Family-run trattoria and pizzeria, fish and local meat · €€
The only restaurant within a short walk, 6 minutes east along the coast road, run by the same family since 1965 and listed in the MICHELIN Guide. The dining room is classic, with an open kitchen dressed in blue-and-white local ceramics, and the cooking is mostly local fish and meat: order the mixed grill of fish or the roast cod with potato salad, tomatoes and taggiasca olives, and leave room for the family's cakes. There is pizza too. Lunch 13:00 to 15:30 and dinner 19:00 to 22:30; closed on Tuesday, dinner only on Wednesday.
Reserve aheadVia Laurito 43, Positano
Beach club lunch in the next cove · €€€
A beach club on Spiaggia d'Arienzo, the next cove towards Positano, with a terrace restaurant above the sunbeds serving traditional Positano cooking, seafood and fish. The restaurant and its bar are kept for guests on a day package, which includes sunbeds and a two-course lunch each; the public stretch of the beach beside it is free, and people there can order from a shorter menu. From the road above it is a flight of steps down; its own free boat leaves the Lucibello pier on Spiaggia Grande from 9:50, back from 15:15. Front rows sell out weeks ahead in summer. Restaurant 12:00 to 15:30, beach 10:00 to 18:00.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks outVia Arienzo, Positano
Contemporary seafood and meat, with a garden terrace · €€€
Opened in 2004 by Tanina Vanacore and now run by her daughter Carmela, on the road through the upper town, with a terrace among Mediterranean herbs and climbing jasmine and a wine bar inside. The cooking is contemporary, on regional produce, with a tasting menu: order the seared tuna with wakame and a soy and honey reduction, or the steamed lobster bao, and ask to see the cellar. Listed in the MICHELIN Guide. Dinner only, every evening from 18:30 to 23:00; book a terrace table.
Reserve aheadViale Pasitea 242, Positano
Campanian trattoria, mostly fish · €€
A Positano institution since 1958, now run by the founder's grandson, who shares his name, and listed in the MICHELIN Guide. The cooking is traditional Campanian and mostly fish, so order the fish of the day, at a table inside or at one of the few small tables on the pavement of Viale Pasitea. The bar serves cocktails from lunchtime. Lunch 12:15 to 14:45 and dinner 18:30 to 22:30; closed on Wednesday. Book ahead in summer.
Reserve aheadViale Pasitea 172, Positano
Farm cooking and charcoal-grilled meat in Montepertuso · €€
Something different from the coast: a family farm restaurant high above Positano in Montepertuso, on three terraces with their own organic vegetable gardens and views over Positano, Li Galli and Capri. The meal runs from home-cured salami, little mozzarellas, ricotta and aubergine parmigiana to fresh pasta, gnocchi and ravioli with provola, then charcoal-grilled T-bone, fillet, veal, rabbit, sausage or lamb, and homemade cakes. Open for the season from 19 March 2026; book by phone on +39 089 875 872.
Reserve aheadVia Tagliata 32b, Montepertuso, Positano
Pasticceria and café with a garden terrace · €
A pasticceria on Via dei Mulini since 1950, built from an old ruin into a terrace under citrus trees in the middle of Positano, and the place for coffee and a pastry from the counter when you go into town for the morning. The pastries are homemade, and it also serves brunch and a restaurant menu. It opens from 8:00 to 19:00 and closes on Wednesday. No reservations are taken; walk in. Via dei Mulini is pedestrian, so it is a short walk from the drop-off.
Walk inVia dei Mulini 10, Positano
Open-air cocktail bar with the view of Positano · €€€
Le Sirenuse's open-air bar on the coast road above the town, named after Franco Sersale, one of the four siblings who founded the hotel, and fitted out by artists and craftsmen in the colours of the coast. The list is classic, from an Old Fashioned to a French 75 or a glass of something sparkling, with gelato always available, after a swim or before dinner. It opens from April to October, weather permitting, every day from 17:00 to midnight. No reservations: come early or wait in line.
Walk inVia Cristoforo Colombo 30, Positano
Breakfast is a buffet at Zass, looking over the sea to Praiano, and it is included in every rate: mozzarella, ricotta and regional cheeses, local yogurts, fruit and garden vegetables, and breads, croissants and cakes from the hotel's own bakers, who start at 4:00, including breads made from legumes and grains grown on the family's farm in Norcia and keto breads of seeds and nuts. For a breakfast out, La Zagara in Positano opens at 8:00, closed on Wednesday, a ride on the free shuttle.
