La Saletta ★ 4.8
La Saletta in Alghero has held its place in the Michelin Guide since 2023, with four tasting menus built on Sardinian produce a block from the sea.
OrderThe Radici menu, where Sardinian vegetables lead instead of the fish.
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Trippa ★ 4.8
Trippa in Milan's Porta Romana is Diego Rossi's offal-led trattoria, opened 2015 with cucina povera reimagined. Kitchen leans modern italian, offal.
OrderThe vitello tonnato, the trippa alla fiorentina and the mondeghili Milanese meatballs.
TipBookings open 60 days ahead on the website; sells out within hours. Walk-up bar seats open at 19:30 for early birds.
Ratana ★ 4.8
Ratana in Milan's Isola district is Cesare Battisti's modern Lombard kitchen, housed in a 19th-century railway building since 2009. Priced at €€€.
OrderThe risotto alla milanese with bone marrow, the cotoletta alla milanese and the ossobuco.
TipBookings open three weeks ahead. Lunch sittings 12:30 and 14:00; dinner from 19:30. The garden is the spot in summer.
L'Antica Pizzeria da Michele ★ 4.8
Da Michele in Naples' Forcella has baked margherita and marinara since 1870, the city's defining pizza counter. Kitchen leans neapolitan pizza.
OrderPizza margherita and pizza marinara, the only two on the carte for 150 years.
TipTake a numbered ticket from the door and wait outside. The classic margherita is 5 euros 50; cash preferred.
50 Kalo di Ciro Salvo ★ 4.8
Ciro Salvo's 50 Kalo in Naples' Mergellina edge of Chiaia ranks among the world's top three pizzerias on the 50 Top Pizza list, with a 72-hour fermentation.
OrderMargherita with San Marzano DOP and the marinara with Cetara anchovies and oregano.
TipBook on the website a fortnight ahead for dinner. Lunch is the calmer service; the long dough proof is the signature.
Osteria Mercede ★ 4.8
Osteria Mercede on Via Sammartino in Palermo's Politeama quarter is a 25-cover seafood-only room with nautical decor, carte runs raw plates.
OrderSpaghetti ai ricci di mare and the crudo di gambero rosso.
TipBook a week ahead at weekends. The 8-course tasting tracks the day's market.
Bye Bye Blues ★ 4.8
Bye Bye Blues on Via del Garofalo in Mondello, the room where Patrizia Di Benedetto became Sicily's first female Michelin-starred chef in 2010.
OrderThe chef's tasting menu; pasta con bottarga di tonno is the most-photographed primo.
TipClosed Tuesday lunch. The 6-course tasting is the entry point; book the patio in summer.
Salumeria Roscioli ★ 4.8
Roscioli in Rome's Centro Storico runs deli, restaurant and wine cellar as one room. Kitchen leans roman, salumeria. At Via dei Giubbonari 21.
OrderThe carbonara, the burrata with anchovies, and any cheese flight from the counter.
TipBook three weeks ahead for dinner. Lunch is the easier seating and the same kitchen runs both services.
Armando al Pantheon ★ 4.8
Armando al Pantheon in Rome has cooked the four Roman pastas and the quinto quarto canon since 1961, a few steps from the Pantheon. Located in Centro Storico.
OrderCacio e pepe, coda alla vaccinara, and the abbacchio when it's on the carte.
TipBookings open exactly two months ahead on the website. Walk-up tables exist but only for lone diners and only at 12:30.
Del Cambio ★ 4.8
Del Cambio on Piazza Carignano in Turin has fed royal Piedmont since 1757. Chef Diego Giglio cooks one Michelin star at the Cavour-era table.
OrderFinanziera Cavour, Modern vitello tonnato, Bonet
Al Tuguri ★ 4.7
Al Tuguri works Alghero's Catalan seafood tradition over several levels of a Via Maiorca townhouse, with tasting menus from €40 to €75 a head.
