
Positano, Italy
Zass Restaurant
Zass at Il San Pietro di Positano is open, with official restaurant and hotel pages linking to reservations.
Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Positano from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Positano

Our guide counts nine exceptional wine programs citywide. Zass Restaurant, Li Galli and La Serra, all in the Positano neighborhood, are among them, and each pairs that program with a tasting menu.
Zass Restaurant in Positano holds a Michelin star for 2026 and an exceptional, sommelier-led wine list. It serves modern Mediterranean fine dining from Il San Pietro di Positano. Opinionated About Dining ranked the restaurant 303rd for Classical in Europe in 2025.
Li Galli in Positano holds a Michelin star for 2026 and an exceptional, sommelier-led wine list of around 1,000 labels. Chef Savio Perna's contemporary menu draws on Campanian produce in a seven-table dining room at Villa Franca, with floor-to-ceiling windows toward the Li Galli islands. Formats are a tasting menu and a la carte, and the desserts include Monopoly and Picnic.
La Serra in Positano holds a Michelin Plate for 2026 and an exceptional wine program. Chef Annarumma cooks Campanian ingredients with contemporary technique at Le Agavi Hotel. Formats are a tasting menu and a prix fixe, with floor-to-ceiling windows on the Tyrrhenian Sea.
La Sponda and Al Palazzo, both in Positano City Centre, and Next2, in Positano, each serve a tasting menu and hold a Michelin Plate for 2026.
La Sponda in Positano City Centre holds a Michelin Plate for 2026 and an extensive, sommelier-led wine list. Chef Gennaro Russo cooks Campanian Mediterranean food in a candlelit room at Le Sirenuse, with live music and dishes such as lemon risotto with capers. Formats are a la carte and a tasting menu. Opinionated About Dining ranked it 278th for Classical in Europe in 2025.
Al Palazzo in Positano City Centre holds a Michelin Plate for 2026, and it also held a Michelin Plate in 2024 and 2025. It has an exceptional, sommelier-led wine list. Inventive regional Italian cooking is served in the botanical garden of Palazzo Murat. The menu runs across meat and fish. Formats are a tasting menu and a la carte.
Next2 in Positano holds a Michelin Plate for 2026 and an exceptional, sommelier-led wine program, with an extensive list and craft cocktails. The courtyard garden kitchen uses modern technique on Amalfi Coast ingredients. Dishes include spinach ravioli with braised beef and raw and cooked tuna with burrata. Formats are a la carte and a tasting menu.
Positano has two Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide, and two Michelin stars in total. Zass Restaurant is at Il San Pietro di Positano, and Li Galli is at Villa Franca. Each holds a Michelin star for 2026. Both sit in the Positano neighborhood.
Positano is the neighborhood with the most venues in our guide, with 19. The next neighborhood in our guide is the neighborhood named Spiaggia Grande, which has 5 venues in our guide.
Tasting menus in our guide are at Zass Restaurant, Li Galli, La Serra, Il San Pietro di Positano, Next2 and La Taverna del Leone in the Positano neighborhood, and at La Sponda and Al Palazzo in Positano City Centre. La Serra lists a tasting menu and a prix fixe. Il San Pietro di Positano lists a tasting menu, a la carte and a prix fixe.
Our guide lists nine exceptional wine programs citywide. Restaurants with that program include Zass Restaurant, Li Galli, La Serra, Il San Pietro di Positano and Next2 in the Positano neighborhood, and Al Palazzo in Positano City Centre. Those lists are extensive and sommelier-led.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Positano, Italy
Zass at Il San Pietro di Positano is open, with official restaurant and hotel pages linking to reservations.

Positano, Italy
Li Galli holds a Michelin star (2024) and occupies a seven-table dining room inside Villa Franca hotel in upper Positano, with floor-to-ceiling windows framing views across to the Li Galli islands. Chef Savio Perna's contemporary menu draws primarily from Campanian produce, supported by a wine list of around 1,000 labels. Dinner only, seven days a week, 7:30–10:30 PM.

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La Sponda sits within Le Sirenuse, one of the Amalfi Coast's most prestigious hotels, and brings Campanian Mediterranean cooking to a candlelit dining room overlooking Positano's cliff-stacked houses. Chef Gennaro Russo draws on southern Italian seafood traditions, with dishes such as lemon risotto with capers anchoring a menu shaped by coastal Campania. Michelin Plate recognition and a 2025 Opinionated About Dining ranking of #278 in Classical Europe confirm its position among the coast's serious dining addresses.

