Top 10 best Brisbane Italian restaurants revealed

Looking for a delicious Italian meal to help you through winter? Here’s the top Italian restaurants, as voted by our readers.

BRISBANE’S best restaurants for delicious gnocci, wood-fired pizza and pannacotta have been revealed, thanks to our readers.

Having helped us find the city’s best eggs benedicts, parmigianas and bakeries, we put the call out for their top Italian restaurants.

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Today, The Courier-Mail and U on Sunday unveil the top 10 Italian restaurants in Brisbane.

Scroll down to see the winner.

Equal 10th: Bucci

11/15 James St, Fortitude Valley

James Street’s modern, trendy take on classic Italian. One of Brisbane’s best known restaurants, Bucci takes pride in sourcing local ingredients to fuel its menu.

3252 7848 @buccibrisbane

Crab linguine at Bucci Restaurant, which sources much of its ingredients locally. Picture: supplied.

Equal 10th: Gusto Da Gianni

Portside Wharf, Remora Rd, Hamilton

What could be better than an authentic Italian dinner beside the Brisbane River? With an impressive pizza, pasta and antipasti menu, certainly one to try for any lover of Italian cuisine.

3868 2011 @gustodagianni

9. Pavarotti’s Italian

753 Beams Rd, Carseldine

Who’s more Italian than Pavarotti? Executive chef Rossano Tantulli and restaurateur Gianni Greghini bring the opera singer’s passion to Tuscan cuisine with a mouth-watering menu.

3198 4400 @pavarottisitalian

8. Viale Canova

4/828, Sandgate Rd, Clayfield

Authentic Italian desserts like their panna cotta with wild berry sauce are the icing on the cake of this northside Italian venue. With pasta made on site daily, it’s the freshest Italian can be.

3256 1901 @vialecanova

Porcini mushrooms and pork at Viale Canova. Picture: Supplied.

7. Grappino

266 Given Tce, Paddington

This authentic Italian Trattoria at the heart of Paddington beckons from the Italian-Swiss Alps, where its founder Alfredo Roduner grew up. This family business means every dish is truly homemade.

3367 0033 @grappinorestaurant

Pork cutlet at Grappino in Paddington. Picture: Mark Cranitch.

6. 1889 Enoteca

10-12 Logan Rd, Woolloongabba

This cosy restaurant, located within an 130-year-old Woolloongabba building, produces an impressive and thoroughly natural wine list, perfect for pairing with a delicious pasta or secondi. All the Italian dessert hits are here: Tiramisu, Cassola, Pannacotta and Tortino. Bon appetit.

3392 4315 @1889enoteca

Equal 5th: Beccofino

10 Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe

The historic woolsheds of Teneriffe are just a stone’s throw away from Brisbane’s traditional Italian heart of New Farm. While it calls itself a pizzeria, there’s an impressive pasta menu here too.

3666 0207

Beccofino, located in the historic woolsheds of Teneriffe, has an impressive pasta menu. Picture: supplied.

Equal 5th: Mamma’s Italian Restaurant

69 Redcliffe Parade, Redcliffe

Going strong in its 36th year, Mamma’s is the creation of Maria Ciancio, who will often be spotted chatting with guests. With an extremely loyal following, this restaurant made headlines when it reopened on Redcliffe Parade after a year-long hiatus.

3284 4512

4. La Famiglia

3/855 Stanley St, Woolloongabba

La Famiglia provides head chef and owner Cosimo de Nichilo an outlet to showcase the flavours of his home region Puglia, and it’s proven a success with our readers. The simplicity of the dishes found on their menu and Instagram also show that it doesn’t need to be complex to be delicious.

3391 1045 @ristorantelafamiglia

Simple food done deliciously at Ristorante La Famiglia. Picture: Chris McCormack.

3. Marinara Cafe and Restaurant

254 Hawthorne Rd, Hawthorne

With vines hanging down brick walls and checkered red tablecloths, this certainly is one very traditionally themed Italian restaurant. Their menu has everything from tender grilled eye fillet steak with funghi sauce to a whopping pasta selection, plus they have a stone-base pizza oven. Need we say more?

3399 6614

2. Manny’s Italian

3/391 Main Rd, Wellington Point

Thanks to their delectable pizza and homemade gnocchi and pasta, this cosy restaurant has managed to rise through the ranks of Brisbane’s Italian scene since opening in just 2017. Warm up this winter with a pizza straight out of Manny’s wood-fired oven, and wash it down with one of their many cocktails.

3134 2855 @mannysitalian

1. Rustic Olive

79 Redcliffe Parade, Redcliffe

Featuring beautiful, mouth-watering Italian cuisine with a picturesque ocean view, it’s no wonder our readers RAVED about this Redcliffe restaurant. Their two most popular dishes are the Donatello pizza and the spaghetti anchovies with Barramundi fillet.

Spaghetti anchovies with barramundi fillet at The Rustic Olive, overlooking the ocean at Redcliffe. Picture: AAP Image/David Clark.

Having secured its reputation as one of Brisbane’s best Italian restaurants, be sure to make a reservation well in advance, especially on weekends when a free table is a rare sight.

3889 3199 @the_rustic_olive

Emily Clooney carries a donatello pizza and spaghetti anchovies with barramundi fillet. Picture: AAP Image/David Clark.