Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Cividale del Friuli from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Cividale del Friuli
Traditional Friulian cooking and refined seafood feature in the restaurant selection. Each of these restaurants has an extensive wine list, and Alla Speranza also offers a tasting menu.
Al Monastero in historic center serves traditional Friulian cooking with its own farm wines and an extensive wine list. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for 2026. Dining spaces include rooms with a fogolar fireplace and frescoes, plus an inner courtyard.
Traditional Friulian Italian restaurant in Cividale del Friuli with a historic castle setting and panoramic terraces. The wine list and extensive wine list accompany regional cooking drawing on small producers, including Carso wines and mountain-cured meats. Dining follows an à la carte format.
Alla Speranza is an ancient osteria in Centro Storico (Old Town) serving refined seafood and seasonal creative dishes. Its exceptional wine program includes over 200 wine labels. The restaurant offers both a tasting menu and à la carte dining.
Native Friulian grapes feature at the hillside estates. Domenis 1898 makes Storica grappa from pomace sourced across Friuli.
Il Roncal is a terraced 20-hectare estate in Colli Orientali del Friuli / Montebello Hill. It produces Friuli Colli Orientali DOC wines and combines sustainably farmed vineyards with vineyard hospitality. Native grapes include Friulano, Ribolla Gialla, Refosco, Schioppettino, Picolit and Verduzzo.
Bastianich grows native Friulian varieties on terraced hillside vineyards in Colli Orientali del Friuli. Its white and red wines reflect a focus on regional terroir, cool-climate viticulture and sustainable practices. The estate is listed by Falstaff for 2026.
Domenis 1898 is a historic distillery in Cividale del Friuli, founded in 1898, using ancient distillation methods. Its Storica grappa is made from pomace sourced from over 300 Friuli wineries.
There are no Michelin-starred restaurants in our Cividale del Friuli guide. Al Monastero holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for 2026, a separate distinction from a star. It serves traditional Friulian cooking in historic center.
Centro Storico (Old Town), historic center and Cividale del Friuli have restaurants with extensive wine lists in our guide. Alla Speranza has an exceptional wine program in Centro Storico (Old Town). Al Monastero serves its own farm wines in historic center, while Locanda Al Castello has a wine list in Cividale del Friuli.
Alla Speranza in Centro Storico (Old Town) offers a tasting menu. The ancient osteria serves refined seafood and seasonal creative dishes, with an exceptional wine program and over 200 wine labels. It also offers à la carte dining.
Al Monastero holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for 2026, and Il Roncal has a Falstaff Winery distinction of 3 Stars for 2026. Examples of wineries listed by Falstaff for 2026 include Bastianich, Castello Santanna, Ronc di Guglielmo, Sirch, Scarbolo Sergio and Venchiarezza.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder in 2024 and 2025, Al Monastero puts Friulian cured meats, regional salumi, and cucina del territorio on the table inside a historic palazzo in Cividale del Friuli. The fogolar stove room and Bacchus fresco dining room set the tone; a courtyard terrace and five apartments with cooking areas extend the stay. Honest pricing at the €€ level makes it one of the stronger-value regional tables in this corner of northeast Italy.
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On Cividale del Friuli's ancient Forum square, Alla Speranza occupies a setting that reflects the town itself: small, rooted, and shaped by the agricultural traditions of the Friulian hills and valleys. The kitchen draws from a region where cured meats, mountain herbs, and local wine have defined the table for centuries. For visitors passing through this corner of northeastern Italy, it represents the trattoria tradition at its most place-specific.
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Antico Leon d'Oro occupies a historic address on Via Borgo di Ponte in Cividale del Friuli, a UNESCO World Heritage town in Friuli-Venezia Giulia where Lombard history and Slavic geography have shaped a cooking tradition unlike anywhere else in northeastern Italy. The restaurant sits within a dining scene defined by restraint, local produce, and deep regional loyalty rather than modernist experimentation.
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Locanda Al Castello occupies a setting within Cividale del Friuli's medieval castle quarter, placing it at the intersection of Friulian culinary tradition and one of northeastern Italy's most historically layered towns. The kitchen draws on the region's dense network of small producers, from Carso wines to mountain-cured meats, in a dining room that reads more like a family table than a formal restaurant. For anyone moving through the Friuli-Venezia Giulia corridor, it warrants a stop.
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Cividale del Friuli
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The estate places Friulian terroir at the centre of its program, working from a region where autochthonous varieties and cool-climate viticulture produce wines of real structural precision. For anyone tracking the northeast Italian wine circuit, this is a serious stop.
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The name alone signals a continuity that few Italian producers can claim: over a century of craft anchored in the northeastern corner of the country, where distillation and viticulture share equal cultural weight.
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Azienda Agricola Altùris is a Friulian estate winery and agriturismo in Cividale del Friuli, where vineyard terraces, local cooking, and glamping cabins place the visit firmly in the countryside rather than the urban tasting-room model. The estate’s 70% white-wine production, Friuli Venezia Giulia IGP focus, and sustainable vineyard philosophy make it a useful address for understanding how this corner of northeastern Italy expresses soil, slope, and hospitality together.
