianist at the center of it all. The restaurant leans Mediterranean, with a kitchen that keeps things seasonal and unfussy, precise technique doing the heavy lifting. The aperitivo hour at the cocktail bar, ringed by sofas and armchairs, feels less optional than the menu makes it look.
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Rank 42. La Leggenda dei Frati
Creative Italian
Tucked into the Villa Bardini museum complex above the city, this creative fine-dining restaurant earns its uphill walk with a summer terrace where you eat among herbs and greenery with Santa Croce floating in the distance. The chef works through Italian culinary tradition with genuine curiosity, leaning on sustainable sourcing for meat, bread, and pasta. Several menus are on offer, including a vegetarian option, which feels less like an afterthought here than most places.
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Rank 43. Il Santo Bevitore
Tuscan
The wine bar vibe across the Arno in Oltrarno gives way to something that eats more like a proper trattoria: cured meats, ribollita, roast pigeon with beans, cantucci dunked in Vin Santo. The room is casual and convivial, the cooking faithful to Tuscan tradition with occasional nods to something more current. An old-school spot that locals treat like a standing appointment rather than a special occasion.
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Rank 44. Cuculia
New American
A small library of cookbooks lines the wall, which tells you something about the kind of dinner you're in for. This creative restaurant in the Oltrarno channels the feel of a French bistrot while the kitchen draws on Venezuelan, French, Spanish, and Italian training. Seasonal Tuscan produce lands alongside kombu and koji without any of it feeling like a pitch. Vegetarian and vegan dishes are clearly flagged, a thoughtful touch that rarely gets mentioned until you need it.
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Rank 45. Gunè San Frediano
Contemporary Italian
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Exposed brick, bare wooden tables, and beams that look like they were left that way on purpose, because they were. This contemporary bistrot in the artisan-y Oltrarno neighborhood runs a menu that moves between meat, fish, and vegetarian without making a fuss about any of it, the kitchen finding its own lane rather than chasing Tuscan tradition. The crowd that fills those two rows of tables tends to know exactly what they came for.
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Rank 47. Osteria Numero Sette
Emilian Italian
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Rank 48. Cucina
Tuscan
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Rank 49. Corbezzoli
Contemporary Italian
A garden frames the dining room through wide picture windows at this creative Italian restaurant tucked inside a hotel on Bologna's quieter side. The kitchen moves across vegetarian, meat, and fish dishes without committing to any single lane, and tasting menus sit alongside à la carte for those who prefer to graze rather than surrender the wheel. The baba with pastry cream and sour cherries has a reputation that precedes it.
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Just past Porta Romana, this small contemporary dining room keeps so few covers that booking ahead isn't optional. Rustic details share the room with generous floral arrangements, which gives the place more personality than its size suggests. A portion of the produce comes from the team's own farm of the same name, and the menu moves between meat and fish in a way that feels considered rather than arbitrary.
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Rank 51. La Cucoma
Seafood Italian
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Rank 52. I Portici
Mediterranean
A Liberty-style frescoed ceiling inside a converted 19th-century musical café sets the scene for this Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant on Bologna's grandest boulevard. The kitchen runs Mediterranean-leaning tasting menus in three lengths, and if the main room feels too grand, the 14th-century icehouse downstairs has a glass floor looking straight into the wine cellar, which is exactly as theatrical as it sounds.
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Rank 53. All'Osteria Bottega
Emilian Italian
Tucked down a side street under Bologna's porticoes, this trattoria treats Emilian cooking as a thing that doesn't need improving. Fresh pasta, cured meats, local wines, and a zuppa inglese with alchermes cake that closes the meal in the most unapologetic way. The room is small and warm, and it books out every day, so reserve before you assume good fortune is on your side.
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Rank 54. Antica Trattoria la Grotta dal 1918
Emilian Italian
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Rank 55. Da Bibe
Tuscan
A summer terrace shaded by old trees marks the edge of Florence where the city gives way to Tuscan hills, and Da Bibe has been feeding people from that spot for longer than anyone can comfortably remember. It's a trattoria in the old sense, with cured meats and crostini leading into pici al ragù and the slow-braised beef peposo. The sixth generation runs the place now, which means nobody's fiddling with the recipes.
