The 9 Best Italian Restaurants in Amsterdam 2026

Leonardo Pacenti has run the kitchen on the Lindengracht since 1999, and the dining room he cooks for has fed the Jordaan since 1985. Toscanini is the fixed star of Amsterdam Italian dining, and the field around it is better than the city gets credit for: a canal-house tasting room ranked in 50 Top Italy, a pizzeria ranked seventh in Europe, and a stack of small rooms doing regional cooking with imported conviction. The Amsterdam dining guide maps the whole city; this list ranks its Italian tables against the global Italian dining field.

Canal houses set the rules

Amsterdam's best Italian rooms occupy grachtengordel real estate, which means narrow floorplates, low cover counts and prime slots that vanish. The kitchens also close early by southern standards: last orders run 21:30 to 22:00 at most serious rooms, so book 19:00 if you want a full menu without a stopwatch. The current Michelin Netherlands edition is the 2025 guide, announced in Maastricht in October 2025, and no Amsterdam Italian holds a star; the recognition that matters here comes from Italy itself, via 50 Top Italy and 50 Top Pizza, and from a Bib Gourmand that has renewed annually since 2007.

The nine, ranked

1. Toscanini — Jordaan

The forty-year room at Lindengracht 75 runs on Leonardo Pacenti's daily-changing menu, handmade pasta and an all-Italian list that Star Wine List flags as one of the city's deepest. The six-course chef's menu has stayed near €55, a price no comparable kitchen in Europe matches, and Gambero Rosso lists the room internationally. Toscanini's full review covers the open kitchen. Closed Sunday. Not for last-minute Saturdays; the Jordaan books it solid a week out.

2. Bussia — Negen Straatjes

J.P. van Schip cooks Piedmont-leaning tasting menus, four to eight courses from about €65, in a canal house at Reestraat 28 with its own bakery downstairs. The lobster pasta is the dish the regulars refuse to let off the menu, and Gault&Millau lists the room. Books on OpenTable. Not for big groups; the floorplate is pure Negen Straatjes, narrow, candlelit and short on elbow room.

3. Pianeta Terra — Grachtengordel

Fabio Antonini's organic tasting room at Beulingstraat 7 placed 31st in 50 Top Italy's 2025 world ranking of Italian restaurants outside Italy, its fifth consecutive year on the list, which makes it the most internationally decorated Italian kitchen in the Netherlands. Menus run €50 for four courses to a seven-course flagship; Dutch produce, Italian technique, Slow Food politics. Closed Sunday. Not for red-sauce nostalgia; the cooking is seasonal and quiet, not Sunday-gravy loud.

4. Segugio — Canal Belt East

Adriano Paolini's Utrechtsestraat 96 dining room, a block from Carré, cooks regional Italy with a four-course chef's menu at €58 and a €36 wine arrangement off a cellar built around small producers. The pappardelle alla bolognese, €21, and the black-truffle risotto, €26, anchor the card. Open Tuesday to Saturday, kitchen until 22:00. Not for pre-theater speed runs unless you say so when booking; the pacing assumes a full Italian evening.

5. nNea — Oud-West

Vincenzo Onnembo's pizzeria at Bilderdijkstraat 92 placed seventh in 50 Top Pizza Europe 2025, the best ranking in the Netherlands and its sixth straight year on the list. The contemporary canotto style, high, blistered, fermented-to-order cornicione, runs €15 to €25 a pizza, and the room holds a quarter of its tables for walk-ins nightly. For pizza as a category, see the global pizza field. Not for thin-and-cracker Roman loyalists; this is Naples maximalism.

6. Cecconi's — Centrum

The Soho House group's Venetian room on the ground floor of the 1930s Bungehuis at Spuistraat 210 has run since 2018, open to non-members, with cicchetti, the group's lobster spaghetti and a €50 to €80 spend. Aperitivo hour runs Monday to Wednesday, 3 to 6 PM, the best low-stakes entry. Not for chef-driven cooking; this is a polished group operation, and on its own terms it delivers.

7. TOZI — Oud-Zuid

The London import opposite Vondelpark finishes its tonnarelli cacio e pepe tableside in a pecorino wheel, and the Best of TOZI tasting at €62 is the easiest serious Italian set menu in the city to actually book. Wednesday to Sunday, last orders 22:00, inside the Park Plaza Vondelpark. Not for canal-house atmosphere; the room is hotel-modern, and the wheel theater is doing some of the lifting.

8. De Belhamel — Brouwersgracht

The Art Nouveau corner room at the junction of Brouwersgracht and Herengracht has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand every year since 2007, cooking French-Italian rather than pure Italian, and the canal-corner tables are among the most contested seats in Amsterdam. Pan-fried gnocchi with vine tomatoes is the menu's Italian heart; €45 to €65 a head. De Belhamel's full review covers the room. Not for Italian purists; the kitchen crosses the Alps freely, and says so.

9. Carletto — De Pijp

The Gerard Doustraat 82H osteria, opened in 2023, is the neighborhood pick: homemade pasta at €35 to €55 a head and the most serious gluten-free pasta-and-pizza program in the city, a fact that fills the room with grateful diners other kitchens turn away. Reservations through the house site, and they are needed. Not for a quiet corner; De Pijp noise is part of the deal.

What to drink

The wine programs separate the contenders here more than the pasta does. Toscanini and Segugio both run all-Italian cellars built on small producers, and Segugio's €36 arrangement across four courses is the city's easiest pairing decision. Bussia pours Piedmont with the conviction of its Barolo-cru name. The Dutch quirk worth knowing: aperitivo culture has taken root harder than in most northern capitals, and Cecconi's Monday-to-Wednesday happy hour plus nNea's early walk-in window mean a 17:30 spritz-and-cicchetti start is a legitimate Amsterdam evening, not a compromise.

Where not to spend the evening

Riva, the floating room on the Amstel that surfaces on Italian round-ups, is not an Italian restaurant; it is a Dutch-international terrace with a gorgeous mooring. The Scarpetta on the Haarlemmerdijk is a pasta takeaway bar, not the American restaurant group. Zoldering holds a Michelin star but chef Tomas Bron cooks French; the warm trattoria-sounding name misleads. And the tourist-canal tier of menu-board ristorantes between Dam and Leidseplein serves the same frozen-base carbonara at three different prices; the €19 spaghetti al pomodoro at Segugio costs less than most of them.

Booking notes

OpenTable carries most of the list: Bussia, Pianeta Terra, TOZI, Cecconi's and De Belhamel all release tables there, and a few days' notice covers any weeknight. Toscanini and Segugio book through their own sites and close Sunday and Monday respectively. nNea's walk-in quarter rewards 17:30 arrivals. Book 19:00 for any tasting menu; kitchens here stop at 22:00. For a first date, Bussia's candlelit canal house does the work; for an anniversary, ask De Belhamel for the canal corner when you book.

Keep reading

The global field is ranked in the definitive Italian dining guide, and the city's full table is in the Amsterdam dining guide. For how Italian cooking plays in Europe's other capitals, London's Italian ranking and Munich's Italian list make the comparison.

Frequently asked questions