The Top 100 Restaurants Near Miranda
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Rank 2. Ai Burattini
Lombardian Italian
The owner roams the dining room steering guests toward bottles from a display generous enough to get lost in, which sets the tone for this old-school Lombardian trattoria in a small hilltop town above the lake. The kitchen runs deep into Bergamo tradition, from house-made casoncelli to braised beef and roast rabbit with Rovetta polenta. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of place where one visit rarely feels like enough.
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Rank 3. Da Vittorio
Contemporary Italian
The cheese trolley alone arrives like a small, slow ceremony, which tells you something about the pace of an evening at Da Vittorio. This is a three-Michelin-star fine dining restaurant outside Bergamo, run by the Cerea family with an ease that makes a twelve-course tasting menu feel like Sunday lunch at a very gifted relative's house. The cooking is rooted in Italian tradition, generous in spirit, and entirely uninterested in being cold or clever for its own sake.
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Rank 4. Contrada Bricconi
Modern Italian
A small stone hamlet above the Val Seriana, reached by a road that takes its time getting there, is where a group of young farmers and cooks have built something close to a closed loop: they grow it, raise it, ferment it, and eventually serve it as a Michelin-starred tasting menu. The cooking is rooted in Alpine tradition but keeps surprising you. The bread course with house-churned butter alone earns the drive up.
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Rank 5. Due Colombe
Italian
A one-Michelin-star restaurant in the Franciacorta wine country, set inside a converted hay barn with stone walls and timber beams. The kitchen leans on dishes that have traveled through generations, beef braised in olive oil and served with polenta being the kind of recipe a grandmother passed down and nobody has touched since. Three tasting menus, a sommelier worth pestering, and surroundings that make the whole thing feel less like fine dining than like a very good Sunday lunch.
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Rank 6. LoRo
Creative Italian
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Rank 7. Miramonti l'Altro
French-influenced Italian
A cheese cart that rolls up with genuine gravity sets the tone at this Michelin-starred villa on the edge of Brescia. The room is classic and a little formal, with bay windows looking onto the garden, and the cooking crosses the Alps in both directions, French technique folding into Italian tradition without much fuss about which side wins. Dress up a little; this is a proper dinner-out sort of place.
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Rank 8. Il Saraceno
Seafood Mediterranean
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Rank 9. Villa Elena
Italian
A steep climb up Via San Vigilio drops you at one of the grander hillside villas above Bergamo's old city, where the garden terrace hangs over the valley like an interrupted sentence. Inside, stuccoed walls, mirrors, and frescoes set the scene for Enrico Bartolini's creative program, which unfolds in courses that occasionally arrive in multiple acts. A two-star Michelin fine dining room where the occasion and the setting do a lot of the talking, and the kitchen keeps up.
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Rank 10. Osteria della Villetta
Lombardian Italian
A family-run osteria in a small Lombard town that's been around forever, with a veranda, a home garden out back, and a menu that changes with the seasons. The cooking is old-school Lombardian, the kind where tongue with pickled vegetables and tripe with boiled meats sit comfortably alongside homemade tarts. The Michelin Guide gives it a Bib Gourmand, and the wine list leans heavily into Franciacorta. Book ahead.
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Rank 11. Impronte
Mediterranean
The dining room is a converted bus depot near the Atalanta stadium, all post-industrial bones softened into something genuinely modern. This Michelin-starred restaurant leans on Sicilian flavors without planting a flag there, ranging across land and sea with a contemporary looseness. The service runs warm and energetic, and the wine list earns its own applause. Bring a car; private parking, which in Bergamo is almost the point.
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Rank 12. Ristorante El Taller
Italian
A small gourmet restaurant tucked into a romantic alley near Lake Iseo, where the menu changes daily depending on what comes from the market, the lake, the garden, or the surrounding woods. The chef trained alongside some of Franciacorta's most respected names, and the cooking reflects it: territory-driven, waste-conscious, and genuinely demanding. His partner runs the floor and the cellar, which leans toward small natural producers from the region.
