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Best Restaurants for Solo Dining in Capri 2026
Solo Dining · Capri · 6 tables ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published June 15, 2026 · Updated June 20, 2026 · Reviewed by Fredrik Filipsson, Editor-in-Chief · How we rank · Corrections
Ravioli capresi, the little parcels of ricotta, caciotta, marjoram and lemon, are the dish to build a solo day on Capri around, and the best of them are not where the yachts are. The island runs on glamour and big celebratory tables, but a single diner who climbs to Anacapri or walks off the Piazzetta finds local trattorias cooking at island prices and treating one cover as a guest. The move on Capri is the casual room over the see-and-be-seen terrace, and lunch over dinner. These six tables, ranked, are where a solo traveller eats Capri properly, from a family kitchen in Anacapri to a one-Michelin-star lunch on the cliffs above the Blue Grotto.
1.Trattoria Vuotto
Ravioli capresi at local prices in Anacapri, far from the piazza theatre. Go alone.
Trattoria Vuotto is the Capri that has grown rare: a family kitchen in Anacapri cooking the food island residents grew up on, at prices set for people who actually live here rather than visitors on expense accounts. The menu is short, seasonal and local, with ravioli capresi at its centre, the island's defining pasta filled with fresh ricotta, cow's-milk cheese, marjoram and lemon zest, dressed simply. Fish comes from the waters below and vegetables from Anacapri's small gardens, with a solo meal around 35 to 45 euros. The room is calm and unhurried, the antidote to the harbour crowds, and a single diner is seated and looked after without fuss. Climb to Anacapri at lunch and order the ravioli.
Head to Anacapri for lunch; the room is calm and fair.
2.Le Grottelle
A cave table near the Arco Naturale and Mamma Rosa's ravioli, worth the walk. Try it once.
Le Grottelle is built into the limestone caves a few metres from the Arco Naturale, the great rock arch over the island's eastern shore. The Vuotto family has cooked here since the 1930s, when Pasquale Vuotto first offered travellers wine and bruschetta, and his daughter-in-law Rosa, known as Mamma Rosa, turned it into a destination. Half the room sits inside the cave, the rest on a terrace over the Tyrrhenian toward the Amalfi Coast. Ravioli capresi and rabbit are the orders, with a solo bill around 40 to 55 euros. The fifteen-minute path from the Piazzetta keeps the crowds thin, so a single diner gets a quiet cave or terrace table at lunch. Walk out, take the terrace, order the ravioli.
Walk the path from the Piazzetta and take a lunch terrace seat.
3.Aurora
The D'Alessio family's pizza all'acqua a step from the Piazzetta, fine eaten alone. Pull up a stool.
Aurora has held its position on Via Fuorlovado, steps from the Piazzetta, for over a century, run by the D'Alessio family who have fed the island's most photographed guests across generations. The signature is the pizza all'acqua, a centuries-old thin-crust recipe unique to the house, charred at the edges and topped with buffalo mozzarella and Caprese peppers. Seafood ravioli, grilled branzino and spaghetti with clams fill out a menu that reads like Capri's social history. The pizza keeps a solo bill sane, around 25 euros, in a town where dinner can run far higher. A single diner can take a stool-side table near the door at lunch and watch the Piazzetta traffic. Order the pizza all'acqua and a glass of Falanghina.
Come at lunch for the pizza all'acqua; dinner runs much higher.
4.Il Riccio
A clifftop one-star lunch of sea-urchin pasta and a famous dessert room, made for one. Reserve ahead.
Il Riccio is both beach club and one-Michelin-star restaurant, set on the cliffs near the Blue Grotto with views that do half the work. The kitchen is obsessively focused on seafood, treating the Mediterranean's catch with star-level technique: raw carpaccio and tartare that show off the fish, sea urchin pasta with its briny edge intact, scallops barely kissed by heat. The wine list leans Campanian white, and the dessert room is a destination in itself. A solo lunch here, around 110 euros and up, is one of the island's quiet luxuries, the view and the kitchen both pointed at the single plate in front of you. Reserve ahead, take a clifftop table at lunch, and finish in the dessert room.
Reserve ahead for a clifftop lunch table near the Blue Grotto.
5.Ristorante Indaco
Anacapri's considered seafood kitchen, calm and removed from the ferry crowds. Settle in.
