The Best Italian Food in Las Vegas
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The best Italian food in Las Vegas, according to the experts: AAA, USA Today, and Michelin Guide have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Esther's Kitchen comes out on top.
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Sinatra and Ferraro's Ristorante hold the next two places. Eater shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The Infatuation next.
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Rank 1. Esther's Kitchen
Italian
The sourdough, pasta, and pizza all come from a dedicated production area you can see from the dining room, which tells you something about how seriously this Arts District Italian restaurant takes the basics. Dark walls, vintage silver trays, and a big welcoming U-shaped wood bar give it a rustic warmth that feels nothing like the Strip. The seasonal menu leans farm-forward and the Michelin Bib Gourmand makes the price-to-pleasure math easy.
The awards
- AAA AAA: Three Diamonds
- USA Today USA Today: Restaurants of the Year
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 2. Sinatra
Italian
This is the Italian dining room inside Wynn, built around Frank Sinatra, with portraits on the walls and a few of his old microphones standing by in case anyone feels like a song. It's a white-tablecloth, Four Diamond, Forbes Four Star kind of evening, so dress like you've got somewhere to be afterward. The dessert is a chocolate mousse shaped like his fedora, which is a very Vegas way to eat your hat.
The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
- AAA AAA: Four Diamonds
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
- AAA Four Diamonds
- The Infatuation The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
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Rank 3. Ferraro's Ristorante
Italian
Ferraro's is a white-tablecloth Italian restaurant just off the Strip, where the main attraction is somebody else's birthday. Private rooms fill up with families belting out the song, while the patio stays oddly peaceful for a city that never shuts up. It holds AAA Three Diamonds and has been the sort of place Las Vegas locals pick when the occasion needs a tablecloth, a bucatini, and a short drive from the neon.
The awards
- AAA AAA: Three Diamonds
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Eat. Talk. Repeat.: Breakfast & Brunch: Ash · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Las Vegas Review Journal: The Hall of Fame
- AAA Three Diamonds
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Breakfast & Brunch: Ash · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Hall of Fame
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Rank 4. Carbone
American Italian
The red velvet booths are arranged in a circle so that everyone in this fine dining room can watch everyone else, which feels about right for Vegas. Carbone is the New York Italian-American institution transplanted to Aria, where tuxedoed captains serve dishes tableside with a theatricality that matches the decor. The menu leans into the classics hard, and putting yourself in the captain's hands is an option if the bill isn't a concern.
The awards
- AAA AAA: Four Diamonds
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
- Eater Eater: The Best Italian Restaurants in Las Vegas
- AAA Four Diamonds
- The Infatuation The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Italian Restaurants in Las Vegas
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Rank 4. Cipriani
Italian
The awards
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Eat. Talk. Repeat.: Breakfast & Brunch: John · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Eat. Talk. Repeat.: Breakfast & Brunch: Ash · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- Eater Eater: The Best Restaurants for Lunch in Las Vegas
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Breakfast & Brunch: John · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Breakfast & Brunch: Ash · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Restaurants for Lunch in Las Vegas
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Rank 6. Double Zero Pie & Pub
Neapolitan Pizzeria
A long counter, an open kitchen, and a pizzaiolo working the back of the room like the whole thing is a performance: this Chinatown strip-mall pizza shop has no interest in blending into its surroundings. The neo-Neapolitan dough is light with a properly blistered edge, and the menu stays tight enough that everything on it seems to mean something. Named among 50 Top Pizza USA's excellent pizzerias.
The awards
- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza: 50 Top Pizza USA Excellent Pizzerias
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Pizza Spots In Las Vegas
- Eater Eater: The Best Pizza in Las Vegas
- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza USA Excellent Pizzerias
- The Infatuation The Best Pizza Spots In Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Pizza in Las Vegas
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Rank 6. Harlo Steakhouse & Bar
Italian Steakhouse
Harlo is an upscale steakhouse in Summerlin, set up like an old Vegas lounge with chandeliers, indoor trees, and booths plush enough to lose a fork in. The caviar comes mix-and-match with malt vinegar fries and latkes, and the wagyu tomahawk gets carved at your table, price tag included. It's a place to wear the good jacket, though happy hour martinis with charred olives cost $11 for those watching.
