Wonderful view!! What a treat after a long hike : )…read more Wonderful setting under a canopy of green! Aperol Spritz...perfect. Tagliatelle was super. Staff was super helpful and patient and spoke perfect English.

This is the standout for me in Lake Como! Everything here is…read moretop notch! Service, view, ambience, food, you name it. We dined here twice for dinner during our 3 night stay. We took the funicular (cable car) to the top of the mountain and found this restaurant. The views from the restaurant can't be beat. There is indoor and outdoor seating and both offer the spectacular views. The first time we ate here, we sat outside. As the evening went on, it started to get chilly. We noticed some of the diners had blankets, presumably provided by the restaurant. They also had transparent wind blocker shades they rolled down on the side, which really helped cut down on the chilly wind. On our second visit, we sat indoors and loved that the views were just as spectacular. Our server from the first night really stood out! He was so polite and genuine. They other servers were great too but he was the most attentive. It seems like they share duties as we weren't assigned a particular server. The food is really good and the prices are reasonable for this type of restaurant. The menu posted at the entrance isn't updated - ask for the current menu if you want to preview it. The first night I ordered the pappardelle pasta with duck sauce. It's not a duck sauce but rather, pasta with huge chunks of duck! The duck was so tender and seasoned perfectly. There is no gamey taste at all, which can sometimes happen with duck. On my second visit, I ordered the lasagna with béchamel sauce. It is very different from the lasagna I'm used to. It is not tomato based and it is round instead of square! It's cooked with a light creamy, almost sweet sauce. It was delicious! Others enjoyed the truffle ravioli and the steak.

Best food we had in Italy. Amazing views great service. Just a little tricky to get to. A lake…read morecomo experience

The salad starter was excellent. Fenal, fresh tomatoes, several tasty lettuces. Very good to start…read morewith. Nice crunch, perfect mix of textures. Not a wimpy salad! The polenta dish was different than I had before. The cheese was very strong, forward but not too overpowering. The polenta itself was different, not orange/corn colored and had a mix of herbs in it. Very flavorful. We also split a dish of spinache ravioli. The ravioli was super! The sage topping was a nice touch to an already great dish. I would highly recommend the ravioli!! Even the bread was a nice complimentary touch!

This is an easy place to find as it is right there when you exit the como-brunate funicular. The…read moreview is astonishing as it looks over both Como and Lake Como. The staff was friendly and they place a nice table cloth on the table when you sit down. We ordered a small charcuterie board and another appetizer (I can't remember the name) and it was enough to fill 3 of us until dinner. I would recommend going up to Brunate for a snack at this restaurant if you are visiting Como or the Lake Como region!

This restaurant was surprisingly affordable despite looking very touristy. The views are just…read moreincredible. There were tables with the lake view always available every time we stopped by during our two-night stay in Brunate. Pizza was cheap, they were all under 10 euro and I believe the margherita we ordered was 6 euro. We also got the assorted bruschetta for 5 euro which was delicious - I love how they serve bruschetta in Lake Como.The smoothies there were good, a bit watery but the flavor was great, but over-priced at 7 euro each. The beer my boyfriend got was also pricey around 8 euro for a bottle I believe. I had the tiramisu after our meal which was served in a cute, little jar, and it was honestly amazing. Creamy, smooth, and not too sweet. If you find yourself in Brunate and don't want to eat at one of the fancy, hotel restaurants, definitely grab a bite or drink here at the very least!

Great place,we took the gondola up,and we walk for like an hour (we took the long way) but it was…read moretotally worth it. I will walk twice as much for that kind of place and food. O can't wait to go back here! Must stop by

This place was absolutely wonderful! I went with my fiancé looking for somewhere romantic and quiet…read moreaway from the tourists to have dinner. What can I say? The view from where we were sitting was breath taking and the food was amazing. We started with the antipasto platter and for our main course, the Ravioli with nut sauce (which I highly recommend) and the Gnocci with Eggplant. The waitress spoke English well and was very friendly. There is a bit of a walk to get there from the funicular cable car but was worth it. Would definitely love to come back here again.

05.25.24: I want to start with their customer service. It was quite honestly the best service…read morewe've had so far. The waiters were very attentive and accommodate my family of 4 when it began to rain The food was delicious. We arrived in Rome on Wednesday but I finally ate the best lasagna at this establishment. The lasagna was at perfect temperature and man was it cheesy. Overall, great service and food.

