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Italian dining in Charlotte spans handmade-pasta rooms and grander trattoria settings across several neighborhoods. Ever Andalo brings a serious pasta program to NoDa, Stagioni occupies a historic house in Eastover, and Aria Tuscan Grill works the Uptown crowd on North Tryon Street.
Italian restaurants in Charlotte
9 italian places in Charlotte we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Charlotte · Italian across every city.
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Ever Andalo
- ★ 4.6
- $$$
- NoDa
Order Whatever fresh pasta is on the menu and a wood-fired pizza for the table.
Jeff Tonidandel and Jamie Brown's Ever Andalo in NoDa is a Michelin-recommended Italian room built in four weeks above their other NoDa kitchens.
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Little Mama's Italian
- ★ 4.4
- $$
- SouthPark
Order The fresh mozzarella to start and a baked pasta. The kitchen leans New England Italian-American 1960s.
Little Mama's Italian in SouthPark is a Michelin-recommended red-sauce Italian-American room making its own mozzarella, with a 2024 Rea Farms branch.
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Stagioni
- ★ 4.5
- $$$
- Eastover
Order Whichever fresh pasta the kitchen is making and a wine off the Italian-leaning list.
Bruce Moffett's Stagioni on Providence Road is a Moffett Restaurant Group Italian dining room set inside a 1920s Eastover home, with seasonal menus.
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Aria Tuscan Grill
- ★ 4.3
- $$$
- Uptown
Order The fresh pasta and a glass off the Italian-leaning wine wall.
Aria Tuscan Grill at 100 N Tryon is uptown Charlotte's long-running Tuscan kitchen, with a glass-walled wine display and the city's only chef's table.
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Ever Andalo
- ★ 4.6
- $$$
- NoDa
Order Whatever fresh pasta is on the menu and a wood-fired pizza for the table.
Ever Andalo on N Davidson is Jeff Tonidandel and Jamie Brown's Michelin-recommended NoDa Italian room, built in four weeks and open since 2022.
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The Open Kitchen
- ★ 4.1
- $$
- West Charlotte
Order The lasagna; that recipe has been on the menu since 1952.
The Open Kitchen on W Morehead Street is the family-run Italian-American room that has fed Charlotte since 1952, with lasagna, pizza and red-sauce classics.
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Stagioni
- ★ 4.5
- $$$$
- Eastover
Order Whichever fresh pasta the kitchen is making and a wine off the Italian-leaning list.
Bruce Moffett's Stagioni on Providence Road is a Moffett Restaurant Group Italian fine-dining room set inside a historic 1920s Eastover house.
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The Open Kitchen
- ★ 4.0
- $
- West Charlotte
Try Lasagna and pasta plates
The Open Kitchen on West Morehead Street in Charlotte is the family-run Italian-American room since 1952, with lasagna, pizza and pasta plates landing.