Cantinin dal Gatt

This place is tucked quietly on a back street, but once you open the it is very lively. Very cozy, welcoming place filled with mostly locals. Food was delicious and they offer a Plat du Jour.

The place is amazing! Hidden in a small courtyard. Very tasteful dishes, excellent quality. Really enjoyed the evening. The owner is a great host

A little off the main streets, this small restaurant deserves its good ranking. We had a really nice experience with the inexpensive lunch menu, which was really tasty. We have aggremented with desserts with were as good as the ones you find in some of the best pastries. Highly recommended!

Just had the best pasta in my life! Please come and try their squid fish linguine, if you don’t believe me, and you will be surprised!

Nice quality service, committed to you from start to finish. Food ( at least the dishes we ordered ) excellent, we will surely come back !

Always good 👌🏼

fabulous ambience! Food & servise are awesome..highly recommend

Fantastic food and service. We needed the menu translated to English and the server helped us with that. She also made great suggestions. Would eat here again 10/10

It had been a long day for my friend and me and we were ready for a nice big dinner in the amazing fortress city of Bellinzona. Since we were in the Italian part of Switzerland, we really wanted to hit up an Italian joint. We wandered the many winding streets, looking for something to strike our fancy when we spied this place, all alone down one of the many side streets. We were attracted by its large "Trattoria" sign and the warm glow emanating from its windows. The place is larger than it looks, with a bunch of smaller rooms toward the back. It was also quite empty when we first got there, but we were pretty early for dinner, I think like around 6:30pm. As the night wore on the place steadily filled up (with locals, it looked like) and was quite lively by the time we left a couple of hours later. They had no printed menus, just a large chalkboard with the daily offerings that the waitress took around from table to table. They are serious about serving what's local and frech NOW, apparently. Since it was the start of autumn wild boar and venison were featured on the menu, as well as other seasonal ingredients, like chestnuts. We started off with a couple of glasses of local white wine, which was excellent, and they brought out some bread and a little pile of shaved wild boar salumi, sprinkled with salt and rosemary. Oh wow, that was so good, just melted in our mouths. The bread was great too, hearty and crusty. After some deliberation and help from our waitress translating what the menu items meant, I decided on the wild boar stew with polenta and my friend got the risotto with pancetta, chestnuts, mushrooms. They were both SO good, my stew was rich and flavorful, and the polenta delectably creamy and satisfying. My friend's risotto had all kinds of flavors happening within it and we were both very happy campers, chasing down the awesome food with some equally awesome local red wine this time. I forget the names of the grapes and all that--we just asked the waitress what she recommended and she just brought this stuff out. The service was as good as the food, and the prices were reasonable. Combined with a relaxed yet refined ambiance, I do think this place is as good as it gets. As much as I love to try new places, if I'm ever in Bellinzona again I'd come back to this place.