Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Matera from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Matera
Vitantonio Lombardo in Rione Sassi and Dimora Ulmo and ARTEMA in Sassi serve tasting menus drawing on Lucanian, Italian and Mediterranean cooking.
Vitantonio Lombardo in Rione Sassi serves creative tasting and set menus inspired by Lucanian traditions and ingredients in a former cave grotto. It has an extensive wine list, with one Michelin star from 2024 to 2026.
In Sassi, Dimora Ulmo serves contemporary Italian cuisine with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. It holds a Michelin Plate and occupies a restored palazzo, where Basilicata cuisine features across three tasting menus.
ARTEMA in Sassi serves contemporary Mediterranean cuisine focused on Lucanian ingredients, with an extensive wine list. The restaurant serves tasting menus and à la carte in an underground rock-hewn dining room.
These restaurants serve modern interpretations of Basilicata and Lucanian cooking alongside traditional Lucanian cuisine.
Baccanti in Sassi di Matera serves modern Lucanian Italian cuisine à la carte, with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. The restaurant occupies a complex of ancient cave rooms and holds a Michelin Plate in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
DA MÓ in Sassi serves modern regional Basilicata cooking through tasting menus and à la carte dishes, with an extensive wine list. It is run by a family who relocated from Venosa and holds a Michelin Plate in 2025 and 2026.
La Lopa in Sassi di Matera serves traditional Lucanian cuisine à la carte with a wine list. The regional pantry includes ancient grains, legumes and aged cheeses. Its cave setting includes a cinema screening films about Matera.
Sassi di Matera and Sassi have the largest concentrations of venues in our guide. Baccanti and La Lopa are in Sassi di Matera, while Dimora Ulmo, ARTEMA and DA MÓ are in Sassi. The Michelin-starred Vitantonio Lombardo is in Rione Sassi.
Matera has 1 Michelin-starred restaurant in our guide, with 1 Michelin star in total. Vitantonio Lombardo in Rione Sassi holds that star and serves tasting and set menus inspired by Lucanian traditions and ingredients in a former cave grotto.
Vitantonio Lombardo in Rione Sassi and Dimora Ulmo, ARTEMA and DA MÓ in Sassi serve tasting menus. Dimora Ulmo serves three menus drawing on Basilicata cuisine, ARTEMA focuses on Lucanian ingredients, and DA MÓ serves modern regional Basilicata cooking.
Dimora Ulmo in Sassi and Baccanti in Sassi di Matera have the 2 exceptional wine programs in our guide, both with extensive wine lists. Vitantonio Lombardo, ARTEMA, DA MÓ and La Lopa have wine lists.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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A former cave in Matera's Sassi district, converted into a Michelin-starred dining room, Vitantonio Lombardo sits at the summit of the city's creative restaurant tier. The kitchen draws from Lucanian tradition, reinterpreting regional recipes and ingredients with contemporary technique..
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On Via Domenico Ridola, steps from Matera's Sassi district, ARTEMA works within the farm-to-table tradition that defines particularly serious southern Italian kitchens today.
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The kitchen draws on the agricultural traditions of Basilicata while working in a clearly modern register, creative plating, seasonal thinking, mid-range pricing. One of the more considered addresses in Matera's old town dining scene.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised address in Matera's upper Sassi, DA MÓ serves regional Basilicata cuisine with a contemporary sensibility. Run by a family who relocated from Venosa, the restaurant pairs tasting menus and à la carte options with a considered wine list. At the €€ price point, it represents one of the more approachable routes into serious southern Italian cooking in the city.
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Set in a restored palazzo on Via Pennino with a summer terrace overlooking the Sassi, Dimora Ulmo holds Michelin Plate recognition for 2024 and 2025 and serves Basilicata cuisine across three tasting menus. At the €€€ tier, it sits between Matera's casual regional trattorias and the starred fine-dining bracket, making it the direct entry into the city's structured tasting-menu format.
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On Via Bruno Buozzi in the heart of Matera, La Lopa sits within a city where the geology itself shapes what ends up on the plate. Basilicata's pantry, ancient grains, legumes, aged cheeses, and foraged herbs from the Murgia plateau, defines the cooking tradition here, placing La Lopa inside a dining culture where provenance is not a selling point but a baseline assumption.
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Sextantio Le Grotte della Civita occupies eighteen cave rooms carved into Matera's ancient sassi, offering one of Italy's most architecturally committed stays at around $367 per night. It operates within the albergo diffuso model, placing guests inside the hillside rather than adjacent to it.
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A Michelin Selected palazzo in Matera's Sasso Caveoso, Palazzo Del Duca Hotel & Restaurant occupies a historic noble residence carved into the ancient sassi district. The property sits within one of southern Italy's most architecturally arresting urban environments, where stone-cut lanes and cave churches date back millennia. For travellers who want proximity to the sassi at hotel level rather than as a day-trip detour, this is a considered address.
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Positioned on Piazza San Pietro Caveoso in the heart of the Sassi di Matera, Sant'Angelo Matera occupies one of Southern Italy's most architecturally arresting addresses. Church facades and ancient cave dwellings frame every sightline, while the hotel's al-fresco terraces give guests a direct conversation with the UNESCO-listed ravine below. For travellers serious about place, this is where Matera's stone-carved character becomes the primary experience.
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A Relais & Châteaux cave hotel carved into Matera's ancient Sassi district, Vetera Matera sits inside one of UNESCO's most closely studied rock-cut settlements. Rooms integrate exposed tufa stone with contemporary comfort, a spa occupies a hollowed chamber in the cliff face, and the views across the ravine read as a living cross-section of 9,000 years of continuous habitation. Rates start from US$343 per night.
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Corte San Pietro occupies a restored dwelling in Matera's Sasso Caveoso, the older and quieter of the two sassi districts. Selected by the Michelin Guide Hotels 2025, it sits within a neighbourhood where cave architecture and layered stone streets define the guest experience before a single service interaction takes place. For travellers who want proximity to Matera's UNESCO fabric without the scale of a palazzo hotel, this is a considered address.
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A Michelin Selected residence and winery set within the Sasso Barisano, Matera's living cave district, Il Palazzotto I Residence & Winery combines lodging with an on-site winemaking operation in one of southern Italy's most architecturally singular addresses. The property sits along Via Sette Dolori, placing guests within walking distance of the sassi's principal churches, belvederes, and trattorias.
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A Michelin Selected masseria sitting outside Matera's historic centre in the Borgo Venusio contrada, Masseria Fontana di Vite offers a rural counterpoint to the sassi cave hotels that define the city's accommodation scene. Stone architecture, working farmland surroundings, and the quieter pace of the Basilicata countryside place it in a distinct tier for travellers prioritising space and calm over urban proximity.
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Palazzo Gattini Luxury Hotel occupies a restored noble palazzo on Piazza Duomo, Matera's most architecturally charged address, and holds MICHELIN Selected status in the 2025 guide. The property sits at the upper end of Matera's small premium hotel tier, where the sassi cityscape and proximity to the cathedral set the terms of the stay as much as the rooms themselves.
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