Best Mediterranean Restaurants in the Best Cities

Al Pescatore

$$$$ Riviera Cristoforo Colombo, 39, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

Just a stone's throw from the new area, you can discover the authenticity of the Al Pescatore restaurant with seafood specialities based on the best fresh fish. The hosts are Luciano Corciulo and his wife, Mina Stefanì, who know how to conquer the hearts of their guests with kindness, professionalism and attention to detail. “We work with quality and for quality,” they say. The entire menu was born from the inventiveness of Luciano, a whimsical and self-taught chef, a great connoisseur of the marine world, which he studies and respects. On the table, always and only the catch of the day declined in tasty variations, given that the chef faithfully follows the seasonality of the fish caught to protect the natural cyclical nature of the sea. Delicate dishes, exclusive flavours and refined combinations. These are just some of the qualities of chef Luciano Corciulo and his staff.

Trattoria Portolano

$$ Riviera Cristoforo Colombo, 69/71, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

Il Portolano, a restaurant in Gallipoli where seafood specialities are the reason for the cuisine, focused on the exclusive use of high-quality products; the fresh fish is scrupulously selected from the fishermen's nets that arrive at the small port every day. The Trattoria Portolano restaurant was born from the desire to express that innate passion for the gastronomy culture of Gallipoli that has always accompanied us, a faithful relationship to the ancient recipes handed down in the kitchens of our homes. In a land of fishermen and farmers, of the sea and olive trees, in Salento, the recipes are masterpieces of taste and simplicity: from the encounter of poor ingredients, the wonderful exaltation of flavours is born. The Portolano restaurant is where diners are invited to spend moments of cheerful conviviality, such as a lunch with friends, a family celebration or a candlelit dinner.

Antica Locanda Dal Povero Enzo

$$$$ Via Monte Santo, 42, 87100, Cosenza

Italian Mediterranean Casual Dining Family Style

In the heart of Cosenza, this charming inn, Dal Povero Enzo, rekindles those Calabrian flavours and smells that bring to mind the ancient and typical dishes of the Calabrian tradition. A simple, familiar place where you can enjoy the magic of food. Simple, traditional dishes that give a touch of elegance to the place itself. Calabria at the table captivates the palate of customers, forging them and driving them crazy with the desire to return soon.

Molo87

$$$$ Via Maria Luigi Greco, 3/5, 87100, Cosenza

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

The restaurant was created to welcome all who want to be pampered by Maître Daniele in a unique and refined environment, but above all, to taste the delights of good fish cuisine, which chef Giampiero prepares with love and passion. Fish and other delicacies are served at the table as first courses, appetizers and main courses for all palates.

Il Moro Food And Vibes

$$ Via Calabria, 18, 87100, Cosenza

Italian European Mediterranean Casual Dining Fast Casual Pizzeria

From typical first courses of Italian cuisine to sandwiches prepared with top-quality ingredients, from Neapolitan pizza to delicious desserts: Il Moro has something for all tastes! Top it all off, a wide selection of draft and bottled beers. Everything from pizza to frittini, to pasta dishes will make you lose your mind, among the most renowned such as carbonara or amatriciana and much more. Excellent quality cuts of meat, only from certified farms. The quality of the alcohol is far superior to expectations; between drinks, cocktails and lots of beers, you will lose your head.

Ristorante Al Vicoletto

$$ Via Simonetta Francesco, Via Francesco Gioia, 9, 87100, Cosenza

Italian European Mediterranean Premium Casual Family Style

The restaurant Ristorante Pizzeria "Al Vicoletto" was born in 1993 from the idea of Pasquale and Francesco; today, it is renowned and affirmed among lovers of good food. Located in the centre of Cosenza in an alley that leads from Simonetta to via Caloprese, hence the choice of the name "Al Vicoletto", the restaurant specializes in typical fish and meat dishes of the best Calabrian and Cosenza tradition without neglecting the traditional pizza. The restaurant has a welcoming indoor dining room and an elegant outdoor space in the summer. We have been a point of reference for over 30 years for a lunch break or dinner in the company of friends or family.

Gusto Toscano

$$$$ Via Isonzo, 22/24, 87100, Cosenza

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

Restaurant located in the heart of the city of Cosenza, Gusto Toscano tells, in the most authentic and passionate way, traditions and stories through haute cuisine dishes, able to satisfy eyes, palates and souls. The Bistrot also offers an extensive wine list to create perfect pairings in a combination of elegance and refinement. The menu is a journey of experiences and sensations, an all-Italian journey between "sea and mountains" with the careful selection of cold cuts and cheeses from the Maremma and the excellence of true Chianina meat. Gusto Toscano combines refined fish dishes capable of ferrying travellers directly on the seashore.

