Boccondivino

This place is simply fun! I have been coming here often, either for lunch or dinner or even late night snacks. Good food and wine, with authentic Southern Italian flair in the heart of Berlin. A great selection of seasonal food, always with fresh seafood and beautiful pasta dishes on offer! Great place for late food after one of the many nearby theaters. It‘s a place where you might bump into famous actors or politicians enjoying la dolce vita!

We stumbled across this restaurant and were lucky because it was early enough for them to be able to accommodate us without a reservation. We had fantastic pasta, I enjoyed the truffle pasta and it was probably the best truffle pasta I have ever had. My husband really wanted carbonara and even though it was not on the menu that made it for him. The wine was wonderful and we really appreciated the service we received. It was really a little bit of Italy in Berlin.

Wonderful super tasty dinning experience. Very authentic Italian place. Highly recommend. We had tasty pasta, lovely calamari and a beautiful steak accompanied by fine wine. Will be back for sure!

Avoiding the fact that there are always beautiful, competent and friendly waitresses for a great service, food is really good and location is nice and very close to friedrichstraße. Real italian cucina.

Very delicious Italian food, excellent service and a great ambience :-)

Really tasty pizza on thin cake and fresh salads. Nice place a little bit hidden but is worth to go there. Fast service.

I loved the food was delicious they have good wines and the attention I loved it's a good italian restaurant

Got kicked out because I don’t speak German. Wouldn’t even seat me. Told only reservations but there were only two tables there and the ENTIRE PLACE WAS EMPTY. It was utterly deserted. Disgusted at this place.

Delicious appetizers and pastas. Saltimbocca also exceptional. Truffle pasta and octopus ragu were on the Tageskarte and fantastic! Will return when back in town. Very helpful staff serving a big (12 person) party

Excellent restaurant serving authentic Italian dishes tucked within a short alley off Albrechtstrasse. Dark, intimate ambiance, perfect for parties of 2-6. Quickly seated, and staff provides care in explaining the menu, and considerate of dietary requirements. Calamari is served crispy, piping hot, and seasoned well. Salads are served fresh and simple. Perfect after a day of brats and biers. Pappardelle with lamb ragu is robust, made to order, and balanced well against an arugula topping. Linguini with truffles is joy to eat and watch as it is plated table side. No time for dessert, but I cannot fault the relaxed service, after you've eaten every streak of food on your plate. Would easily recommend again. Gut Essen!

Delicious appetizers and pastas. Saltimbocca also exceptional. Truffle pasta and octopus ragu were on the Tageskarte and fantastic! Will return if we can.

I'm not sure if the people leaving good reviews here are real or not. After enduring 16hours of flight from Singapore to Berlin, I wanted to finally have nice food in a nice environment. Since reviews are all good on Foursquare, Tripadvisor, Google, my friends and I decided to give this place a shot for lunch. We ordered ricotta and spinach cannelloni, with vegetable and beet soup, and I ordered some kind of pasta with shrimps and lobster sauce. 1) We were served bread and olives. I wonder what happened to the olive oil and balsamic vinegar. 2) The waiter was always hovering around and eavesdropping. Or maybe seeking validation or hoping that we're gonna go all "oh wow awesome food" (which didn't happen). 3) The cannelloni with ricotta and spinach was bland. But it was slightly better than my dishful of hate pasta. 4) My pasta (the shrimp with lobster sauce) was obviously cooked with hate. The shrimps were made from frozen, it was bland and texture was meh. The sauce? I didn't taste any lobster, instead all I had was salt and huge chunks of garlic. A vampire would have fled in horror if he saw the chunks of garlic in my pasta. Even my boyfriend thought that maybe they heard that I mention that the soup tastes home-made, and as a result, they probably cooked me a dishful of hate. So God knows where all these good reviews came from. Is it because they hate life, or just hate asians, or hate non-italians, or is it because we aren't the usual demographic of the fancy Mitte business people, that we don't deserve a good meal even though we're paying for it? I would not recommend this place at all to anyone who wants to. Spend your money elsewhere, in a restaurant that takes pride in serving good food to people. Visited May 2015

