Il Comacino

Top choice in Como


A new venture affiliated with the plush Avenue Hotel, Comacino offers food as theatre, especially if you sit at the chef’s table (technically a couple of bar stools), which brings you eyeball to eyeball with the guy cooking your dinner. Watch carefully as he calmly squeezes ricotta into your zucchini flowers or rolls out the dough for your breadsticks.

Everything here is homemade and they’re not afraid to show it. Make it past the breadsticks and zucchini flowers and you’ll be into the realm of rabbit ravioli with a creamy parmesan sauce (blink and you’ll miss them cooking it), medium-rare steak, seared tuna and rice cooked with lake fish. The wine list is replete with Italian classics including Barolo and Amarone, and the cocktails have already amassed a small fan club.


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