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Where to eat in Sorrento: my 14 favourite restaurants

Nobody eats well following the tour buses. These are the 14 restaurants in Sorrento I'd send a friend to: the cheap neighbourhood place, the one locals keep to themselves, the splurge that's genuinely worth it. No photo menus.

Bar Fauno (Piazza Tasso)€3-12 · Café · Granita · 1860The Sorrento café, open since 1860 on Piazza Tasso. Directions
Da Emilia€15-30 · Marina Grande family classicThe budget-friendly Marina Grande fish trattoria, open since 1947, run by the same family, paper tablecloths, written menu on a chalkboard. Directions
Don Alfonso 1890 (2 Michelin stars)€180-280 · Italian · Michelin 2★Two Michelin stars, 15 min by taxi up from Sorrento in Sant'Agata sui Due Golfi. Directions
Don Geppi★ 4.5 · €€€€ · tasting from €120 · Fine diningAn intimate Michelin-starred dining room inside the Maison Tofani, serving creative, beautifully presented tasting menus. Directions
Il Buco★ 4.6 · €€€€ · tasting from €120 · Fine diningSorrento's Michelin-starred restaurant, set in the vaulted cellars of a former monastery, where chef Giuseppe Aversa serves inventive Campanian tasting menus. Directions
Inn Bufalito€20-40 · Buffalo mozzarella tastingThe buffalo mozzarella specialist: every plate features Campania DOP mozzarella in a different form (caprese, baked, in raviolo, as gelato). Directions
L'Antica Trattoria€60-110 · Refined SorrentinaThe classy white-tablecloth option in Sorrento, operating since 1937 with a covered courtyard terrace and 7-course tasting menus that reinterpret Sorrentine staples. Directions
La Limonaia€25-60 · Sorrento · Lemon-grove diningAnother lemon-grove restaurant: newer than O'Parrucchiano, smaller, more relaxed. Directions
Lo Stuzzichino€25-45 · Local Campanian · Sant'AgataThe locals' Sant'Agata pick: family-run trattoria 15 min from Sorrento. Directions
O'Parrucchiano La Favorita€20-50 · Classic SorrentinaThe Sorrento dinner everyone remembers, open since 1868 in a glass-roofed lemon grove right in the middle of town. Directions
Pizza a Metro Da Gigino€8-15 · Pizza · The meter pizzaFamous in Italy for inventing the «pizza al metro»: pizza by the meter, sold by length, baked in custom 2-meter ovens. Directions
Ristorante Bagni Delfino★ 4.7 · €30-60 · Seafood · Marina GrandeThe fishing-village family trattoria on the wooden pier at Marina Grande: directly over the water. Directions
Soul & Fish★ 4.5 · €€€ · ~€45–80 pp · SeafoodA stylish modern seafood spot on the Marina Grande waterfront: bright flavours, raw fish and a buzzy beach-club feel. Directions
Terrazza Bosquet★ 4.5 · €€€€ · tasting from €120 · Fine diningThe Michelin-starred restaurant of the Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria, on a frescoed terrace high above the bay of Naples. Directions