Catania, Italy
Coria
Volcanic artistry meets modern Italian finesse at Coria in Catania, where Etna-inspired art, a Michelin-lauded kitchen, and a stellar sommelier craft refined Sicilian-accented tasting menus in a serene, elegant setting.
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Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Catania from the En Primeur Club guide.
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Modern Sicilian fine dining leads the restaurants in our Catania guide. Sapio, in Catania, and Coria, in City Centre, are the Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Both serve tasting menus with sommelier-led wine. Sapio's program has an extensive list and a cellar of bottles from across the island. Coria's program is exceptional, with wine pairings and a tasting menu.
Centro Catania holds the most venues in our guide. Ménage, in Centro Catania, has an exceptional wine program: sommelier-led, with an extensive list and craft cocktails. The cooking is meat-focused contemporary Italian with Sicilian influences, served as a tasting menu and a la carte. An Art Deco bar preserved from 1930 is upstairs. Vermut, in Centro Catania, is a specialty vermouth bar and a Sicilian salumeria, with a list that includes natural wine and over 60 Italian vermouths.
Tasting menus
Six restaurants appear on our tasting-menu list. Sapio, in Catania, and Coria, in City Centre, each hold a Michelin star, and Concezione Restaurant adds a sommelier-led Plate kitchen.
Sapio
Sapio, in Catania, holds a Michelin star for 2026. Chef Alessandro Ingiulla cooks modern Sicilian food from his own garden in a minimalist room with a chef's table. A wine cellar holds bottles from across the island. The wine program is sommelier-led, with an extensive wine list. The kitchen serves a tasting menu and a la carte.
Coria
Coria, in City Centre, holds a Michelin star for 2026. The wine program is exceptional and extensive. The room has Etna-inspired art, and the wine pairings are sommelier-led. The kitchen serves Sicilian cuisine as a tasting menu and a prix fixe.
Concezione Restaurant
Concezione Restaurant holds a Michelin Plate for 2026 and We're Smart World 4 Radishes for 2025. Chef Manuel Tropea serves Sicilian tasting menus built on daring local ingredients in a minimalist room with an open kitchen. The wine program is sommelier-led. The kitchen also serves a la carte.
Wine in Centro Catania
Centro Catania holds six venues in our guide, the highest neighborhood count. Ménage, Vermut, and Etnea Roof Bar & Restaurant by “UNA cucina” are all in Centro Catania.
Ménage
Ménage, in Centro Catania, has an exceptional wine program that is extensive and sommelier-led, and the bar pours craft cocktails. It holds a Michelin Plate for 2026. The upstairs Art Deco bar is preserved from 1930. The cooking is meat-focused contemporary Italian with Sicilian influences. The kitchen serves a tasting menu and a la carte.
Vermut
Vermut, in Centro Catania, is a specialty vermouth bar and a Sicilian salumeria. Its wine program includes natural wine, alongside over 60 Italian vermouths. It serves regional meats, cheeses, and Sicilian small plates.
Etnea Roof Bar & Restaurant by “UNA cucina”
Etnea Roof Bar & Restaurant by “UNA cucina”, in Centro Catania, holds a Star Wine List award for 2026. The bar serves craft cocktails. The kitchen cooks modern Sicilian food with seafood, a la carte, on the seventh floor of the Palace Catania hotel, with views of Mount Etna, city rooftops, and the sea.
Planning FAQ
How many Michelin-starred restaurants are in Catania?
Our guide counts two Michelin-starred restaurants in Catania. Sapio, in Catania, and Coria, in City Centre, are those restaurants, and both serve modern Sicilian fine dining. Both hold a star for 2026.
Which neighborhood has the most venues in Catania?
Centro Catania has the most venues in our guide, with six. Venues there include Ménage, Me Cumpari Turiddu, Etnea Roof Bar & Restaurant by “UNA cucina”, Vermut, and Kyō-To Sushi Catania. Ménage serves contemporary Italian cooking with Sicilian influences. Me Cumpari Turiddu serves traditional Sicilian cooking. Vermut is a Sicilian salumeria and vermouth bar.