OrderThe seasonal tasting menu, seven courses at €75 or the shorter three-course run at €40.
All'Osteria Bottega ★ 4.7
All'Osteria Bottega in Bologna's Saragozza is the Daniele Minarelli and Valeria Tonelli room, a tiny dining hall running the canonical Emilian carte.
OrderTortellini in brodo, tagliatelle al ragu, the salumi board of Bonfatti mortadella.
TipBook three weeks ahead by phone; the room seats 28 and the lunch service has the easiest tables.
Trattoria di Via Serra ★ 4.7
Trattoria di Via Serra in Bologna's Bolognina is the Flavio Fabbri and Tommaso Trifoni room, a 28-seat osteria with the city's most-cited tagliatelle al ragu.
OrderTagliatelle al ragu, tortelloni burro e salvia, friggione.
TipBook three weeks ahead online; the lunch service is the easier seating and the kitchen runs the same carte at both meals.
Ahime ★ 4.7
Ahime in Bologna near Via San Vitale is the Lorenzo Vecchia and Filippo Pennestri room, a 30-seat natural-wine bistro rooted in fermentation and Emilian.
OrderThe tortelli di erbette, the fermentation tasting plate, the trippa with parmesan crust.
TipBook three weeks ahead online; the natural-wine cellar is the city's most-cited and the carte rewrites weekly.
Josto ★ 4.7
Josto in Cagliari is Pierluigi Fais's Via Sassari dining room, an open kitchen working bottarga, mullet and Sardinian meat into minimal modern plates.
OrderThe tasting menu, bottarga and mullet included.
TipThe tasting menu runs 70 euro; Sunday is the one day the room stays dark, and the kitchen works Monday to Saturday.
Santa Elisabetta ★ 4.7
Santa Elisabetta in Florence's Hotel Brunelleschi holds two Michelin stars under Rocco De Santis, a 24-seat dining room inside a 6th-century Byzantine tower.
OrderThe pigeon and yuzu signature and the Mediterranean risotto from the tasting carte.
TipBook six weeks ahead. The 10-course tasting is €260; €170 for the shorter 7-course set.
Langosteria ★ 4.7
Langosteria in Milan's Tortona district is Enrico Buonocore's seafood dining room, opened 2007 and now expanded to Paris and Saint-Tropez. Priced at €€€€.
OrderThe crudo selection, the spaghetti alla chitarra with king crab and the catalana di astice.
TipBookings open three weeks ahead. The new Cafe Langosteria at Galleria Vittorio Emanuele runs a more accessible aperitivo menu.
Iyo ★ 4.7
Iyo in Milan's Sempione district was the first Japanese restaurant in Italy to hold a Michelin star (2015). Located in Isola. Priced at €€€€.
OrderThe kaiseki tasting set or the omakase sashimi at the counter; the black cod with miso is the signature desser
TipBookings open one month ahead. The Iyo Aalto sister room in Porta Nuova holds the second star; book that for sushi.
Concettina ai Tre Santi ★ 4.7
Ciro Oliva's Concettina ai Tre Santi in Naples' Sanita is the modern pizza fine-dining room, with tasting menus of six small pizzas and a wine pairing.
OrderThe five-pizza tasting menu and the modern margherita with three tomato cuts.
TipBook on the website three weeks ahead. The tasting menu runs 45 euros; the historic counter still serves the classic pizzas.
Palazzo Petrucci ★ 4.7
Lino Scarallo's Palazzo Petrucci on Posillipo Hill in Naples holds one Michelin star and the seafront cliff terrace over the Bay, the city's most-told modern.
OrderLasagnetta di mozzarella di bufala and risotto alla pescatora with Bay views.
TipBook three weeks ahead via the website; the 145-euro tasting menu is the entry point. Terrace tables go first.
Buatta Cucina Popolana ★ 4.7
Buatta Cucina Popolana on Via Vittorio Emanuele in Palermo is the city's flagship cucina povera room, a Michelin Bib Gourmand for seasonal Sicilian plates.