We were a little tired and parched after our one-hour round trip hike to the Volta Lighthouse,…read morewhich is located at the top of a hill, in the already lofty town of Brunate. Bruanate is located 2,335 feet above sea level, and overlooks the city of Como. Upon our return, we came upon the Ristorante Vista Lago, which offered a beautiful view from their outside balcony at the edge of the Brunate hillside. It is located near the Funicular which connects Brunate to Como in about 7 minutes. The restaurant is in the Vista Lago Hotel, a small hotel with 13 rooms. It was a quiet and warm afternoon when we sat down, and our waiter arrived promptly. The menu is fairly basic, and we ordered two waters and two cappuccinos, to be follow by a cheese and mushroom pizza. The cappuccinos were very good, but the pizza was not, tasting incrementally better than a store-bought frozen pizza. Oh well, the view was a great consolation prize! Should you happen to be in Brunate, and you'd like a drink with a great view, this is an excellent choice. For lunch or dinner, I'd suggest you consider elsewhere.

We came across this place quite by accident--we were hiking, and we got lost one morning. The…read moreproprietor, Franco, regaled us with stories of his honeymoon in New York, where we're from, and told us yes, the kitchen was open--in an hour. We waited, and the meal was worth it--excellent pasta and risotto, fresh porcini mushrooms--served with glee by Franco and great competence by his lovely wife. The outdoor dining room (it has a manually-pulled awning for shade) is in the middle of nowhere, on a narrow road in the hills above Como; still, lunch was well-attended, mostly by locals. Good, homey place with fresh food served simply , with little regard to the passage of time or cholesterol counts. And Franco is entertainment in himself.

Food: 5 Value: 5 (arguably a 6/5)…read moreService: 5 Ambiance: 3.5 The single greatest Italian cuisine meal I've eaten to date. We found this restaurant through Google Reviews and generally had high hopes, but were blown away by the experience. We ordered salads to share, drinks, and pasta before a tiramisu - I went for a seafood pasta (see pictures) and negroni. We definitely could have avoided getting the two salads; portions were massive and we ended up not finishing either salad. My main course was delicious. The pasta had a zesty, fresh flavor between the lemon, olive oil, parsley and tomato, but the welcome surprise was seeing mounds of mussels, clams and shrimp inside the dish (I'm from New York and expected maybe 10 total) that took me almost 5 minutes to deshell before I went to town on it. Cocktails were excellent - hard to see from the photos but huge and delicious. Resulted in a great midday buzz. Limoncello spritz was also good but perhaps too strong for a lunchtime drink. Other courses ordered: - Lamb ravioli - Had 1-2 bites and tasted good, but probably a 3.5-4. Not really up to my palate and compared to my own entree, hard to beat :) - Carbonara - Solid. Incredibly rich and this was an entree where the large portions actually hurt more than helped - Salads - Hard to tell bc I was full of pasta Minor ding if anything is the ambiance. It's a block or so away from the crazy shore of Como but still was getting a bit loud by the time we left. Not a real complaint and didn't affect our experience, but if you're looking for a more quiet and relaxed experience you might want to go to a less touristy area. Thank you for a lovely meal!

Horrible service and food. Served us rotten food and didn't not exchange our food. Do not recommend.read more

Great food, nice ambiance. Intimate. Server Clemente was attentive, personal, and funny. Black…read moretruffles the specialty were amazing.

This intimate restaurant was highly recommended by a local shopkeeper and did not disappoint. They…read moreseated our party of eight without a reservation. We enjoyed a nice bottle of wine, two antipasto plates, a simple salad, and a variety of pastas. The mushroom pasta was the best dish of my entire trip!!

What a Yelp GEM find especially finding out it was located behind the Palace Hotel, where we were…read morestaying. Based on reviews on Yelp, we decided to try the Piazza Roma. It was excellent. Owner, handed us each a glass of champagne while we waited for our outside table. Service was excellent, friendly and attentive. Food amazing. Fried calamari and shrimp, extra yummy. Birra reserve even better. Highly recommended. Outside and inside seating. Owners are very nice.

Amazing seafood pasta with incredible local wines & service!…read more Our waiter was incredibly knowledgeable & all recommendations were outstanding!

Stilo was the first restaurant we visited in Lake Como. It's located right across on the water…read morewhich made for stunning dinner views. We were lucky to be seated outside after about a 10 minute wait on a busy Friday evening. Our server Lucco was very sweet and though very busy did his best to be attentive. We started with sparkling water, proseccos, margherita pizza and a salad. Those were delivered promptly. Next I ordered the linguine frutti di mare which was sooo delicious and the seafood was so fresh (prawns, mussels, scallops). However, there was an unsavory taste left in our mouths after my friend's food had hair in it and she asked to return it to the kitchen. A lady server came over and aggressively insisted that the hair belonged to my friend because it had to be "extensions". This was an unpleasant experience to say the least My friend declined another dish from the kitchen and we shared my pasta which we both enjoyed but I'm sad she wasn't able to enjoy her meal. Overall, we still really enjoyed the food we did try.

This restaurant is right next to lake Como so you can oversea the lake while you dine which makes…read morethe atmosphere 100times better. I had some tea and grilled seafood, it was mostly crabs and shrimp, it would have been nice to have more variety.