La Cucina Di Elsa - COMO

We had an amazing time at this lovely restaurant, it felt like being at home, we were served outstanding food in the warmest environment.Thank you for this beautiful evening! Will be delighted to come back very soon!

Cute restaurant in Como. I think family owned, with the owner still taking orders and bringing out the orders : Food was nice too. We ordered Linguine allo scoglio (mixed seafood Linguine all’astice bellavista (lobster Spiedini di calamari a gamberi gratinati al forno (squid and shrimp skewers Grigliata di pesce misto (mixed grilled fish The mixed grilled fish is actually various types of seafood (fish, octopus, shrimp but my friend was quite happy with it. The skewers are a rather small portion for a second course meal in comparison to the grilled fish platter or the Linguine pasta from first course (just 4 skewers in total, i.e. 2 of each type . With regards to the Linguine: the basis for the sauce seems to have been the same. The lobster in itself was nice, and came wit the required utensils. But with regards to the pasta, we all prefered the one with mixed seafood over the linguine with lobster, as there was more flavor mixed into the sauce from the variety of seafood in the linguine.

The staffs are really friendly. I had octopus with a little bit dried potatoes. My friends got lasagna (portion is too small) and an amazing linguine. We had tapwater for €2.

Food normal but not special, but really really worst the way they treat us in a romantic dinner me and my wife plus the friends behind us, had the same worst treatment in the normal day week. The waitress Daniela was fantastic and lovely. She let us have a better moment.

Mostly mediocre food, but excellent setting and good ambiance. The prices extremely high, refusal to give us normal, tap water to drink next to our already expensive dinner that included appetizers, main dish and a bottle of local wine (charged us 3€instead for what was clearly tap water put into a nice bottle no lable.. no nothing on the bottle.. not even a cap came with it) Appetizers we had the seafood salad to share. It had shrimps and octopus on top of out of the bag, store bought, ready salad mix. The only nice twist were the pomengrade seeds and some rosted almonds. Mediocre at best.. not worth the 15€ they priced it at. Main dish: My husband had the mix seafood and fish fried dish (fritto misto) and in the evening he had severe stomach problems. I had the homemade pasta filled with ricotta and fresh basil, topped with sliced tomatoes and parmesan cheese it was a delight.. fresh, light... a joy to eat! Local wine decent (too strong and with a vinegary aftertaste) ... exorbitantly priced at 55€/500ml Ambiance very cozy terrace with white table cloths and napkins, dim lights.. very romantic. Service it was mix. We had two ladies.. complete opposites.. one nice and smiling.. the other really unhappy to do anything.