OrderSarde a beccafico and the caponata, the two flagships of the Palermo carte.
TipBook ahead, this is the busiest mid-range room in the city. The shared platter starter for two is the efficient lunch order.
Trattoria Piccolo Napoli ★ 4.7
Piccolo Napoli on Piazzetta Mulino a Vento in Palermo's Borgo Vecchio quarter is a 70-year family seafood trattoria; the carte changes daily with what.
OrderSpaghetti con bottarga and whatever crudi arrived that morning.
TipLunch only most days. Book one day ahead; the daily catch board is dictated verbally.
Le Angeliche ★ 4.7
Le Angeliche in Palermo's Capo market is a four-women-owned bistro with a hidden garden courtyard, serving market-sourced Sicilian plates from breakfast.
OrderPasta alla Norma and the sarde a beccafico, with a cassata to finish.
TipBook the secret courtyard table by phone. Closed Sunday evening and Monday.
Trattoria Ai Due Platani ★ 4.7
Trattoria Ai Due Platani in Coloreto holds Gambero Rosso's Tre Gamberi and a Bib Gourmand, ten minutes from Parma and booked out weeks ahead for tortelli.
OrderTortelli d'erbetta, then cream gelato from the 1964 Carpigiani machine.
TipReserve well in advance, even midweek. Finish with the house cream gelato, churned in a 1964 Carpigiani machine the owners refuse to retire.
Santo Palato ★ 4.7
Sarah Cicolini's Santo Palato in Rome reads the quinto quarto offal grammar as modern technique. Located in Esquilino. Kitchen leans modern roman.
OrderThe trippa alla romana, tonnarelli cacio e pepe, and a glass of Cesanese.
TipBook three weeks ahead; the room has 35 covers. Lunch is the calmer service.
Marco Martini Restaurant ★ 4.7
Marco Martini's Aventino-edge room holds a Michelin star for the chef's modern reading of Roman pastas, with a tasting menu that runs both omnivore.
OrderThe carbonara reinterpreted with smoked egg, then any of the seasonal pigeon courses.
TipLunch tasting is €95 vs €150 dinner. The vegetarian carte runs the same number of courses.
Trattoria Corte Sconta ★ 4.7
Trattoria Corte Sconta in Venice's Castello is the courtyard seafood room that locals and chefs in town quietly book first, the canonical hidden-courtyard.
OrderAntipasto misto, spaghetti vongole, granseola when in season.
TipBook three weeks ahead. The pergola courtyard is the seat to ask for in summer. Closed Sundays and Mondays.
Osteria alle Testiere ★ 4.7
Osteria alle Testiere in Venice's Castello is the 22-seat room with two seatings, run by Bruno Gavagnin and Luca di Vita on Calle del Mondo Novo since 1993.
OrderGnocchetti with calamari and cinnamon, branzino in salt crust, the salty antipasti.
TipTwo seatings only: 12:30 + 13:30 for lunch, 19:15 + 21:30 for dinner. Book at least a fortnight ahead through their online form.
Local ★ 4.7
Local in Venice's Castello is the 1-Michelin-star room run by Salvatore Sodano and Benedetta Fullin near the Greek quarter, serving 7 and 9-course tasting.
OrderThe 9-course tasting menu, the wine pairing from the 1000-label cellar.
TipClosed Tuesday and Wednesday lunch. Book a fortnight ahead online. The wine pairing is the move; their cellar leans heavily on Friulian whites.
Antica Bottega del Vino ★ 4.7
Antica Bottega del Vino has poured Amarone in Verona since 1890 on a side alley off Via Mazzini, 4,500 labels on the back bar. A 2026 TableJourney pick.
OrderRisotto all'Amarone, Pastissada de caval, Pearà bollito misto
TipStanding-counter ombra at the marble bar runs €3 to 8 per glass; book the back dining room for the pearà bollito on Sundays October to March.
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