Best Italian Restaurants in the Best Cities

Malafemmena

$$ C. Del Dr. Esquerdo, 13, 28028, Madrid
Italian Elegant & Chic Pizzeria
In the centre of Madrid, we find Malafemmena, an Italian restaurant that wants to offer typical dishes of the Italian tradition. A casual location, even elegant, which leaves room for a large clientele, from a family dinner to a business lunch, to conclude with a romantic candlelit dinner. Italian dishes, from Pizza to pasta to grilled meat and fish second courses, bring back to Spain those Mediterranean smells and flavours belonging to the Italian lands.

Ornella

$$ C. De Velázquez, 18, 28001, Madrid
Italian Premium Casual Pizzeria
A reinterpretation of the most classic Italian-style trattorias. At Ornella, you will find the flavours of home, those that you can savour in any Italian house or village, where the tastes and smells of the Mediterranean remain intact. A very well-kept location, casual, elegant, and refined. A traditional cuisine which wants to remember the Italian culinary culture most simply, re-proposing the classic dishes.

Davvero Ristorante

$$$ Food Hall Galeria Canalejas, C. De Alcalá, 12, Planta -1, 28014, Madrid
Italian Premium Casual Pizzeria
At Davvero, you will find the traditional Italian cuisine of a lifetime, homemade, with the best products and a more refined and selected wink. In this restaurant with an Italian spirit restaurant, you will have a direct experience where everything happens before your eyes. From Davvero, you will find an open kitchen, plated in the living room and an empty cellar. The kitchen offers a wide gastronomic offer with the best products brought from Italy, starting from the durum wheat used to make homemade pasta, to go to the wood-burning oven ready and lit to cook the delicious Neapolitan pizzas, not to mention seconds of land and sea that will leave you wanting more.

Oliveto

$$ C. De Sta. Isabel, 45, 28012, Madrid
Italian Mediterranean Casual Dining Pizzeria
Oliveto is an Italian restaurant located in the heart of Madrid, offering traditional cuisine. The smells of the Mediterranean, the Italian colours, and the flavours of the lands. A straightforward restaurant, which puts Italian dishes at the centre of everything, among which a Neapolitan-style pizza cooked in a stone oven excels, pasta first courses accompanied by any side dish and second courses, among which we find Florentine steaks and daily catch deriving directly from the Iberian and Tyrrhenian coasts.

Davanti Ristorante

$$$ C. De Augusto Figueroa, 41, 28004, Madrid
Italian European Mediterranean Premium Casual
The best and most decadent homemade pasta you will find in Madrid is at Davanti. There are no secrets in this corner of Chueca; everything is "in front" of your eyes. From the ingredients that embellish the environment, and the products of the Small Market, to the final plating, followed with care in front of the diner. From the early morning hours, the kitchen staff starts preparing the dough so that you can enjoy fresh pasta, as well as surprise you with typical and traditional dishes of Italian cuisine, respecting the ingredients and the original culture. Fresh burrata, mozzarella brought directly from Italy, tomatoes from the local market, mushrooms, Parmesan and an infinite number of other delicious products make the menu an absolute pleasure.

ImPasta

$ C. De Las Hileras, 2, 28013, Madrid
Italian European Mediterranean Casual Dining Family Style
A natural Italian-style laboratory where hundreds and hundreds of grams and kilograms of pasta are created every day, different, long and short, rough and smooth. IMpasta is a small restaurant where pasta is king. A surplus of first courses to be envied. Pasta of all kinds, with all sorts of sauces. A simple menu, hard to go wrong, accompanied by excellent wines and a careful selection of malts, will leave you with the sensation of wanting to return as soon as possible.

Trattoria Pulcinella

$$ C. De Regueros, 7, 28004, Madrid
Italian Casual Dining Family Style Pizzeria
In most Italian traditions, the Pulcinella trattoria brings to Iberian land a Mediterranean taste that distinguishes the Belpaese. Traditional Italian cuisine is brought to the table, with pizzas cooked in a stone oven, pasta first courses, land, and main sea courses. Homemade pasta, such as fettuccine, gnocchi and tonnarelli, main courses of imported meat and fish of the highest quality, coming from the land and seas of the Mediterranean. A simple, convivial location, perfect for any lunch or dinner, satisfying everyone.

