From red-sauce classics to modern pasta rooms, Baltimore’s Italian food goes well beyond Little Italy.
Italian restaurant · Harbor East · $$$
House-made pasta, salumi, duck. The Foreman Wolf group’s Italian restaurant in Harbor East, with house-made pastas, a salumeria and a deep Italian wine list.
Coastal Italian restaurant · Hampden · $$$
House-made pasta, seafood, cocktails. A coastal Italian restaurant in a former five-and-dime in Hampden.
Roman-inspired restaurant · Canton · $$$
Bottarga spaghetti, white Bolognese rigatoni. A Roman-inspired restaurant in Canton serving pastas like bottarga spaghetti and rigatoni with white Bolognese.
Italian restaurant · Highlandtown · $$$
Seared scallops with lobster zabaglione, porterhouse lamb chop. A neighborhood restaurant in Butchers Hill, near Patterson Park, cooking what Baltimore Magazine calls nouveau Italian.
Pizza and Italian · Federal Hill · $$
Wood-fired Neapolitan pizza, squid ink spaghetti with clams. A family-run Riverside restaurant serving Neapolitan-style pizza and pastas.
Italian restaurant · Harbor East · $$$$
Squid ink pasta with blue crab, steaks, eggplant Parm. An Atlas Restaurant Group Italian dining room on the Harbor East and Little Italy border, mixing pastas with steaks.
Italian restaurant · Little Italy · $$
Sicilian-style home cooking, a colorful dining room and rooftop. A bright, colorful mother-and-daughter restaurant on the edge of Little Italy, serving Sicilian-leaning home cooking.
Italian restaurant · Little Italy · $$$
Italian dinners and an indoor bocce court. A larger Little Italy restaurant with a full Italian menu and something most places do not have: an indoor bocce court that groups can book.
Italian restaurant · Little Italy · $$
Pane rotondo (pasta served in a hollowed round loaf), red-sauce Italian. A casual, family-friendly Little Italy restaurant known for the pane rotondo, a round loaf hollowed out and filled with pasta and shrimp.
Italian restaurant · Mount Vernon · $$
Italian-American classics before a show. A friendly Mount Vernon Italian restaurant close to the Meyerhoff and the Lyric, popular for dinner before a concert or show.
Pizza restaurant · Roland Park · $$
Wood-fired Neapolitan-style pizza. A pizza restaurant at Cross Keys Village whose wood-fired pies won Best Pizza in Best of Baltimore 2026.
Continental restaurant · Roland Park · $$$
House-made pasta, shellfish, steaks. A neighborhood restaurant in Roland Park with a continental menu of pastas, seafood and steaks.
See also Little Italy restaurants.
Every place here was checked as operating in October 2026. Hours change, so check before you go. Ratings come only from readers.
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