Mosto97 Enoteca & Cucina

$$$ Via Don Giovanni Minzoni, 14, 87100, Cosenza

Mediterranean Casual Dining

Unique and refined experiences in an austere environment, made of friendship, love and passion. At Mosto 97, the passion for wine has prompted the owners to create a place where you can have a unique experience of its kind. You will be able to taste excellent wine accompanied by typical Calabrian and Italian dishes. If you like it, you can take home a good bottle or repeat the experience always here at Mosto 97. Come and discover the true meaning of a Wine Bar.

Le 3 Forchette

$$$$ Via Isonzo, 15, 87100, Cosenza

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining

Le 3 Forchette is an elegant restaurant in the heart of the city of Cosenza. The secret ingredients of success are quality raw materials and passion for all the work. Le 3 Forchette is the restaurant where you will rediscover the beauty of simple things and attention to detail: located in the heart of Cosenza and offers you many fish specialities prepared with the best local raw materials. The culinary offer always includes fresh fish of the day combined with high-quality wines carefully selected by expert staff. The Le 3 Forchette restaurant in Cosenza offers a menu based on cooked fish and crudités. From appetizers to desserts, the dishes are prepared with the best local ingredients: the raw materials from the area guarantee an intense flavour and a simple meal served to perfection.

Ristorante Gambero Rosso

$$$$ Via Montezemolo, 65, 89046, Marina di Gioiosa Ionica

Italian European Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

The restaurant was born from a return home, from the desire of Anna Maria and Giuseppe Sculli to look to the future by starting again from that sea they had left years before as emigrants. The new chapter written by Riccardo and Francesco, sons who grew up in the warmth of a passion whose roots still sink into the land and sea of Calabria, expresses deep respect for the gastronomic tradition and local products, but also the indispensable synergy with local producers and suppliers. Gambero Rosso's dishes are a sensory narration of this land ruffled by the wind and scented by the sea, green with woods and rigorous, humble and capable of surprising. To rediscover the pure, authentic taste of the land and the sea. The gastronomic vision of the modern Gambero Rosso led by Riccardo and Francesco explores the fields of lightness and balance, extrapolating cultural dictates from traditional cuisine and reworking them on always innovative tasting occasions.

Ristorante Abbruzzino

$$$$ Via Fiume Savuto, 88100, Cava-Cuculera Nobile

Italian European Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

The Abbruzzino restaurant, Michelin star 2023, changes its face in 2016. Access through a small garden, dominated by the green lawn, leads to a room where six tables find space in a modern, minimal environment characterized by grey-clay tones and almond-white. The chef gives you the opportunity to enter his world, visit his kitchen and leave your mark. A refined, elegant place that makes you understand the weight of its name and the star that it proudly wears on every chef's apron. A modern, theatrical cuisine that enchants anyone who sits at the table to try this out-of-the-ordinary experience.

Ristorante RURIS

$$$$ C/DA MAZZOTTA, 88841, Isola di Capo Rizzuto

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

The menu finds its favourite ally in fish, reworked with flashes of imagination by chef Natale Pallone. The intimate and welcoming restaurant is immersed in a rural atmosphere (as its name suggests) in the Capo Rizzuto Marine Protected Area. The cellar holds over 200 wine labels and over 60 fine international spirits. Elegant, refined, fine dining place, perfect for a romantic dinner for special occasions. A relaxing atmosphere to enjoy top-level cuisine with a tasting and a la carte menu.

Pietramare Natural Food Restaurant

$$$$ Località Praialonga, 88841, Isola di Capo Rizzuto

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

Sitting at the table at Pietramare is an authentic culinary journey, but it is also a stay here and now. Proximity cuisine follows nature's rhythms and uses local raw materials. A table is a place for sharing, an opportunity for discovery and enrichment. It's not just what's on the plate that counts, but what's in the hands and hearts of those who thought up and prepared that dish. For you. The bread, the pasta, the pastry, self-produced with ancient grains, and the rice from the rice fields of Sibari: the essence of a Calabria rich in culture, history and traditions, which we want to celebrate with a contemporary and health-conscious breath. Fresh fish, meat, wild herbs, and vegetables from the organic garden, generous nature is waiting to give us its extraordinary gifts, which we just have to collect.

