Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Lucca from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Lucca
L'Imbuto serves a tasting menu only. Giglio pairs a tasting menu with a la carte, and Nida pairs a tasting menu and a la carte with omakase.
L'Imbuto, in Historic Center, holds a Michelin Plate (2026) and also held a Michelin Plate in 2025 and 2024. Self-taught chef Cristiano Tomei serves an avant-garde Tuscan tasting menu in a historic setting with garden views. The number of courses is chosen blind. Bitter notes and Parmigiano Reggiano are in the cooking, and the dishes include Bistecca Primitiva. The wine program has an extensive wine list.
Giglio, in historic centre, occupies an 18th-century palazzo. The cooking reinterprets traditional Italian recipes with modern touches, with meat and fish dishes and excellent bread. It serves a tasting menu and a la carte. The sommelier-led wine program has an extensive wine list. Giglio holds a Michelin Plate and Star Wine List recognition for 2026.
Nida holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for 2026. Chef Masaki Kuroda serves traditional Japanese cooking with Italian influences in an intimate room. The restaurant offers a la carte, a tasting menu, and omakase, with a wine list and sake. Dishes include sashimi, nigiri, gyoza, tonkotsu-style ramen, and a lunchtime teishoku set.
Tomkat and All'Olivo are the two exceptional wine programs in our guide, both in historic centre. Villa Santo Stefano, in Pieve Santo Stefano, holds a Falstaff Winery 3 Stars award.
Tomkat, in historic centre, is a modern Italian wine bar with an exceptional wine program. The list has 350 selections focusing on Italian and French regions. Wine Spectator gave it a Best of Award of Excellence in 2026, and Star Wine List recognized it in 2026. Creative modern Italian cooking is served a la carte and as small plates, in a historic setting.
All'Olivo, in historic centre, is a family-run restaurant with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. It holds a Michelin Plate (2026) and also held a Michelin Plate in 2025 and 2024. The kitchen serves traditional Tuscan meat and fish dishes across four rooms, including a wine-lined dining room, plus a summer terrace. The dining rooms are artist-decorated. The format is a la carte.
Villa Santo Stefano, in Pieve Santo Stefano, is a boutique organic winery, and Falstaff gives it 3 Stars for 2026. Private tours finish with tastings in a Tuscan-style Limonaia, with the estate wines and extra virgin olive oil. The estate includes a restored historic villa, vineyards, olive groves, and a barrique cellar. Wines include Loto and Nina.
Nida holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, while L'Imbuto, Giglio, Buca di Sant'Antonio, All'Olivo, and Il Mecenate each hold a Michelin Plate for 2026. Nida serves Japanese cooking with Italian influences. The Plate restaurants include L'Imbuto's avant-garde Tuscan tasting menu, Giglio's modern Tuscan cooking, and traditional Tuscan or Lucchese dishes at Buca di Sant'Antonio, All'Olivo, and Il Mecenate.
Tomkat, in historic centre, holds the Wine Spectator award in our Lucca guide. It holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2026. That is the one Best of Award of Excellence in our guide, citywide. The list has 350 selections focusing on Italian and French regions, and the wine program is exceptional.
L'Imbuto, Giglio, and Nida serve tasting menus in our Lucca guide. L'Imbuto, in Historic Center, serves a tasting menu as its only format. Giglio, in historic centre, serves a tasting menu and a la carte. Nida, near stadium, serves a tasting menu, a la carte, and omakase.
Both exceptional wine programs in our guide are in historic centre. Those programs are at Tomkat and All'Olivo, and both restaurants are in historic centre. Tomkat's list has 350 selections focusing on Italian and French regions, and it holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2026. All'Olivo's wine program is exceptional, with an extensive wine list.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Lucca.
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A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient in both 2024 and 2025, Nida sits roughly a kilometre outside Lucca's city walls and serves traditional Japanese cuisine rooted in the southern Japanese upbringing of chef Masaki Kuroda. The menu runs from sashimi and nigiri to gyoza and tonkotsu-style ramen, with a lunchtime teishoku set that represents particularly considered Japanese cooking in Tuscany at a mid-range price point.
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Set in a hillside farmhouse just outside Lucca's medieval walls, L'Imbuto is Cristiano Tomei's creative Italian restaurant where the number of courses is chosen blind and the kitchen's generosity tends to make that number irrelevant. The format is built around bitter notes, Parmigiano Reggiano, and a cooking sensibility that resists easy categorisation. Recognised by Michelin and ranked among Europe's top restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it occupies a distinct tier in Lucca's dining scene.
