Fantastic Italian food! Every course was delicious! I highly recommend the papardelle with the wild boar ragu

Best Brussel Sprouts ever. Even my kids ate them. However, the service was questionable. Our waiter "Jason" seemed irritated with us when we asked questions about the menu and talked to us as if we weren't in his "social class". His demeanor was not very professional, yet more like we were wasting his time. The gentleman that brought our food also seemed to be a bit difficult as he made smart remarks to my daughter when she asked for more Parmesan Cheese for her noodles. (but then back tracked, when we asked him to repeat himself and played it off as a joke, but it wasn't funny at all). Bottom line, good food, bad service. Although, we still left a very hefty tip. read more

I had a phenomenal pizza with fennel sausage and olives called the puttanesca. The crust was perfect -- flakey and slightly charred in places. Best pizza I've had in Baltimore. read more

Great food. Great drinks. Great Service. Everything is made in house. Happy hour is awesome (food & drinks). Outside patio is perfect during the summer. read more

Made a last minute decision on Friday night for a late dinner and ended up at Birrotecca. I had been back when they first opened and hadn't been blown away by the meal but was craving Italian and wanted to give them another chance. We didn't order any drinks but the beer menu was impressive. We shared the calamari and beef tartare to start. The calamari was phenomenal. Just the right texture and an awesome flavor thanks to the lemon and capers. The tartar, while fantastic looking was not my favorite. It had a very strong citrusy flavor, which while good on the first few bites, became a little overpowering for a bigger portion. Not to say it wasn't a good dish and I think that others may like it a lot more than I did. For our entrees my girlfriend got the Margherita pizza and I got the orecchiette. Both were fantastic. I especially loved the pasta as the sauce and asparagus really made it an awesome dish. I snuck a slice of the pizza as well and it was very good. Overall I was really happy with the meal there and will be back. read more

Restaurant is OK. Pizza was awesome the first time and just OK the second. Atmosphere is cool. Be careful ordering cocktails. I ordered a long Island and they charged me 17. That made me upset. They said because it's top shelf. I have been to 5 star restaurants that don't charge that much. I would go back but will definitely ask drink prices first. read more

Fantastic Spicy Italian pizza and a great combination of draft beer and mixed drink selection for the group. Finished it off with their homemade craft KitKat dessert as a good salty/sweet combination. read more

I went to Birroteca for the first time this past Saturday, and I doubt I'll be back for a second try. The food was decent, but the service was laughably bad. The server that I *think* was actually assigned to our table came by for the first time when my wife and I had been seated for five minutes, and promptly spilled water all over my phone by foolishly pouring the bottle one-handed. People, don't get acrobatic if you don't have the dexterity to pull it off! Servers came by our table seemingly at random, at irregular intervals, half the time bringing another party's food to us. ("Did you have the bruschetta? No? Okay." "Margherita pizza here? No? Okay.") We spent a full twenty minutes once our party was complete waiting for someone - anyone! - to come by to take an order. Once the dishes arrived - always delivered by someone new - we were left on our own. During this time, I noticed the same thing happening throughout the dining area: servers seemed to have no idea what table had ordered what, and had to keep stumbling through a poorly arranged dining space hunting for the right party. (I saw one poor schmo drop an order of bruschetta on the floor after trying to squeeze himself between two patrons sitting millimeters away from each other.) They could have made a lot more money off of us by coming around at a reasonable point to ask if anyone wanted another drink or dessert, but of course, it was hard to tell if anyone considered our table their responsibility. We waited a good fifteen minutes or more between when we got the check and when we finally got up and sought out someone to take the check and process the payment. Just about every server in the restaurant seemed to have disappeared, and it was hours before the place was scheduled to close. The only employee we could even find was the hostess, who was very busily smoothing a tablecloth five feet away from us for a very long time without lifting her head to make eye contact with anyone. We walked out feeling pissed and poorly treated, and amazed that a place that operated so incompetently seemed to be so popular. read more

Great happy hour pit stop! Despite going to Birroteca a couple of times now I still haven't gotten pizza. It remains on my to-do list. The mussels are great, though a significantly smaller portion than off the happy hour list. I personally think it's worth it to just order the full appetizer because you will want more. Sadly, the brussels aren't on the Baltimore location's happy hour menu. All around great service, large space and tasty food. I highly recommend! read more

Getting to this place was very interesting... the location is very misleading. I had never been here but will certainly go back next time I travel to Baltimore. The beer selection is great and the staff is very nice. The menu is great, too! I ordered one mushroom pizza from the specials menu and it was excellent. It was a white pizza and everything about it was perfect. I didn't have dessert, but will order the Nutella Cheesecake next time because it sounded delicious. read more

