Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Modena from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Modena
These restaurants pair structured dining with the strongest wine programs in our guide, from extensive lists to sommelier-led service.
Circoscrizione 1 is home to Osteria Francescana, Modena’s three-star dining room with an exceptional wine program. The restaurant offers tasting menu and à la carte formats, and its drinks profile includes an extensive wine list and sommelier-led service. The cuisine is Avant-Garde Italian Contemporary.
Piazzetta della Pomposa holds L'Erba del Re, a Michelin-starred restaurant with an exceptional wine program. The list is extensive and the service is sommelier-led, alongside tasting menu and à la carte formats. Its Modern Emilian Fine Dining focus sits within a compact dining room with nine tables.
Via Vignolese adds Franceschetta 58, where a Michelin Plate sits alongside an exceptional wine program. The restaurant pours from an extensive list with natural wine and sommelier-led service, and it works in both à la carte and tasting menu formats. Its Modern Emilian Italian cooking is built around two distinct menus.
Modena’s tasting-menu restaurants range from starred dining rooms to restrained regional kitchens with clearly structured courses.
San Damaso places Al Gatto Verde inside Casa Maria Luigia, where tasting menu and prix fixe formats frame Chef Jessica Rosval’s wood-fired cooking. The restaurant holds one Michelin star, works with a wine list, and includes natural wine in its drinks profile. Its Modern Italian Wood-Fired Cuisine centres on live-fire technique.
Historic center diners find Hosteria Giusti, a four-table osteria with tasting menu and à la carte formats. The room has an extensive wine list, and the restaurant holds a Michelin Plate. Its restricted menu stays focused on traditional regional dishes.
Via Emilia, Modena is home to Antica Moka, which offers tasting menu and prix fixe formats with an exceptional wine program. The restaurant uses an extensive wine list and sommelier-led service, and it holds a Michelin Plate. Chef Anna Maria Barbieri’s kitchen focuses on creative interpretations of Emilia Romagna cuisine.
Circoscrizione 1, Piazzetta della Pomposa, Via Vignolese, and Via Emilia, Modena are the clearest neighbourhoods in our guide for serious dining. Each appears on a restaurant with a strong wine program or a tasting-menu format. San Damaso also matters for Al Gatto Verde and Casa Maria Luigia.
Modena has 3 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide, with 5 Michelin stars in total. Osteria Francescana has 3 stars, while Al Gatto Verde and L'Erba del Re each have 1 star. Those three restaurants make up the starred side of the city page.
Look at Circoscrizione 1, San Damaso, Piazzetta della Pomposa, and Via Emilia, Modena. Osteria Francescana, Al Gatto Verde, L'Erba del Re, Hosteria Giusti, and Antica Moka all offer tasting-menu formats in our guide, and several also combine them with à la carte service.
One restaurant in our Modena guide holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, La Masseria in Marzaglia. It also has a wine list and a wine list spanning 320 selections, alongside Michelin Plate recognition in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Modena.
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Osteria Francescana is Modena’s high-concept reading of Emilia-Romagna, where Parmigiano Reggiano, balsamic vinegar, pasta memory, and contemporary Italian technique are treated as cultural material rather than comfort-food nostalgia. Massimo Bottura’s dining room carries rare external validation, including La Liste 97 points in 2026, Les Grandes Tables du Monde membership, and sustained international ranking history.
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Set within Casa Maria Luigia, the Emilian country retreat associated with Massimo Bottura and Lara Gilmore, Al Gatto Verde is a fire-cooking restaurant that holds a Michelin star and ranks #92 on the World's 50 Best list (2025). Chef Jessica Rosval structures the menu around live-fire technique, drawing on both Italian tradition and her Canadian background to produce a program that sits well outside Modena's more conventional dining tier.
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Inside a period palazzo steps from one of Modena's oldest churches, L'Erba del Re holds a Michelin star and nine tables. The menu architecture is its defining quality: four distinct paths through Emilian tradition and contemporary creative cooking, from tortellini in capon broth to the chef's latest tasting courses, making it one of the city's most considered mid-to-fine dining options.
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Massimo Bottura's Emilian bistro on Via Vignolese operates in deliberate contrast to the three-Michelin-star register of Osteria Francescana two kilometres away. Two distinct menus frame the visit: one rooted in regional classics, one reaching toward creative reinterpretation. Holding a Michelin Plate since 2024 and ranked 783rd in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Casual Europe list, it sits in a well-defined middle tier of Modena dining.
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Behind a working delicatessen on Via Farini, Hosteria Giusti seats just four tables in a retro-lined dining room that has anchored Emilian trattoria cooking in Modena for generations. Chef Laura Galli runs a restricted menu of traditional regional dishes, with the full weight of that restraint working in the kitchen's favour. Ranked 57th in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Casual Europe list and holding a Michelin Plate, it is one of the city's most deliberate dining experiences.
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Casa Maria Luigia is a progressive Italian restaurant and countryside estate outside Modena, ranked #42 in Europe by Opinionated About Dining in 2025 and scoring 77 points on La Liste. Under chef Jessica Rosval, the kitchen connects Emilian pasta traditions to a contemporary, ingredient-led approach, making it one of the region's most closely followed dining destinations.
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Housed in a converted watermill on the outskirts of Modena, La Masseria brings Apulian cooking north with a vegetable-forward antipasti buffet, handmade pasta, and open-grill meat dishes. A Michelin Plate holder in both 2024 and 2025, it sits in a distinct tier from the city's fine dining addresses, offering southern Italian tradition at accessible prices with a wine list spanning 320 selections.
