Little Italy packs family-run Italian restaurants into a few blocks between the Inner Harbor and Fells Point. Several long-time names have closed in recent years, so this list only includes places we checked are open.
Italian restaurant · Little Italy · $$
Pane rotondo (pasta served in a hollowed round loaf), red-sauce Italian. A casual, family-friendly Little Italy restaurant known for the pane rotondo, a round loaf hollowed out and filled with pasta and shrimp.
Italian restaurant · Little Italy · $$
The house salad, veal, classic Italian-American dishes. One of Little Italy’s long-running family restaurants, with several dining rooms and a menu of Italian-American standards.
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.
Mediterranean-Italian restaurant · Little Italy · $$$
Rigatoni with grilled eggplant, swordfish meatballs, octopus. Named among Baltimore Magazine’s Best Restaurants for 2026, Costiera brings a coastal Mediterranean slant to Little Italy, with dishes like swordfish meatballs and grilled octopus.
Italian-American · Little Italy · $$
Bookmaker salad, classic red-sauce Italian. A Little Italy restaurant known for its bookmaker salad (with shrimp, salami and egg) and generous plates of red-sauce Italian food.
Pastry shop and café · Little Italy · $
Cannoli, gelato, Italian pastries. Little Italy’s best-known pastry shop, open since 1956, where cannoli are filled to order.
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.
Read the Little Italy neighborhood guide for tips.
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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