The Top 68 Restaurants Near La Gioconda

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1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

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Three hundred and twenty hectares of Umbrian estate produce nearly everything on the plate at this countryside restaurant outside Gubbio. The game roams a wildlife reserve on the property; the cured meats are made in-house; the herbs come from the woods just outside. A seven-course tasting menu threads it all into something with a strong sense of place. The wine list is long, and the owner is happy to steer you through it.

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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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A short tunnel with porthole windows leads to a lift, which opens onto a glass-enclosed terrace at the very top of Gabicce Monte, with the Adriatic below and hills behind. This is a Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant where the chef pulls from local and broader Italian traditions and makes them feel personal. The wine list runs to French labels and pours generously by the glass. Come at sunset if you can manage it.

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Mauro Uliassi runs a three-Michelin-star restaurant wedged between beach umbrellas on the Adriatic shore, which tells you something about his relationship with pretension. The Lab tasting menu changes every year, built around Adriatic memory, travel, and whatever the chef is currently obsessed with. The room is balanced between his cooking and his sister Catia's quiet authority over the floor. Ranked among the World's 50 Best, it somehow still feels like a place that belongs to this particular stretch of coast.

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The dining room occupies the old stables of a restored Renaissance palazzo, which sets a mood before anyone has looked at the menu. This is a creative restaurant where the chef pulls between his Sicilian roots and the Adriatic larder of the Marche, running both tasting menus and à la carte. The wine cellar is worth asking about, and they'll take you down for a look if you're curious.

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The Adriatic appears and disappears through the trees as you wind along the coastal road into Pesaro, then settles into a full backdrop behind the outdoor terrace. This contemporary restaurant is the homecoming project of a chef who spent years in serious kitchens abroad and brought the fusion instincts back with him, folding fruit into pasta with shellfish in a way that reads less like a gimmick and more like a considered point of view.

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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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1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

Perched on the hills between Perugia and Torgiano, this Michelin-starred restaurant inside Borgo Brufa works through a tight network of small Umbrian producers rather than showmanship. The chef builds menus that shift with the season and harvest, so what arrives at the table reads less like a greatest-hits tour of the region and more like a quiet argument about what it actually tastes like right now.

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The dining room sits over the excavated remains of a Roman villa, which makes the bread service feel appropriately humble by comparison. This is a sit-down restaurant in central Assisi, split between straightforward Umbrian cooking and more considered modern plates. The wine cellar is serious enough to be a destination on its own, and the setting, ancient stone and all, does most of the interior decorating.

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A Michelin-starred creative restaurant in Rimini's city centre where Argentine roots and a globe-trotting sensibility meet Italian tradition. The chef and his partner run a quietly personal room that feels more like a well-appointed private home than a destination dining spot. Tasting menus lean toward fish or meat, but guests can build their own path through any dish on offer. Book the terrace early if summer is your plan.

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A seventeenth-century grain and olive oil mill in a hamlet so small and spring-fed that the old Umbrian word for water became the restaurant's name. This is a tasting-menu destination, one Michelin star, where the chef works almost entirely with produce grown within about twenty kilometers, then applies enough technique to make you stop mid-bite. The wine list leans natural, biodynamic, and small-production, which fits the room's unhurried, rural romance perfectly.

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Two brothers named their restaurant after their mother, which sets the tone before you've even sat down. Olimpia is a modern trattoria in a renovated old building in the hamlet of Brufa, where one brother runs the kitchen with a sure hand on Umbrian ingredients and the other manages the room with the kind of warmth that actually feels earned. The menu leans into vegetables in a region better known for meat, which is its own quiet statement.

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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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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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Checked cotton tablecloths and bottles lined up on the shelves set the tone at this old-school osteria in Borgo San Giuliano, the painted fishermen's quarter that Fellini grew up loving. The kitchen stays deep in Romagna tradition: house-cured meats, fresh pasta, and Mora Romagnola pork cooked several ways. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, which tracks with the crowd of locals who seem entirely unsurprised to be eating this well.

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The approach alone does some work: narrow lanes between dry-stone walls, fields stretching across the Baracchi estate, and then a Michelin-starred restaurant that pours wine grown just outside the window. It's an upscale Tuscan dining room with a firm sense of place, built around Chianina beef, pici, and herbs from the surrounding land. The olive oil on the table was likely pressed a few hundred metres away, which is either charming or makes you feel slightly underdressed.

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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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A dessert called i-CLOUD, a soft yogurt foam over vanilla panna cotta with sorbets, tells you something about the ambitions here. This is a contemporary Italian restaurant in Rimini where the menu leans hard into Adriatic fish, treated with modern technique but enough substance that you leave full. The room is all white walls, mirrors, and glass, with a garden terrace that earns its keep in warmer months.

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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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A family-run restaurant in Passignano's historic centre, right where the village pokes out into Lake Trasimeno, Il Molo has been around forever and leans hard into what the lake provides. Request a window table when you book and you'll eat fish pulled from the water you're looking at. The à la carte sits alongside tasting menus, and the kitchen moves between traditional Umbrian and something a little more contemporary without making a fuss about it.

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1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

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A Michelin-starred restaurant inside a sports centre is either a very good sign or a very bad one, and here it's the former. The chef returned to his native Marche to cook the region's traditions in a way that feels lighter and less fussy than the setting might suggest. Two tasting menus plus an à la carte, with the focus squarely on meat and the surrounding countryside, in a room that keeps things quietly elegant.

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A 16th-century dining room with a fireplace sets the tone at this Tuscan osteria in the hill town of Cortona, where the cooking stays close to local tradition and whatever the season is offering. Theatrical decor runs through every room, from the formal to the trattoria-style. A small terrace looks onto the pedestrian street, and the few tables out there go fast, so book ahead if eating outdoors matters to you.

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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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Tables overlooking Piazza Grande and the Loggia Vasariana set the scene at this contemporary Italian restaurant, where the kitchen leans into seasonal cooking with real technique. Pigeon appears in multiple cuts, each handled differently, paired with sweet onion and cocoa nibs. The front-of-house team knows the wine list deeply and will talk you through it at length, which, in Arezzo, is exactly the kind of evening you came for.

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Tasting menus named after places, built around ingredients that change with the season, served at just a handful of tables in a warmly lit room in Tolentino. The chef came from Albania and spent years absorbing Italian culinary tradition, and the cooking sits at that interesting crossroads, contemporary but grounded. Book ahead, because the room fills fast and walking in is optimistic thinking.

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1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

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A centuries-old stone complex on the road to Rome, now home to a quietly serious Umbrian restaurant run by three brothers, two in the kitchen and one steering the wine in the dining room. The cooking draws on local traditions with a Venetian thread woven through, the result of the family's roots. Herbs come from the garden out back, and the portions are the kind that make you revise your dessert plans.

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1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

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The open barbecue grill is the focal point of this cozy trattoria in a medieval hilltop village between Foligno and Perugia. Umbrian truffles and hyper-local produce run through the menu, with meat doing most of the talking, cooked over live fire in full view of the room. Guests staying the night in one of the comfortable rooms wake up to the same unhurried pace the valley has apparently maintained for centuries.

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A terrace on a medieval piazza in a hilltop hamlet that barely registers on most maps, Lillotatini is a family-run trattoria serving Umbrian classics, freshwater fish, and truffles when the season allows. The family also runs a wine boutique steps away on the same square, and those bottles migrate onto the restaurant list, which gives the wine conversation a certain built-in authority.

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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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