Looking for a great Italian restaurant name for your new business to impress potential customers? This list has hundreds of name ideas – funny, cool and unique – for all types of Italian dishes; fancy fine dining cuisine, casual neighborhood Italian food, pizzeria with logo ideas and examples designed by 99designs.
Plus an Italian restaurant name generator link, with tips on how to create your best new restaurant name, along with my tests and a list of names generated with this tool. Let’s get cooking Italian – Andiamo!
Italian Restaurant Name Ideas
Ristorantes (Formal Fine Dining)
Al Dente – Check Availability
Vecchio – Check Availability
Rigatone – Check Availability
Sapori – Check Availability
La Bella Cucina – Check Availability
Fatti a Mano – Check Availability
Bella Vita – Check Availability
Biancheria – Check Availability
Vecchia Nonna – Check Availability
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The Etruscan Table – Check Availability
The Pope’s Pantry – Check Availability
Neapolitan Nights – Check Availability
Twelve Tables – Check Availability
Ribollita – Check Availability
Cibo Appassionato – Check Availability
Pappardelle – Check Availability
Gorgonzola – Check Availability
all’Arrabbiata – Check Availability
The Butcher’s Ragũ – Check Availability
The Sardinian Sage – Check Availability
Trattorias/Osterias (Casual Eateries)
Trattoria Cafe – Check Availability
Osteria – Check Availability
Antony and Cleopatra – Check Availability
Il Mercante di Venezia – Check Availability
Golositá – Check Availability
The Tuscan Tomato – Check Availability
Mussolini’s Table – Check Availability
Chiacchierare – Check Availability
Caesar’s Ghost – Check Availability
Goodfellas – Check Availability
Italian Bakeries, Sweet Shops and Sandwich Shops
Pasticceria – Check Availability
Tavola Calda – Check Availability
Paninoteca – Check Availability
Paninaro – Check Availability
La Dolce Vita – Check Availability
Dolce – Check Availability
Torta – Check Availability
La Torta del Topo – Check Availability
Avaro della Torta – Check Availability
Crostata – Check Availability
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Italian Wine Bars – Osteria
Taverna – Check Availability
Enoteca – Check Availability
In Vino Veritas – Check Availability
Barbaresco – Check Availability
Brunello – Check Availability
The Killer Bs – Check Availability
Tannin and Table – Check Availability
Cork’d – Check Availability
The Sommelier – Check Availability
Port of Call – Check Availability
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Funny Italian Restaurant Names
Non Ti Pago – I don’t pay you! – Check Availability
L’Utima Cena – Last Supper – Check Availability
The Tasty Tortellini – Check Availability
Spicy Meatballs and More – Check Availability
Eat Some Ziti! – Check Availability
Pasta Maniac – Check Availability
Hot Tomatoes – Check Availability
Twisted Pasta – Check Availability
P’spghetti – Check Availability
Lasagna Flats – Check Availability
Saucy Girls – Check Availability
Devilish Pies – Check Availability
Kiss Me Garlic Bread – Check Availability
Earth, Wind and Flour – Check Availability
Pizzeria Name Ideas
Here are a sampling of good pizza restaurant name ideas -check out the full list of hundreds of pizzeria name ideas
All Around Pizza – Check Availability
American Pie – Check Availability
Angry Pan Pizza – Check Availability
Dishy Pizza (funny!) – Check Availability
Eatalian Pizza – Check Availability
Firehouse Pizza Shop (great for brick oven pizzerias) – Check Availability
Fingerlicking Pies – Check Availability
Happytown Pizza (works well for family pizzeria) – Check Availability
Hotline Pizza – Check Availability
Mad Toppings – Check Availability
NYC Pie Makers (add your city name) – Check Availability
Mission Pizza – Check Availability
Pizza Peddler – Check Availability
Get 325 more pizzeria restaurant name ideas on my list here
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Italian Restaurant Name Generators
This is a restaurant name generator I tested to create the list of name suggestions below – https://businessnamegenerator.com/restaurants-business-name-generator-ideas/
I tested it by using these keywords related to Italian cuisine (pasta, cheese, olives, pizza, Italy). Get the best results by first brainstorming a list of keywords. These are words and phrases (2 or more words) that relate to your company’s service and products. They do not have to be necessarily the ones that will be contained in your final restaurant name.
