10 Great Restaurants in Naples

Baleen Naples is at the LaPlaya Beach & Golf Resort 20 minutes north of town, offering fine dining where you can enjoy an elegant multicourse waterfront meal. Baleen specialises in offering a true tropical dining experience on one of the most scenic beaches in the city. When you arrive, you'll pass through stunning doors that open into a grand terrace with tables directly overlooking the sand and surf. It's an ideal romantic setting for a sunset dinner, or you can head for the beach to eat around the fire pit.

In addition to fine dining, the restaurant offers a wide selection of craft cocktails, so get your favourite one and dip your toes in the sand.

Osteria Tulia offers fantastic Italian food that's perfectly paired with fine wines from a cultivated wine list in a casual dining setting with rustic yet chic surroundings. The restaurant has won awards for being the best Italian restaurant in Naples more than once and is famed for its farmhouse ambiance. The overall impression is continental European with a Tuscan flair, and the chef serves up simple, straightforward Italian dishes cooked up from family recipes using quality artisanal ingredients.

Meals here feature locally sourced produce, homemade cheese, fresh seafood, genuine Italian sausage, and select meats. It's all right in the heart of city centre Naples.

Barbatella offers up classical Italian food in a whimsical, bistro-like wine-bar setting with an extensive menu featuring authentic dishes with new fusion-style interpretations. The dishes and recipes are sourced from regions all over Italy, and the setting is classy but fun. You can dine in a covered courtyard outdoors or head inside into a casual dining space. The dishes include artisanal pasta dishes, fine steak, locally sourced seafood, craft pizza, and many other options. Menu highlights include short rib ravioli with black truffle cream.

The wine list offers selections from over 100 Italian vintages, with more than 30 selections available by the glass. For dessert, go for the house-made gelato. Barbatella is in the heart of city centre Naples.

Sea Salt is a unique seafood restaurant that uses 130 different varieties of salts gathered from all over the world to give unique flavours to each and every dish. It's renowned for being among the best seafood eateries in Naples, and the food can be best described as contemporary and seasonal with seafood and sustainable, locally harvested produce from area farmers and fishers. Here you can try just about everything from seafood pasta to truffled lobster mac and cheese.

The wine list is outstanding here, too, and the pasta is house-made. This elegant yet casual dining room is directly in the heart of city centre Naples.

Truluck's Ocean's Finest Seafood and Crab is an upscale chain with locations in several states that uses freshly sourced ingredients and offers delicious dishes in elegant surroundings. Despite being a national chain, they've purchased a local fishery to ensure that the seafood you get is always locally sourced and in season. Their signature dish is their Florida stone crab, and it's always captured, cooked, and iced within 24 hours of harvesting, then served with a special mustard sauce.

The menu is very crab-heavy, but it also features steaks, family-style sides, and vegan-friendly options. Best of all, it's in the heart of city centre.

Bleu Provence is an award-winning French restaurant serving up classic and authentic dishes in a bistro-style setting paired with a fantastic wine list. The staff here is quite friendly and knowledgeable, and sommeliers are on staff to help guide your selection, pairing the right wine with the right dish. All the produce used here is daily and locally sourced, and other ingredients are always fresh and of the highest quality. Some of the menu highlights include Burgundy escargot, Provencal fish soup, and duck leg confit.

Don’t forget to leave room for dessert and try the vanilla bourbon crème brûlée. Reservations are a must here, but it's right in the centre of city centre Naples.

Sails Restaurant is a seafood establishment that is consistently named among Naples' finest in local publications and prides itself on both the freshness and presentation of every dish. It offers up a modern European coastal vibe, taking full advantage of the Florida coastline to do so, and prepares its dishes with freshly caught fish and freshly sourced local ingredients. Here you can select your seafood by weight, then decide how it's prepared. Menu highlights include wood-fired octopus, Australian tiger prawn risotto, and peppered tuna Rossini with seared foie gras.

Sails also has an extensive raw bar, and the prices are quite good for what you get. It's in the heart of city centre.

Bha! Bha! Persian Bistro is the place to go if you want something a little different, offering traditional Persian food with elegant ambiance in a classic bistro setting. Here you'll enjoy white tablecloths, soft world music in the background, and the heady aroma of herbs, spices, and jasmine in the air. You'll certainly find classic kebabs on the menu, but the chef offers lots of other options that fuse Persian cuisine with other traditions in what the restaurant calls innovative Persian cuisine. It's hard to pin down a menu highlight because everything is outstanding.

It's a wildly popular restaurant in the heart of city centre Naples. That makes it imperative to call ahead for a reservation.

Mediterrano offers al fresco dining on a vast, flower-decorated terrace with dishes inspired by continental cuisine from Morocco, Italy, Spain, and Greece. The staff is friendly, welcoming, and knowledgeable, and they're happy to advise you on menu options from starters to entrees and desserts, and pair them with the ideal wine, beer, or cocktails from their extensive drink list. Some of the menu highlights include the flaming cheese saganaki starter, paella and beef tagine for an entrée, and Key lime pie or chocolate gelato for dessert.

Mediterrano is located in the heart of city centre Naples. It's an elegant and classy but casual experience that is sure to become a favourite for romantic getaways.

The Turtle Club is a top restaurant in Naples that offers dining right on the beach with spectacular sunset views, fantastic service, and consistently excellent food. The menu is focused on the creative presentation of fresh seafood. A full bar lets you enjoy beer, wine, and craft cocktails with your food. It's one of the few beachfront restaurants that's right on the sand if you eat outdoors, so you can kick off your shoes and put your toes in the sand. Indoor seating is available, and reservations are recommended.

Menu highlights at The Turtle Club include the shrimp and crab Napoleon. This restaurant is about a 20-minute drive north of city centre, but it's worth it.