Hyle

$$$$ Località Torre Garga, S.da 107 Silana Crotonese, 87055, San Giovanni in Fiore

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

The Hyle concept combines two paths, the personal one of Antonio Biafora and the territorial one, represented by the rediscovery of the "via della pece". Pitch Bruzia is a precious raw material with a thousand uses: medicine, naval engineering, handicrafts, and conservation. The woodcutters extracted it from the trunk of the larch pine by carving herringbone channels. Thus, rediscovering an ancient and noble custom, we came across a path of our own, more singular than ever, the path of the pitch. Biafora intends to retrace this path, which starts from the hills overlooking the sea and reaches the top of the mountains, a short route which, however, includes a fertile territory rich in different and exciting raw materials, from which we start to build a kitchen that , enriched by the chef's experience and past, draws a map of territorial excellence, identifying farmers, breeders and small producers and activates a chain of economic and social sustainability.

San Domenico

$$$$ Via Colapesce, Parcheggio Papa Inferiore, 1, 89812, Pizzo

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

On the Costa degli Dei, this small liaison with the sea is born, which tends to renew itself every time between its landscape and dishes. Respect, creativity and enhancement of the raw material. At the San Domenico restaurant, you breathe tradition, innovation, quality and spontaneity. The culture of food, its history, and everything behind the preparation, thanks to Chef Bruno Tassone, comes to the surface. Each dish tells a different story, which he passes on thanks to his wisdom and diligent hands. The freshest products on the market, the best, to guarantee the best experience for its diners.

Qafiz

$$$$ Località Calabretto, 89056, Santa Cristina D'Aspromonte

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

Sit around the Qafiz kitchen to share the bond with the territory, the love for the landscape and the desire to be protagonists of evolving traditions. A research cuisine that maintains solid relationships with the surrounding area through the dialogue between man and nature. The full interaction between the customer and the chef is the symbol of the breaking down of distances, whether conceptual, linguistic or cultural. Just sit at the counter to decipher the flavours from a wild setting like Aspromonte with its wild herbs, traditions, and colours.

Castello Degli Dei

$$$ Via Papa Giovanni Paolo II, 1, 89017, San Giorgio Morgeto

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

The Castello degli Dei restaurant is a reinterpretation of a medieval castle. The large room is furnished with modern furniture, creating an elegant contrast with the structure. A wide range of wines from the most renowned labels is available, which will be served with fish or meat dishes, the result of our chef's culinary research. A refined cuisine that offers only the best to its customers, pampering them with raw materials of the highest quality, impeccable service and a fairy-tale location that will take your breath away.

Ristorante Kamastra

$$ Piazza Municipio, 4, 87010, Civita

Italian European Mediterranean Casual Dining Family Style

In an atmosphere of an old inn of the past, you can appreciate today the ancient flavours of yesterday and today. The Kamastra restaurant was born in July 1995 from the happy intuition of Enzo Filardi, lawyer and composer, for the pleasure of Arbëresh (Italian-Albanian) ethnic music. The gastronomic proposal, closely linked to the territory and strictly faithful to the local natural resources, becomes the leitmotif for the rediscovery of the Arbëresh culinary traditions, according to a well-defined path which, over time, tends to combine the ancient flavours of the Calabrian land and the world peasant, with Balkan influences handed down through the preservation of the ethnic origins of the Country of the Eagles.

La Rondinella Osteria Pop

$$ Via Vittorio Emanuele, 7, 87029, Scalea

Italian Mediterranean Casual Dining Family Style

La Rondinella was born about 30 years ago from the passion of mother Anna for cooking and father Ciriaco for peasant life. A project made up of simple cuisine and gastronomic tradition to bring to guests' tables to revive the tastes and flavours of a past that seems very distant. Grandma's kitchen with ingredients that pass directly from the land to the table. Under a ten-year-old bougainvillaea is what is now the "pop" tavern. A rustic and welcoming room where Giovanni and Francesca accompany guests on a journey through flavours that recall their grandmother's dishes and preparations that combine the quality and locality of the raw material with all the inspiration of chef Antonio.

Al Pesce Fuor D'acqua

$$$$ Via Francesco Cilea, 7, 87036, Quattromiglia

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Elegant & Chic

In the heart of the more genuine Rende, near the sumptuous cathedral of San Carlo Borromeo and the municipal buildings, there is the restaurant "Al Pesce Fuor D'acqua". You are welcomed by an elegant and refined environment, which befits the city's best restaurants. The restaurant has three specialities: The quality of the raw material, the care in the preparation of the dishes and the cellar. Look at the dining room showcase, where we display fresh fish from our seas every day: sea bass, turbot, monkfish, sea bream, redfish, scampi and lobster.

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