Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Brescia from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Brescia
These restaurants offer tasting-menu formats and clear wine programs, so the meal structure and the cellar work together.
In Collebeato, Castello Malvezzi pairs a tasting menu with an extensive wine list. The restaurant sits in a historic 16th-century castle and focuses on modern Italian cooking with a caviar emphasis. It holds Michelin Plate awards in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Carne & Spirito in Chiesanuova offers both tasting-menu and à la carte formats. The kitchen centres on premium beef cooked over a Josper charcoal oven, with cured meat starters, fresh pasta, and a considered wine list by the glass. It holds Michelin Plate awards in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Il Rivale in Città in City Center serves contemporary Italian fine dining in an 18th-century palazzo. The cellar is Franciacorta-focused, and the restaurant also offers craft cocktails, a tasting menu, and a single-table room. It holds Michelin Plate awards in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
These restaurants stand out for cellar depth or sommelier-led service, and each one gives wine a clear place in the meal.
Trattoria Porteri in Borgo Trento combines traditional Brescian cooking with an exceptional wine programme. The cellar holds 250 references and the room is sommelier-led, with a la carte and family-style formats. It holds Michelin Bib Gourmand awards in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Lanzani Bottega & Bistrot in Brescia city center combines a delicatessen, wine boutique, and restaurant. The wine programme reaches over 600 labels, and the kitchen works with high-provenance products in a Michelin Plate setting. It holds Michelin Plate awards in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Il Labirinto on the outskirts brings an extensive wine list of over 2,000 labels to an established seafood and meat menu. The room has a retro atmosphere, and the kitchen includes house-made salumi alongside fish and meat dishes. It holds Michelin Plate awards in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Borgo Trento and Brescia city center are the clearest neighbourhoods for serious wine lists in our guide. Borgo Trento is home to Trattoria Porteri, and Brescia city center includes Lanzani Bottega & Bistrot. City Center also matters through Il Rivale in Città and its Franciacorta-focused cellar.
Brescia has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Trattoria Porteri holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for its Brescian regional cooking. Castello Malvezzi and Carne & Spirito hold Michelin Plates and offer tasting menus.
Collebeato, Chiesanuova, City Center, and Centro Storico (Historic Center) are the clearest places to look. The tasting-menu rooms in our guide include Castello Malvezzi, Carne & Spirito, and Il Rivale in Città, each with a distinct menu style and wine setup.
Trattoria Porteri and Lanzani Bottega & Bistrot have exceptional wine programmes in our guide. Trattoria Porteri lists 250 references with sommelier-led service, and Lanzani Bottega & Bistrot pours from over 600 labels in a delicatessen, wine boutique, and restaurant format.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder in consecutive years (2024 and 2025), Trattoria Porteri operates from Brescia's Borgo Trento district, holding. The kitchen anchors itself in Lombardian tradition: charcuterie boards, tripe in Brescia-style broth, beef in olive oil, and the local bocciolo di rosa dessert with zabaglione ice cream, at prices that stay firmly within the €€ bracket.
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In the historic centre of Brescia, Inedito occupies a space with particular lineage, the site of the city's first pizzeria, and uses it to make a case for pizza as a craft product rather than a commodity. Pizzaiolo Antonio Pappalardo has reworked both the dough and the toppings from first principles, producing a format that sits apart from the city's more conventional options. The room's urban finish signals the ambition clearly.
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A Michelin Plate–recognised steakhouse on Brescia's outskirts, Carne & Spirito centres its menu on premium beef sourced from select international breeds, cooked over a Josper charcoal oven in a range of cuts. Cured meat starters, fresh pasta, and a considered wine list by the glass round out a format aimed squarely at carnivores who want sourcing transparency alongside serious fire.
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Outdoor dining with city views makes the setting as considered as the plate.
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A restored building on Via Codignole houses one of Brescia's more considered contemporary Italian tables, where chef Arianna Gatti draws on Abruzzo origins and Lombard training to produce intensely flavoured dishes that bridge two distinct regional traditions. Holding a 2025 Michelin Plate, Forme sits in the €€€ tier alongside Brescia's other serious contemporary addresses.