Where are tasting menus served in Catania?
Six restaurants are on our tasting-menu list: Sapio in Catania, Coria in City Centre, Concezione Restaurant, Materia | Spazio Cucina in Teatro Massimo, Angiò-Macelleria di Mare in Ognina, and Ménage in Centro Catania. Coria pairs its tasting menu with a prix fixe. The other five pair a tasting menu with a la carte.
Which restaurants have exceptional wine programs in Catania?
Two restaurants in our guide have exceptional wine programs: Coria in City Centre and Ménage in Centro Catania. Both lists are extensive and sommelier-led. Coria serves wine pairings with a tasting menu and a prix fixe. Ménage serves craft cocktails with a tasting menu and a la carte.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Catania.
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Sapio
Sapio occupies a restored warehouse on Piazza Gandolfo Antonino, where chef Alessandro Ingiulla plates modern Sicilian cuisine built on produce from his own garden, earning consistent Michelin recognition. The space divides between a main dining room, a chef's table in the kitchen, and a wine cellar stocked with bottles from across the island. Dinner service runs Tuesday through Sunday from 7:30 PM, at a price point of €€€€.
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Me Cumpari Turiddu
A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder for 2024 and 2025, Me Cumpari Turiddu occupies a convivial corner of Piazza Turi Ferro with old chandeliers, a shop stocked with Sicilian produce, and a cocktail bar running from late morning into the early hours. The kitchen under chef Gianluca Leocata works a menu of Sicilian specialities alongside a lighter bistro offering, placing it firmly in Catania's mid-range, tradition-first dining tier.
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Concezione Restaurant
Historic ceilings, minimalist elegance, and Manuel Tropea’s deeply Sicilian tasting menus define Concezione Restaurant in Catania—where memory, market, and precision create the city’s most compelling fine dining experience.
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Angiò-Macelleria di Mare
Angiò-Macelleria di Mare takes its name from the Sicilian tradition of the fish butcher, curing and seasoning seafood with the same precision applied to meat. Holding a Michelin Plate for two consecutive years, the Viale Africa address pairs an open-view kitchen with three tasting menus and a focused à la carte, positioning it among Catania's most deliberate seafood addresses at the €€€ price point.
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Etnea Roof Bar & Restaurant by “UNA cucina”
Positioned on Via Etnea with rooftop views toward the volcano, Etnea Roof Bar & Restaurant by "UNA cucina" earns its White Star recognition from Star Wine List through a wine program that matches the elevation of its setting. The format spans bar and restaurant, placing it among Catania's more architecturally ambitious dining addresses. Book ahead and arrive before sunset.
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Materia | Spazio Cucina
Materia | Spazio Cucina holds back-to-back Michelin Plates (2024 and 2025), positioning it among Catania's mid-range Sicilian tables that take seasonal cooking seriously. The dining room, set inside a converted residential building on Via Teatro Massimo, pairs shared tables with shelf-lined walls of preserved ingredients. Classic technique meets careful sourcing, with grilled meat and fish anchored by first courses that draw on regional pantry staples.
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Ménage
Occupying an Art Nouveau building on Via Euplio Reina, steps from the Teatro Bellini, Ménage reinterprets Sicilian cuisine through a meat-first, barbecue-driven menu within a quietly intimate dining room framed by 1930s frescoes. A trio of young Catanese chefs hold two consecutive Michelin Plate recognitions. The first floor operates as a separately programmed cocktail bar, making it a complete evening address at the €€ bracket.
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Al Vicolo Pizza&Vino
Al Vicolo Pizza&Vino focuses on Gourmet Sicilian Pizza & Wine, with Giant Margherita Pizza, Bresaola Pizza, a terrace, and an extensive wine list for dinner or late night.
