Restaurants, Italian, BYOB

The colourful, design savvy interior and good coffee at this little deli/café give a nod to owner Marcello Sprio’s home town of Milan. With imported Italian sweets, Italian newspapers, magazines and radio it is only the Tunnock’s teacakes that remind…

Origano is a bijou alternative to the modern, mass-production Italian restaurant. Although styled as a New York trattoria, the cosy dining room would not be out of place in Greenwich Village or Sienna. Stripped wooden floors and ceilings, simple…

An intimate, personal dining experience situated midway down the Perth Road in Dundee, this restaurant highlights classic European dishes with a hearty emphasis on Italian cuisine. Owner Athol Shepherd cooks with ingredients sourced from the surrounding…

Although not the most inviting of restaurant interiors, with a slightly canteen-like feel, there’s nothing canteen-like in the flavour of some of the food. The beef tagliata; sirloin steak served on a bed of rocket with parmesan shavings. There’s…

The growing trend for sharing plates is capitalised on at this Byres Road venue. It is well suited to larger groups making a meal part of their night with popular Italian cuisine laid out in miniature over four pages of a vast menu. The monkfish and…