Ristorante Crìanza | Cucina Pugliese — Restaurant in Como

We love this place! The service was wonderful. We got there as they opened to try and got the restaurant to ourselves for a while, which was nice. Our waiter made recommendations and gave us an English menu. We listened to his recommendations and could not have been happier. We got the cuttlefish noodles starter to share. The texture of the cuttlefish was soft and paired well with the pumpkin. We each got a pasta - the laganari pasta with scampi and seafood. This was incredible and I especially loved the texture if the handmade noodles. My husband got the mushroom and sausage pasta, and it was his favourite pasta of our time in Italy so far. He will be talking about it for a long time! For our second, we shared the octopus. The texture was unreal and it was by far the best octopus we've both ever had. The sauce with the fried black cabbage was a great pairing. Lastly, we go the lemon sorbet and it was the best way to end our meal. We would love to be back...

This was honestly one of our favorite meals over our two week trip in Italy. I am chef and my husband is a bartender in the US and I very very rarely write reviews. Chris the owner was so kind, the ambiance was one of the best (if not THE best) of the trip. And the food was very very good . We've eaten too much on this trip (and we are near the end) so we only ordered two starters (fried anchovy and Burrata) and two pastas (Cavetellinni with chickpeas and the Maccheroniccini (sp)? With a white ragu of pork and lamb). But all the execution was spot on and very enjoyable. I was hesitant because I figured most food in Como would be pretty touristy and not great -- but we were very pleasantly surprised and I'll be letting my chef friends know that this is an awesome Place to go for a true and wonderful...

We stumbled on this place off the beaten path and had one of the best meals. Would recommend make reservations as I think we got lucky to score a table walking in. The waiter was very knowledgeable and main owner came around to personally to help ensure we had a good meal. Also could tell have a lot of pride for the food from the Puglia region. They gave a complimentary starting dish of some sort of zucchini/asparagus soup which was incredible along with some vegetables and some sort of fennel seasoned crackers. Then had the prosciutto fig and melon appetizer - which again was delicious and perfect amount of flavors. We ordered the orecchiette pasta and the cavatelli with mussels- both were incredible. Ended it with a simple basic lava cake - but all in all top quality meal and not to...