An easy way to brainstorm keywords to use in name generators is to use Google. Put in your restaurant type (Italian food) plus “keywords”. Scroll through pages such as these and pick up related words. I found these additional keywords = mozzarella, oregano, basil, pepperoni, Frutta, Pesce, vino, pomodoro. You get the idea.
Italian Restaurant Name Ideas Generated – with added improvements by me
Pizza Bit – Check Availability
Italy Desire – Check Availability
Pizza Grove – Check Availability
Italyio (funny and memorable name) – Check Availability
Pizza Feast – Check Availability
Italynetic – Check Availability
Pizzaly – Check Availability
Pizza Crave – Check Availability
Pizzasy – Check Availability
Italy Juicy (nice for casual trattoria restaurant) – Check Availability
Italypad – Check Availability
Italy Chop (good for Italian-themed steakhouses) – Check Availability
Italy Wagon (fun for a food truck serving Italian dishes – check out this big list of food truck name ideas) – Check Availability
Pizza Superior – Check Availability
Italy Roll (great for sandwich shop or pork store delis and food shops) – Check Availability
Pizza Hole – Check Availability
Italy Cantina – Check Availability
Pizza You – Check Availability
Italyorama – Check Availability
Crave Olive – Check Availability
Uptown Olive – Check Availability
Olivehut – Check Availability
Chow Olive – Check Availability
Crisp Olive (nice for a modern Italian restaurant) – Check Availability
Oliveex – Check Availability
Oliveio – Check Availability
Smash Olive – Check Availability
Herbed Olive – Check Availability
Feast Pomodoro – Check Availability
Pomodorosy – Check Availability
Citron and Pomodoro – Check Availability
Pomodorio – Check Availability
Binge Pomodoro – Check Availability
The Dashing Pomodoro – Check Availability
Secret Pomodoro – Check Availability
Pomodorowind – Check Availability
Presto Pomodoro – Check Availability
Pomordor Served – Check Availability
Sizzling Pomodoro – Check Availability
Pomorodorhaven – Check Availability
Dished Pomodoros – Check Availability
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Italian Restaurant Names in Italian
The restaurant pros at Forketers.com created a fun list of name ideas all in authentic Italian. Here are a few below, read the full list here
LA FESTA IN CUCINA. “The kitchen party.”
PRIMAVERA. “Spring.”
ORTAGGIO. “The vegetable.”
GUSTOSO. “Tasty.”
BOCCA FELICE. “Happy mouth.”
A MANO. “Made by hand.”
LA PENTOLA. “The pot.”
LA BOTTARGA. “The bottarga.”
IL GIARDINO DEI PIACERI. “The garden of the pleasures.”
CASA NOSTRA. “Our house.”
COLTELLO E FORCHETTA. “Knife and fork.”
IL MESTOLO. “The ladle.”
ZUPPA ITALIANA. “Italian soup.”
PRIMI PIATTI. “Main dishes.”
PESCE FRESCO. “Fresh fish.”
CHE BUONO. “What good.”
PIATTO CALDO. “Hot plate.”
COME A CASA. “Like at home.”
LA CASA. “The house.”
LA MENSA. “The cookhouse.”
PALERMO. The Sicilian Capital where the Mafia was born.
AL DENTE. “Underdone.”
SAPORI D’ITALIA. “Tastes of Italy.”
SORRISO. “Smile.”
The Top 25 Italian Restaurants in Italy
L’Etoile d’Or (Catania, Italy)
Gusta Pizza (Florence, Italy)
La Madia (Licata, Italy)
Masseria Barbera (Puglia, Italy)
Da Vittorio (Brusaporto, Italy)
Alle Testiere (Venice, Italy)
Il Pellicano (Porto Ercole, Italy)
Madonnina del Pescatore (Senigallia, Italy)
La Ciau del Tornavento (Treiso, Italy)
Enoteca Pinchiorri (Florence, Italy)
La Rosetta (Rome)
Acquolina (Rome)
Don Alfonso 1890 (Sant’Agata Sui Due Golfi, Italy)
Read the full list of best restaurants in Italy here
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