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A late 19th-century wooden door opens into a sequence of dining rooms furnished with mid-century antiques, which sets the slightly theatrical tone for what follows. This is a tasting-menu restaurant in a Lombardy village, where the chef runs two menus, one classical and one more experimental. The sommelier steers the wine pairings, with a particular eye for regional bottles that don't appear on every list.
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Rank 14. Assonica
Contemporary Italian
A Michelin-starred restaurant in the hills just outside Bergamo, where the kitchen leans hard on local herbs and spices to build flavors that are genuinely complex without tipping into fussy. The team's approach is quietly ambitious: vegetables and foraged aromatics do real work here, and the cooking has a sustainable, rooted quality that keeps it from feeling like a performance. Elegant room, polished service, and the kind of menu that rewards a slow evening.
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Rank 15. Radicì
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 16. Osteria della Brughiera
Contemporary Italian
A garden path leads to a country house in the Bergamo foothills, where exposed beams, parquet, and a proper fireplace set the mood for a Michelin-starred dinner that takes itself seriously without losing its warmth. The kitchen is a family affair meeting a broader world: house-cured salumi sits alongside lobster and caviar, and the menu moves between regional Italian roots and something more contemporary, offered à la carte or as a tasting menu.
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Rank 17. Ristorante Mas-cì
Classic Italian
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Rank 18. Da Sapì
Lombardian Italian
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Rank 19. Cucina Cereda
Lombardian Italian
A summer table in the old monastery courtyard is reason enough to book ahead, but the Michelin-starred dining room inside earns its own visit. The kitchen runs Lombardian and Italian roots through a creative filter, with the menu shifting around fresh arrivals, so the staff's suggestions are worth asking about. Both à la carte and tasting menus are available, and the crowd leans dressed-up without being stiff about it.
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Rank 20. Vivilo
French
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Rank 21. Trattoria Dentella
Regional Italian
A family trattoria tucked into the Val Serina, where polenta comes several ways and the kitchen holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand. The menu is short on purpose, built around Bergamasco staples: casoncelli with butter and pancetta, bresaola from Orobica cattle, and, when the season allows, the local black truffle. In fine weather the terrace opens onto hills that do most of the decorating. The women run the floor; the man of the house cooks.
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Rank 23. La Madia
Lombardian Italian
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Rank 24. Dispensa Franciacorta
Mediterranean Italian
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Rank 25. L'Aurum
Contemporary Italian
The dining room sits inside the Albereta estate in Franciacorta wine country, all pale carpets and soft tones, with a quiet nod to Gualtiero Marchesi woven into the walls. This is a fine dining restaurant where the chef works a contemporary Italian register, leaning on the estate's own kitchen garden and local Bergamasque ingredients. The crowd dresses for it, and the pacing expects you to have nowhere else to be.
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Rank 26. Leone Felice
Contemporary Italian
The kitchen garden and a farm in Grosseto supply much of what lands on the plate at this contemporary Italian restaurant in Erbusco, which means the menu shifts around what the estate is growing and raising rather than the other way around. Lunch runs à la carte; evenings add a tasting menu in a separate section of the room. The wine list leans into Franciacorta but travels wider when it needs to.
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Rank 27. Vino Buono
Lombardian Italian
A wine bar tucked into a 17th-century barn beside the cathedral bell tower, where the host doubles as cellarman and seems personally acquainted with every producer on the list. The food is deliberately simple, Lombardian home cooking with the occasional seafood detour, and the cured meats and pasta dishes do the heavy lifting. It's the kind of place where you came for one glass and left having learned something.