Ristorante Indaco sits in the gardens of Hotel La Residenza on Via Roma in Anacapri, the higher, quieter half of the island that draws people who came for reasons beyond being seen. The kitchen works a contemporary Italian frame that takes its seasons seriously: summer menus lean on local seafood, red prawns from Sicilian waters, locally caught sea bass, octopus cooked with patience, and pasta made daily. A solo dinner runs around 60 to 80 euros. Removed from the ferry crowds and the piazza theatre, it is a calm garden room that suits a single diner who has come for the food rather than the scene. Book a garden table and let the kitchen send the seafood.
Book a garden table; Anacapri is calmer than the harbour.
6.Brace
Aged beef and whole fish straight off the coals, direct enough to eat happily alone. Book it.
Brace put a live wood fire at the centre of a Capri kitchen and trusted the island's diners to want something less polished, and the bet paid off. The flame dominates the room and the cooking: cuts of aged Italian beef arrive with the char only live fire produces, crust sealed and interior resting, and whole local fish are butterflied over the coals and dressed simply. The directness is the appeal, more skill on show than in most elaborate plates, with a bill around 60 to 90 euros. For a solo diner the format works because the cooking needs no ceremony and the room looks after a single cover at the counter. Book a counter seat and order whatever came off the grill that day.
Book a counter seat near the grill; ask what is on the fire.
Avoid for solo dining
Right city, wrong room for one
Da Paolino. The lemon-garden room is one of Capri's great group destinations, a canopy of fruit over big celebratory tables, and a single cover under it tends to feel adrift in a sea of parties of eight. The cooking is good and the setting is famous, but it is built for a crowd. Go with company, and eat your solo lemon pasta in a calmer room.
La Fontelina. The beach club beneath the Faraglioni rocks runs on long see-and-be-seen lunches, a minimum spend and a sun-lounger culture that makes a quick solo meal awkward and expensive. It is the island's most photographed lunch and its least solo-friendly. Save it for a group day on the water, and take your single lunch somewhere with a real table for one.
Solo dining strategy in Capri
Anacapri is the solo-friendly half of the island. The higher village is removed from the ferry crowds and the Piazzetta theatre, and its rooms, Trattoria Vuotto and Ristorante Indaco among them, take a single diner without the surcharge of the harbour. Lunch beats dinner across the island, when the trattorias keep their best tables open for one and the starred rooms are easier to land.
For a casual counter glass, the Piazzetta Wine Bar on Piazza Umberto I pours Italian wines by the glass at honest prices in the middle of the island's most expensive square, and Raki Cafe runs a natural-wine terrace with small plates that rotate with the market. Both suit a single diner who wants a glass and a graze rather than a full sit-down. Wherever you eat, check beach clubs for a minimum spend before you commit, and lean on the island's own ravioli capresi and a Falanghina.
Frequently asked
What is the best restaurant for solo dining in Capri?
Trattoria Vuotto in Anacapri is the top pick. The family kitchen cooks the island's food at local prices, with ravioli capresi at its centre, and the calm room seats a single diner without the harbour surcharge. Climb to Anacapri at lunch, order the ravioli, and eat the most honest plate on the island for around 35 to 45 euros.
Where can I eat alone cheaply in Capri?
Capri is expensive, but Anacapri keeps prices sane. Trattoria Vuotto plates ravioli capresi for around 35 to 45 euros, and Aurora's signature pizza all'acqua near the Piazzetta runs about 25 euros, the cheapest way to eat at a famous address. For a glass and small plates, the Piazzetta Wine Bar and Raki Cafe charge far less than the square's headline cafes.
Is solo dining awkward on Capri?
It can be at the see-and-be-seen beach clubs, which is why a single diner is better off in Anacapri or at a casual counter. The family trattorias treat one cover as a welcome guest, and wine bars like Raki Cafe graze well alone. Choose those over the Faraglioni scene and solo dining feels natural.
Can a solo diner eat at a Michelin-starred restaurant on Capri?
Yes. Il Riccio, the one-Michelin-star seafood room on the cliffs near the Blue Grotto, takes a single diner happily, and a solo lunch there, around 110 euros and up, is one of the island's quiet luxuries. Reserve ahead and book a clifftop table at lunch, when the room is calmer and the view does as much work as the kitchen.
Lunch or dinner for solo dining in Capri?
Lunch, in most cases. The trattorias keep their best tables open for one at midday, the starred rooms are easier to land, and Anacapri is at its calmest. Save dinner for the quieter garden rooms such as Ristorante Indaco, and skip the harbour beach clubs at peak lunch, where minimum spends and long group sittings make a single cover awkward.
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