Best Mediterranean Restaurants in Italy

Osteria San Francesco

$$$$ Via Del Corso, 80, 75100, Matera

Italian European Mediterranean Fine dining

The cuisine of the Osteria San Francesco is simple, solid, and linked to tradition and territory, experimenting with new combinations of flavours without excesses. You will taste excellent meat dishes with vegetables and some fish courses, but above all, you will be able to discover "the Suggestions", Chef's sought-after weekly proposals. Everything is freshly prepared, selecting seasonal ingredients carefully, favouring the products' freshness, quality and originality. The location is bright and recently renovated, inside the historic Palazzo Porcari, in a warm, familiar, convivial atmosphere. A smiling staff welcomes you to spend pleasant and tasty moments in this delightful Osteria.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Santa Monaca

$$$ Piazza De Amicis, 13, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

Santa Monaca is a charming and renowned restaurant located in the splendid setting of Salento, in Gallipoli in Piazza De Amicis in the historic centre. A place that knows how to pamper its guests as best it can with gastronomic preparations that know how to be appreciated for their taste and freshness. At the Santa Monica restaurant, you will be welcomed by an extremely courteous and helpful staff who will be able to satisfy your every need, not only in gastronomy. Wanting to propose a cuisine with typical features of the Salento lands and at the same time provide customers with an interesting reinterpretation, you will be able to find a varied menu which, however, is centred on the use of typical local products and ingredients. To ensure full compliance with the zero km policy, a constant collaboration is carried out with some local suppliers who provide daily extremely fresh raw materials thanks to which to obtain truly unique dishes.

Lievita 72 Neapolitan Pizza

$$ Via Lecce, 85, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Casual Dining Family Style Pizzeria

In the beating heart of Gallipoli, among pubs, discos and meeting points, we find one of the most important and well-known pizzerias in the Salento village, namely Lievita 72. A historic pizzeria in the centre, which offers a terrific Neapolitan pizza. Leavened for 72 hours, pizza dough is made from 75% water, making the dough incredibly fluffy and soft, and so light too. They come from a good part of Puglia to eat a pizza and enjoy the beauties that the splendid Gallipoli can offer.

Ristorante L'Angolo Blu

$$$$ Via C. Muzio, 45, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining Premium Casual

L'Angolo Blu, an elegant restaurant with seafood cuisine, a few steps from one of the major attractions of Gallipoli, the Cathedral of Sant'Agata, is the perfect location to enjoy fish specialities in the historic centre, located among the alleys of the city old. Cosy location, ideal for romantic dinners for couples (but not only), with furnishings in a refined style and, obviously, a predominance of the colour blue, from the tablecloths to the furnishing accessories. Here you can taste famous seafood dishes cooked by modern chefs, able to amaze with innovative recipes but always with an attentive and respectful eye on the best and most traditional specialities of the local cuisine for an enhancement of Apulian gastronomy revisited in an excellent current key, and with the certainty of top-level raw materials, most of the time at km 0. The protagonist of each dish is obviously the fish, from the local purple shrimp to the catch of the day, from the delicious sea urchins to the carpaccio guaranteed from all points of view, with particular regard to the freshness of the product.

Da Clara

$$$ Via Antonietta De Pace, 15, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

A restaurant with deep Salento roots, rooted in years, decades and more than a century of history, meets contemporary culture, merging tradition with modernity. The Da Clara restaurant is an institution in Gallipoli, which for years now has been offering culinary joys to the palates of hundreds of diners. A traditional cuisine which revisits the Apulian gastronomic panorama, putting it at the centre of the scene and, above all, elevating it. From homemade orecchiette to stew, stew, fish main courses, with the daily catch, to soft meats in butter from selected Salento farms. All autochthonous and pure, like the healthy air of Puglia.

Ristorante La Giudecca

$$$$ Via Don Giovanni Minzoni, Lungomare Galileo Galilei, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

We find the La Giudecca restaurant in the heart of Gallipoli, a few steps from the sea. A place where fish is sacred. The daily catch, guaranteed by many trusted suppliers, guarantees the incredible freshness of the raw material, creating a mix of rarely disappointing flavours and expectations. Appetizers based on raw seafood, first courses with grouper sauce, monkfish, cuttlefish, squid, lobster and much more. The kingdom of the sea reigns supreme in La Giudecca.