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Rank 28. Umberto De Martino
Contemporary Mediterranean
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Rank 30. Al Malò - Cucina e Miscelazione
Contemporary Italian
A hidden lift behind the arcades of Piazza Cavour whisks you up to a first-floor dining room where the wallpaper is as colorful as the cooking. This contemporary Italian restaurant pairs an inventive, carefully plated menu with a serious Franciacorta-focused wine list and, come evening, cocktails from the bar downstairs. The chef moves fluently between meat, fish, and vegetarian dishes, and half portions let you cover more ground without consequence.
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Rank 31. Casa Romano
Seasonal Mediterranean
Picture windows framing the valley is the first thing you notice, before the menu, before the room. This is a polished contemporary restaurant where a younger generation has quietly transformed an old family banqueting hall into something more personal. The kitchen runs on strict seasonality, a concise à la carte alongside a seven-course surprise tasting menu. On warm evenings, the panoramic terrace makes the whole setup feel slightly theatrical, in the best sense.
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Rank 32. Carlo Magno
Mediterranean
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Rank 33. Castello Malvezzi
Modern Italian
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Rank 34. Lanzani Bottega & Bistrot
Modern Italian
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Rank 35. Lio Pellegrini
Mediterranean
The dining room doubles as a curated object gallery, with quality pieces available through a catalogue in case you fall for the candlestick. This is a refined modern restaurant steps from the Accademia Carrara, with a terrace that earns its oasis billing. The kitchen moves between land and sea, rooted in Bergamo but with the occasional Tuscan detour that nods to the owner's origins. Dress well; the room expects it.
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Rank 36. Il Rivale in Città
Contemporary Italian
A handful of small dining rooms inside an 18th-century palazzo, each one dressed differently in its own fabrics and colors, give this contemporary Italian restaurant the feel of a very grand private home. The menu leans rich and considered, and a wooden dessert trolley making its rounds at the end of a meal is a genuinely old-fashioned touch. The wine list skews toward nearby Franciacorta, browsed on a tablet, which is the one concession to the current century.
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Rank 38. Il Labirinto
Mediterranean
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A bar and restaurant sitting in the small piazza at the top of Bergamo's funicular, with a terrace that looks out over the city below. The room has a retro, slightly Anglo-inflected feel, all rustic wood and unhurried service from staff who seem genuinely pleased you made the climb. Meat is the kitchen's main argument, backed by bread and desserts baked in-house. In summer the terrace is the obvious move; apparently a few regulars claim it in winter too, when the sun cooperates.
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Rank 40. Al Carroponte
Contemporary Italian
The wine list runs to over 2,000 labels, which is less a list and more a library. Al Carroponte is a contemporary Italian restaurant in Bergamo where the cellar is the point of pride, though the kitchen holds its own with a menu that moves between lobster and caviar and a generous spread of cured hams, cheeses, and finger food. The room buzzes, the crowd lingers, and the owner's obsession with wine gives the whole place its particular energy.
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Rank 41. Forme Restaurant
Modern Italian
Tucked inside an educational complex on the edge of the city, this contemporary Italian restaurant is where the chef's Abruzzese roots do most of the talking. Vivid colors, confident flavors, and a menu that feels rooted in home cooking without being stuck there. The space shares a building with a bistrot, which tells you the setup is a little unconventional, but the food plays it straight.
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Rank 42. Osteria Al GiGianca
Regional Italian
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Rank 43. Chicco di Grano
Lombardian Italian
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You cross the Brembo river on foot to reach this high-end agriturismo, meadows and Orobic peaks on all sides. The kitchen cooks alpine and contemporary, with meat and dairy from the land around it doing the heavy lifting. The cheese trolley that closes the meal is its own argument for staying put, and the wine list tilts toward regional labels and naturals, with dozens available by the glass.
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Rank 45. Tenuta Casa Virginia
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 46. La Locandiera
Italian
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A family-run fine dining restaurant in an old villa on the piazza, with a medieval tower out back housing over a thousand wine labels. The kitchen leans classic-modern, giving equal time to meat and fish, with the kind of ingredients (foie gras, scampi, lobster, caviar) that signal you're not splitting a pizza. The Frosio family has been doing this for a long time, and the front-of-house polish shows it.