The ambiance here is wonderful. The building has such character! It is comfortable, the kind of place you want to spend all evening sitting and enjoying food and good company. The service was wonderful. The staff is friendly and attentive. The food is spectacular! The pizza crust is crunchy and chewy and the toppings are delicious but also unique. We ordered the octopus as an appetizer and it was cooked perfectly plus those capers are so tasty! Everything we had was well seasoned and well presented. We ordered a few things and finished everything but didn't feel too heavy or full after. The one con I can think of is that the restaurant boasts that it is family friendly but they don't have a changing table in the bathroom. There is even room for it but they didn't install one. When I asked about this they put me upstairs to change my baby on an empty table since they weren't using that area. Talk about uncomfortable! It was really disappointing. read more

We had our son's first birthday party on the second floor this weekend and it was excellent. The food and service was exceptional. Sebastian was in charge and took great care of us. We could not be happier with our experience and can't wait to come back. Our guests keep complimenting us on how wonderful the party was. Thank you for making our son's first party a memorable one! read more

Ski mountain pizza. So many better pizza and real Italian options all over Baltimore. If you are into over priced, over hyped food, this is your spot. read more

My girlfriend and I sat at the bar due to a full dining room on a Sunday night. From the hostess to the bartenders, and the manager, everyone was friendly and aimed to please. The food was great, the atmosphere very nice, and employees clearly cared! What more could you ask for. The only thing is the bar is too high for my taste compared to the barstools. After reading some of the reviews about this place, i'm sure some YELPERS would take away 2 stars for that since they are all food and restaurant critics now... but i'll maintain my 5 stars and cannot wait to go back! read more

The food was really good. We had the Calamari which was cooked perfectly. The meatball pizza , the crust was amazing. The sauce was good the only complaint on the $18 pizza was that there was a quarter of a meatball slice on each piece. Not much to it. The dessert we had was the Nutella Polenta Budina. I have no clue what Budina is however the dessert with the olive oil and sea salt ice cream it was heavenly . The atmosphere was crowded and a bit loud. When we left my husband actually asked why my voice was cracking, I felt like I just left a concert we had to speak so loudly to the other 2 people at our 4 top table. Overall I would recommend it however maybe not a Friday night dinner. read more

Everything I had was amazing. There craft beer had a great selection and very affordable. Order the calamari it was unbelievable good. The gnocchi as also good and I used the sauce from there to dip my pizza crust. Pizza was different but fine as well. Overall great experience. I will be returning. read more

I go to Birrotecca often! My boyfriend just recently threw a surprise party for me there. All of my friends were waiting for me in the bar area. It was perfect. Everyone enjoyed their dinner. The food is consistently fantastic. I recommend the bruschetta and the tagliatelle. The cocktails are always good (I have had many). The beer selection is great. Do yourself a favor and go! read more

Great food, but really noisy and packed on weekends. Came here for my husband's birthday on a Saturday night for first time. We were astonished by the amount of people and noise here when we just came in, and it is hard to find the server to give us the table. After we finally sat down, we still can't believe how noisy a restaurant can get. My husband is a quiet person and he didn't like the place at first impression. Ordered a cocktail for him, and we shared the crispy cauliflower, wild boar pappardelle and the famous duck duck goose pizza. The food was surprisingly good and that cheered us a little bit, especially the wild boar pappardelle, amazingly good! Next time would bring our friends here and dry their signature duck legs dish. The disappointment mainly came from the noise level and the service, I asked for something special for my husband, but clearly no one paid attention to my special request, no one even said a happy birthday to him! Disappoint! Also the restaurant should probably offer a quiet dining area because clearly not everyone is compatible with noise when dining great food. read more

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The food is absolutly amazing and the cooks are top notch... The Brussels are so good that you could justify cutting someones hand off if they didn't leave you any...The pizzas are always changing so you can never get tired of the menu (because they never give you a chance to)... The servers and food runners are very considerate of requests and alterations...overall this place is like heaven for food lovers... If you havent eaten there do yourself a favor and get down to Birroteca...you wont be sorry read more

I have had reason to go back here twice in the last month and they have definitely changed my opinion. It still isn't a go to place, but they have relaxed a little and it's at least more enjoyable. Dishes are good quality ingredients, even if the execution is a little off sometimes. Drinks are good and the bartenders that I've had more recently have been very friendly and knowledgeable. The prices are a bit high in my opinion (like more comparable to NY or D.C. than what I expect here, for what you get) but they have some really good specials so I would just be mindful of that. read more

I'm a fan of this place - attentive service, and just a really cool and cozy vibe. Their pizza is delicious - especially recommend the Duck Duck Goose or the Eggplant Parm. Someone also ordered the Brussel Sprouts which had great flavor. Decently priced wine by the glass ($8). Will definitely be back! read more

Great environment. Fresh made appetizers plates made by Rob are fantastic. Can't wait to

I got the shrimp pizza (amazing - way better than I expected) and the pear drink (delish with complex flavors, but on the pricy side especially because it's not big). I would go again. It's very high quality food, I'm just not a fan of eating at a high top table. read more

Spaghetti noodles where under cook.. a scoop of spaghetti in a big ass bowl.. with no bread the sauce Taste like a store brand can sauce... and $45.00 waste of money...save you money read more

I have been here four times, most recent was for my 11 year old daughters birthday. Like clockwork she orders the steak tartar with extra crostini's and every time it is delicious. I have tried several dishes from here which all have been amazing. One dish the duck liver on toast dish was haphazard. At first our party (7) needed to make a adjustment from 6 to 7 people. This was for a Sunday snowy day and was told they couldn't add another person. I had to call back and speak with someone else because this made no sense to me. When we arrived we were put in a the bar at a high top, the restaurant was half empty and asked to be moved since the reservation was made for a 11 year olds birthday. Small hick ups but I am still a fan of this restaurant. read more

Perhaps the food is good! Perhaps I will make a reservation to find out...okay that being said I may not! The "Host" kept us waiting while on a personal call then mumbled at his computer never making eye contact only to turn us away. We mere briefly greeted by a bearded fellow (perhaps an owner) I am in the service industry and have learned that you only get one chance to make a first impression read more

I've been to location in Bel Air several times and the one in clipper Mill there times. I like the fact that the menus are a bit different. The bartenders in Belair are friendly and the happy hour is great. Brussel sprouts appetizer is delicious. The muscles or served with chunks of fried bread to soak up the delicious sauce, this is a brilliant idea. The selection of cheeses and meats on the starter board never disappoints me. Great selection of beer. Eggplant fries are a bit bland. City location as the roasted mushroom appetizer that was cooked perfectly. Will return many times to come read more

Wow! This place has come a long way since it was Kolpers. Nice warm and cozy feel inside. Large square bar as well as comfy dining room. Lots of local craft beers on tap and even more in the bottle. These folks are doing food right. Our table ordered the risotto, bolognase, papparadelle with a boar ragu and a pizza and all were fabulous. Great ingredients and a skillful chef took great care of us. Even the olive oil was a stand out. read more

the food is fine, but doesn't warrant the pretentious attitude of the front of the house. we went early with our son (5:30 - very kid friendly time, in my opinion), and were first told that there were no tables available due to upcoming reservations, despite standing in an empty room. we were finally grudgingly told that we could sit upstairs (also an empty room when we arrived) if we were out in an hour and 15 minutes for a private party that had reserved the space. our waitress looked confused when we told her we would be quick - and no wonder, individual parties continued to be seated around us and it became increasingly clear there was no private party. not worth the shaming for not having a reservation and dining out with a well behaved kid. and if it's good pizza you're after, iggie's is better. no matter, the suburbanites will still flock anywhere with a parking lot. read more

I was really, really excited to visit Birroteca. It's so hard to find good Italian restaurants, but all the rave reviews had me believe it was worth taking the risk to come here. It wasn't as perfect as I was hoping it to be, but I still had a great meal. We started with the argula salad. Grapes and fennel were a great combo, but there was hardly any cheese on it, which was a little sad. The cured meat plates we ordered (duck prosciutto with figs & saltimbocca) tasted good, but there were way too many ingredients on the plate. The flavors were overwhelming and you could barely taste the meat. Duck prosciutto is a salumi obsession of mine, and unfortunately theirs was underwhelming, even when eaten by itself. We weren't super hungry so we decided to split a lighter pasta--the parmesan spaetzle with shaved snails. This was SO unassumingly delicious. Even though I wasn't hungry, I probably could have eaten the whole plate by myself. It was that good. The pasta was cooked properly al dente. If you think it is undercooked...well, it's not. You're just used to overcooked Olive Garden slop. This is what pasta is supposed to taste like. Although there were some missteps, the pasta was so good that it makes me want to try more on the menu. I would definitely come back, even if just to try the amazing-looking Duck Duck Goose pizza. read more

