With a metropolitan population of nearly a million people, Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama.

No need to pigeonhole Birmingham as serving only fried pies and barbecue. The city is home to “the Oscars of dining,” with James Beard Foundation award winners and nominees.

In recent years, Birmingham has become something of a culinary rock star, with an upspring of new bistros, delis, and chef-owned restaurants. The area’s dining scene is something to relish.

Because food is foremost in the minds of residents and visitors alike, the Greater Birmingham Convention & Visitors Bureau has launched a branding campaign designating Birmingham as “Dinner Table of the South.”

“This brand is a natural for us,” John Oros, CVB president and CEO, said. “When you talk to people in our region about our most enjoyable pastimes, dining invariably comes up as one of our best offerings.”

In this article, we tried to compile for you the best Italian restaurants in the “Dinner Table of the South: Birmingham”.

Methodology

We have taken as a basis the top 20 Italian restaurants in the 2 most popular websites, yelp and tripadvisor. We gathered the rankings of the restaurants on each website and divided them into two and got our score. If any restaurant is in the top 20 on one website but not on the other, we have accepted its ranking as 21 on this website.

Finally, we ranked the restaurants according to the points we achieved and put the top 20 restaurants here. What happens next is up to you. The top 10 of these 20 restaurants will change with your votes.

			Yelp	TripAdvisor.
1	2	Gianmarco’s Restaurant	1	3
2	3	Amore Ristorante Italiano	5	1
3	4	Giuseppe’s Cafe	2	6
4	6	Bottega Restaurant	10	2
5	7	Bellini’s Ristorante & Bar	7	7
6	8.5	Bettola	8	9
7	10	Trattoria Zaza	12	8
8	11	Le Fresca	3	19
9	11	Bocca	6	16
10	11.5	Carrabba’s Italian Grill	13	10
11	12.5	North Italia	4	N/A
12	12.5	Slice Stone Pizza & Brew	N/A	4
13	13	Post Office Pies	N/A	5
14	15	Joe’s Italian	9	N/A
15	16	DeVinci’s	11	N/A
16	16	The Filling Station	N/A	11
17	16.5	Area 41 Pizza Co	N/A	12
18	17	Ranelli’s Deli & Cafe	N/A	13
19	17.5	Olive Garden	N/A	14
20	17.5	Bongiorno	14	N/A