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Rank 48. Il Frate
Emilian Italian
A fourth-generation family trattoria in a small Lombardy town, Il Frate has been around forever and shows it in the best possible, unselfconscious way. The kitchen leans Emilian, heavy on the classics, and plates arrive generous and steaming. Giorgio runs the dining room with the ease of someone who grew up there, and the digital wine list runs to around 350 labels, weighted toward northern Italy.
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Rank 49. Casa Leali
Modern Italian
A fifteenth-century farmhouse turned into a Michelin-starred contemporary Italian restaurant near Lake Garda, where the kitchen leans hard into vegetables without abandoning its fish and meat roots. The team's affection for sparkling wine borders on a philosophy, and the service matches it with real enthusiasm. Precise, technically confident cooking with a strong sense of place, and a room that keeps getting prettier with each visit.
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Rank 50. Bolle
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 51. Tre Noci
Italian
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A big glazed wall frames the Bergamo hills from an angle most people never see, and that view sets the tone for the whole meal. This is a polished, sit-down restaurant where the kitchen builds modern, seasonal dishes from local Lombard ingredients, with a particular pull toward freshwater fish, serious enough that the house runs a dedicated tasting menu around it. The hills, the fish, and the careful cooking make for an unusually focused afternoon.
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Rank 53. Lido 84
Italian
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Solar panels on a centuries-old farmhouse roof set the tone for this countryside restaurant in Ambivere, where the team is quietly making a point about not having to choose between old and new. The kitchen leans into local farmers and seasonal produce, turning out modern plates that still feel rooted in Lombard tradition. The dining room is polished without being stiff, and the service has the kind of easy warmth that tends to outlast trends.
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Rank 55. Posta
Regional Italian
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Rank 56. Il Fagiano
Creative Italian
The wood paneling runs floor to ceiling, and the room holds only a handful of tables, which gives dinner at this one-Michelin-star restaurant inside the Grand Hotel Fasano a quietly conspiratorial feel. Chef Maurizio Bufi pulls from his Puglian roots and the Lake Garda larder, then keeps going, ranging across Italy and beyond as the seasons allow. Tasting menus anchor the format, with a vegetarian path alongside.
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Rank 57. Locanda Viola
Contemporary Italian
The fish bao that opens the menu, a soft steamed bun served alongside empanadas filled with smoked cheese and shrimp, signals that this contemporary Italian restaurant in a small Bergamo-area town is doing something more roaming than the address suggests. Pastas and risottos anchor the middle, and Bergamo lamb brings it home before gelato closes things out. The handcrafted furniture is its own conversation starter, but the kitchen tends to win.
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Rank 58. Villa Arcadio
Modern Italian
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Rank 60. Felter alle Rose
Seasonal Italian
A family trattoria on the western shore of Lake Garda, with a cellar room where the smell of wine does most of the hosting before anyone takes your order. The dining room runs warm and old-school, the enclosed veranda lets in softer light, and the kitchen keeps things Italian and seasonal without making a fuss about it. The kind of place where the cooking tastes like someone's grandmother approved the recipe.
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Rank 61. Fracia
Valtelline Italian
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Rank 62. Kanton Restaurant
Chinese
Desserts arrive on a tray rather than a menu, which sets the tone for a Chinese restaurant that does things its own way. The kitchen keeps the menu short and fragrant, drawing on classic techniques without sprawling into the encyclopedic approach most spots lean on. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, earned in a business district that gives nothing away from the outside. The tea list alone is worth the detour from Milan.
