The upscale Italian restaurants in Berlin serve more than just plain old pasta and pizza. Because the Italian cusine is capable of more! The Top10 Berlin editors took a look at various interpretations of the Italian cuisine on a more sophisticated level and realized that there both award-winning gourmet chefs around Berlin and ambitious family restaurants looking for absolute fresh ingredients, the special something and a matching wine to go with it. Have fun sampling the culinary creations of the best Italian restaurants of Berlin.

  • Foto: Il Punto

    The Il Punto pampers its guests with a modern and elegant interpretation of Italian cuisine.

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    The restaurant Enoiteca Il Calice on Charlottenburg's Walter-Benjamin-Platz is the address for the well-versed connoisseur.

  • Foto: NOI QUATTRO

    Kreuzberg's NOI QUATTRO in Kreuzberg is a tip for all those who want to try the diversity of neo-Italian cuisine.

  • Foto: NOI QUATTRO

    Kreuzberg's NOI QUATTRO in Kreuzberg is a tip for all those who want to try the diversity of neo-Italian cuisine.

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    The Ponte is small but exquisite Italian restaurant at Schöneberg, still widely regarded as an insider's tip.

  • Foto: Ristorante Essenza

    Located ideally, in the 103 metres high Kollhoff Tower on Potsdamer Platz 1, in the former no man's land of the Berlin Wall, the Italian restaurant Essenza pampers its guests at lunchtime or in the evening with light Italian cuisine.

  • Foto: Cavallino Rosso

    In their restaurant Cavallino Rosso in the Hannoversche Straße in Mitte the hosts Roland and Giorgio offer fine Italian cuisine with seasonal specialties in a chic ambience.

  • Foto: Sorriso

    ”Sorriso” translates to "smile", and not more nor less is the standard in this traditional Italian restaurant on Kurfürstenstraße.

  • Foto: Bocca di Bacco

    Stars like Matt Damon, Tom Hanks, Demi Moore and Ralph Fiennes have already made their pick from the select Italian menu of the Bocca di Bacco.

  • Foto: Paparazzi

    Trattoria Paparazzi was the only Italian restaurant in East-Berlin during GDR times.