The Best Italian Food in Osaka
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The best Italian food in Osaka, according to the experts: the Michelin Guide and Gault&Millau have both weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. a canto comes out on top.
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capi and P greco 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. a canto
Italian
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Gault&Millau Gault&Millau: 2 Toques
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Rank 1. capi
Italian
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Gault&Millau Gault&Millau: 3 Toques
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Rank 1. P greco
Italian
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Gault&Millau Gault&Millau: 3 Toques
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Rank 4. YUNiCO
Contemporary Italian
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 5. LACERBA
Italian
The awards
- Gault&Millau Gault&Millau: 3 Toques
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 5. PONTE VECCHIO
Italian
The awards
- Gault&Millau Gault&Millau: 3 Toques
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 7. Il Centrino
Italian
Handmade pasta learned in the kitchens of Piedmont is the anchor at this Italian restaurant in Chuo-ku, where the chef folds Japanese seasonal produce into a northern Italian framework. The name nods to Ristorante Il Centro in Piedmont, where the training happened, and that debt shows in the way farm ingredients get treated with almost personal reverence. The cooking sits somewhere between two regional traditions without feeling confused about which one it is.
The awards
- Gault&Millau Gault&Millau: 2 Toques
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 8. PRESTAU
Modern Italian
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 9. isolata
Modern Italian
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 9. Kamado
Italian
A traditional wood-fired kamado stove anchors the room and sets the whole logic of the meal: you start with rice cooked directly in it, and everything else follows that same thread. This intimate Osaka restaurant fuses Italian and Japanese cooking through the discipline of wood fire, so meat roasts over embers while pasta closes the evening. Even the pottery was kiln-fired. The coherence of the concept makes it feel less like fusion and more like a thesis.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 9. QUINTOCANTO
Creative Italian
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 9. tamanegi
Piedmontese
Onion-shaped lamps hang from the ceiling, which is not a coincidence: "tamanegi" is Japanese for onion, and the bulb turns up in both Italian and French cooking, which maps neatly onto this couple. She trained in Piemonte; he came up through French restaurant wine programs. The result is a small, husband-and-wife Italian restaurant in Nishi-ku running hand-rolled pasta and free-range beef alongside organic pours.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 9. TAVERNETTA da KITAYAMA
Italian
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant