The Michelin guide awards three stars for the first time to a southern restaurant, "Quattro Passi" in Nerano, on the outskirts of Naples, rewarding the work of young chef Fabrizio Mellino, just 32 years old, who is capable of taking Mediterranean cuisine to unusual levels of refinement. This is the first time the top gastronomic award has gone further south than Rome, or rather Castel di Sangro, where Niko Romito's "Reale" restaurant is located. This is the most important news of the 69th edition of the Michelin Guide Italy. The three-starred chefs, which were twelve, have become thirteen. The northernmost is Atelier Moessmer in an old textile factory in Bruneck. The other 11 are confirmed: Niko Romito of Reale in Castel di Sangro, Antonino Cannavacciuolo of Villa Crespi on Lake Iseo, Massimo Bottura of Osteria Francescana in Modena, the Cerea brothers of Da Vittorio in Brusaporto (Bergamo), Massimiliano Alajmo of Le Calandre in Rubano (Padua), the Santini family of Dal Pescatore in Canneto sull'Oglio (Mantua), Riccardo Monco of Enoteca Pinchiorri in Florence, Mauro Uliassi of the eponymous restaurant in Senigallia (Ancona), Heinz Beck of Pergola in Rome, and Enrico Bartolini of the eponymous restaurant at Mudec in Milan.