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Rank 63. Osteria Antico Brolo
Regional Italian
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Rank 64. Villa Fiordaliso
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 65. Altavilla
Valtellina Italian
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Rank 66. Duo
Modern Mediterranean
The aged-fish tasting menu is the calling card at this creative modern restaurant tucked into the old center of a small Lake Garda village. The two chefs run both the kitchen and the floor, turning out Mediterranean-leaning plates that move between land, sea, and freshwater with equal comfort. In good weather, tables spill outside under a pergola ringed by walnut trees, which is a very nice problem to have.
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Rank 67. Trippi
Lombard Italian
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Rank 68. Cut
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 69. Il Poggio
Contemporary Italian
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Dinner at this two-Michelin-star restaurant inside one of Lake Garda's grand historic villas starts with an aperitif in the garden, the lake catching the last light before you move inside to a single elaborate tasting menu. Vegetables are the quiet obsession here, lifted with aromatic herbs and the occasional exotic turn, while lake fish and meat fill the gaps. The wine list leans Italian, with Champagne given a generous second chair.
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Rank 71. Marelet
Modern Mediterranean
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Rank 72. Osteria Dalie e Fagioli
Regional Italian
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Rank 73. La Tortuga
Contemporary Italian
Lake Garda sits just outside, and the kitchen makes that count, pulling from its waters for a menu that moves between regional tradition and something more considered. La Tortuga is a small, romantic fine dining room on Gargnano's main street, with a Michelin star and a wine list that rewards the curious. The host runs the floor with the warmth of someone who actually knows the cellar, which on a good night is most of the reason to stay for another glass.
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Rank 74. Saur
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 75. Il Cortiletto
Mediterranean
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Rank 76. Osteria dello Strecciolo
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 77. Da Oscar
Mediterranean
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Rank 78. Il Rivale al Lago
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 79. Nicolin
Modern Mediterranean
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Rank 80. Tavola MoS - Stefano Zanini
Creative Italian
The dining room here used to be the apartment of a senator's librarian, which explains why it feels more like eating inside a very handsome thought than inside a restaurant. Perched above the gardens of the Rocca di Lonato, it's a creative Italian spot where the kitchen works with a light, precise touch. Sea bass and pigeon are the dishes regulars argue over. Come for lunch if you want the room without the full commitment.
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Rank 81. Esplanade
Italian
The summer terrace sits just a garden's width from Lake Garda, which tells you something about the priorities here. Esplanade is a fine dining restaurant holding a Michelin star, with a menu that swings between meat and fish, rooted in Italian tradition and tuned to the season. Service runs with the kind of quiet precision that makes a long lunch feel effortless rather than managed. An old-school institution that hasn't confused longevity with coasting.
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Rank 82. Al Gambero
Lombardian Italian
The risottos have been famous here long enough that nobody quite remembers when they weren't. Al Gambero is an old-school institution in a small Lombardian town, the kind of family-run restaurant where the service is formal but warm and the cooking leans on classic technique without getting dusty about it. Roast kid, long-standing signatures, a Michelin star: the place has been quietly doing its thing for generations and shows no sign of stopping.
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Rank 84. Fiamma Cremisi
Modern Italian
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Rank 85. La Rucola 2.0
Creative Italian
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Rank 86. La Speranzina Restaurant & Relais
Contemporary Mediterranean
A one-Michelin-star restaurant in Sirmione where the summer terrace puts you eye-level with the lake and the castle's reflection, sky and water splitting the view in half. The chef's cooking leans creative and technically precise, French haute-cuisine instincts running under distinctly Italian produce. Inside, pale interiors keep things quietly elegant for the crowd that arrives dressed for exactly that kind of evening.
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Rank 87. La Fortuna
Modern Italian
A contemporary trattoria a short drive outside Crema, with a minimalist room lifted by pops of colour. The kitchen leans on Italian tradition, leaning further into modern technique as the week winds toward the weekend. The wine list splits evenly between Italian and French labels, with a serious run of champagnes for a room this unfussy. Weekday lunches are the quiet bargain the locals already know about.
