The Best Restaurants Near Locanda Toscano, by the Record

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A Michelin-starred fine dining room inside a former military and ecclesiastical palazzo on Lamezia Terme's main promenade. The chef Luca Abbruzzino runs a no-choice tasting menu, meaning you hand the evening over to him and trust he'll do something interesting with dry-aged fish, local prawns, and bergamot. The setting is spare and contemporary, modern art against old stone, and the service is the kind that makes the whole thing feel quietly romantic without trying too hard.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
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A former monastery just outside Tropea, now home to a tasting-menu restaurant where the citrus fruit on your plate may have been growing in the garden an hour before. The kitchen works through contemporary Calabrian cooking across multi-course menus, leaning on vegetables and produce from the property. The wine list keeps it regional, and there's a bar if you'd rather start with a cocktail than a pairing.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The drive through Aspromonte's olive groves and wild hillsides is, itself, part of the meal. Qafiz is a Michelin-starred omakase restaurant where a handful of seats wrap around an open kitchen in a farmhouse deep in Calabria, and the chef builds a tasting menu that reads like a portrait of the region. Remote enough that guests often just stay the night, which the property accommodates.

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A late-19th-century farmhouse on the Calabrian coast road, stone walls and wooden ceilings inside, a sprawling terrace when the weather cooperates. The kitchen leans on the Ionian Sea for its menu, so fish and seafood do most of the talking, though meat shows up for those who ask. A shop next door sells regional products, including bergamot from the groves nearby, some of it made in-house.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Steps from the Lungomare in Bagnara Calabra, this intimate trattoria has been around forever and holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for cooking that threads Calabrian and Greek flavors together without making a fuss about it. The chef's roots do the talking: squid stuffed with feta, swordfish prepared with care. Small room, warm room, the kind of place where you feel less like a customer than a guest someone actually wanted to show up.

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2. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

Sitting on the Sila plateau, a forested highland that the ancient Greeks had opinions about, Hyle is a modern Calabrian restaurant that traces a single region's landscape from coastline to mountain peak. The chef holds a Michelin star and sources vegetables, walnuts, and aromatic herbs directly from local growers. Tasting menus named in Calabrian dialect move through seven or eleven courses, depending on how deep into the hills you want to go.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

The sandwich here starts with bread baked fresh that day, then gets filled with Calabrian sausage, 'nduja, Tropea onions, or caciocavallo from the Sila plateau, depending on your mood. It's a fast-casual spot built around showcasing small local producers, which sounds like a pitch deck but eats like lunch. The formula has been spreading to other Italian cities, and 50 Top Italy ranked it first among the country's sandwiches.

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