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Occupying a handsome 18th-century palazzo on one of Lucca's central piazzas, Giglio holds a Michelin Plate for two consecutive years and serves classic Italian cooking reinterpreted with a measured modern hand. Meat and fish dishes draw on regional traditions, with technique applied selectively rather than showily. The setting, a formal dining room opening onto an outdoor terrace, frames a meal that moves at the unhurried pace Lucca rewards.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised trattoria in the historic centre of Lucca, All'Olivo serves regional Tuscan cooking across four characterful rooms, with fish and meat dishes drawn from the local larder. The wine-lined central dining room and the summer terrace make it a practical and considered choice at the mid-range price point, a solid representation of how Lucca's old-town dining scene balances tradition with accessibility.
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One of Lucca's oldest restaurants, Buca di Sant'Antonio has been serving traditional Tuscan cuisine from its address on Via della Cervia for over two centuries. Recognised with a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025, it holds the mid-range price point (€€) alongside peers like All'Olivo, while its copper-hung dining room and long record of continuity place it in a distinct tier among the city's historic restaurants.
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Among Lucca's affordable Tuscan trattorias, Il Mecenate holds a particular position: a Michelin Plate-recognised address occupying a former laundry along the city moat, where dishes like tordelli lucchesi and 18th-century bread pudding function as a record of Lucchese culinary tradition rather than a nod to it. At the single-euro price point, it sits below All'Olivo and well below Giglio or L'Imbuto, without sacrificing the kitchen's commitment to local specificity.
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Tomkat sits on Via Calderia in Lucca's walled historic centre, earning a White Star recognition from Star Wine List in 2024, a signal that its wine program operates at a level beyond the casual trattoria tier. For a city where Tuscan tradition can feel rote, Tomkat's approach to what's poured alongside the food carries genuine editorial weight.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Lucca.
Lucca, Italy
A Michelin Selected villa hotel on the outskirts of Lucca, Hotel Albergo Villa Marta occupies a restored country property within easy reach of the walled city centre. Carrying Michelin's 2025 hotel recognition, it sits in the quieter, estate-style tier of Tuscan accommodation, where the draw is landscape proximity and architectural character rather than branded amenity stacks.
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A Michelin Selected villa property set in the Lucchesia hills outside the city walls, Villa Casanova Lucca represents the quieter end of Tuscany's country-house lodging tier. The building's period architecture and rural positioning place it well outside the urban hotel grid, offering a different tempo to the walled city a short drive away.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Lucca.
Lucca, Italy
Franklin 33 sits on Via S. Giorgio in the historic centre of Lucca, operating as a cocktail bar in a city where wine and aperitivo culture have traditionally dominated the drinking scene. It represents a format that is still relatively rare in smaller Tuscan cities: a dedicated bar with a structured drinks programme rather than a restaurant annex or enoteca. For visitors exploring Lucca's drinking options beyond the glass-of-Vermentino default, it merits attention.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Lucca.
Lucca, Italy
Colle delle 100 Bottiglie is a small organic winery and olive farm in Lucca, focused on IGT Costa Toscana wines, local crus Segale and La Maolina, and estate olive oil. Its interest lies less in polished wine tourism than in Lucchese terroir: revived vineyard parcels, natural fermentation, and the recovery of Buriano as a local white grape.
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Fattoria Sardi is a Lucca countryside estate where biodynamic rosé, mixed farming, and agriturismo hospitality are part of the same argument about place. The draw is not a trophy-driven cellar visit, but a compact Tuscan estate shaped by vineyard parcels, olive groves, woods, seasonal cooking, and a rosé-led portfolio in DOC Colline Lucchesi.
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Tenuta Maria Teresa is a Lucca hillside agritourism estate where organic wine, olive oil, honey, and pasta sit inside a broader rural-stay format. The draw is less a formal cellar-door ritual than the combination of IGT and DOC wines, historic villa atmosphere, vineyard and olive-grove setting, and guided estate tastings in English or Italian.
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A small Lucca winery shaped around owner-led tasting rather than cellar-door scale, Terre del Sillabo suits travelers who want Tuscany at table height: conversation, vineyard setting, and a compact run of still whites and reds. The draw is especially clear for Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc, with Merlot also part of the known portfolio, and the experience reads more personal than performative.
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Valle del Sole is a small working winery in the hills of Lucca, shaped by vineyard exposure, ventilation, and the slow-ripening conditions of Cappella. The visit is built around guided wine and oil tasting, vineyard access, cellar context, and a terrace setting that makes the estate read as a working agricultural stop rather than a polished tasting-room showroom.
Lucca, Italy
Villa Santo Stefano is a boutique organic wine estate in the hills north of Lucca, built around a restored historic villa, vineyards, olive groves, a barrique cellar, and tastings in a Limonaia. The appeal is quiet Tuscan terroir rather than cellar-door theatre: guided visits, estate wines including Loto and Nina, and extra virgin olive oil in a small-scale, design-conscious setting.
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