Restaurant in Collebeato, Italy
Serious kitchen, 19C villa, fair price.
Carlo Magno is a Michelin Plate-recognised country house restaurant in Collebeato, just north of Brescia, serving Mediterranean meat and fish cooking in 19th-century period dining rooms. At the €€€ tier with easy booking and a 4.7 Google rating across 1,300+ reviews, it offers a serious meal at a price point well below the starred competition — a strong pick for a special occasion without the planning burden.
If you visited Carlo Magno once and found it a pleasant surprise, a second visit confirms what the first suggested: this is a kitchen that earns its Michelin Plate recognition without making a fuss about it. Housed in a 19th-century country house on the outskirts of Collebeato, a small comune just north of Brescia, Carlo Magno offers Mediterranean meat and fish cooking in period dining rooms that feel genuinely rooted in place. The €€€ price tier puts it meaningfully below the €€€€ Michelin-starred circuit, which makes it one of the more sensible bookings in northern Italy's fine-casual category. At a Google rating of 4.7 across 1,301 reviews, the crowd consensus is consistent: this place delivers.
The country house format is not incidental. Dining rooms in a 19th-century villa carry a particular quality of light and proportion that modern restaurant fit-outs rarely replicate — thick walls, high ceilings, and a stillness that makes the meal feel unhurried. For a food and wine enthusiast seeking depth and atmosphere alongside the cooking, Carlo Magno's setting does meaningful work before the first course arrives. The scent of the surrounding countryside and the warmth of an older Italian kitchen operating in a heritage building are part of what you are booking here. This is not a hotel restaurant or a city-centre showpiece. It is a destination that asks you to travel to it, and the journey to Collebeato , a town that rarely appears on tourist itineraries , is part of the proposition.
That said, the setting is not nostalgia for its own sake. The Michelin Plate recognition in both 2024 and 2025 signals that the kitchen is operating at a level of consistency and technical care worth the attention of serious diners. A Michelin Plate does not carry the weight of a star, but it is a concrete credential: Michelin's inspectors found food worth eating here, two years running. For a venue of this type in a town of this size, that matters.
Carlo Magno's cooking sits in the Mediterranean tradition, covering both meat and fish with what the record describes as a menu of Mediterranean-style dishes. This breadth is practical for mixed groups or couples where preferences diverge, and it positions the restaurant closer to a serious trattoria-plus than a single-concept tasting room. If you are coming specifically for a long tasting menu in the vein of Osteria Francescana in Modena or Dal Pescatore in Runate, this is a different experience at a different price point. But if you want well-executed Italian-Mediterranean cooking in a beautiful room at a cost that does not require the kind of planning and lead time those restaurants demand, Carlo Magno is the sharper choice for that specific need.
The €€€ positioning means you should expect a meaningful meal , multiple courses, a considered wine list, attentive service , without the ceremony or the spend of the starred tier. For special occasions where the atmosphere matters as much as the fireworks, that balance is close to ideal.
No confirmed breakfast or brunch service is recorded in the available data for Carlo Magno. Given the country house format and the dinner-focused fine-dining context, this is a venue built around evening meals rather than morning visits. If a weekend lunch is available, the setting would be well-suited to it , a 19th-century dining room in the Lombard countryside reads differently at midday light than it does by evening, and Mediterranean cooking travels well across service formats. Check directly with the restaurant for current weekend lunch availability before planning around it. For a weekend visit to the Brescia area that includes morning or brunch options, see our full Collebeato restaurants guide and our full Collebeato bars guide for the broader picture.
| Detail | Carlo Magno | Dal Pescatore | Quattro Passi |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price tier | €€€ | €€€€ | €€€€ |
| Michelin recognition | Plate (2024, 2025) | 3 Stars | 2 Stars |
| Setting | 19C country house | Family farmhouse | Coastal terrace |
| Booking difficulty | Easy | Hard | Moderate |
| Google rating | 4.7 (1,301 reviews) | N/A | N/A |
| Location | Collebeato, Lombardy | Runate, Lombardy | Marina del Cantone, Campania |
Book Carlo Magno if you want a serious meal in a genuinely atmospheric setting at a price that does not require a special-occasion justification. It works well for couples, small groups, and anyone making a weekend of the Brescia and Lake Garda area. The easy booking difficulty means you do not need to plan months in advance, which distinguishes it sharply from the starred competition. If you are building a broader itinerary around northern Italian fine dining, Carlo Magno fits as a high-quality but lower-pressure option alongside more demanding bookings at Le Calandre in Rubano or Casa Perbellini 12 Apostoli in Verona. For Mediterranean cuisine comparisons further afield, La Brezza in Ascona and Il Buco in Sorrento offer useful reference points at a similar price tier. For everything else in the area, see our full Collebeato hotels guide, our full Collebeato wineries guide, and our full Collebeato experiences guide.
| Venue | Awards | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlo Magno | This restaurant housed in a country house dating from the 19C offers elegant period dining rooms and a menu featuring Mediterranean-style meat and fish dishes.; Michelin Plate (2025); Michelin Plate (2024) | €€€ | — |
| Atelier Moessmer Norbert Niederkofler | Michelin 3 Star, World's 50 Best | €€€€ | — |
| Dal Pescatore | Michelin 3 Star, World's 50 Best | €€€€ | — |
| Osteria Francescana | Michelin 3 Star, World's 50 Best | €€€€ | — |
| Quattro Passi | Michelin 3 Star, World's 50 Best | €€€€ | — |
| Reale | Michelin 3 Star, World's 50 Best | €€€€ | — |
A quick look at how Carlo Magno measures up.
Yes, and it earns that without requiring a six-month wait or a three-figure bill. The 19th-century country house setting gives the evening genuine occasion weight, and two consecutive Michelin Plate recognitions (2024 and 2025) confirm the kitchen is cooking at a level that justifies the trip. At €€€ pricing, it sits at a point where the experience feels considered rather than casual.
A country house with multiple period dining rooms is a practical format for groups, and the setting suggests the space can handle parties beyond a standard table for two or four. check the venue's official channels to confirm room availability and any minimum spend. Groups wanting a private-feeling dinner in a formal setting will find this format works better than a city restaurant with open-plan seating.
No bar dining is documented in the available data for Carlo Magno. The country house dining room format points toward table-only service. If a more casual perch matters to you, this is not the right format — Dal Pescatore or a Brescia city option would suit that preference better.
The menu covers both meat and fish in the Mediterranean tradition, which gives the kitchen reasonable range. No specific dietary accommodation policy is recorded, so flag restrictions when booking. Given the Michelin Plate standard and the full table-service format, the kitchen is equipped to adapt — but confirm directly rather than assume.
Carlo Magno is the primary fine dining reference in Collebeato itself. For alternatives in the broader region, Dal Pescatore in Canneto sull'Oglio is a longer-established Michelin-starred benchmark at a higher price point. Osteria Francescana in Modena operates at a different tier entirely and requires advance planning on a different scale. For the Brescia area specifically, Carlo Magno is the most practical Michelin-recognised choice at €€€.
At €€€, Carlo Magno offers Michelin Plate-level Mediterranean cooking in a 19th-century country house — that combination is harder to find at this price than at higher ones. It is not the cheapest meal near Brescia, but it is not pricing itself at starred-restaurant levels either. For the setting and the kitchen quality, the value case is solid.
No tasting menu details are confirmed in the available data, so it would be worth asking when you book. The Mediterranean format covering meat and fish suggests the kitchen has range, which is the foundation a tasting menu needs. If a set menu is available, the country house setting makes it the natural way to pace a full evening here.
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