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Set within the Palazzo Murat hotel and its botanical garden, Al Palazzo holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025 and occupies the middle tier of Positano's dining scene, priced below the village's starred counters but above its casual trattorias. The Mediterranean menu runs across both meat and fish, with a lighter lunch format and a more complete evening service, plus cocktails at the adjacent Le Petit Murat bar.

Positano, Italy
Carlino reads as the relaxed, sea-level expression of Positano dining: regional, ingredient-led, and less formal than the town’s high ceremony rooms. Its appeal is the Amalfi Coast equation at close range, where local produce, seafood culture, and the physical drama of Laurito shape the meal more than luxury theatre.

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On Positano's waterfront, Chez Black has operated for decades as the town's default address for pizza and direct seafood pasta. Open daily from noon, it occupies a different register entirely from the Michelin-tier restaurants further up the cliffside.

Positano, Italy
A family-run Campanian restaurant on Viale Pasitea since 1958, Da Vincenzo has held its ground as one of the few addresses in Positano where the kitchen's fish-forward cooking matches the scenic setting without inflating prices to match the view.

Positano, Italy
Donna Rosa operates from the clifftop hamlet of Montepertuso, above Positano on the Amalfi Coast, serving Neapolitan cooking that draws from the surrounding landscape and sea. Evening hours, Tuesday closure, and a hillside village address make advance planning essential.

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Few hotels on the Amalfi Coast command their terrain as completely as Il San Pietro di Positano. Clinging to a cliff at Via Laurito 2 with a Relais & Châteaux membership, this adults-only property pairs Italian coastal cooking under Chef Andrea Campani with among the more singular physical settings on the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Positioned within Le Agavi Hotel above the Positano cliffside, La Serra holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition (2024 and 2025) for Chef Annarumma's approach to Campanian ingredients through contemporary technique. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the Tyrrhenian Sea, while sommelier Emilia oversees a wine list that reaches beyond Italy into a considered Champagne and rosé selection. Book well ahead: tables by the terrace go first.

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Three kilometres east of Positano's main drag, La Taverna del Leone has operated for nearly six decades as a family-run address where classic Campanian cooking, local fish, regional meat, high-quality ingredients with a measured personal touch, earns consistent Michelin Plate recognition. At €€ pricing, it sits well below the Amalfi Coast's starred tier while delivering honest, experience-backed cooking in a room lined with local blue-and-white ceramics.

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A Michelin Plate-recognised contemporary restaurant on Via Pasitea, Next2 applies modern technique to Amalfi Coast ingredients without abandoning regional identity. Spinach ravioli with braised beef, raw and cooked tuna with burrata, and an extensive wine list position it firmly in the serious end of Positano dining at a price point a tier below the coast's most formal tables.

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Positioned above the Spiaggia Grande with a direct view over the Tyrrhenian, Rada Rooftop holds Michelin Plate recognition for 2024 and 2025 and occupies the €€€ tier that sits just below Positano's grand hotel addresses. The kitchen works Mediterranean produce through a contemporary, imaginative technique, making it one compelling option at that price level in a town that clusters heavily at the extremes.

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Bits & Bites belongs to the small Positano category where the setting is part of the meal, with a Grand Terrace address above the Amalfi Coast’s tight vertical theatre. Treat it less as a trophy-table proposition and more as a lens on how casual coastal dining in town depends on proximity: boats, terraces, citrus groves, and short menus built around what the coast can support.

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Cala Marinai belongs to Positano’s sea-facing dining culture, where the point is less ceremony than proximity: fishing boats, steep lanes, citrus, tomatoes, and the Campanian habit of letting produce carry the plate. With few public format details attached to the restaurant, the smarter reading is contextual: choose it as part of a coastal day built around local ingredients rather than as an awards-led destination.

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On Viale Pasitea, Positano's main artery of terraced restaurants and boutiques, Misaki Positano occupies a position that reflects a broader shift in the Amalfi Coast dining scene: the convergence of Japanese precision and Campanian coastal sourcing. The address places it within walking distance of the town's core, and its name signals a kitchen philosophy rooted in ingredient provenance rather than theatrical plating.

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On the Via Marconi above Positano's tiered streets, Remmese sits in a quieter residential register than the seafront trattorias that dominate the town's tourist circuit. The address places it among locals rather than crowds, making it a reference point for understanding how everyday Campanian cooking survives alongside the Amalfi Coast's more visible, visitor-facing dining scene.