Overall: Red Lobster Pizza for Clipper Mill. Huge size, churning out the numbers, packed, loud, and impersonal, bad quality throughout. I DEFINITELY will not be back. _______________________________________________ Ambience: (2/5) You can tell this book by its cover: weird building all alone in residential clipper mill area, hunter's lodge look with huge gravel parking lot, jam-packed. Is this Olive Garden? Inside is the same: large and loud, dimly lit, impersonal. _______________________________________________ Service: (2/5) Left standing at the door for 5 minutes. Then seated at a table next to a server station and wall with no room. No small talk at the bar. _______________________________________________ Drinks: (2/5) Mediocre beer selection, a few decent crafts mixed in with standards, no standout IPA, stout, and definitely nothing dry, wild, or sour. _______________________________________________ Food: (1/5) Everything was off: textures, flavors.. you name it. 1.) Duck Duck Goose - best of the three plates, but overly sweet and no integration, thin tough crust, oily duck contrasting the dryness of the bland cheese. 2.) Beef Tartare - Call it "Beef " instead. Not tartare, and I couldn't eat this. Too much crème freche and parmesan leaves the beef tasting old and funky. The meat was stringy and tough to chew, then swallow, which I didn't. 3.) Bianco - Bland cheese is flavorless and rubbery, toasted plastic mozzarella. Crust is thin and tough. All of it one sloppy texture, old and deflated looking.. where does the cheese end and crust begin? I prefer any Stouffers french bread pizza. read more

Loved the food. Want the give it a 5 but we were seated in the bar area and could not hear ourselves think. Not a good way to spend a ton of $. Very very loud music and patrons. Will not go back unless we can sit somewhere else. read more

Great food, service, and atmosphere. Most of my table had pizza, but it was delicious. Mine had a duck egg on it. This was some fancy pizza. Wine list was solid. Somehow this place feels fancy and casual simultaneously (paper table cloths with crayons to draw, but mood lighting and good ambiance). It's in a bit of a weird location, but very easy to get to from Hamden, and worth the drive from elsewhere. read more

This place is packed on the weekends. Finally got a reservation on Sat night (9:00 pm). They were booked completely the week before. Tried some new things. We ordered for the table to share. The highlights were the arincini and the salumi and cheese boards. We ordered two pizzas, but they took over an hour to arrive. The waitress comped us without asking. Major props for keeping the customers happy without them complaining. Throw in great customer service with all this place offers and the sky is the limit . This place keeps getting better. It is a welcome addition to Baltimore. read more

After hearing a lot of buzz about the place, I went there with three friends on a Tuesday night, arriving just after 5:30PM so as to beat the notorious crowds that throng the place. Was a little leery, considering the wide range of ratings Biroteca gets here on Yelp. We sat at the bar and had a good rapport with the friendly bartender, who clearly knew his beer. On one occasion I saw another barkeep take a taste of a small sample of a beer he must not have tried yet. He first took a sniff of it, then took a proper taste. Good signs of staff with craft beer savvy (and why is it that two "v's" in a row look like a "w" when typed... that word was s-a-v-v-y!). The four of us took good advantage of the excellent happy hour special on Evo beers, with me thrilled that the deal featured a quality brewer. You less discerning types/non-beer snobs can have your $1 Natty Boh specials! I'll take a deeply discounted Evo Lot 3 any day of the week! We ordered two appetizers - the calamari and the spicy fried chick peas - to start. Both were great, though I'm taking their word on the calamari since I think squid are far too cute to eat! We then split two pizzas-- the wild mushroom and the creation that I guess I'd describe as bacon and egg pizza! Both were outstanding, with the latter being my favorite of the two. The crust is killer good, and almost like eating a good, toasty sourdough roll. As the night wore on the crowd certainly grew, but not to the point where the noise level was anywhere near as deafening as some folks have reported. The bar ceiling does appear fairly low, however, so it's easy to comprehend how it could get loud on a very busy night and with a few "happier than most" vociferous patrons around! The cost level was reasonable for the product, though the numerous discount beers during happy hour undoubtedly helped keep our bill down. Summary: Strong beer selection, all food was great, barkeeps were knowledgeable and friendly, quality happy hour special, and price was reasonable. A rare 5 starts from me! read more

No clue how good/bad the food was. We made reservations a week in advance and were seated at a hightop in the bar. We had hoped for a nice dinner out so we went to Johnnys instead. This place is too hipster for me and will be closed in 2 yrs. read more

Baltimore Birroteca is a great atmosphere and environment, service is consistently fantastic, the flavor profiles on almost all the menu items deliver perfectly. 4/5 stars Because, THe Crab Bruschetta is BULLSHIT -0/5 save ya Doe read more

Yet another amazing night. Brusselsprouts are always the draw but Mr. Rob your charcuterie may be a tie. Smoked blue, blueberry compote, always something special. My favorite place to bar sit in town.. read more

I have been to Birroteca twice and I have not been disappointed. The vibe is great and so is the service. Not to mention the food. You MUST try the brussel sprouts- so good! And the pistachio ice cream is to die for. read more

Great selection of beer, good food, and agreeable ambiance. Get here early!