The Best Cafés in Italy
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The best cafés in Italy, according to the experts: Eater has weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Le Polveri comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in Ferrara and Milan.
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Rank 1. Le Polveri
Café
A chemist who became a baker is either a cautionary tale or a very good idea, and at Le Polveri it's the latter. This small all-day cafe and bread laboratory turns out laminated pastries, focaccia slicked with olive oil, and a short lunch menu built around whatever the team feels like baking that day. The coffee is serious, and the bread, spread thick with whipped butter and house jam, is the kind of thing people walk across neighborhoods for.
The awards
- Eater The 37 Best Restaurants in Milan
A Tie
Three places have the exact same Score, so they share #1. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1 Le Polveri (this place) 64.672
- #1 LùBar 64.672
- #1 Procacci 1885 64.672
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Rank 1. LùBar
Modern Sicilian Café
The cafe inside Milan's Villa Reale serves Sicilian food under a fin-de-siecle portico that looks out over the public gardens, which is a better lunch situation than most people manage on a workday. Dishes arrive in Sicilian ceramic bowls, the menu leans toward updated island classics, and the cannoli are filled to order on site. It's the kind of museum cafe that makes you forget the art was the original plan.
The awards
- Eater The 37 Best Restaurants in Milan
A Tie
Three places have the exact same Score, so they share #1. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1 Le Polveri 64.672
- #1 LùBar (this place) 64.672
- #1 Procacci 1885 64.672
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The truffle-stuffed panini here are small, perfect, and entirely sufficient reason to push through the door on Via dè Tornabuoni. This old-school Florentine cafe and gourmet shop has been pouring aperitivo and selling truffle everything, from infused honey to anchovy jars, for well over a century. Antinori supplies the wine, so the glasses are serious. Come for a stand-up snack and leave with a small, expensive bag of something you'll justify as a souvenir.
The awards
- Eater The 35 Best Restaurants in Florence, Italy
A Tie
Three places have the exact same Score, so they share #1. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1 Le Polveri 64.672
- #1 LùBar 64.672
- #1 Procacci 1885 (this place) 64.672