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Antica Moka holds a Michelin Plate (2025), placing it among Modena's most consistently regarded modern cuisine addresses. Situated on the Via Emilia Est, the restaurant operates at the €€€ price point, serious cooking at a tier below the city's starred flagships. For visitors working through Modena's dining scene, it represents a reliable entry into the region's modern culinary conversation.
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In a city that defines Italian food culture through aged vinegar and hand-rolled pasta, Erbavoglio makes a different argument entirely: that plant-based cooking, shaped by fermentation and product-first simplicity, belongs at Modena's table. Chef Fabio Vandelli runs Modena's only dedicated vegan restaurant of note, and the result is a kitchen where fermented accents and seasonal sourcing do most of the talking.
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Among Modena's trattorie, Pomposa occupies the affordable end of a city that skews heavily toward prestige dining. Two consecutive Michelin Plate recognitions (2024 and 2025) signal consistent execution of Emilian classics, with tortellini in broth, tripe, and Grasparossa di Castelvetro Lambrusco anchoring a menu that reads as regional rather than contemporary.
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The Giusti acetaia on Strada delle Quattro Ville in Modena has operated continuously since 1605, making it one of the oldest documented producers of traditional balsamic vinegar in the Emilia-Romagna region. The estate produces aceto balsamico tradizionale under the disciplined DOP protocols that distinguish aged Modenese vinegar from its mass-market imitations. A visit here is as much about understanding an ingredient as it is about dining.
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On a quiet street in central Modena, Encuentro occupies a city whose dining identity runs from century-old tortellini traditions to the progressive techniques of Osteria Francescana. The restaurant's address on Calle di Luca places it within walking distance of Modena's cathedral quarter, positioning it inside a competitive local dining scene where the question of how a menu is structured carries as much weight as what it contains.
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La Bicicletta - Caffè & Salumi serves Traditional Emilian Charcuterie & Regional Bistro dishes on Via Sant'Eufemia in Modena, with beer program, casual service, and a conversational room.
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La Punta sits on Via Vignolese on the eastern edge of Modena, a city where ingredient provenance is less a marketing angle than a point of civic identity. In a region that gave the world Parmigiano-Reggiano, prosciutto di Modena, and traditional balsamic vinegar aged decades in attic acetaie, the question of where food comes from shapes every table. La Punta positions itself within that local continuum.
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Mon Cafè sits on Corso Canalchiaro in central Modena, a street that threads through one of Emilia-Romagna's most food-serious cities. As a café address in a city where even everyday eating carries regional weight, it occupies the accessible end of a dining culture that elsewhere reaches the heights of Osteria Francescana. A practical, neighbourhood-anchored stop for visitors and locals alike.
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On a quiet street in central Modena, Ristorante da Enzo represents the kind of neighbourhood trattoria that anchors Emilian food culture without apology. The cooking draws from the same larder that feeds the city's celebrated fine-dining scene, tortellini, lambrusco, aged balsamic, but served at a register closer to the family table than the tasting menu. For visitors already exploring Modena's broader restaurant circuit, da Enzo offers an essential point of comparison.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Modena.
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A 12-room estate property outside Modena, Casa Maria Luigia sits at the intersection of serious cooking and intimate country-house hospitality. Ranked 82nd on the World's 50 Best Hotels list (2025) and awarded three Michelin Keys (2024), it operates at a price point starting from 600 EUR per night and requires reservations confirmed through a dedicated booking team. The culinary connection to Massimo Bottura makes it one of Italy's most discussed food-and-lodging combinations.
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A Michelin Selected address in the centro storico of Modena, Hotel Cervetta 5 occupies a position that few city-centre hotels in Emilia-Romagna can match: a historic street address combined with selection-level recognition from the 2025 Michelin guide. For travellers using Modena as a base for the region's food and motor heritage, it provides a grounded, city-fabric alternative to the countryside estates that dominate the area's upper accommodation tier.
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A Michelin Selected hotel occupying a historic address in Modena's centro storico, Hotel Rua Frati 48 in San Francesco places guests within walking distance of the city's cathedral, covered market, and the restaurants that make Modena one of northern Italy's most serious food destinations. The address alone, steps from the medieval Rua dei Frati Minori, signals where it sits in the city's accommodation tier.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Modena.
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Archer Modena occupies a city better known for balsamic vinegar and Michelin-starred restaurants than for serious cocktail bars, which is precisely what makes its address on Via Cesare Battisti 54 worth noting. In a provincial capital where aperitivo culture runs deep but ambitious bar programmes are rare, Archer positions itself in the specialist tier of Italian cocktail drinking.
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On a quiet residential street in central Modena, Bar Tiffany occupies the kind of neighbourhood position that Italian bars have held for generations, part social anchor, part daily ritual. Positioned alongside the city's more destination-driven drinking spots, it operates closer to the local end of the spectrum, where regulars set the tempo and the counter defines the room.
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A pasticceria on Via Vignolese that operates well outside Modena's historic centre, Pasticceria Dondi draws visitors willing to make the trip for its focused counter offer and a back-bar depth that sits above the casual café norm. In a city defined by serious food culture, it holds its own as a neighbourhood address with more intent than its modest exterior suggests.
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On a narrow street beside Modena's Mercato Albinelli, Schiavoni occupies a particular slot in the city's drinking culture: a bar where the food programme holds equal weight to what's in the glass. In a city that treats cured meats, aged cheeses, and local wine as daily necessities rather than special occasions, that calibration matters. Schiavoni sits close enough to the market to feel like an extension of it.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Modena.
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Distilleria Caselli operates out of Sassuolo, on the southern edge of Modena's production corridor, where the Apennine foothills shape both agriculture and the art of distillation. A serious address for anyone tracking the evolution of Emilian distilling.
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