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Villa TreVille occupies one of the Amalfi Coast's most architecturally distinct addresses, a cliff-side compound in Positano at Via Arienzo 30 where the boundary between private residence and hotel has always been deliberately thin. The property sits in a tier of Positano accommodation defined by seclusion over scale, drawing guests who want proximity to the coast's social energy without being absorbed by it. Advance planning is advisable; the Amalfi Coast's peak season runs from June through late August.
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Built into the cliffside east of Positano, Il San Pietro di Positano earned three Michelin Keys in 2024 and a 99.5-point La Liste ranking in 2026. Its 57 rooms occupy a promontory where the property descends the rockface one room deep, every terrace opening directly onto the Gulf of Salerno. Adults-only, seasonal, and deliberately secluded, it operates in a tier apart from Positano's town-centre hotels.

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Le Sirenuse reads Positano through architecture: an 18th-century palazzo turned seasonal hotel, with Vietri tiles, family antiques, sea-facing terraces and a red façade set against the cliff town. Its 59-room scale, Sersale family ownership, La Liste Top Hotels score and World's 50 Best Hotels recognition place it in the upper tier of Amalfi Coast hospitality without losing the house-like grammar that defines it.

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Positioned on one of Positano's highest slopes along Viale Pasitea, Villa Franca sits above the familiar scramble of the waterfront, trading proximity to the beach for altitude, quiet, and unobstructed views across the Amalfi Coast. The hotel draws guests who want the spectacle of Positano without being at the centre of it, a base for recovery as much as exploration.

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Covo Dei Saraceni occupies a prime address on Via Regina Giovanna in Positano, with 61 rooms positioned along the Amalfi Coast's most photographed stretch of shoreline. The property sits within a town where the vertical geography means proximity to the water is everything, placing it in a tier of hotels where location is the primary credential.

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Hotel Le Agavi holds a Michelin Selected distinction for 2025, placing it among Positano's editorially recognised properties on the upper Amalfi cliffside. The hotel's position above the main village offers sea views that most of the town's more central addresses cannot match. Guests choosing Le Agavi are trading street-level access for altitude, privacy, and a more removed relationship with the coast.

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Among Positano's cliff-face hotels, Hotel Marincanto earns its place in the La Liste Top Hotels ranking (2026, 91.5 points) through a position on Via Cristoforo Colombo that delivers the full visual drama of the Amalfi Coast without requiring guests to work for it. The address places the Tyrrhenian Sea in direct view, with the village's stacked architecture rising on either side, a configuration that fewer properties along this stretch can claim at this tier.

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A converted 18th-century palazzo on Via dei Mulini, Hotel Palazzo Murat occupies one of Positano's most historically layered addresses. The property's garden terrace and original Baroque wing position it within Positano's mid-tier luxury set, offering proximity to the beach and town centre without the full-service scale of cliff-perched peers like Le Sirenuse or Il San Pietro.

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A Michelin Selected hotel on Via Pasitea, Hotel Poseidon occupies one of Positano's most architecturally expressive addresses, where tiered terraces and bougainvillea-draped facades translate the village's vertical logic into a coherent design language.

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Villa Treville occupies a clifftop position above Positano with direct views across the Amalfi Coast, placing it among the Costiera's most private five-star addresses. The property operates as a villa-format retreat where seclusion and panoramic exposure are the primary currencies. It draws guests who prefer autonomy over hotel programming and scale over spectacle.

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La Taverna Del Leone sits on Via Laurito in Positano, where the Amalfi Coast's tradition of terrace dining meets the quieter residential edge of town. The address places it away from the beachfront crush, in the manner of Positano's more locally rooted trattorias. Visitors planning around Positano's summer peak should factor in the area's general booking pressure across all dining categories.
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Bianca Bar belongs to Positano’s cliffside drinking culture, where the view can overpower the glass unless the bar has a clear point of view. With limited public detail on its cocktail list, awards, pricing, and reservations, it is better read as an atmosphere-led stop on the Arienzo side of town than as a credential-driven destination bar.

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Ristorante Da Adolfo sits above Positano on the Via Laurito, reached by a boat that threads its way from the main beach to a terrace cut into the cliffs. The setting defines the meal as much as the food does. For travelers moving along the Amalfi Coast, it represents the kind of place the coast does better than anywhere else in Italy: informal, sun-drenched, and anchored to local seafood tradition.
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