The Best Seafood Near Vespasia, by the Record

The Santa Susanna canal runs right outside the door, and on good days you eat on a wooden bridge above it, which is only appropriate given that trout, tench, pike, and freshwater crayfish are the whole point here. This one-Michelin-star country restaurant in the Lazio hills has been around forever, treating freshwater fish with the seriousness usually reserved for the sea. They send you home with wild herbs to steep.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

Black truffles turn up with genuine generosity here, which tells you something about how this family-run restaurant in Spoleto's historic center operates. It sits inside the Clitunno hotel, but the mood is its own: an intimate, recently refurbished dining room with seasonal meat and fish, and a terrace on the small square for warmer nights. Park outside the restricted zone and walk in; the stroll through the old town is half the point.

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1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

Perched on the top floor of the historic Kursaal building on the seafront, this contemporary Italian restaurant makes a meal of the view before the food even arrives. The menu leans on Adriatic fish and seafood, with classic regional preparations alongside more restless cooking, a turbot dish that uses fillets, cheeks, and something approximating the crackling being a fair example of how the kitchen thinks. Tableside finishing keeps things theatrical.

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Langoustines arrive at the table still in the pan they were cooked in, with oil, wine, garlic, and rosemary, which tells you most of what you need to know about this seafood restaurant on the Adriatic coast. The fish comes almost entirely from that same sea, the menu never strays onto land, and the wine list follows suit with mostly whites. An old-school institution in Giulianova Lido, and one locals have been counting on for a long time.

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