The best restaurants in Calabria according to Idressitalian
The best restaurants in Calabria – Calabria is a region full of restaurants, from the most expensive and refined to the more rustic-looking ones, maybe even family run businesses. Notwithstanding the great variety, all these places have something in common: fresh ingredients and love for the traditional cuisine. Keeping in mind four criteria (panoramic position, variety of choice, quality ingredients and traditional cuisine), Idressitalian selected the top 10 best restaurants of Calabria. Discover them clicking the below button Next >
10. GENIUS LOCI
This restaurant overlooks Tropea’s island. It conjugates this stunning view with tasty courses cooked by an expert chef, served on plates that reminds us of Calabrian traditions – enjoying such delicacies while contemplating the panorama is certainly the kind of experience one cannot miss. We particularly recommend tuna with Tropea’s onions.
Address: Largo Vaccari, 51, 89861, Tropea –VIBO VALENTIA
Telefono: +39 345 589 6475
9. DA CECÈ
This restaurant is in the city center of Tropea too and it has a terrace where it’s possible to eat during summer. It’s the perfect place whether you’re out on a romantic date or with a group of friends. Da Cece’ specializes in traditional delicacies such as spaghetti with Tropea’s onions accompanied by a delicious red wine. This, combined with the friendly staff will make you feel more as if you were at home than sitting at a restaurant.
Address: Largo Toraldo Grimaldi, Tropea – VIBO VALENTIA
Telefono: +39 0963 60.32.19
8. AZIENDA AGRICOLA LA RONDINELLA
Not far from Scalea you’ll find this little jewel surrounded by native olive trees and vineyards where it’s possible to taste traditional delicacies. Here you will taste local cheeses, hams, first and second courses, but mind it: there isn’t a menu, clients will be given the day’s courses, turning the concept of client into a honored guest at a Calabrian family dinner. The policy of the restaurant is to use the freshest, local ingredients to cook traditional meals, in a display of love for the motherland.
Address: Contrada Piana dell’Acqua n. 6, Scalea – COSENZA
Telefono: +39 0985 90518
7. LA COLLINETTA
An almost plain looking place that feels like home thanks to the welcoming staff. Here, traditional Calabrian cuisine is revisited, given a tasty twist and served on the traditional Calabrian plates, a detail particularly dear to the chef Giuseppe. We recommend tagliatelle with porcini mushrooms.
Address: C.da Colacà, Martone – REGGIO CALABRIA
Telephone: +39 0964 51680
6. RISTORANTE L’AGORÀ DI RENDE
You absolutely need to dine in Rende: the chef Michele Rizzo revisits traditional fish recipes or creates new ones exclusively employing the freshest fish from the Ionian Sea bought in Corigliano every morning. The restaurant looks refined and modern. We recommend their entreeès: raw tuna with soy and Tropea’s onions, raw prawns and bruchetta made with a slice of bread from Cerchiara and fresh tomatoes.
Address: Via Gioacchino Rossini, 87036, Rende – COSENZA
Telephone: +39 0984 838616
5. LO SCOGLIO DI ULISSE
This is a family run business and the halls of the restaurant are inside a historical palace in Chianalea, a fraction of Scilla. People come from all over the world to taste the traditional fish delicacies, they taste so good, one feels the love with which those meals were prepared – of course, with the freshest ingredients! The hall is beautiful, not to mention the wonderful terrace overlooking the rock where, according to Homer’s Odyssey, the Greek hero Ulysses passed by while navigating the strait between Scylla and Charybdis. We recommend you enjoy the view while eating paccheri with swordfish.
Address: Via Annunziata 91, Chianalea, Scilla – REGGIO CALABRIA
Telephone: +39 340 8461707
4. LA CASCINA
This place is simply wonderful, one of the most enchanting settings on the Ionian coast. The refined restaurant is located inside an old farmstead and in its gardens which means you’ll be surrounded by nature and the scent of bergamot trees. The quality of its meals is famous, especially when it comes to fish courses. They offer simple, but carefully prepared plates using fresh, local ingredients. We recommend their risotto with pumpkin cream, shrimps and sea urchins.
Address: Strada St. 106, 89047 Roccella Jonica – REGGIO CALABRIA
Telephone: +39 0964 866675
3. ANTONIO ABBRUZZINO
The high quality ingredients and the expert hand of the chef made of this place a world-class restaurant. Using only fresh, local ingredients, the chef experiments, almost plays with the recipes, creating extravagant yet light and tasty courses. The sea bass with potatoes and mustard dressing is an absolute must eat.
Address: Viale Fiume Buseto, Località Santo Janni, 88100 – Catanzaro
Telephone: +39 0961 799008
2. RISTORANTE SAN DOMENICO
The restaurant’s young chef Bruno Tassone cooks simple, tasty meals using only the freshest ingredients. He specializes in fish courses, served both following traditional recipes and newly invented ones. The roasted octopus is delicious, but we also recommend the caprese salad with red prawn. Furthermore, the restaurant overlooks the sea, offering its client the perfect combination of good food and panorama.
Address: Via Colapesce n. 2, 89812 Pizzo – VIBO VALENTIA
Telephone: +39 327 5971692
1. IL GAMBERO ROSSO DI SCULLI
The chef Riccardo Sculli earned himself one star from the Michelin Restaurant Guide with his elegant restaurant in Gioiosa Ionica. The expert chef knows how to make the best of already high quality, fresh local ingredients, in a display of love and respect for his native Calabria. You can choose between a delicate entreès such as a tartarre or a more tasty octopus with potatoes, rosemary and confit dates – what really makes of this choice and extremely tasty one is that the octopus is left to boil in water for over 15 hours straight, becoming super soft. When it comes to the first courses, you will be able to choose between saffron rice, black risotto with cuttlefish, raw prawns with red fruits dressing (cranberries and strawberries), a combination between the delicate taste of the fish and the acidity of red fruits: the perfect example of an expert revisitation of traditional recipes. Dining at Gambero Rosso is the ultimate treat for your palate.
Address: Via Montezemolo, 65 Gioiosa Jonica – REGGIO CALABRIA
Telephone: +39 0964 415806
Buon appetito!
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