Locanda Barbarossa In Como

Excellent pizza. Exactly what you imagine when you think of pizza in Italy 😄.

Nice service that serves excellent food. All at fair prices in the middle of Como's old town. We were there twice within four days. Once at the beginning of lunchtime, once towards the end. This was the only way to get a table without waiting.

We had a wonderful time! It started with us going in the afternoon to make a reservation for the evening. After telling the gentleman that "we would like a reservation at 8" multiple times and being answered with the sentence "a reservation at 7?" Multiple times we finally decided that we would love a "reservation at 9". When we had arrived at 9:01 we were greeted with a plethora of confusion and were swiftly told to "sit down! Wait!". It felt like home :) after 15 minutes we were asked in italian (which we do not speak, unfortunately. As a side note: i love italian and hope to be able to exchange a few words one day with a real italian without him noticing how bad i am at his own language) if we would like a menu in english or in italian. Suffice it to say it took a few tries for us to understand what we were being asked. Eventually, god bless us, we realized what these wonderful people were asking us and we answered "English! Grazie!" but we had apparently missed the mark.... because, and for the life of me i still do not quite understand how, we were actually told our table was free! After we had exclaimed "oooooh! Sorry, that's what you mean" and they had repeated "oOOoooHHooHHh hahahahah" we were brought to our table under the wonderful bright white lights. We ordered a bottle of wine and a couple of pizzas. What we didn't realize is that our pizza came with an insightful lecture! After mispronouncing the word "siciliana" i was told something fascinating about the letter "c" for a good 2 minutes. I don't quite remember what it was, since i hadn't learned italian yet, but i was very grateful for the explanation (i think I'm getting there though). So grateful in fact that i proceeded to ask if they had "Olio al peperoncino" after which the same wonderful gentlemen who had taken our reservation, told us to wait when we arrived at our reserved time, told us our table was free in a language i don't understand and explained why my pronounciation of a word was fundamentally wrong gracefully added that i must surely mean "Olio piccante". What an experience! We'll be back! What fascinates me the most is that this gentleman spoke english flawlessly the whole time!!!! Jokes aside, italy! You're the best! Can't wait to be back! Won't be coming back here though! :) By the way: when you get to the "bottles" section of the wine menu am i weird for missing the "375ml" disclaimer? It just seems strange to me... surely not many people look at a wine menu and go "oh, lets just double check they mean 750ml bottles and not 375ml bottles." i don't know... maybe I'm the only one.... either way its fine, it was stated in the menu. But still... its kind of weird.

We were recommended by local people and we loved it. Quality/price ratio, great. The portions are perfect. We ordered pasta, pizza and risotto and it was a success, delicious!!! And the panna cotta and cannoli, very delicious!

Everything was great, very friendly waiters and delicious food. Both the pizzas and the pasta, all delicious

One of the best restaurant in Como City center, they offer well balanced dishes, pasta Is good and great quality meat and fish, to be honest also the wine list Is very good. In the Summer tables outside. I will come back !

A lovely find in one of the back streets in Como. Extensive menu with everything you would expect from a decent Italian, and a whole lot more. Friendly staff and good prices. Chuffed we found this - it was out last meal in Italy and it didn't disappoint.

We went because of the reviews and the truth is that it was worth it. Small place, with friendly service, with a pizza master giving everything and watching from above. Spectacular pizzas. The only thing was a bit of a wait when paying, the place was full.

Vivo in canton Ticino e ci vado spesso. Locale bello arredato con gusto, personale gentile cibo buono e prezzi "giusti". Pizza, pasta, tutto ottimo.

Locale bello arredato con gusto, personale gentile cibo buono e prezzi "giusti". Consiglio anche la pizza molto digeribile fatta a richiesta con diverse farine. Bravi.