Trattoria "La Botte" 👨🏻‍🍳

This place was recommended by staff at our hotel. Our meal, and the entire experience could not have been more perfect. Kind and helpful staff, amazing food and wine, a cozy and relaxed atmosphere. We started with a selection of meats and Alpine cheeses. I will be dreaming about the risotto with pumpkin, goat cheese and dark chocolate for a long time! It was one of the best things I have ever tasted! My husband's pork was perfect, as was the apple cake we shared. Do make a reservation here. Highly recommend.

Thanks for squeezing us in for dinner at 7pm on a busy night ! We enjoyed everything from squid to pasta to Iberian pork. Service was very professional and friendly even though the restaurant was full! Oh and we also appreciated mosquito repellant!

We had such a wonderful experience here! The food was absolutely excellent, full of flavor and beautifully presented. The elegant interior and cozy atmosphere made me feel instantly relaxed, and the staff were so warm and attentive.

Trattoria “La Botte” is a true gem! The food was absolutely amazing - homemade, full of flavor, and deeply rooted in local tradition. The charismatic owner brings so much warmth and character to the place; it’s clear this is a real family-run labor of love. Everything felt authentic, welcoming, and simply top-notch. We will definitely be back!

Disappointing Experience Despite the Hype. I recently visited this restaurant, drawn by the buzz surrounding its Michelin star. Unfortunately, the experience fell far short of expectations. First, the ambiance is almost non-existent — no thought seems to have gone into the design or atmosphere. The interior is bare and uninviting, and to make matters worse, there’s no air conditioning. Dining in such conditions, especially on a warm day, made it hard to enjoy the meal. Service was equally underwhelming. The owner greeted me with a smile, but it felt more forced than friendly — the kind of politeness that lacks genuine warmth. As for the food, which should be the highlight: the portions were surprisingly small, even for a fine-dining place, and nothing on the plate stood out. The flavors were bland, presentation basic, and overall it was difficult to understand what earned this place a Michelin star in the first place. In short, the restaurant relies heavily on its reputation rather than delivering a truly special dining experience. I left hungry and unimpressed. There are plenty other restaurants in Stresa with a Michelin star which are better.

The compositions of the food where a little bit adventurous and didn’t always match the components. The dumplings where almost drowned im sauce and randomly sprinkled all over the plate. The rabbit tasted ok lacked substance and didn’t matched well with the caper mouse. The tatar was a little to coarsely and was tasteless so that I had to order pepper and salt (which should come automatically with tatar) All in all we didn’t felt that welcome and service was constantly switching and not one person even if we came early. Besides the side bread we got was not fresh over all and very hard and dry.

Good food, nice basic flavors! Service was very friendly we got a spot without reservation only 5 minute waiting.

Honestly, I was really disappointed in this restaurant. When I (guy with a lot of tattoos) walked in I immediately felt judged by the staff. No eye contact and took barely any time for us. We both wanted the trout spaghetti but this was not available anymore- which they failed to tell us beforehand as they were seating us as quick as humanly possible. My girlfriend ordered the ravioli and I ordered the risotto instead. The ravioli contained 7 small pieces: the quality was not much better than other pasta’s we have tried around Stresa yet you pay twice as much for it. The risotto was similar quality-wise; overall the taste was decent but the dark chocolate overpowered so much that there was not much flavor to taste otherwise. We considered dessert but after the waitress wouldn’t really give us the time of day, we opted to get a nice pizza and a panna cotta elsewhere- as we were still hungry when we left. I could have lived with the portion sizes being so incredibly small- but the way we felt treated is inexcusable. Would not recommend. Edit: the bread was weirdly stale. Felt like it was atleast a couple of days old.