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Rank 88. Tancredi
Contemporary Italian
A glass-fronted dining room and a terrace that hangs over Lake Garda make the room argument enough before the food arrives. This is a Michelin-starred creative Italian restaurant where the young chef, trained under Antonino Cannavacciuolo, runs tasting menus and à la carte with his wife. The cooking is precise and visually composed, rooted in nose-to-tail thinking that feels considered rather than performative. Ask for a front terrace table in summer.
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Rank 89. Lisander
Sicilian
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Rank 90. Macelleria Motta
Italian
The large fridge near the entrance does the menu explaining before you've sat down, stacked with dry-aged cuts and house-cured salumi. This is a Lombard butcher-restaurant where Piedmontese beef is the point, grilled over coals or served boiled in the old style. In summer the courtyard fills up and the place feels like the kind of lunch that quietly takes the whole afternoon.
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The wagyu on the menu comes from Monte Baldo, just up the road, which tells you most of what you need to know about the kitchen's logic here. A Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant inside Hotel Belfiore, NIN offers two menus alternating between meat and lake fish, with vegetables from the property's own farm. Book a veranda table for the Lake Garda view, then let the theatrical, locally-obsessed plates do their thing.
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Rank 92. Villa Giulia - Al Terrazzo
Modern Italian
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Rank 93. Bianca sul Lago
Creative Mediterranean
Panoramic windows frame Lake Annone at this fine dining room inside the Bianca Relais, where sunsets over the surrounding hills tend to distract from the menu. The chef, who previously held a Michelin star at Vecchio Ristoro in Aosta, runs three blind tasting menus: one for the plant world, one built around freshwater fish, and one that follows the market. Dressing up is the right call; the room expects it.
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Rank 94. Leon d'Oro
Regional Italian
A Michelin-starred trattoria in a small Lombard town where the menu quietly ignores the idea that you have to choose between land and sea. The two dining rooms lean rustic-elegant, and the garden fills up on warm evenings with the kind of unhurried dinner that stretches past any reasonable hour. The wine list runs deep, with rare verticals that suggest someone in the cellar has a problem with letting go.
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A Michelin-starred restaurant tucked into a small alleyway above Malcesine's old town, where the garden opens onto olive trees and a sweep of Lake Garda. The chef has been cooking in this corner of the Veneto long enough that the regulars call his dishes by name, and two tasting menus let him have it both ways, one for new ideas and one for the classics he can't shake. À la carte is also on the table, literally.
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The name comes from the old stone feeding trough still sitting in the dining room, which tells you something about where this Michelin-starred restaurant's loyalties lie. Tucked inside a working farm stay in the Valtellina valley, the kitchen draws almost everything from the property's own garden and creamery. Two tasting menus let you pick your adventure: the shorter, rootsy route or the slightly wilder creative one. Alpine products, zero shortcuts.
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Rank 97. Gabbiano 1983
Lombardian Italian
Goose is the whole point here, because the area around Corte de' Cortesi has always been famous for it, and this old-school trattoria leans into that without apology. Boiled meats round out a menu rooted in Lombardian tradition, everything sourced locally. A wine trolley moves through the dining room so you can choose a glass by eye. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand, and it has been earning it for decades.
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Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the lake so completely that arriving before dark feels less like advice and more like a rule. This Michelin-starred fine dining room inside the EALA hotel runs on two tasting menus, structured but open to à la carte choices, with freshwater fish pulling a lot of the weight. The chef's instinct leans minimal without being austere, letting the ingredients make the argument so the plate doesn't have to.
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Rank 99. Hostaria del Teatro
Contemporary Italian
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A farmhouse restaurant on the western slopes of Monte Baldo, where the terrace looks straight down to Lake Garda and the menu follows whatever the season is willing to hand over. The kitchen works through meat, fish, and vegetable dishes with local ingredients doing most of the talking. The wine list runs to over a thousand bottles kept in an old underground cellar, which is a serious number for a hillside dining room this quiet.