Drawn here by the great reviews an hour before a Brecht performance at Berlin Ensemble a block away, we were looking forward to some authentic upmarket Italian food. The menu certainly does not disappoint. It is well-balanced between simple tourist-pleasing standards and elegant-sounding dishes trumpeting exotic ingredients with nouveau-riche enthusiasm, and wide-ranging, with pastas, antipastos, meats, and fish all solidly represented. Monkfish, bison entrecot, three kinds of seafood carpaccio. The staff are attentive when you first arrive, seat you, take an oddly long time to read you the half-Italian, half-German menu in English, and take your drink order quite quickly, but at least on this Thursday at 7pm it would have been a good idea to order two drinks right away, because although the drinks arrived quickly, 15 minutes elapsed after they arrived while the waiter rushed around serving other tables. To his credit, he was fast, but for the number of tables, the restaurant is understaffed enough that the waiter has to avoid eye-contact with the new table for 15 minutes after getting them their initial drink order. Once he finally showed at our table again, an honest and friendly exchange ensued where I voiced my concern, having by then 30m at best to finish a meal that had not yet started. The waiter proudly exclaimed that everything took a loong time to come out of the kitchen because it's all so amazingly fresh, (including the cheese and brined olives??,) so we cashed out. Still curious to try a sampling of their cuisine, we asked what time they close, and the waiter said: "don't worry. We're open 'till midnight!". It would have been considerate after we mentioned that we would then return at 11 to tell us that "open 'till midnight" is only on Fridays, not this evening... Returning at 11 and walking through an open front door we were met by a judgy man admonishing us that it was closed (ever think of closing the front door, then?) - Let's just say we'll be happy to live without further adventures in Boccondivino customer service...

The staff was wonderful and very welcoming as soon as I walked through the door. Unfortunately, the food didn't stack up. I think the pasta was previously frozen. I bit into a very cold piece that clearly had not been heated well. Personal preference, and perhaps an American preference, but the pasta was also a little more al dente than I would have liked.

I ordered a scampi dish. Of the five scampi, four were well cooked but utterly tasteless. One had a suggestion of garlic seasoning. The spinach and green lettuce on the dish were also devoid of any flavor. Service was slow and hostile.

This is my favorite Sicilian restaurant in Berlin. They make a great pizza but the kitchen really shines with the seafood dishes. The portions are large and delicious, the salads are great. The wine list has great wines in all price ranges. The staff is friendly and efficient. Checkout the chalkboard above the bar for the daily specials based on what is fresh.

Great authentic atmosphere, not commercialised in any way. Fely like being in Italy. Great food, reasonable prices and the wine selection was also good and good value

Just saw a review "This is my favorite Sicilian restaurant in Berlin. They make a great pizza but the kitchen really shines with the seafood dishes." I am surprised - no pizza on the menu. It's not a pizzeria, it's a very nice italian ristorante - and the six of us all had different starters and entrees and were very happy. I will sure go there again.

Had a delightful meal here. Authentic Italian staff prepared fresh homemade pasta dishes. Decor was lovely. Waiter was friendly and witty and provided good recommendations for unusual Italian red wines, including one from his home town, in charmingly accented German and English. Wild truffle pasta initially appeared too plain, but actually had a delicious flavor. Dinner for two including wine was under 50€.

Amazing and unique variety of dishes in a very authentic Italian restaurant unlike others in the area

Very authentic Italian restaurant and reasonably priced. Grilled fish with potatoes and spinach reminded me of a meal in Venice. Pasta with beef filet was delicious. The pasta Alfredo ordered by a neighboring table was prepared in a very unique way and looked great!

My friend and I were in Berlin for just a couple of days, and so far we have not been especially impressed with the food options. This place seemed nice when we walked by it during the day, so we stopped in for dinner at around 9:30 on a Monday night. It was pretty busy, and they didn't have a hostess per say, so we sort of asked the bartender to be seated. It took about 10-15 min for someone to get to the table, but they were very nice. Just slow. The menu was on the chalkboard, as was the wine. I ordered a red wine for 7 euros, awful but cheap. Then we ordered food. Bread came - it was not great bread. Food came fast, I had mushroom risotto and my friend had a truffle and cheese pasta. They were both pretty good, but not excellent. Then it took another 25 min after we finished eating to get the check. Overall, decent food (especially for the price), and they were very nice, but not attentive.

very unique Italian experience. high quality of food. risotto- in the exact measurement. creamy sauce and great aroma. tortellini- fantastic dish with weal. a little too salty for me. nice and authentic ambiance. diversity of good wines.

Nice interiors and well located close to Friedrichstrasse railway station. The food wasn't bad but not very good either. Definitely overpriced in comparison to what you get.