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A family-run Friuli estate in Spessa Di Cividale, Azienda Agricola La Magnolia reads the Colli Orientali through estate-grown fruit, native grapes, and a hospitality style closer to agritourism than spectacle. The point here is terroir: northern air, Adriatic warmth, and mixed marl, sandstone, and calcareous clay shaping a portfolio that ranges from Ribolla Gialla and Pignolo to barrel-aged Ubi Es.
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Castello Santanna belongs to the small-estate side of Friuli Colli Orientali DOC: hillside vineyards, family scale, and a portfolio built around aromatic whites and structured reds. The draw is terroir rather than spectacle, with Spessa’s marl-and-sandstone soils, steel-aged whites, wood-matured reds, and a quiet rural setting shaping the experience.
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A wine-learning address rather than a cellar-door tasting room, Consorzio Tutela Vini Colli Orientali del Friuli e Ramandolo is useful for understanding why this corner of Friuli carries more nuance than its quiet profile suggests. The story is terroir first: ponca soils, Alpine-Adriatic tension, native varieties, and a regulatory framework that protects roughly 200 producers across 14 municipalities.
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Cozzarolo is a family-run Friulian winery in Spessa di Cividale, shaped by the Colli Orientali del Friuli rather than by cellar theatrics. Its appeal is the regional grammar: Friulano, Ribolla Gialla, Verduzzo, Refosco, Picolit and other local-adapted varieties from a 32-hectare estate with a quiet, conversational cellar format.
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Francesco Rotolo - Confinis belongs to Friuli-Venezia Giulia’s quieter white-wine tradition: small-scale, regionally anchored, and centered on Friulano rather than spectacle. In Cividale del Friuli, the draw is terroir expression in a focused Northern Italian white-wine register, with Castadiva Friulano offering the clearest lens on the producer’s style.
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Il Roncal is a terraced 20-hectare wine estate on Montebello Hill in Cividale del Friuli, built around Friuli Colli Orientali DOC wines, vineyard hospitality, and estate agriculture. Its strength is place: marl-sandstone soils, hillside exposure, native grapes such as Friulano, Ribolla Gialla, Refosco, Schioppettino, Picolit, and Verduzzo, plus a resort-style setting that makes tasting part of a slower countryside stay.
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La Sclusa is a family-run Colli Orientali del Friuli winery in Cividale del Friuli, grounded in Spessa’s terraced hills, ponca soils, and a portfolio led by Friulian whites with reds and dessert wines in the range. The appeal is terroir-first rather than theatrical: a quiet rural estate, modern cellar, vineyard setting, and agritourism presence tied to the local wine landscape.
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Lis Fadis is a small wine relais in Cividale del Friuli, set inside the Colli Orientali del Friuli with vineyards, orchards, olive groves and a rock-carved cellar shaping the stay. The appeal is terroir-led rather than resort-led: Friulano, Sauvignon Blanc, Schioppettino and other regional varieties are framed through cellar visits, tastings and a three-room agriturismo rhythm.
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Family-run Friulian winery in Cividale del Friuli, rooted in Colli Orientali del Friuli DOC and known for native grapes including Friulano, Ribolla Gialla, Schioppettino, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso and Picolit. The estate pairs hillside vineyards, a stone-carved cellar, a restored 1522 church and a biomass energy system with guided tastings by reservation.
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Rodaro Paolo Winery belongs to the Friuli Colli Orientali tradition: estate fruit, hillside vineyards, and a portfolio that moves between native Friulian varieties and regional interpretations of broader European grapes. The Cividale del Friuli estate dates to 1846, with Paolo Rodaro named as winemaker, and its appeal sits in the land-first reading of Friuli rather than cellar-room spectacle.
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Ronc di Guglielmo is a small family-run winery in Cividale del Friuli, framed by Colli Orientali del Friuli drinking culture rather than formal tasting-room polish. The draw is its farmhouse mode: Schioppettino, Pinot Noir and Sauvignon alongside homemade cold cuts, salami, cheeses and Friulian staples such as cotechino with polenta.
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Scarbolo Sergio is a small, appointment-only winery in Cividale del Friuli, working within the Colli Orientali del Friuli tradition of hillside wines and cellar restraint. Its profile is rooted in Spessa, marl-and-sandstone soils, Friuli whites led by Pinot Grigio, Friulano, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay, and a family winery history traced to 1928.
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Sirch is a long-running Friuli Colli Orientali winery in Cividale del Friuli, opened in 1955 and focused on still white and red wines. The appeal is quiet and vineyard-led: guided appointment tastings, Friulian varieties such as Friulano, Ribolla Gialla, Refosco and Schioppettino, and a traditional style shaped by the Colli Orientali rather than cellar theatrics.
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Venchiarezza is a small family-run organic estate in Cividale del Friuli, focused on native Friulian grapes rather than scale or cellar theatrics. Ribolla Gialla, Friulano, and Refosco grow on ponca soils, with low-intervention work, hand harvesting, largely spontaneous fermentations, and ageing in stainless steel or neutral wood shaping a restrained Colli Orientali profile.
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Zorzettig is a historic Friulian winery in Cividale del Friuli, founded in 1874 and shaped around DOC Friuli Colli Orientali wines. Its strength is terroir expression at scale: 115 hectares, a structured portfolio across native and international varieties, and a sustainability-led estate identity tied to biodiversity and local materials.
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