Lettera 22

$$ C. De La Reina, 20, 28004, Madrid
Italian European Mediterranean Casual Dining Pizzeria
A place that has magic. Carta 22 stands on the streets of Madrid. A restaurant that wants to evoke Italian flavours and traditions revisited in a Spanish key without losing the Mediterranean flavour that characterizes it. A small oak tree in the centre of the room gives a feeling of peace and relaxation, making the place unique. The menu focuses on Italian pizza and its most typical dishes. The first courses are based on homemade pasta, traditional second courses and a wine list that is the envy of all.

Ristorante Burro Salato

$$$ Via Rocco Scotellaro, 7, 75100, Matera
Italian French Premium Casual
A simple but sophisticated cuisine in an environment that recreates a typical Provençal country house. Dishes that combine local tradition with French-inspired recipes, savoury Breton galettes and gourmet crêpes. The place to spend moments of romantic relaxation. The journey, before being physical, is internal! From one of the many trips to France, the idea of creating a gastronomic place was born to merge the gastronomic cultures of two apparently distant places. Following Caterina de Medici's footsteps and the Monsù of the court of Ferdinand I of Bourbon, King of the Two Sicilies, Lucan and French cuisine mix and, merging, create a new culinary world, but strongly influenced by tradition.

Tierra

$$$$ Via San Biagio, 27, 75100, Matera
Italian Mediterranean Casual Dining
Tierra was born from a precise idea based on a few valid principles. Tierra, a contemporary tavern, is synonymous with a return to origins, traditions, roots and what belongs to us, using and reinterpreting the raw materials that the surrounding area generously offers seasonally, putting at the forefront the fundamental pillars behind the scenes of this work, farmers, breeders and small local producers. In addition to having an imprint on the past, Tierra is modelled and elaborated in the present to project itself into the future.

Basquiat Il Ristorantino

$$$$ Via Lucana, 3, 75100, Matera
Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual
Basquiat the Little Restaurant looks welcoming and fashionable simultaneously. It draws inspiration from the famous American artist of the 80s, "Jean Michel Basquiat", a very talented, extravagant, controversial and brilliant writer and painter. Chef Giancarlo del Castello, for his open kitchen, uses only products and ingredients characteristic of the Lucanian area and offers innovative dishes. The menu focuses on Lucan specialities and, therefore, ample space for appetizers: broad beans and chicory, with bran peppers and fried breadcrumbs, Matera crapiata, with cereals, a mixture of legumes, vegetables and potatoes, cardoncelli mushrooms, blended with brandy and pesto parsley, tuna carpaccio and much more. At Basquiat's Il Ristorante, you will find a fish-based menu that will bring out the flavours of the sea to the fullest. In the gastronomic offer of the restaurant, the paccheri with cod and cherry tomatoes, the tubettoni with octopus and white bean puree, with cruschi peppers and fried breadcrumbs, the classic linguine allo scoglio and much more stand out.

La Dispensa Di Aquatio

$$$$ Via Conche, 12, 75100, Matera
Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic
The La Dispensa di Aquatio restaurant, also with an outdoor area in the private courtyard, will win you over with Basilicata's typical flavours and colours. Dine by candlelight under the stars in the centre of Sasso Caveoso, immersed in history, alone or in company, savouring this delicious cuisine and sipping an excellent wine from the cellar will represent an unrepeatable moment to remember. The restaurant room is a flexible space, intercommunicating with the breakfast room and the meeting area. Its capacity varies according to the occasion, making itself available for contingent events and needs. The custom-designed and made-to-measure white furnishings are the trademark of the architect. Simone Micheli.

Trattoria Stano

$$$$ Via Santa Cesarea, 67/69, 75100, Matera
Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual Pizzeria
A story that tells that from the love for one's origins, as many stories with a unique flavour can be born, all seasoned with a particular taste, just as Franco and Maria are exceptional, who have built day after day theirs, of family, theirs, of history and that of gastronomy in Matera. The Da Stano restaurant is like a big family, where ties are built and strengthened every day. In which yesterday's stories are heard and today's narratives are constructed. And, as in a family relationship, it is indeed the fruit of many sacrifices, but above all of the bonds, a lot of passion and absolute tenacity. Of a great love for good food, a genuine feeling that reaches from the chest to the plate. Still today.

La Lopa

$$$$ Via Bruno Buozzi, 13, 75100, Matera
Italian Casual Dining
La Lopa is a restaurant that rises between the stones and milestones of Matera. The restaurant Focuses on the quality of the ingredients and an original presentation, specifically created to satisfy all palates, from lovers of typical Lucan recipes to meat and vegetable gourmets. It is a restaurant located in the Sassi area. Indeed it is right inside a stone. A traditional Lucan cuisine that transports customers into an aphrodisiac culinary universe.