La Locanda Degli Angioini

$$$ Riviera Armando Diaz, 119, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining

A ridosso del mare, sullo splendido sfondo della città di Gallipoli, troviamo La Locanda degli Angioini. Un ristorante con vista mozzafiato sul mare, che da l'impressione di mangiarci sopra, dando ai turisti e ai clienti l'impressione di cenare tra le acque del mar Ionio. Un ristorante che propone cucina pugliese tradizionale, contando nel menu numerose pietanze a base di pesce, grazie al continuo scarico di materie prime. Antipasti a base di mare, primi e secondi di mare, ma non solo, c'è scelta anche per chi non gusta una cucina marinara, proponendo anche i classici, facendo tutti contenti.

Trattoria La Puritate

$$$$ Via Sant'Elia, 18, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Casual Dining

In one of the oldest villages of the ancient city, near the Puritate church, one of the most loved restaurants in Gallipoli has always been a place devoted to fish. The very fresh raw material is the master, prepared with a light and expert hand, capable of enhancing the flavours of the sea. The menu, by voice, changes according to the offer of the day. As soon as you take a seat on the elegant glazed veranda, the large roundup of raw and cooked appetizers of proven freshness will begin: from the extraordinary raw prawns to stuffed mussels, cooked and marinated bonito, from raw tuna (exceptional for its flavour) to sliced octopus to rice with almonds and radishes (less exciting). We continue with tagliolini with lemon, rocket and prawns, a straightforward but delicate dish, as well as pasta with bonito and cherry tomatoes. Among the second courses, you will find prawns in salt and wind: a preparation that is once again simple but capable of enhancing the superb raw material.

Osteria Sant’Angelo

$$$$ Via De Pace Antonio, 3, 73041, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Fine dining

A magical, intimate, romantic place that instils peace and serenity. At the Osteria Sant'Angelo, you will feel at home. In addition to a very welcoming location with a romantic air, perfect for a dinner for two, the tavern offers a menu full of appetizers; there is no shortage of seafood first and second courses. The proposed cuisine is traditional, but the unmistakable touch of the chef makes everything more suggestive, giving creativity, giving art to his dishes and giving a great sense of satisfaction to his guests, who are always satisfied and enraptured. The fresh and daily catch guarantees an absolute, first-rate quality of the products.

Pentola Degli Gnomi

$$$ Via Gian Giacomo Russo, 18, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Casual Dining Family Style

La Pentola degli Gnomi is a tavern in Gallipoli, a rustic place with a popular menu, where you can eat while feeling at home. The staff wants to immerse their customers in the various flavours of Salento, born from the meat and fish dishes meeting. Starting from this definition, it was decided to create and define a new image that could explain the true concept of Osteria. All this through the recipes of the chefs, the warm and welcoming environment and the people who animate it and live it every day. A popular and dynamic menu, a gastronomic journey to rediscover the authenticity of the flavours of the past, embellished with a contemporary touch and faithful to reality like the Apulian one. What remains constant in the proposal is the respect for the seasonality of the raw materials and the link with the territory.

YOU - Cibo E Piacere

$$$$ Via Petrelli, 15, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

At You - Food and Pleasure, you will find what best represents the concept of modernity and evolution. A few steps from the historic centre of Gallipoli, You evolve, grow, study and move forward with the times, building a concept that enhances its qualities and tends to distinguish it from the others. It is a menu that mainly sees fish at the centre of everything but also broadens its horizons to other elements, especially land. Seafood appetizers and more lead the way to a truly varied menu, which leaves no room for the undecided. The hand of the chef is evident; a touch is enough to revolutionize a flavour or a spice.

Il Pettolino

$$$ Riviera Nazario Sauro, 57, 73014, Gallipoli

Italian Mediterranean Premium Casual

Set in the evocative setting of the city of Gallipoli, within the elegant walls of Palazzo Grumesi, Il Pettolino Gallipoli awaits you to offer you an experience of great cuisine and tradition. The emerging star of the Italian gastronomic scene, Executive Chef Vito Gaballo specializes in the haute cuisine of Maestro Gualtiero Marchesi. Since 2018 at the helm of the Il Pettolino Gallipoli restaurant, he invents and perfects unique multisensory experiences every day. Modern and tied to traditions. Innovative cuisine is always attentive to the flavours of the Salento area. Il Pettolino Gallipoli stands out for its quality traditional dishes, gourmet cuisine and the freshness of the raw materials. Quality always comes first.

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