The 10 best restaurants of Calabria according to @Idressitalian
The 10 best restaurants of Calabria – Calabria offers a wide range of restaurants for all tastes and budgets. Refined and modern restaurants, family run and intimate with a welcoming atmosphere. The various cuisines have many things in common, such as simplicity of approach and fresh ingredients, but are distinguished by their local traditions. We have therefore selected for you the 10 best restaurants in Calabria considering four main factors: quality of materials and dishes, refinement of the menu, tradition and location. Discover them clicking the button below >
10. LA COLLINETTA
A simple restaurant, but with charm and a warm atmosphere. Right from the start, the restaurant takes on a very precise identity: innovative dishes while respecting, always and in any case, the recipes of traditional Calabrian cuisine.
Here pasta mains are served on the characteristic tiles, childhood memories of chef Giuseppe. Try the tagliatelle with porcini mushrooms.
Address: C.da Colacà, Martone – REGGIO CALABRIA
Phone: +39 0964 51680 Continue reading clicking the button below >
9. GENIUS LOCI
Modern and central restaurant with a very nice view of the island of Tropea. An even more magnetic view when accompanied by remarkable dishes. Once inside you will engage in a unique culinary experience, which mixes precious ingredients with the professionalism of the two experienced chefs.
Here, dishes are all well presented and offer an authentic idea of the Calabrian tradition. Absolutely try the tuna with Tropea onion!
Address: Largo Vaccari, 51, 89861, Tropea –VIBO VALENTIA
Phone: +39 345 589 6475 Continue reading clicking the button below >
8. DA CECÈ
An excellent restaurant in the centre of Tropea (with an outdoor area to eat in the summer), which serves local dishes such as “spaghetti with onion”. A dish of a unique delicacy and sweetness because it is made with the real Tropea onion, the untreated onion, and a very special red wine.
The location is suggestive, ideal for a dinner for two or between friends looking for tranquillity and good food. In short, that of Cecè is not a place that serves typical dishes from the restaurant, but home dishes. It is certainly worth stopping.
Address: Largo Toraldo Grimaldi, Tropea – VIBO VALENTIA
Phone: +39 0963 60.32.19 Continue reading clicking the button below >
7. AZIENDA AGRICOLA LA RONDINELLA
An excellent typical restaurant surrounded by olive groves and native vines just outside Scalea. The kitchen offers the traditional of Calabria. There are no menus. Customers are not real customers, but guests. Here respect for tradition, love for the land and passion for zero-km cuisine are the basis of everything.
When you sit at the table, you will only find home-made products, from cheeses to cured meats, from the pasta to the meat and fish mains, a real rarity in times where globalization has taken over.
Address: Contrada Piana dell’Acqua n. 6, Scalea – COSENZA
Phone: +39 0985 90518 Continue reading clicking the button below >
6. RISTORANTE L’AGORÀ DI RENDE
Inside Rende, there is a restaurant that offers a service and a menu of fish of the highest quality, traditional recipes and great reinterpretations. Here you can taste the creations of chef Michele Rizzo in a modern, refined and elegant environment.
The concept of the kitchen is simple: the best Ionian fish, bought daily from trusted suppliers in the fish market of Corigliano and in the marinas of Amendolara and Trebisacce.
The food is as amazing as the atmosphere of the location. Among the specialities are the delicate appetizers: raw tuna with soy dressing and fresh Tropea onion, strictly local raw prawns and a Cerchiara bread fresella with mountain tomato.
Address: Via Gioacchino Rossini, 87036, Rende – COSENZA
Phone: +39 0984 838616 Continue reading clicking the button below >
5. LO SCOGLIO DI ULISSE
This delightful family-run restaurant is located in an ancient palace in the ancient village of Scilla: Chianalea. Customers come from afar to enjoy a family kitchen, strictly regional and fish-based. Dishes are prepared with care and love and their ingredients are always fresh and local.
The room is cosy and intimate; the wine list will not disappoint you. Additionally, the restaurant is equipped with a platform overlooking the sea, facing the Rock of Ulysses to make the experience unique and magical.
We highly recommend paccheri pasta with swordfish.
Address: Via Annunziata 91, Chianalea, Scilla – REGGIO CALABRIA
Phone: +39 340 8461707 Continue reading clicking the button below >
4. ME RESTAURANT
The first thing that strikes about this restaurant is the extreme attention to detail. When you sit down, a harmonic waltz of traditional flavours with a refined perspective begins, which makes this restaurant a top player in the Calabrian landscape. Absolutely to try the tasting menu for € 40 each person. Elegant restaurant with a large garden; Giuseppe Romano, chef of Campanian origin, has expertly grasped the true meaning of Calabrian cuisine reinterpreting it internationally. This restaurant deserves ever higher awards.
Address: Strada Provinciale per Vibo Marina, località Ponte di Ferro, 89812 Pizzo VV
Phone: 0963 534532 Continue reading clicking the button below >
3. IL GAMBERO ROSSO DI SCULLI
Elegant restaurant in the heart of Marina di Gioiosa Jonica, that boasts 1 Michelin star thanks to the continuous work of the chef Riccardo Sculli.
Riccardo knows how to enhance each ingredient, enhancing flavors and contrasts with targeted cooking. Everything served in his restaurant is essentially local. His great respect for raw materials gives voice and dignity to the bond with his land, Calabria.
The appetizers range from the delicate mixture of tartare to the tasty octopus. The latter is placed on a bed of smoked potatoes with rosemary and the confit dates. The peculiarity of this octopus lies in the fact that it cooks for about 15 hours at low temperature.
Among the mains, however, we mention the delicious risotto with saffron, cuttlefish ink, raw scampi and a red fruit sauce (raspberries and strawberries of Calabrian production) that gives the dish a bit ‘of acidity, also creating that right balance between softness and sweetness. It is a dish in which we surely find the perfect combination between local products and the transformation of raw materials, always respecting the rules, combined with what is of tradition.
Eating here means living a rather superb culinary experience.
Address: Via Montezemolo, 65 Gioiosa Jonica – REGGIO CALABRIA
Phone: +39 0964 415806 Continue reading clicking the button below >
2. ANTONIO ABBRUZZINO
Passion is certainly the strength of this beautiful starred restaurant. A love for good food, evident not only in the careful selection of ingredients and products but also in the preparation in order to tickle all the senses.
What is striking is the absolute novelty in the preparations of the dishes and the desire to experiment of the chef. The food proposed is based on some fundamental concepts such as freshness of raw materials, lightness, care, attention and absolute rigour in the handling of products.
Try the sea bass with potatoes and mustard.
Address: Viale Fiume Buseto, Località Santo Janni, 88100 – Catanzaro
Phone: +39 0961 799008 Continue reading clicking the button below >
1.RISTORANTE DATTILO
It’s nice to think that in a country as unknown as Strongoli, in the province of Crotone, there is this much excellence. Excellence that includes passion and cooking know-how. A land kitchen, that “owned” by Caterina Ceraudo young starred chef of Calabria, regional and national pride; to be exported over the border. Because when a woman reaches these levels, she definitely has something extra.
Buon Appetito!
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