Italian Restaurants in Sayulita

All 10 of the Italian listings have outdoor seating, which changes what an Italian dinner is here. There is no hushed interior to retreat into: the room is a terrace or a stretch of cobblestone, the temperature is whatever the evening is doing, and the soundtrack is the street.

That works in the food’s favour more often than not. A wood oven is a furnace to sit beside in April and the reason the terrace is the good seat, and the pasta rooms are at their best after dark once the cobblestones have given back the day’s heat. It also means the weather is a real variable in green season, so the covered tables go first when it looks like rain.

5 of the 10 are the kind of room you book for a date. Italian food is doing the work there: it is the local cuisine that arrives in courses, expects a bottle rather than a bucket, and gives a table a reason to still be sitting at it two hours later.

The top of this page is also the top of the town. The most expensive listing in the whole directory is an Italian dining room, and the wine lists here are the longest in Sayulita. If there is one dinner on the trip that is meant to be an event rather than a meal, this is where the town keeps it.