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A long-established Michelin Plate holder on Brescia's outskirts, Il Labirinto occupies a comfortable mid-market tier where retro elegance and honest Mediterranean cooking coexist. The kitchen balances fish and meat across a varied menu, with house-made salumi adding a distinctly local touch. At the €€ price point, it represents one of the more accomplished all-round options in its category across the city.
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Set within an 18th‑century palazzo, Il Rivale in Città in Brescia delivers contemporary Italian refinement, a Franciacorta‑focused cellar, and an irresistible wooden dessert trolley—plus an ultra‑intimate single‑table room for exclusive occasions.
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Brescia's most committed seafood address sits at Via Bezzecca 17, where chef Augusto Valzelli brings Ligurian technique back to his home city. Two consecutive Michelin Plates (2024 and 2025) confirm the kitchen's consistency, and the gran crudo di mare, requested at booking, is the clearest argument for why serious fish cookery has a place in landlocked northern Italy. Priced at €€€, it competes in Brescia's top tier alongside Castello Malvezzi and Forme Restaurant.
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La Sosta holds a Michelin Plate across consecutive years (2024 and 2025), positioning it among Brescia's recognised dining addresses for Lombardian cuisine. Located on Via S. Martino della Battaglia in the city centre, it carries a €€€ price point, a combination that signals consistent kitchen performance rather than occasional brilliance.
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Once a family butcher's shop on Via Albertano da Brescia, Lanzani Bottega & Bistrot operates across three registers, delicatessen, wine boutique, and sit-down restaurant, from 7am through to 11pm. A Michelin Plate holder in both 2024 and 2025, it anchors its menu around high-provenance products: Pata Negra, Cantabrian anchovies, and a serious cheese selection. The format rewards those who know when and how to arrive.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised seafood trattoria on Via Fontane, Trattoria Rigoletto sits in Brescia's mid-to-upper dining tier alongside peers like La Porta Antica, holding. The menu runs broad and authentic, the atmosphere direct and welcoming, a reliable address for serious fish cookery in a city better known for its meat traditions.
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Vivace holds a 2025 Michelin Plate at a mid-range price point inside Brescia's compact historic centre, making it one of the more accessible entry points into contemporary Italian cooking in the city.
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ALIMENTO sits on Via Agostino Gallo in central Brescia, operating within a city whose dining culture has long prioritised regional produce over imported trends. The address places it squarely in a neighbourhood where ingredient sourcing and local supply chains carry real weight. For visitors weighing Brescia's mid-to-upper restaurant tier, it belongs on the shortlist alongside the city's most considered tables.
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Officina Del Mare brings a seafood-focused sensibility to central Brescia, a city whose dining identity has long leaned toward lake fish and freshwater traditions rather than the open-sea cooking more common along Italy's coastline. Located on Via Indipendenza, the restaurant sits within a city that has seen genuine investment in its restaurant scene over the past decade, making it a considered stop for visitors exploring Lombardy's interior.
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On a quiet residential stretch in Caionvico, a southeastern district of Brescia, Pota la Pizza occupies the kind of address that rewards locals who already know where to look. The pizza format here fits into Brescia's mid-tier dining scene, where neighbourhood spots hold ground against the city's more formal dining rooms. A direct place to understand if you approach it as the locals do: on the pizza's own terms.
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Feliciana suits travellers who want Lugana wine country as a full rural stay rather than a quick cellar stop. The estate combines vineyard setting, restaurant, rooms, pool, wellness facilities and direct farm products, with still white wine anchored in Turbiana from private vineyards in Pozzolengo.
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Tognazzi sits in Brescia’s quieter wine orbit, drawing from Botticino DOC and Lugana DOC rather than chasing the spectacle of larger cellar-door regions. The appeal is terroir-led: red varieties tied to the hills east of Brescia, Turbiana from Lugana, and a small-scale, family-run format built around guided tasting rather than volume hospitality.
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