Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Syracuse from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Syracuse
Cortile Spirito Santo and Regina Lucia anchor Syracuse's most formal dining, with Ortigia holding the strongest concentration of tasting menus and wine-led service.
Cortile Spirito Santo is the city’s Michelin-starred table in Ortigia, set in a 17th-century palazzo courtyard. It offers tasting menu, a la carte, and prix fixe formats, with an extensive, sommelier-led wine list and the city’s Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence.
Regina Lucia is a contemporary Sicilian fine dining room in Ortigia with tasting menu, a la carte, and prix fixe formats. Its wine programme is sommelier-led, with an extensive list and vaulted stone cellars. The kitchen focuses on creative Sicilian cooking in a Baroque palace on Piazza Duomo.
MOON is an all-vegan restaurant in Ortigia with a wine list, small plates, and a la carte service. It works with seasonal ingredients, homemade vegan cheeses, live grand piano performances, and rotating art exhibitions.
Syracuse's stronger non-starred wine rooms include an exceptional list in Siracusa and wine lists in Ortigia, with seafood and meat venues both represented.
Ostaria in Siracusa is a modern Italian steakhouse with an exceptional wine programme and an extensive wine list. It focuses on dry-aged steaks from non-intensive farms, much of the meat aged on the premises and cooked on a Josper grill. The restaurant held a Michelin Plate in 2025 and 2026.
Trattoria La Pigna is a family-run Sicilian seafood trattoria in Ortigia with an extensive wine list. It is known for ultra-fresh seafood and traditional dishes in a quiet corner of the island, with a room that keeps the focus on the coastal larder.
Ciauru Anticu Ortigia Restaurant Daniele Genovese is an authentic Sicilian seafood restaurant in Isola di Ortigia with an extensive wine list. The kitchen works with fresh Sicilian seafood and local ingredients in simple, inventive dishes.
Ortigia has the clearest concentration in our guide. It holds 10 of the city's top venues, including Cortile Spirito Santo, Regina Lucia, Trattoria La Pigna, MOON, and several or sommelier-led wine programmes. The island is where most of Syracuse's serious dining sits.
Syracuse has 1 Michelin-starred restaurant in our guide, with 1 Michelin star in total. That restaurant is Cortile Spirito Santo in Ortigia, and it also holds the city's Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and Star Wine List recognition in 2026.
Ortigia is the main place to look for tasting menus. Cortile Spirito Santo offers tasting menu, a la carte, and prix fixe formats with an exceptional, sommelier-led wine list, while Regina Lucia offers the same formats with a sommelier-led programme and extensive list.
Cortile Spirito Santo holds the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence in our guide. It is the only venue on this page with a Wine Spectator award, and its wine service is sommelier-led with an extensive list in Ortigia.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Set within Palazzo Salomone Luxury Suites at the southernmost tip of Ortigia, Cortile Spirito Santo holds a 2024 Michelin star and a Star Wine List White Star recognition. Chef Giuseppe Torrisi works with the produce and culinary signatures of Sicily's baroque interior, and sommelier Antonino steers a wine list that runs from Etna labels to international selections. Open Tuesday through Sunday from 7:30 PM.
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On the edge of Ortigia, Ostaria takes a deliberately narrow focus, meat sourced from non-intensive farms, much of it aged on the premises, cooked in a Josper oven with contemporary precision. The wine list leans Sicilian but ranges across Italy and beyond.
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Regina Lucia sits directly on Piazza Duomo, one of Sicily's most architecturally significant squares, holding a Michelin Plate across consecutive years (2024 and 2025) for its creative reinterpretation of Sicilian cuisine. At the €€€ price point it competes with Don Camillo and Cortile Spirito Santo in Syracuse's upper dining tier, but its position on the piazza gives it a setting no comparable address in the city can match.
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On Via Aristofane in Syracuse, Ammucca sits within a city whose food culture runs deeper than most of Sicily's tourist-facing restaurant scene. The address places it in proximity to Ortigia's dense grid of trattorias and creative kitchens, where ingredient sourcing from the surrounding sea and volcanic interior defines what reaches the plate. For visitors working through Syracuse's dining options, it warrants attention alongside the city's more decorated addresses.
