Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Noto from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Noto
Noto has one Michelin-starred restaurant in our guide, and the starred table sits in Upper Noto. The rest of the scene still leans toward tasting menus and wine lists.
Crocifisso is the city’s Michelin-starred restaurant in Upper Noto. The kitchen works in a modern Sicilian style through tasting menu, à la carte, and prix fixe formats and sommelier-led. The cellar visible from the street signals that wine is part of the room’s focus.
Principe di Belludia is the gourmet restaurant at Il San Corrado di Noto in contrada Belludia. It serves creative Sicilian fine dining through a tasting menu, with an extensive wine list and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Vegetables are a clear focus in the kitchen.
Orti di Villadorata sits in Contrada Portelle, set within the Country House Villadorata estate. The restaurant offers tasting menus and à la carte dishes, alongside a wine list that includes natural wine and an extensive list. The kitchen draws heavily from the estate gardens.
The most defined wine-led stops in Noto sit outside the centre, where resort restaurants and wineries put cellar depth alongside the meal.
Il San Corrado di Noto is the gourmet restaurant in contrada Belludia. It offers creative Sicilian cuisine with a strong focus on vegetables, and the wine program is exceptional with an extensive list. The setting is a rural contrada outside Noto.
Zisola is a Mazzei family estate in Val di Noto with alberello vines, citrus, olives, and almonds around the property. The winery focuses on Nero d’Avola and a compact portfolio of Sicilian reds and whites, with guided wine experiences centered on the estate.
Zisola is a Mazzei family estate in Val di Noto with alberello vines, citrus, olives, and almonds around the property. The winery focuses on Nero d’Avola and a compact portfolio of Sicilian reds and whites, with guided wine experiences centred on the estate.
Noto has 1 Michelin-starred restaurant in our guide. That restaurant is Crocifisso in Upper Noto, and it is the only place in the city guide with a Michelin star. The kitchen serves a tasting menu, à la carte, and prix fixe.
Upper Noto and contrada Belludia matter most for serious wine dining in our guide. Upper Noto is where Crocifisso sits, while contrada Belludia is home to Principe di Belludia and Il San Corrado di Noto, both tied to tasting menus and serious wine service.
Principe di Belludia in contrada Belludia holds the city’s Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence in our guide. It pairs that wine distinction with a tasting menu and a creative Sicilian fine-dining format at Il San Corrado di Noto.
Crocifisso, Principe di Belludia, Orti di Villadorata, and Il San Corrado di Noto all stand out in our guide. Crocifisso is sommelier-led, Principe di Belludia has an extensive wine list with a Wine Spectator award, Orti di Villadorata combines an extensive list with natural wine, and Il San Corrado di Noto has an exceptional wine program.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Crocifisso holds a Michelin star and sits in Noto's historic upper quarter, close to the church that gives it its name. Chef Marco Baglieri's contemporary menu draws on Sicily's larder, artichokes, cuttlefish ink, black truffle, anchovy, and frames those ingredients inside a cooking style that is sophisticated without losing its regional grounding. The glass-fronted cellar visible from the street signals that the wine program matches the kitchen's ambition.
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The gourmet restaurant at Il San Corrado di Noto sits in the rural hinterland of Sicily's Baroque south, where executive chef Martin Lazarov applies a creative lens to the island's produce with a pronounced emphasis on vegetables. Holding a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025, Principe di Belludia occupies the upper tier of Val di Noto dining and draws guests willing to combine serious cooking with a resort setting.
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Set on a rural contrada outside Noto, Il San Corrado di Noto holds a 2-Star accreditation from the World of Fine Wine & Wine Lists Awards, placing it among a small tier of Sicilian addresses where the sourcing of local ingredients is treated as seriously as technique. The setting, well outside the baroque city centre, signals a kitchen that prioritises the land around it over urban convenience.
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The kitchen, led by Matteo Carnaghi, works from two flexible tasting menus and an à la carte selection, drawing heavily on ingredients grown in the surrounding estate gardens against a backdrop of the Sicilian sea.
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Casa Pasta Osteria belongs to the quieter side of Noto dining: away from the baroque corso, closer to the agricultural edges that explain why southeastern Sicily eats the way it does. Read it through ingredients rather than ceremony, with pasta as the natural vehicle for wheat, vegetables, oil, herbs, and the seafood-and-farm logic of the Val di Noto.