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A tiny ravioli shop in a quiet residential corner of Bologna, where a Franco-Italian-Chinese couple cook what they call "migrant" food: Chinese dumplings alongside dishes that wander from Emilia-Romagna through the Mediterranean and into Asia. The menu changes daily with the market, seating runs to about twenty inside, and a few tables appear outside in summer. Book ahead, because this is exactly the kind of neighbourhood spot that fills up fast.
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Rank 58. Al Cambio
Emilian Italian
Parmigiano and mortadella turn up in nearly every corner of the menu here, which tells you everything about where this modern trattoria stands. The team calls their pastas "soups," a nod to old Emilian convention, and the desserts follow the same unambiguous logic. The wine list leans hard into Emilia-Romagna but keeps a surprisingly serious champagne section for when the mood shifts. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the bill makes that feel reasonable.
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Rank 59. Zivieri
Emilian Italian
The Zivieri family raises animals and grows produce in the Apennines, then drives it all down to Bologna and cooks it for you inside a medieval tower off Piazza della Mercanzia. It's a regional trattoria where the charcuterie and grilled meats are essentially the point, made from animals the same family farms. A butcher's counter next door sells the same stuff to take home, which feels either convenient or dangerous depending on your willpower.
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Rank 60. Trattoria Battibecco
Italian
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Rank 61. Sale Grosso
Mediterranean
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Rank 62. I Carracci
Contemporary Mediterranean
The seventeenth-century Carracci school ceiling sets the tone before you've ordered a thing: this is a fine dining room inside the Grand Hotel Majestic, dressed for occasions. The chef bridges Naples and Bologna with quiet confidence, a contemporary Mediterranean menu moving between sea and land. The sommelier is serious, but the cocktail pairings are the unexpected move worth noting.
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Rank 63. Oltre.
Emilian Italian
The entrance, plastered floor to ceiling with stickers, looks more like a record shop than a restaurant, and the surfboard serving as a table near the door keeps that energy going. Inside, it's a casual contemporary spot in the Mercato delle Erbe, serving Emilian cooking that wanders confidently into other traditions, most famously a Bolognese ramen built around tagliolino in mushroom broth. Cocktails are available to open or close the meal. Book ahead.
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Rank 64. Trattoria di Via Serra
Emilian Italian
Bolognina sits just past the point where most tourists turn back, which suits this no-fuss trattoria in Bologna's old working-class quarter just fine. The kitchen runs on fresh pasta and regional recipes done without flourish, the tortellini in broth being the kind of thing you think about on the train home. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand. Book ahead, including at lunch, or you'll be thinking about it even longer.
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Rank 65. Trattoria da Me
Emilian Italian
The sfogline roll fresh pasta right in front of you, and the extra lengths go straight to the adjoining shop. This Bologna trattoria keeps one foot planted in the old school, with Sunday lasagne alla bolognese made the way your nonna's nonna would recognize, and one foot pointed forward in lighter, more contemporary preparations. A heated winter terrace means there's always an excuse to linger longer than planned.
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Rank 66. Posta
Tuscan
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Rank 67. Trattoria da Amerigo
Emilian Italian
You enter through the shop, past shelves of wine and house-made sauces, before reaching the dining room of this old-school Emilian trattoria in the hills outside Bologna. The menu follows the seasons without making a fuss about it, built around lasagne with a tomato-free ragù, pumpkin-filled pasta, and tortellini in broth on the coldest days. Tigelle flatbread arrives alongside the ham. One Michelin star.
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Rank 68. Locanda Pincelli
Creative Italian
Named for the village's former postman, this relaxed trattoria in a converted workers' club has a shaded porch for summer meals and a menu that drifts pleasantly away from straight Emilian tradition into something more inventive. The kitchen is generous with portions and precise about presentation, and the wine list is short enough that asking the owner for a steer is genuinely half the fun. A Michelin Bib Gourmand.