The awards
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Eat. Talk. Repeat.: Dinner Sitting at the Bar Spot: John · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- Eating Las Vegas Eating Las Vegas: The 52 Essential Restaurants
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Eat. Talk. Repeat.: Steakhouse – Off the Strip: John · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Dinner Sitting at the Bar Spot: John · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- Eating Las Vegas The 52 Essential Restaurants
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Steakhouse – Off the Strip: John · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
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Rank 8. Piero's
Old-School Italian
Piero's is an old-school Italian dining room just off the Strip, with oversized leather booths, candlelight, and the lingering suggestion that someone at the next table is discussing something other than linguine. The bar is moody enough that the FBI reportedly once staked it out, which tells you how long the martinis have been this good. Expect a jacket-and-dinner-plans crowd, and a Garbage Caesar that sounds like an insult and isn't.
The awards
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Las Vegas Review Journal: The Hall of Fame
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 25 Best Restaurants In Las Vegas
- Eater Eater: The 18 Best Restaurants Worth Leaving the Strip for in Las Vegas
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Hall of Fame
- The Infatuation The 25 Best Restaurants In Las Vegas
- Eater The 18 Best Restaurants Worth Leaving the Strip for in Las Vegas
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Rank 9. Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano
Modern Italian
The handkerchief pasta, mandilli di seta, arrives dressed in Ligurian almond basil pesto and tends to settle the question of what to order. This modern Italian restaurant inside the Venetian seats over 150 across a room of forest green, reclaimed wood, and Art Deco light fixtures, which sounds like a lot but reads warmer than it has any right to. The menu runs from focaccina to porchetta, with fresh pasta doing most of the heavy lifting.
The awards
- AAA AAA: Three Diamonds
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Eat. Talk. Repeat.: Italian: John · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
- AAA Three Diamonds
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Italian: John · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
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Rank 9. Mother Wolf
Italian
Handmade pasta rooted in Roman and Lazio tradition is the point here, and Evan Funke's Italian restaurant inside the Fontainebleau takes that seriously enough to make everything else on the Strip feel like a reheated punchline. The room is modern rustic, open enough to clock the occasional famous face drifting through, with quieter tables along the edges for anyone who'd rather not. Seasonal antipasti, handmade pasta, the full Roman heritage treatment.
The awards
- Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler: The 25 Best Restaurants in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
- Eater Eater: The Best Romantic Restaurants in Las Vegas
- Condé Nast Traveler The 25 Best Restaurants in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Romantic Restaurants in Las Vegas
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Rank 11. Bottiglia Enoteca
Tuscan
Bottiglia is a Tuscan enoteca out in Henderson whose weekend brunch doubles as a dress-code experiment, with a sunny dining room full of groups in their flashiest outfits working through bottomless mimosas and Aperol spritzes. A shellfish tower shares the table with avocado toast, and dessert is a chocolate stiletto made of ladyfingers and mascarpone, which is a sentence you only get to say at brunch.
The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 16 Best Brunch Spots In Las Vegas
- Eater Eater: The Best Brunches in Las Vegas
- Eater Eater: The Best Italian Restaurants in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 16 Best Brunch Spots In Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Brunches in Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Italian Restaurants in Las Vegas
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Rank 11. Kassi Beach House
Coastal Italian
Kassi Beach House is a coastal Italian restaurant dressed up as an upscale beach shack, complete with a DJ spinning pop remixes at brunch and a steady supply of people photographing their eggs. The soft scrambled eggs with salsa verde are the quiet standout, and there's pasta for anyone who wants lunch to commit. Bottomless rosé on a poolside daybed is the move if you're prepared to treat Saturday as a project.
The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 16 Best Brunch Spots In Las Vegas
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Las Vegas Review Journal: The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas
- Eater Eater: The Best Brunches in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 16 Best Brunch Spots In Las Vegas
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Brunches in Las Vegas
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Rank 11. La Strega
Italian
The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 25 Best Restaurants In Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
- Eater Eater: The Best Italian Restaurants in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 25 Best Restaurants In Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Italian Restaurants in Las Vegas
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Monzú is a sit-down Italian restaurant in a Flamingo Road strip mall, where the red sauce tradition gets politely ignored. The menu leans Sicilian, with lamb croquettes wrapped in lemon leaves and a stack of crepes baked with meat sauce and béchamel. The rectangular pizzas rise from a starter said to be 300 years old, which makes it older than most of the city's zoning. Dinner-date prices, nothing you need a jacket for.
