The Best Barbecue in Italy
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The best barbecue in Italy, according to the experts: The 50, the Michelin Guide, and 50 Top Italy have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Al Gatto Verde comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in Buttrio / Buri.
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Gustificio and Trattoria al Parco hold the next two places. The Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with 50 Top Italy next.
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Rank 1. Al Gatto Verde
Italian Barbecue
The kitchen at this contemporary restaurant inside Massimo Bottura and Lara Gilmore's country estate runs almost entirely on fire, with chef Jessica Rosval building her menu around live embers and the farm on the property. The smoked meat selection moves through various cuts before landing on a wood-grilled beef rib that earns its place at the end. A Michelin star and a spot on the World's 50 Best list, and the room still feels like a house.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: #92 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- 50 Top Italy 50 Top Italy: #4 · The Best Italian Restaurants - Luxury
- The 50 #92 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- 50 Top Italy #4 · The Best Italian Restaurants - Luxury
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Rank 2. Gustificio
Contemporary Italian Barbecue
The smell of baked pastry hits you at the door, but the charcoal grill is what this place is about. It's a lively trattoria-style restaurant in a small Veneto town where prime cuts are the main event, cooked over embers with obvious conviction. The menu nods to season and tradition while slipping in the occasional contemporary detour, and Wednesdays bring a short run of gourmet pizzas that feels less like a gimmick than it sounds.
The awards
- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza: 50 Top Pizza Italy Excellent Pizzerias
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza Italy Excellent Pizzerias
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 3. Trattoria al Parco
Italian Barbecue
A stone and brick farmhouse surrounded by woodland, where the fogolar fireplace crackles in the corner and the kitchen sends charcoal smoke through the dining room all evening. This is old-school country cooking, the kind of trattoria where the wine list leans heavily on the family's own labels and the risottos are as carefully made as anything grilled over embers. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and guest rooms are available if the cellar gets the better of you.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 4. Bites
Barbecue
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
A Tie
Eight places have the exact same Score, so they share #4. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #4 Bites (this place) 68.544
- #4 Caffè Grande - Osteria del Centro 68.544
- #4 Campamac 68.544
- #4 Il Colmetto 68.544
- #4 La Torre 68.544
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Rank 4. Caffè Grande - Osteria del Centro
Seasonal Italian Barbecue
The grill does most of the talking here, turning out meat-forward plates with fish options alongside, and appetisers that don't shy away from tripe and sweetbreads. It's a relaxed osteria occupying an old café that's been around forever, reopened by three partners who kept the classics and the quality ingredients but skipped the dusty atmosphere. A la carte runs generous and straightforward, the kind of menu where you don't need to overthink it.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
A Tie
Eight places have the exact same Score, so they share #4. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #4 Bites 68.544
- #4 Caffè Grande - Osteria del Centro (this place) 68.544
- #4 Campamac 68.544
- #4 Il Colmetto 68.544
- #4 La Torre 68.544
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Rank 4. Campamac
Piedmontese Barbecue
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
A Tie
Eight places have the exact same Score, so they share #4. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #4 Bites 68.544
- #4 Caffè Grande - Osteria del Centro 68.544
- #4 Campamac (this place) 68.544
- #4 Il Colmetto 68.544
- #4 La Torre 68.544
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Rank 4. Il Colmetto
Barbecue
An agriturismo outside Brescia where the menu shifts nearly every week because the seasons say so. Much of what lands on the table is grown or raised on the property, then put over fire with a discipline that keeps the cooking tasting like food, not technique. The barbecue leans into offal and vegetables in equal measure, and the house goat's milk butter, served soft enough to spread with a glance, is the kind of detail people mention unprompted on the drive home.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
A Tie
Eight places have the exact same Score, so they share #4. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #4 Caffè Grande - Osteria del Centro 68.544
- #4 Campamac 68.544
- #4 Il Colmetto (this place) 68.544
- #4 La Torre 68.544
- #4 Ménage 68.544
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Rank 4. La Torre
Spanish Barbecue
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
A Tie
Eight places have the exact same Score, so they share #4. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #4 Campamac 68.544
- #4 Il Colmetto 68.544
- #4 La Torre (this place) 68.544
- #4 Ménage 68.544
- #4 Osteria del Guà 68.544
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Rank 4. Ménage
Contemporary Sicilian Barbecue
Two 1930 frescoes by Giuseppe Barone hang in the dining room of this intimate restaurant near the Teatro Bellini, where a trio of young Catanian chefs have taken over a space that used to be a haunt of the city's high society. The focus is contemporary Sicilian cooking, but meat, especially off the grill, is the real reason to sit downstairs. A cocktail bar run by one of the partners occupies the floor above.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
A Tie
Eight places have the exact same Score, so they share #4. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #4 Il Colmetto 68.544
- #4 La Torre 68.544
- #4 Ménage (this place) 68.544
- #4 Osteria del Guà 68.544
- #4 Rueda Gaucha 68.544
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Rank 4. Osteria del Guà
Creative Barbecue
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
A Tie
Eight places have the exact same Score, so they share #4. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #4 Il Colmetto 68.544
- #4 La Torre 68.544
- #4 Ménage 68.544
- #4 Osteria del Guà (this place) 68.544
- #4 Rueda Gaucha 68.544
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Rank 4. Rueda Gaucha
Barbecue
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
A Tie
Eight places have the exact same Score, so they share #4. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #4 Il Colmetto 68.544
- #4 La Torre 68.544
- #4 Ménage 68.544
- #4 Osteria del Guà 68.544
- #4 Rueda Gaucha (this place) 68.544