Edmonton quietly makes some of the best Italian food in Canada, thanks in large part to one chef and the rooms that grew up around him. If you're after the best Italian restaurants in Edmonton, you'll be eating hand-rolled pasta, wood-fired pizza and cicchetti washed down with serious Italian wine.
Corso 32 is the flagship — chef Daniel Costa's tiny Jasper Avenue pasta temple is regularly named among the country's finest Italian restaurants. Next door, Bar Bricco is his stand-up wine bar for cicchetti, prosciutto and amaro, while Uccellino brings rustic Emilia-Romagna cooking a little grander in scale.
The buzz right now is Nero, a converted historic brewery turning out nonna-worthy pasta under soaring ceilings — the room everyone in Edmonton is talking about. For an unfussy south-side family go-to, Vaticano Cucina does hand-rolled pasta and blistered wood-fired pizzas.
Below are our current Edmonton Italian picks — real, operating rooms worth booking. Tap any for details, then turn them into a personalized itinerary.