The awards
- Eating Las Vegas Eating Las Vegas: The 52 Essential Restaurants
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Las Vegas Review Journal: The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Eat. Talk. Repeat.: Italian: Ash · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- Eating Las Vegas The 52 Essential Restaurants
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Italian: Ash · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
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Rank 15. Michael’s Gourmet Room
Italian
The awards
- AAA AAA: Four Diamonds
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Las Vegas Review Journal: The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas
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Rank 16. Brezza
Tuscan
Brezza is a Tuscan Italian restaurant at Resorts World where the steaks hang around in dry-aging for at least 100 days, long enough to pick up a funk that tastes a little like gorgonzola. The 16-ounce strip is the move, and the pappardelle with lamb ragu is easy to split. The dining room handles a business lunch fine, and the patio looks out at the Strip, which is a lot of neon to see over a plate of pasta.
The awards
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Eat. Talk. Repeat.: Italian: John · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
- Eater Eater: The Best Italian Restaurants in Las Vegas
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Italian: John · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Italian Restaurants in Las Vegas
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Rank 16. Lavo Italian Restaurant
Italian
Lavo is an Italian restaurant that treats brunch as a two-act play. Sunday is the calm one, an all-you-can-eat spread with a towering bread display at the door and shoestring fries you'll keep reaching for. Saturday trades the tablecloth for fog machines, DJs, and bottle service delivered by someone dressed as a banana. Wear whichever outfit matches your appetite for chaos, and bring a budget for either.
The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 16 Best Brunch Spots In Las Vegas
- Eater Eater: The Best Brunches in Las Vegas
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Rank 18. Azzurra Cucina Italiana
Italian
The awards
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Rank 18. Balla Italian Soul
Coastal Italian
This is a lively coastal Italian restaurant on the Strip that clearly wants you to leave without needing a nap. The kitchen keeps things light and bright, so the casarecce arrives in garlicky tomato sauce with a Calabrian chile kick, and the Roman-style pizzas have a crisp, airy crust. The beet salad draws second helpings, and the limoncello spritzes help you pretend you're somewhere near an actual coast.
The awards
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Las Vegas Review Journal: The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
- Eater Eater: The Best Italian Restaurants in Las Vegas
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Italian Restaurants in Las Vegas
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The awards
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The pasta is made in-house every morning, which sets the tone for the rest of the menu. Locale is a meat-forward Italian American restaurant where red sauce is taken seriously and the charcuterie board arrives before you've had a chance to look around. Dry-aged steak and bone-in short ribs share space with eggplant Parmigiana, and the kitchen sources from small American farms alongside Italian imports. Out on Blue Diamond, far from the Strip's noise.
The awards
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Rank 18. Nora's Italian Cuisine
Italian
Nora's is an off-Strip Italian restaurant, the kind of red-sauce room locals have kept going for about as long as the Strip has been reinventing itself. The garlic bread is a dollar and bottomless, which tells you what the kitchen thinks of your appetite. Portions come out sized for sharing and then ignored. It holds AAA Three Diamonds, and the pasta everyone talks about only shows up at dinner, so plan accordingly.
The awards
- AAA AAA: Three Diamonds
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
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Rank 23. Ai Pazzi
Italian
Ai Pazzi is a sit-down Italian restaurant inside the JW Marriott in Summerlin, run by Top Chef fan favorite Fabio Viviani, where servers wheel carts to your table and finish fettuccine alfredo in front of you. The mozzarella gets hand-pulled at the table too, so dinner has a bit of theater. The wagyu meatball is the size of a small planet, and a pizza counter next door handles the more casual urges.
The awards
- The Infatuation The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Pizza in Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Italian Restaurants in Las Vegas
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The awards
- Eater Eater: The Best Restaurants for Lunch in Las Vegas
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Las Vegas Review Journal: The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Restaurants for Lunch in Las Vegas
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas
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Rank 23. Settebello Pizzeria Napoletana
Neapolitan Pizzeria
The awards
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Pizza: John · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Pizza in Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Restaurants in Henderson
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Rank 26. Al Solito Posto
Italian
This is the dressier sibling of Esther's Kitchen, an upscale Italian restaurant in Tivoli Village where the focaccia arrives with roasted garlic and a plan to keep you from ordering anything else. The dough carries over to the pizzas, and the meatballs come with a square of crunchy polenta built for chasing sauce. Early evenings at the bar are busy, and patio tables overlook a fountain, which is as close to Rome as Rampart Boulevard gets.
The awards
- Eater The 18 Best Restaurants Worth Leaving the Strip for in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
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The awards
- AAA AAA: Three Diamonds
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Las Vegas Review Journal: The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas
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Rank 26. Chicago Joe's
Italian
You'll spot it by the squat brick house with Christmas lights that never come down and lace curtains that predate everyone's memory. Inside it's a casual red-sauce Italian joint with checkered tablecloths and a brick fireplace, where the portions arrive in casserole dishes and the lasagna comes buried in marinara. Grab any table you like, since nobody's fighting you for it, and expect to leave carrying leftovers.
The awards
- The Infatuation The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Italian Restaurants in Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Restaurants in the Las Vegas Arts District
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Rank 26. Settebello Pizzeria Napoletana
Neapolitan Pizzeria
This is a casual, family-friendly Neapolitan pizzeria in Summerlin, with timber tables and a wood-fired oven that blisters each pie in just over a minute. The dough is thin and chewy and folds a little under its toppings, so you eat it with your hands and don't apologize. There's also a pear and jalapeño pie with no tomato sauce, which Naples would find alarming. Wear whatever you like, nobody is dressing up for pizza.
The awards
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Eat. Talk. Repeat.: Pizza: John · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Pizza Spots In Las Vegas
- Eat. Talk. Repeat. Pizza: John · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The Best Pizza Spots In Las Vegas
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Rank 30. Canaletto
Venetian
The awards
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Rank 30. Lago by Julian Serrano
Italian
The awards
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Rank 30. Nudo Italiano
Italian
The awards
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Rank 30. Panevino
Italian
The awards
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Rank 34. Dolce Notte
Italian Speakeasy
A movable wall conceals this cocktail bar and small-plates spot behind a family portrait inside Buddy Valastro's Italian restaurant at the Venetian. Green banquettes, cafe tables, and walls thick with photographs give it the feel of a room that's been there forever, even if the secret door suggests otherwise. The menu runs to charcuterie, little panini, and lobster fritto misto, with desserts closing things out on a sweet, unhurried note.
The awards
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Rank 35. Spaghetti Western
Italian
The awards
- AAA AAA: Approved
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Rank 36. Eataly
Italian Food Hall
The awards
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Rank 36. Lemon Tree Cafe and Market
Neapolitan Pizzeria
The awards
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Rank 36. Osteria Fiorella
Refined Italian
The awards
- Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler: The 25 Best Restaurants in Las Vegas
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Rank 39. Stanton Social Prime
Maximalist Italian Steakhouse
The awards
- Eater The Best Romantic Restaurants in Las Vegas
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants on the Las Vegas Strip
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Rank 40. All’Antico Vinaio
Florentine Deli
The awards
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Rank 40. Amalfi by Bobby Flay
Italian
The awards
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Rank 40. Capo's Italian Steakhouse & Speakeasy
Italian Speakeasy
Getting into this off-Strip speakeasy means ringing a football, which feels like a sentence from a fever dream, and then supplying a password you only get by booking ahead. A host in a vest and flat cap works the room while jazz singers handle the stage, and you can request an unlikely cover from the lounge. It's an Italian steakhouse in costume, so the red leather booths fill up with tourists.
The awards
- Eater The Best Secret Restaurants and Speakeasies in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
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Rank 40. Roli Roti
Italian Sandwich Shop
The awards
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Rank 40. Scarpetta
Italian
The name comes from the Italian habit of dragging bread through whatever sauce is left in the bowl, and the kitchen here gives you plenty of reason to do exactly that. Scarpetta is a polished Italian restaurant on the Strip, the kind of place where you dress a little and the pasta justifies it. Tableside paccheri in truffle cream is a reliable splurge, and the agnolotti with short rib and bone marrow lands somewhere between rustic and indulgent.
The awards
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Toscana is the full-service, sit-down Italian restaurant tucked inside the sprawling Eataly food hall at Park MGM, which means you walk past pastry counters and pasta shelves to get there, which somehow works. The menu leans Tuscan and seasonal, the kind of regional Italian that changes with what's good rather than just what photographs well. It's a proper dinner-out option in a building most people wander through eating arancini.
The awards
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This is a red-sauce Italian joint a block off the Strip, with celebrity headshots, old records, and a wedding's worth of chianti bottles hanging from the ceiling. The kitsch is not subtle, and it suits big, loud group dinners where nobody checks the menu prices. Entrees come in under $50 and include unlimited house red and white, which is the real plot of the evening. Plan on leftovers and a lively walk back.
The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: Where To Eat & Drink On The Las Vegas Strip
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Rank 46. Gaetano’s Ristorante
Northern Italian
The awards
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Rank 46. Ventano Italian Grill & Seafood
Southern Italian
The awards
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The awards
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Las Vegas Review Journal: The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas
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Rank 49. Ciao Vino
Italian
The awards
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Las Vegas Review Journal: The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas
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Rank 49. RPM Italian
Italian
The awards
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Las Vegas Review Journal: The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas
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The awards
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Las Vegas Review Journal: The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas