2 Best Restaurants in The Veneto and Friuli–Venezia Giulia, Italy

Udine's very chic landmark restaurant is the one reserved most by locals for special occasions, and the menu features the freshest meat and fish in sophisticated dishes served with moodily lit culinary stagecraft. You might start with an antipasto of assorted raw shellfish, including the impossibly sweet Adriatic scampi, followed by the fresh fish of the day. The Friuli-focused wine list is top-notch. Perhaps the best way to go is the multicourse tasting menu.

Adventurous foodies with deep pockets should book a table in this stylish blue-and-wood-accented dining room, located behind Treviso's Palazzo dei Trecento old meat market, for an experience that marries Trevigiano culinary traditions with contemporary elegance. It was here back in the late '60s that the famous dessert tiramisu was invented and the Beccherie, opened in 1939, still makes it to the original, featherlight recipe. Expect a varied seasonal menu, with lighter summer seafood and vegetable dishes such as calamarata (clams with cherry tomatoes) and scarola greens giving way to hearty risottos and meats, including lamb and game, in fall and winter.