Comparù — Restaurant in Niagara Falls

We are staying in the heart of the Clifton Hill tourist trap and found ourselves surrounded by ridiculously overpriced, painfully low-quality food. How and why visitors put up with this food scene is inconceivable. We knew we had scored from the moment we arrived in Comparú and saw their oven. Then the Caprese salad and the margarita and funghi pizzas arrived. The last time we ate a margarita like this was at L'antica Pizzeria da Michelle in Naples. We waited in line for two hours on a weekday morning along with around a hundred other people to taste that Margherita. Back in Niagara on a Saturday night, we (comically) needed a reservation to get a table at the restaurant inside Sheraton but we got a table at Camparú by calling thirty minutes ahead. The dough was jaw droppingly good, proper neopolitan style, super thin, soft, and a tiny bit charred, just right. The quality of cheese was next level. The tomato sauce was phenomenal. Bonus: a divine home-made chilli oil. The olive oil and balsamic that dressed their very fresh, beautifully presented Caprese was phenomenal. I wondered whether they source the olive oil from a family farm in Italy. The place was almost full by the time we were leaving, but what they deserve is a gigantic line that wraps around the block. We also got the carbonara gnocchi and cannoli for dessert. Both were incredible. Oh and the pricing: we consumed pizzas that were $7-15 dollars more expensive in and around Clifton Hill, and their quality was not close to half as good as Camparú's. Move to Toronto please and bring your oven. Thanks for the rich culinary experience, a solid head and shoulders above anything else we experienced during this...

A hidden gem in Niagara Falls!

This wonderful restaurant is just a short walk from the main attractions of Niagara Falls and SO worth the effort. Why settle for chain restaurant food when you can have authentic Neapolitan pizza and other dishes?

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that even though this is the first place we’ve eaten on our trip, this is going to be the best.

The only time I’ve had pizza this good was when we were in Italy, which makes sense because the owner grew up and learned to make pizza in Italy. He and his wife run the place together and you can tell how much passion they have for their restaurant in the food and in the service.

We tried the namesake (Comparu) pizza and a calzone to start. Both were excellent and you could taste the quality of the fresh ingredients and attention to detail in every bite. The meatballs in the Comparu were hand-made and excellent and you could taste the fresh olive oil in the crust and the sauce.

We probably wouldn’t have tried dessert, but when we found out that the tiramisu was homemade, we had to try that as well and it didn’t disappoint. Excellent in every way and some of the best I’ve ever had.

A quick note about the service. The owner’s wife was super nice and one of the hardest working people I’ve seen in some time. She single-handedly performed hostess, waitress, barista, and bus duties, somehow managing to take care of every table in the restaurant, including boxing up leftovers.

Highly...

Phenomenal Italian food crafted by native brothers - possibly the best Italian food I've had in my lifetime (outside of my mother's home cooking). We dined in our first night in town and had the caprese and the pizza - it was so fresh and perfect, obviously hand crafted and all details considered, not a heavy meal but a delicious and satisfying dish that fulfilled all culinary satisfactions without going over the top.

We returned our next night in the city and had the pasta - gnocchi,rigatoni. these dishes were just as incredible as the night before. Hand crafted, flawless pasta. The chefs are masters.

Plus, for desert we had a tough time deciding. I told my wife i have never liked tiramisu. But she said let's order it so you can actually taste GOOD tiramisu, instead of that low quality tiramisu you've had in the past. She was right. After devouring the incredible cakelike desert here, I now love tiramisu.

The location is an unassuming spot with a sign out front simply saying "pizza" in large letters, but this restaurant is so much more than simply another pizza place. If you are in Niagara Falls and want Italian food, you simply...