The Top 21 Restaurants Near Mazzini 60
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Rank 1. Lorenzo Ruta
Sicilian
A contemporary Sicilian restaurant tucked into a low-rise resort on a quiet country road outside Modica, where the chef runs the room alongside his wife and his sommelier sister-in-law, which is either a family business or a workplace sitcom depending on the evening. The menu leans into imaginative meat and fish combinations, with tasting menus alongside à la carte. The wine list ventures well beyond Sicily, with a particular pull toward French labels and champagne.
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Rank 2. Duomo
Contemporary, Creative
A grand dessert trolley closes the meal at this two-Michelin-starred fine dining room in the baroque heart of Ragusa Ibla, and it lands like a curtain call. Chef Ciccio Sultano cooks what Sicily smells like: citrus, sea, wild herbs, the memory of a market stall. The setting is warm and considered, the service young but precise, and the tasting menu shifts constantly while keeping the dishes that made the place what it is.
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The dining room is carved into the rock beneath Ragusa Ibla, which sets expectations correctly: this is a serious, romantic fine dining restaurant where the cave atmosphere gets dressed up rather than played down. Chef Vincenzo Candiano holds a Michelin star and works in a mode of quiet exploration, keeping a handful of now-classic dishes on the menu while pushing new ideas alongside them. A small herb garden greets you on the way in.
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Rank 4. Crocifisso
Sicilian
A glass-walled wine cellar faces the street like a small provocation, announcing that this candlelit restaurant near the old church takes its serious side seriously. The kitchen holds a Michelin star and leans into it, with contemporary Sicilian cooking that has a baroque quality to match the city around it. The menu moves between seafood, meat, and vegetarian without losing the thread, and the wine list is clearly someone's obsession.
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Olive groves and golden stone frame this countryside restaurant outside Noto, where the kitchen takes Sicilian land seriously enough to occasionally dress pigeon in Chanel red. The chef's cooking runs classical in its bones and contemporary in its execution, with local ingredients pulled into menus that feel like they have something to say. The dining room is small and bright, the windows face the countryside, and the wine cellar doubles as the morning breakfast room.
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Rank 6. I Banchi
Sicilian
A corner of Ragusa where breakfast slides into wine and cheese slides into dinner and nobody seems particularly eager to leave. This all-day Sicilian trattoria doubles as a shop stocked with the best of the Val di Noto, so you can eat the region and then take a bit of it home. The cooking leans into tradition with a light modern hand, and tasting menus run from a vegetarian four courses up to seven surprise dishes.
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Rank 9. Fattoria delle Torri
Sicilian
Dinner on a terrace shaded by lemon trees, in the old center of Modica, is a reasonable way to spend an evening. This is a family-run restaurant where two sisters split the duties, one in the kitchen and one running the room, and together they cook modern Sicilian food that quietly folds in spices and exotic notes without making a fuss about it. The wine list is long and the recommendations are good.
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Rank 10. Dabbanna
Sicilian
A family-run contemporary Sicilian restaurant in lower Modica's central piazza, where the menu leans on the island's ingredients while quietly smuggling in South American influences, a culinary heirloom from a grandfather who came home from Venezuela with ideas. The kitchen reframes those influences through a Sicilian lens, presenting colorful, carefully composed dishes. Tables spill outside in summer, and the service is warm and unhurried.
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A neighborhood provisions shop that never quite decided whether it wanted to be a deli or a trattoria, so it became both. Shelves of organic cheeses, oils, and cured meats share the room with about ten tables where regulars eat cooked dishes and serious sandwiches. Everything points back to Sicily, and the family running it clearly knows the producers behind every jar on the shelf.
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Rank 13. Orti Villadorata
Sicilian
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Rank 14. Cortiletto
Contemporary, Sicilian
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Rank 15. Andrea - Sapori Montani
Sicilian
Truffles put this quiet hilltop town on Sicily's map almost as surely as the Baroque churches did, and this homey trattoria leans into that fact without apology. The kitchen runs on homemade bread, hand-rolled pastas, and local cheeses, with palazzolese sausage and black piglet rounding out a menu that reads like a love letter to the Monti Iblei. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of place where the hospitality feels completely unrehearsed.
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Rank 16. Locanda Gulfi
Sicilian
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The terrace at the southern tip of Ortigia, with Castel Maniace just visible and soft light overhead, sets the mood before the food arrives. This is a Michelin-starred fine dining room inside a palazzo, where the kitchen turns Sicilian ingredients into something almost baroque in its layered intensity. The wine list leans into Etna and the western coast, though the sommelier is the kind of person you hand the decision to and don't regret it.
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Rank 18. Regina Lucia
Sicilian
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Rank 19. Ostaria
Sicilian
A meat-focused osteria a short walk from the island of Ortigia, where the kitchen ages cuts on the premises and fires them in a Josper oven. The sourcing leans toward non-intensive farms, which the menu is happy to tell you about. Sicilian wines anchor a list that wanders usefully beyond the island. Soft lighting and genuinely warm service make the whole thing feel less like a steakhouse and more like someone's very well-stocked dining room.
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Rank 20. Don Camillo
Sicilian
Tufa stone walls from the fifteenth century form the dining room at this Sicilian restaurant tucked into Ortigia, a short walk from the cathedral. The kitchen takes traditional island cooking and tilts it somewhere personal, the kind of place that's been around forever without feeling like a museum. Candlelight, period wood, wrought iron, and a menu that apparently ends better than it begins, if the inspector's nudge about dessert is any guide.
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