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The building itself spans Via Stalingrado like a bridge, which sets the tone before you've ordered anything. By day it runs as a casual bistro with straightforward plates; by evening the room shifts into creative modern dining, all warm wood and a mostly female front-of-house team who seem to actually enjoy being there. The kitchen draws from Emilian tradition and then quietly departs from it, mixing regional references with a chef's own restless curiosity.
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Rank 70. Iacobucci
Contemporary Italian
A Michelin-starred restaurant set inside a historic villa outside Bologna, where the chef builds a menu around the distance between Campania and Emilia-Romagna, two regions that don't naturally talk to each other but have plenty to say. The wine list runs deep, with multiple vintages of Sassicaia and Tignanello for anyone who wants a reason to linger. The garden is there if you need somewhere to quietly reconsider your life choices after the rabbit stew.
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Rank 71. Da Marchesi
Regional Italian
A roadside trattoria in the hills above Novafeltria, where the Apennines split Romagna from the Marche and the pasta is rolled by hand every morning. The kitchen follows the seasons and leans hard on local meat and whatever porcini the hills have given up lately. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand, which is their way of saying the food punches well above its price. Bring an appetite and no particular hurry.
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A glass-walled veranda dining room looks out over the Romagna hills toward San Marino, which is the kind of view that makes you feel the tasting menu is going better than it is. This is two-Michelin-starred fine dining, and chef Alberto Faccani builds menus that move between Emilian memory and quietly restless invention, with pairings that arrive somewhere you didn't expect but can't argue with. Service is gracious without being ceremonial, and the sommelier clearly means it.
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Rank 74. La Cantinella
Tuscan
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Rank 75. Il Piastrino
Italian
Trout and eel instead of sea fish, aromatic herbs, and mushrooms pulled from the hills between Montefeltro and Tuscany: the kitchen here is deeply, specifically local. Il Piastrino is a Michelin-starred country restaurant in the small hill town of Pennabilli, where the cooking is creative but never restless, and the room has the kind of warmth that suggests the owners genuinely wanted to be here.
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Rank 76. Dei Cantoni
Romagna Italian
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Tucked inside the ancient Badia di Passignano, a monastery still home to actual monks, this Michelin-starred Tuscan restaurant belongs to the Antinori wine dynasty and keeps the estate's cellar literally next door. The kitchen works close to home, pulling vegetables and herbs from the abbey garden, while the wine list runs to over a thousand labels and makes no secret of where its loyalties lie.
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Rank 78. Nello
Tuscan
The wine cellar sits in a vaulted space that's been around for centuries, which sets the tone for an otherwise modern Tuscan restaurant in a small Val di Pesa hill town. The kitchen riffs on regional cooking with technical confidence, and the pastry side, handled by the co-owner, has a playful streak, including a tiramisù finished with a whisper of tobacco. The wine list has grown into something serious over the years.
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Rank 79. Ancòra
Contemporary Italian
A Michelin-starred dining room inside a grand villa on the Adriatic coast, where the kitchen leans heavily on the catch and keeps the plates looking like someone put real thought into the geometry. The chef behind the stoves trained in serious kitchens, and the fish-forward contemporary menu shows it. Save room for the babà, a signature so light it barely seems to exist, which is the point.
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Rank 80. L'Acciuga
Seafood Italian
Wooden panels and nautical fittings put you somewhere between a vintage fishing boat and a proper Italian seafood restaurant, which is exactly the spirit of L'Acciuga. The kitchen works from fresh catch and interprets it through a Romagnolo lens, with the anchovy spaghetti a good argument for staying put through dessert. The bar counter adds cocktails and kombucha to an otherwise serious wine list, because why not.
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Rank 81. Antica Trattoria al Gallo 1909
Regional Italian
The art nouveau interior puts "trattoria" in embarrassing air quotes the moment you walk in. This old-school Ravenna institution has been in the same family for what feels like forever, and the dining room runs accordingly: regional cooking built around truffles, local fish, and serious meats, while the owner works the floor with the easy warmth Romagna seems to produce in unlimited quantities. Book ahead; it fills up fast.