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Codarossa belongs to the quieter side of Noto dining, where the conversation is less about theatre and more about the agricultural pull of southeastern Sicily. With no public award signal or listed price band, it reads as a countryside-leaning address to assess through sourcing, seasonality, and fit within a trip that may also include Noto’s more established town and resort tables.
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Set within the Palazzo Villadorata on Noto's Baroque main corso, Terrazza Villadorata positions itself at the intersection of aristocratic architecture and southeastern Sicilian produce. The terrace setting alone places it in a different register from the town's other dining addresses, and the kitchen draws from the Val di Noto's agricultural depth, almonds, Pachino tomatoes, Modicana cattle, to anchor the menu in a specific geography.
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A late 19th-century rural estate turned Michelin Key-recognised eco-resort in the Val di Noto UNESCO zone, Country House Villadorata spreads across 57 acres of biodynamically farmed land outside Noto. Sixteen rooms and Ecosuites sit within a landscape of ancient olive groves, almond trees, and citrus orchards, with a farm-to-table restaurant and mineral salt pool rounding out one of Sicily's more grounded luxury propositions.
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A ten-room palazzo in the Baroque heart of Noto, Seven Rooms Villadorata occupies the Nicolaci family palace, built in 1774 and awarded a Michelin Key in 2024. Frescoed ceilings, wind-named rooms, and an in-house osteria in the former wine cellar make it a considered retreat for travellers who want history without formality. Rates from $507 per night.
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A Michelin Selected property on the road between Noto and the Val di Noto countryside, Dimora delle Balze occupies the slower, less-trafficked register of Sicilian hospitality, where the architecture, the light, and the pace of service do more communicating than any amenity list. For travellers who find the Baroque town's busier hotels too close to the tour-group circuit, this is a considered alternative.
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A restored 19th-century manor farm set on agricultural land southeast of Rosolini, Masseria della Volpe offers 22 rooms across an unhurried, solar-powered estate with a restaurant terrace, heated pool, bocce and tennis courts, and organic produce grown on-site. Vineyard-bearing limestone hills frame one horizon; the Ionian Sea catches the other. It sits roughly an hour's drive from Catania Fontanarossa Airport.
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A restored 18th-century palazzo on Noto's Corso, Q92 places guests within walking distance of the city's celebrated baroque architecture, UNESCO-listed street facades, and the concentrated dining scene that has made this corner of Sicily a serious destination. The property occupies a building once used by Sicilian noble families, now running as a boutique hotel that blends period detail with contemporary interiors.
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It sits in the quieter register of Sicilian luxury, where scale and spectacle have been traded for agricultural land, silence, and architectural restraint.
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The selection reflects the property's position among Noto's more considered small-hotel offer, alongside peers such as Seven Rooms Villadorata and Country House Villadorata.
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A Michelin Selected agriturismo in the Avola countryside south of Noto, Iuta Farm places guests inside working agricultural land at a distance from the town's Baroque set-pieces. The property sits within Sicily's Val di Noto, a UNESCO-designated zone where the combination of limestone terrain, Nero d'Avola viticulture, and proximity to the Ionian coast defines both the food culture and the wider tourism character of the region.
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A Michelin Selected country house set among the agricultural folds of the Val di Noto, Zahir occupies a working rural estate outside Noto's baroque centre. The property belongs to a tier of Sicilian agriturismo-adjacent retreats where stone architecture, agricultural land, and deliberate distance from town define the offer. For travellers who read Noto as a base rather than a destination, Zahir is worth serious consideration.
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Cozzo del Parroco is a small organic winery in Noto shaped by Val di Noto’s dry Mediterranean agriculture: vines, olive groves, almond trees, and a quiet tasting format rather than cellar-door theatre. The draw is the countryside setting and meal-paired wine experience, with hospitality kept intimate and reservation-led.
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Feudo Maccari reads as a Val di Noto estate first and a tasting room second: bush-trained vines, coastal influence and native Sicilian grapes shape the argument in the glass. The draw is not urban cellar-door convenience but a countryside wine visit built around Nero d’Avola, Grillo and the estate’s southeastern Sicilian setting.
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Zisola is a Mazzei family wine estate in Noto shaped by Nero d’Avola, limestone-rich soils, Ionian Sea breezes, and traditional alberello bush-trained vines. The experience is as much about the Val di Noto setting as the glass: a 50-hectare estate with vineyards, citrus, olives, almonds, historic bagli buildings, and a compact portfolio of Sicilian reds and whites.
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