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Big Daddy's
Eating in Catania: What the City's Dining Rhythm Reveals Via Caffè cuts through one of Catania's denser residential grids, away from the market theatre of Via Etnea and the seafront bustle near the Amenano fountain. The streets here narrow and...
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Casbah del Moro
Casbah del Moro occupies a quietly compelling address on Via Luigi Capuana in central Catania, sitting at an intersection where the city's Arab-Norman past and its contemporary dining identity converge. Compared to the polished creative formats of nearby Concezione or the seafood-forward Angiò, this address trades in a distinctly different register, one rooted in the layered character of the neighbourhood itself.
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Kyō-To Sushi Catania
Kyō-To Sushi Catania brings Japanese counter dining to Via Barone della Bicocca in central Catania, placing raw-fish technique against one of Italy's most seafood-intensive coastlines. The address sits where Sicilian ingredient culture meets Japanese preparation discipline, a pairing that makes more geographic sense than it might first appear. For the city's growing appetite for non-Sicilian precision dining, it occupies a distinct position in the local restaurant mix.
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Osteria Antica Marina
Osteria Antica Marina sits directly inside Catania's La Pescheria fish market on Via Pardo, placing it at the source of one of Sicily's most active daily seafood trades. The kitchen works with what the market delivers each morning, which means the menu follows the catch rather than the calendar. For visitors to Catania looking for a direct line between the harbour and the plate, few addresses are this geographically honest.
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PLANTE Lab
On a quiet stretch of Via Sant'Anna in central Catania, PLANTE Lab occupies the more experimental end of the city's contemporary dining scene. The format signals a lab-influenced approach to Sicilian ingredients and technique, positioning it alongside Catania's emerging cohort of creative restaurants rather than its traditional trattorie. Advance enquiry is advisable for visitors arriving without local contacts to smooth the booking process.
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Vermut
On Via Gemmellaro, Vermut occupies a corner of Catania where the aperitivo hour is treated as a ritual rather than a prelude. The format leans into the vermouth-and-small-plate tradition that has long anchored Sicilian social drinking, positioning it in a different register from the city's more formal dining rooms. Come for the pacing and the company as much as anything on the plate.
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Where to stay in Catania
Selected entries from the current guide for Catania.
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Duomo Suites & Spa
Duomo Suites & Spa occupies a historic address on Via Garibaldi in central Catania, selected by the Michelin Guide Hotels 2025. The property sits within the city's baroque core, positioning it among a small tier of design-conscious accommodation that treats historic fabric as the primary architectural statement rather than backdrop.
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Elle Dimora di Sicilia
A Michelin Selected property on Piazza Stesicoro, Elle Dimora di Sicilia places guests at one of Catania's most historically charged addresses. The hotel sits within the layered volcanic-stone fabric of a city where Baroque architecture meets active street life, positioning it in the smaller, design-conscious tier of Sicilian urban accommodation. Guests seeking proximity to both Catania's food markets and its cultural centre will find the address does significant work.
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Where to go for a drink in Catania
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Which wineries to visit in Catania
Selected entries from the current guide for Catania.
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Amaro dell'Etna
The address places it inside a production and tasting culture shaped entirely by altitude, lava soil, and mineral intensity. For those tracing Sicily's most characterful liquid expressions, this is a serious point of reference.
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Canestrini
Canestrini is a small Campania-focused winery entry for Catania readers who prefer rural, appointment-led hospitality over a polished tasting-room circuit. The draw is the format: seated tastings, food-paired lunches or dinners, vineyard views, and local varieties such as Pallagrello Bianco and Casavecchia framed through the Alto Casertano countryside.
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Tenuta Ferrata
Tenuta Ferrata is a young Etna DOC estate near Catania shaped by volcanic ground, lava-stone rural architecture, and a vineyard setting tied to the Circumetnea railway. The draw is not trophy recognition but terroir: 25 hectares of vines, still red and white wines from Etna varieties, and a quiet, reservation-led format for travelers who want the mountain’s wine culture without spectacle.
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