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Rank 82. La Torre
Italian
Inside a medieval castle in the Chianti hills, this Michelin-starred fine dining room earns its setting without hiding behind it. The chef draws from an organic kitchen garden, picking from as many as ten tomato varieties, and shapes that produce into creative, technically precise tasting menus built around vegetables, meat, or seafood. The summer terrace view is the kind that makes you put your phone away, then immediately pick it back up.
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Rank 83. Osteria del Tempo Perso
Contemporary Italian
Books and wine bottles share the walls with old photos at this intimate bistro tucked into a quiet corner of Ravenna's historic centre. Tables are small and close together, the lighting is low, and the whole thing has an almost Parisian feel that feels slightly unlikely this deep into Emilia-Romagna. The menu runs contemporary Italian, the wine list strays into the rest of Europe, and you should book ahead, because the room fills fast.
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Rank 84. Osteria La Sangiovesa
Romagna Italian
The estate at Saiano raises the animals and works the land; what ends up on the table at this celebrated Romagna trattoria started there. The kitchen has been turning out green lasagna, piadina, and slow-braised country dishes for decades, with a chef who's become something of a local legend. The setting, inside a medieval village, leans theatrical in winter when the old theater rooms open up and the whole thing feels slightly unreal.
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Rank 85. Osteria del Borro
Tuscan
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A young chef from Campania cooking in a medieval Chianti courtyard is either a recipe for confusion or something genuinely interesting, and here it lands as the latter. This Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant builds tasting menus that move between Tuscany, southern Italy, and Asia without apology. In summer, tables shift to the old stone courtyard. The sommelier steers a cellar of over 800 labels, and she clearly enjoys the job.
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Rank 87. Casa Gasperoni
Romagna Italian
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Rank 88. Antica Osteria del Mirasole
Emilian Italian
Tortellini made with cream skimmed straight from the family dairy is the detail that explains everything about this old-school Emilian osteria. The kitchen cooks in the tradition of the region with a wood grill doing heavy lifting on the secondi, and nearly every ingredient traces back to the farm next door. You can buy the same dairy products in the shop on your way out, which feels either very convenient or very dangerous.
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Rank 90. Locanda dei Salinari
Romagna Italian
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Rank 91. L'800
Emilian Italian
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Rank 92. Osteria Erbaluce
Grill Italian
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Rank 93. Il Chiosco di Bacco
Italian
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Rank 94. Trattoria da Marino
Tuscan
A roadside trattoria in a small Tuscan village, the kind of place where the walls stay plain because the kitchen has nothing left to prove. The menu runs through regional classics, from pappa al pomodoro to tripe and lampredotto meatballs, and the wine list is longer than it looks once the host starts talking. The Michelin Guide gives it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks.
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Rank 96. Solociccia
Italian
Lunch only, shared tables, one menu, all meat. The chef behind Solociccia is among Italy's most celebrated butchers, and this is where that obsession becomes a sit-down occasion: a convivial tasting format served at fixed midday sittings across a warren of intimate rooms strung with straw-covered Chianti bottles. A vegetarian alternative exists, though ordering it here has a certain audacity. Book ahead, show up at noon, and make friends with your neighbors.
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A family trattoria on the main street of a small medieval village, unswayed by trends and holding a Michelin Bib Gourmand. In warmer months, tables spill outside onto the street. The menu is rigorously Tuscan: crostini, ribollita, hand-rolled pici, braised beef, and when the season calls for it, wild boar stew. The kind of place where the cooking changes with the calendar and the village regulars eat like it's Tuesday, because it is.
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A family-run trattoria in a Tuscan mountain village where mushrooms turn up in half the dishes because mushrooms are the point. The rustic dining rooms are unfussy, the pasta is homemade, and the menu runs from tripe to a long bench of meats without ever trying to be anything other than what it is. The Michelin Guide's Bib Gourmand crowd tends to find places like this before you do, but here you are.
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Rank 99. Da Alighiero
Tuscan
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Rank 100. Lazaroun
Romagna Italian