The Best Seafood Near Locanda Toscano, by the Record

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A casual fish spot right on the Soverato seafront promenade, where the menu is built around the idea that good fish needs very little help. Catch comes fried, raw, tucked into rolls, or piled onto friselle bread, with generous salads and house-made desserts filling out the gaps. Wine by the glass and cocktails, including creative originals in the evening, keep things lively. The Michelin Guide has it on their radar.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A one-Michelin-star seafood restaurant on the Ionian coast where bergamot and chili turn up in the sauces and the fish arrives tasting like it never left the water. The chef keeps things clean and regional, from crudo to grilled catch, without a lot of ceremony around it. The wine list leans Calabrian, which feels right, and the local sparkling Gaglioppo is a genuine find alongside the raw preparations.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
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A family-run seafood restaurant in the historic center of Palmi where the catch of the day arrives as carpaccio dressed with house-made vinaigrette, and desserts are announced aloud at the table rather than printed on a card. The menu leans Mediterranean and fish-forward, though a small meat contingent gets its own section for anyone who wandered in by accident. The cannolo apparently shows up regardless.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A short walk from the waterfront in Siderno, this seafood and Calabrian trattoria keeps its menu tight and its cooking rooted in what the coast actually produces. The housemade fresh pasta is the thing to focus on, scialatielli with shrimp and stracciatella being a local favorite, and the bread arrives with an artisanal oil that tastes like the region in one dip. Warm, unhurried, and selected by the Michelin Guide.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A seafood restaurant on the waterfront at Villa San Giovanni, where the second-floor terrace looks straight across the Strait of Messina toward Sicily. The fish comes off the grill simply, or arrives raw in preparations that lean more creative, and the kitchen holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand. Most visitors here are catching a ferry; the ones who know are booking a table instead.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant