The Best Italian Food in Nara
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The best Italian food in Nara, according to the experts: Gault&Millau and the Michelin Guide have both weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. cucina regionale YANAGAWA comes out on top.
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Camino and KOMFORTA hold the next two places. The Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Gault&Millau next.
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Rank 1. cucina regionale YANAGAWA
Regional Italian
The awards
- Gault&Millau Gault&Millau: 2 Toques
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 2. Camino
Regional Italian
A prix fixe Italian restaurant in Nara where the kitchen works through all twenty of Italy's regions, course by course, north to south and back again. The pasta is made in-house, many ingredients are imported from Italy, and the wine list follows the same regional logic, pairing bottles from native cultivars with the food from the same area. For a city with this many temples, finding a room this devoted to Italian tradition feels almost poetic.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 2. KOMFORTA
Italian
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 2. ocu
Wood-fired Italian
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 2. Ristorante L’incontro
Italian
An Italian restaurant in Nara where the chef cures his own prosciutto and salami on site, forages wild plants and mushrooms from the surrounding mountains, and hunts the game he then cooks. The menu leans heavily into that forager-hunter lifestyle, with traditional medicinal herbs woven in to sharpen the wild character of the meat. It's the kind of place where the sourcing is the philosophy, not just the marketing copy.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 2. ristorante Nishiyama
Japanese-influenced Italian
An Italian restaurant in Nara where the chef quietly ignores the border between cuisines, folding wasabi, yuzu, and Japanese pepper into the kind of cooking that started as a straightforward apprenticeship in Italian technique. Vegetables come from nearby farms, and the room itself pulls double duty, with a gallery upstairs showing work by local artists. The double-height ground floor keeps things airy and unhurried.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant