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Italian in Hampton Roads
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Top 4 Italian in Hampton Roads
The 757 pasta picks — drawn from Coastal Virginia Magazine's 2024 Culinary Awards and their New Restaurants feature.
- #1
Luce
Downtown Norfolk
“Coastal Virginia Magazine's 2024 Culinary Awards Top 50 — the sole Italian honoree in the Norfolk column, known for hand-rolled pastas like squid-ink fettuccine with clams and wild boar ragù.”
- #2
Sorellas: An Italian Eatery
Oceanfront
“Coastal Virginia Magazine's 'Hot Plates' new-restaurant feature calls out Sorella's for its multiregional pastas, Neapolitan pizza, and a 160-bottle wine program.”
- #3
Basilico Pizzeria & Ristorante
Oceana
“Coastal Virginia Magazine's 'Hot Plates' feature: the Sicilian-leaning kitchen where CoVa says the chopped antipasto salad 'is a mountain of food rivaling Etna,' with homemade pasta and eggplant rollatini.”
- #4
crudo nudo
Ghent
“Coastal Virginia Magazine's 2024 Culinary Awards Top 50 — the Ghent room built around crudo and hand-cut 'nudo' pastas, CoVa's pick for Norfolk's modern Italian-Spanish crossover.”