Dining Guide
Italy Dining
Restaurant reviews, resort dining, and round-ups from Italy.
Restaurant Reviews
Where to Eat in Italy
Tuscan Fine Dining · Four Seasons Hotel Firenze
Il Palagio
The hotel's Michelin-starred restaurant, reinterpreting Tuscan classics with produce from the Gherardesca Garden and the Tyrrhenian sea.
Seafood · Four Seasons Hotel Firenze
Onde
A seafood restaurant facing the hotel's private garden, the largest in the city.
Tuscan Fine Dining · Belmond Villa San Michele
La Loggia
A frescoed terrace restaurant with the single best view of Florence's skyline from any hotel table, serving refined Tuscan cuisine.
Bar & Aperitivo · Belmond Villa San Michele
Bar San Michele
An elegant cloister-side bar for aperitivo hour, with views over the gardens toward the Duomo.
Italian · Hotel de Russie
Le Jardin de Russie
The hotel's garden restaurant, set among terraced lawns between the Spanish Steps and Piazza del Popolo — a quintessential Roman lunch.
Bar & Aperitivo · Hotel de Russie
Stravinskij Bar
Rome's most famous hotel bar, with garden and courtyard seating — the city's defining aperitivo spot since it opened.
Tuscan Fine Dining · Hotel Savoy
Irene
A grand, frescoed dining room overlooking Piazza della Repubblica, serving chef-driven Tuscan cuisine with a contemporary edge.
Café & Bar · Hotel Savoy
Caffè dell'Oro
A bustling, gold-accented café and bar at street level — a Florence institution for coffee, cocktails, and people-watching.
Italian, Mediterranean · The St. Regis Rome
Vivendo
A restaurant serving traditional dishes and Mediterranean flavors in one of the hotel's grand, Belle Époque rooms.
Italian Fine Dining · Villa d'Este
Veranda Restaurant
The hotel's grand lakeside dining room, serving refined Italian cuisine with views across Lake Como.
Italian Fine Dining · Hotel Eden, Rome
La Terrazza
A Michelin-starred rooftop restaurant with an unobstructed panorama of Rome's domes, gardens, and skyline — one of the city's defining dinner views.
Italian · Hotel de la Ville
Cielo Rooftop Restaurant & Bar
A rooftop restaurant and bar at the top of the Spanish Steps, with views over the Roman roofscape — one of the most coveted outdoor terraces in the city.
Venetian Fine Dining · Airelles Palladio Hotel & Spa
Palladio Ristorante & Bar
A garden restaurant on the Giudecca island, serving refined Venetian cuisine steps from Palladio's 16th-century Church of the Redentore.
Venetian · Aman Venice
Arva
Aman Venice's intimate canal-side restaurant, serving Venetian and Venetian-influenced dishes in the frescoed lower rooms of Palazzo Papadopoli.
Alpine Fine Dining · Aman Rosa Alpina
St. Hubertus
Chef Norbert Niederkofler's three-Michelin-starred restaurant at Aman Rosa Alpina — a landmark of alpine gastronomy built around the Dolomites' landscape and seasons.
Alpine · Aman Rosa Alpina
The Grill
A restaurant showcasing expertly grilled meats, handmade pastas, and authentic antipasti, with artisanal pizzas for lunch and dinner.
Venetian Fine Dining · Belmond Hotel Cipriani
Oro Restaurant
Belmond Hotel Cipriani's grand dining room — Venetian cuisine at its most refined, with views across the lagoon toward the Doge's Palace.
Italian · Belmond Hotel Cipriani
Cip's Club
An informal waterside restaurant and bar at Belmond Hotel Cipriani — the place to be for long lunches, Bellinis at the dock, and watching Venice float past.
Italian Fine Dining · Hotel Principe di Savoia
Acanto Restaurant
The Principe di Savoia's refined Italian restaurant celebrating Milanese culinary tradition — with a distinguished wine cellar and a garden terrace that is one of the city's finest summer tables.
Cocktail Bar · Hotel Principe di Savoia
Principe Bar
Milan's most historically significant hotel bar — a century of fashion weeks, film premieres, and business deals conducted over the Principe's legendary aperitivo and an exceptional Negroni.