Ristorante Le Bubbole

$$$$ Via S. Potito, 57 B, 75100, Matera
Italian International Fine dining Elegant & Chic
Le Bubbole is an elegant restaurant that offers a unique emotional dimension. It is located in the historical centre of Matera, within the walls of Palazzo Gattini, a landmark residence in the heart of the Sassi. It offers quality cuisine based on highly selected and excellent raw materials, with a tasty and creative selection of dishes proposed by the chef. A cuisine is attentive to the territory and simultaneously open to the world. The cuisine is distinguished by the meticulous care with which the raw materials, from Basilicata and beyond, are selected.

Sassapora

$$$$ Via Domenico Ridola, 47, 75100, Matera
Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual
The S'assapora restaurant is located near the main entrance of the Sassi of Matera, in an intimate and welcoming place where taste and quality are combined to offer traditional dishes, from sea and land, with an unforgettable flavour, inspired by the Matera tradition and slightly revised. The Chef pays attention and, with a pinch of imagination, manages to reconcile the typical cuisine of Matera with modern cuisine, maintaining a line that is not too elaborate, using local products, using the best and freshest raw materials. The goal is to enhance tradition and respect the rhythms of nature.

Baccanti

$$$$ Via Sant'Angelo, 58/61, 75100, Matera
Italian European Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic
Fully experiencing the atmosphere of Matera and its Sassi means retracing the paths of time. Ristorante Baccanti offers an intense culinary journey that is enhanced by a magical place to amplify the ecstasy of the senses. Housed in the unique environment of the Sassi, it represents the right combination of tradition and innovation. Among these stones, you can breathe an ancient history with the excellent and genuine taste of authentic things. Here every moment will be unique and unforgettable. A particular place where it will be impossible not to return. The peasant tradition exudes from the stones and the specific objects present, which evoke the original atmospheres, giving unique details to the location. Getting lost in flavours and smells, walking through the evocative spaces of Ristorante Baccanti, and choosing a wine directly from the underground cellar is an exclusive and incomparable experience.

Vitantonio Lombardo Ristorante

$$$$ Via Madonna Delle Virtù, 13, 75100, Matera
Italian European Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic
Vitantonio Lombardo Ristorante takes its name from its Chef to communicate a strong sense of familiarity, allowing each guest to feel at home. A cave in the Sassi district left to its natural charm on purpose, based on a project by the architect Alessandro Tortorelli and the desire of Vitantonio, who chose Matera inspired by a place where the cavities and convexities of the stone can honestly give life to timeless taste experiences. Here the chef Vitantonio Lombardo welcomes the customers of the restaurant in Matera with a "Heart, Head, Belly" Tasting Menu, which includes the dishes that have marked the path taken up to now, punctually flanked by new creations aimed at the future. Plates are united by the desire to give new sensations to the palate and stimulate the senses in a journey from fish to meat, passing through the land.

La Grotta Nei Sassi

$$$ Via San Biagio, Via Rosario, 73, 75100, Matera
Italian European Mediterranean Premium Casual
The La Grotta nei Sassi restaurant is located in the historical centre of Matera, in a suggestive setting that recalls the old restaurants of the early twentieth century in Matera. The Famous Sassi of Matera is located inside caves excavated by man, a UNESCO heritage site. The restaurant comprises two rooms that can accommodate about sixty guests, offering an airy, ultra-modern and elegant atmosphere, perfectly in line with the innovative cuisine. Being located in the central area of Matera, where it has a beautiful panoramic terrace overlooking the fantastic scenery of Sasso Barisano, it is also a meeting point for many business people to organize meetings or business lunches-dinners. The cuisine that can be tasted is a traditional cuisine of typical local products at Km 0 or seafood specialities.

Kapunto

$$ Via Lucana, 178, 75100, Matera
Italian Casual Dining
Orecchiette, Capunti, caserecce, trofie, ravioli, tortellini, spaghetti, pappardelle, tagliolini, lasagne. Make yourself comfortable and find out by browsing the menu. The chef personally selects the ingredients for the preparations with particular attention to freshness and territoriality. In his many international experiences, the chef has learned to adapt his fillings to the pasta's shape, balance the combinations, propose the right sauce, and transform a plate of pasta into an experience to remember. Pasta is home, but also passion and sharing. Every day, the chef creates refined and delicious proposals in traditional formats and stuffed variants. All you have to do is let yourself be guided by the scent and taste you prefer.
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