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BOATS occupies a striking address on Via dell'Apollonion in the heart of Syracuse's Ortigia island, where the ancient and the contemporary share the same narrow limestone streets. The restaurant draws on the deep culinary traditions of southeastern Sicily, positioning it alongside the city's more considered dining options. Visiting requires engagement with one of Italy's most historically layered dining cities.
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On a quiet stretch of Via Vittorio Veneto in Ortigia, Ciauru Anticu sits within Syracuse's oldest inhabited island, where Sicilian dining traditions run deep and the pace of a meal is treated as seriously as the food itself. The kitchen draws on the island's layered culinary heritage, positioning it among Ortigia's more considered trattoria-style addresses. Visitors looking to move past tourist-facing menus and into something with more local conviction tend to find their way here.
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On Via della Giudecca in Syracuse's Ortigia, Davè Sicilian Taste occupies a street that once marked the edge of the city's Jewish quarter, a location that places it inside one of southern Italy's most historically layered dining neighbourhoods. The kitchen works within the Sicilian tradition, where Arab, Norman, and Greek culinary threads converge, positioning Davè alongside a cluster of serious local tables committed to the island's ingredient-driven cooking.
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On Via Roma in Ortigia, MOON takes its acronym seriously: Move Ortigia Out of Normality. The address places it inside one of Sicily's most historically dense neighbourhoods, where the line between ancient stone and contemporary cooking has always been thin. What the kitchen does with that position, and why the sourcing philosophy behind it matters, is the real story.
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A trattoria on Corso Umberto I in Syracuse, Rittufilu operates within the honest, ingredient-led tradition of Sicilian family dining rather than the creative-modern tier that has gained ground in Ortigia. The address places it on one of the city's main arteries, within walking distance of the island's baroque core and the daily fish market that supplies much of the neighbourhood's cooking.
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On Via della Conciliazione in the heart of Siracusa, Trattoria La Pigna holds to the rhythms of the Sicilian trattoria tradition: unhurried pacing, dishes rooted in the island's coastal larder, and a room that rewards those who arrive without a schedule. It sits in the informal-to-mid-range tier of Ortigia dining, where the standard is set by produce and technique rather than theatre.
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Six rooms on Ortigia, Syracuse's ancient island heart, Lùme is a Parisian-owned boutique B&B that manages the difficult trick of feeling like a private home without sacrificing sophistication. Seashells, freestanding bathtubs, handmade textiles, and a rooftop aperitivo slot sit alongside a hammam that most properties ten times the size wouldn't think to include. Rates from $327 per night.
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A converted baroque palazzo on Ortigia's Via Roma, Palazzo Artemide holds Small Luxury Hotels of the World membership and sits in the quieter, more architecturally coherent tier of Sicilian island accommodation.
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Byssus Suites occupies Via del Porto Grande in Syracuse's Ortigia district, carrying a Michelin Selected distinction for 2025. The property sits within one of Sicily's most architecturally layered historic centres, where Baroque stonework and waterfront proximity define the accommodation tier. A considered choice for travellers prioritising location density and design-led lodging over large-hotel infrastructure.
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Positioned on Lungomare d'Ortigia with direct water frontage on the channel separating Ortigia island from the Sicilian mainland, Maniace Boutique Hotel carries Michelin Selected status for 2025 and sits within the UNA Esperienze portfolio. The address places guests within walking distance of the Castello Maniace, the Duomo, and the principal archaeological sites, making location the hotel's clearest competitive advantage among Syracuse's boutique tier.
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Occupying a restored early-twentieth-century post office building in Syracuse, Ortea Palace carries Michelin Selected status for 2025 and sits within Marriott's Autograph Collection. The property positions itself as a heritage address in one of Sicily's most historically dense cities, offering a considered base for travellers who want architectural character alongside the conveniences of an international hotel group.
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A Michelin Selected hotel on mainland Syracuse, Una Hotel Siracusa positions itself at the functional upper end of the city's accommodation tier, structured, city-facing, and within reach of Ortigia's historic core. It carries Michelin's 2025 hotel selection, which places it alongside a small set of properties the guide considers worth noting in this part of Sicily.
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Amunì Cocktail Bar belongs to Ortigia’s after-dinner circuit, where the island’s compact scale pushes drinking culture toward small rooms, walkable stops, and aperitivo-to-late-evening pacing. With no public awards or price band attached, its appeal is less trophy hunting than situational: a cocktail stop to place between dinner, a hotel terrace, and the old city’s evening foot traffic.
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