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Best Restaurants in Lake Como

196 restaurants analyzed out of 2633 identified · Italy

Lake Como's dining scene is Italian and Mediterranean with lakefront settings, with Como city offering the widest selection and the most accessible prices - about a third of its restaurants sit at budget level. The lakeside villages from Bellagio to Varenna concentrate higher-end options, with Varenna showing notably strong food quality for a village of its size. Modern Italian, Asian, and Japanese options are best represented in Como itself. Inland towns like Lecco offer more affordable everyday Italian cooking.

Lake Como has 196 analyzed restaurants. Some of the strongest areas for dining are Bellagio, Como, Malgrate. Top cuisines include Italian, Pizza, Japanese.

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Como


Lakeside tables and proper Italian cooking make Como quietly hard to beat for a considered dinner

Bellagio


Lakeside terraces and Lombard mountain cooking at their most accomplished, without the usual tourist compromises

Lecco


Lake Como's quieter eastern fork, where fresh-caught fish and honest pasta come without the tourist markup

Malgrate


Proper Italian lunches with Como views, minus the crowds that come with crossing the lake

Varenna


Arguably Lake Como's best table, where Lombard cooking meets spectacular water views

Perledo


A hilltop village above Como where the drive up earns you some of the lake's most serious cooking

Erba


Locals come to Erba for the wood-fired pizza, not the lake views, and it shows in the quality

Cernobbio


Lakeside tables, local fish, and Lombard risotto done properly - Cernobbio sets a high bar for Como dining

Mandello del Lario


The eastern shore's answer to Como's famous lakeside tables, without the crowds

Porlezza


Unhurried lakeside dining at the quieter end of Como, where the splurge restaurants earn it

Menaggio


Ferry passengers who linger for lunch here rarely regret missing their first boat

Domaso


Proper lakeside Italian at its most unhurried, where kitchens focus and menus don't wander

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