L'Olivo Restaurant
Refined Chef Driven Tasting Menu
L'Olivo
Anacapri
$$$$
Capri's only two-star table, light and luminous Mediterranean cooking
Best Restaurants in Amalfi Coast
From fine dining to local tables, explore our restaurant selection for Amalfi Coast. Compare cuisine, atmosphere and practical details before booking.
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Casual Dining
Delicious food in relaxed settings
Don Alfonso 1890 Restaurant
Refined Chef Driven Tasting Menu
Don Alfonso 1890
Sant'Agata sui Due Golfi
$$$$
The Iaccarino temple: farm, cellar and two stars on the ridge.
La Sponda Restaurant
Refined Romantic Destination
Il Riccio Restaurant
Refined Seafood Terrace
Rossellinis Restaurant
Refined Chef Driven Elegant
Rossellinis
Ravello
$$$$
Michelin-starred Campanian cooking above a coastline that stops conversation
Le Monzù Restaurant
Refined Chef Driven Tasting Menu
Ristorante La Caravella Restaurant
Historic Institution Refined
Ristorante La Caravella
Amalfi Town
$$$$
Southern Italy's first Michelin star, still keeping it
Lo Scoglio da Tommaso Restaurant
Seafood Family Run Institution
Lo Scoglio da Tommaso
Marina del Cantone, Nerano
$$$
The De Simone deck over the sea where spaghetti alla Nerano reigns.
Mammà Restaurant
Refined Chef Driven Seafood
Mammà
Capri
$$$$
Michelin-starred Capri cooking, traditional by day, inventive by night
Il Flauto di Pan Restaurant
Refined Chef Driven Garden
Taverna del Capitano Restaurant
Chef Driven Seafood Waterfront
Taverna del Capitano
Marina del Cantone, Nerano
$$$$
Caputo's one-star kitchen on the sand at Marina del Cantone.
Alici Restaurant
Chef Driven Refined Seafood
Alici
Conca dei Marini
$$$$
Scotti's one-star terrace, named for the coast's anchovies.
Sensi Restaurant
Refined Chef Driven Elegant
Da Luigi ai Faraglioni Restaurant
Seafood Waterfront Terrace
Da Luigi ai Faraglioni
Capri
$$$$
Lunch of a lifetime on the water beneath the Faraglioni
Da Adolfo Restaurant
Rustic Seafood Casual
Next2 Restaurant
Chef Driven Refined Terrace
Ristorante Eolo Restaurant
Romantic Intimate Seafood
Il Refettorio Restaurant
Refined Chef Driven Terrace
Il Refettorio
Conca dei Marini
$$$$
Reimagined Campanian cooking inside a 17th-century clifftop convent.
Aurora Restaurant
Historic Family Run Institution
Il Geranio Restaurant
Romantic Terrace Seafood
Da Tonino Restaurant
Family Run Rustic Authentic
Da Vincenzo Restaurant
Family Run Seafood Traditional
Donna Rosa Restaurant
Family Run Authentic Intimate
A' Paranza Restaurant
Family Run Seafood Authentic
Da Paolino Restaurant
Garden Romantic Classic
Da Gelsomina alla Migliera Restaurant
Family Run Rustic Authentic
Da Gelsomina alla Migliera
Anacapri
$$$
Garden-grown island cooking at the end of the Migliera walk
Le Grottelle Restaurant
Rustic Authentic Family Run
La Tagliata Restaurant
Rustic Family Run Destination
Casa Mele Restaurant
Chef Driven Intimate Refined
Cumpà Cosimo Restaurant
Family Run Institution Traditional
Trattoria Da Gemma Restaurant
Historic Institution Traditional
Maria Grazia Restaurant
Family Run Institution Seafood
Maria Grazia
Marina del Cantone, Nerano
$$$
Where spaghetti alla Nerano was invented, still on the same beach.
Lo Guarracino Restaurant
Terrace Romantic Seafood
Il Ritrovo Restaurant
Family Run Traditional Terrace
Ristorante Marina Grande Restaurant
Waterfront Seafood Family Run
Ristorante Marina Grande
Amalfi Town
$$$
Family seafood on Amalfi's main beach since the 1920s
Conca del Sogno Restaurant
Seafood Waterfront Family Run
Conca del Sogno
Recommone, Nerano
$$$
Boat-only cove of grilled catch, lemon pasta and sgroppino.
M'Ama Restaurant
Terrace Romantic Seasonal
Il Pirata Restaurant
Waterfront Seafood Terrace
Il Pirata
Marina di Praia, Praiano
$$$
A terrace carved into the cliff over Marina di Praia.
Antico Francischiello da Peppino Restaurant
Institution Family Run Traditional
Antico Francischiello da Peppino
Massa Lubrense
$$$
A century of Sorrento-peninsula cooking above the Capri channel.
Babel Wine Bar Deli & Art Restaurant
Intimate Local Authentic
Babel Wine Bar Deli & Art
Ravello
$$
Ravello's tiny wine-and-deli bolthole off the crowds
Where to Eat on the Amalfi Coast?
The Amalfi Coast is not one dining scene but a string of them, strung along a cliff road and across the water to Capri, and the fine-dining map sits almost entirely inside the grand hotels. The headline is L'Olivo at Anacapri, the only two-Michelin-star kitchen on the island of Capri; below it runs a tight bench of one-star rooms — La Sponda at Le Sirenuse in Positano, candlelit and cliff-facing, and Don Alfonso 1890 up in Sant'Agata sui Due Golfi, family-run with its own farm. Beside that formal tier sits the thing the coast is actually built on: seafood trattorie on the rocks, where lemon, zucchini and the morning catch do most of the work.
Geography is everything here because the road is slow and the boat is often faster. Positano stacks its dining vertically — La Sponda and the contemporary Next2 in town, Da Adolfo down at Laurito beach reached by the restaurant's own boat from Positano. Ravello sits high and quiet with the garden-driven rooms at Rossellinis and Il Flauto di Pan. The real cult address is around the headland at Marina del Cantone in Nerano, where Lo Scoglio da Tommaso and Taverna del Capitano face each other across a tiny bay. On Capri, L'Olivo, Il Riccio and Mammà work the Anacapri heights and the town, while Amalfi Town itself keeps La Caravella and the newer Sensi.
Stars in the Grand Hotels
The pattern on this coast is that the ambitious cooking lives inside hotels and beach clubs, not on the street. Expect tasting menus and seafood-led à la carte in the €120-250 band at the starred rooms, with wine lists that lean hard on Campania — Fiano, Greco, the volcanic whites of the bay. The cult trattorie like Lo Scoglio and Da Adolfo are cheaper on paper but book out months ahead and run their own seasonal, farm-and-sea menus rather than anything printed.
Reservation Tips
This is a seasonal coast: most kitchens open roughly April to October and shut for winter, so the calendar matters more than the clock. Book the starred hotel rooms and the Nerano trattorie four to six weeks out for July and August, longer for a terrace table at sunset. The smart play is June or September, when the sea is still warm, the boats still run, and you can actually get a lunch table at Da Adolfo or Lo Scoglio without a battle.
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