Grotto Pojana in Riva San Vitale

A star ! Half for the beautiful and evocative location on the lake, the other half for the staff present and attentive to the customer. We took a platter for two and the fondue at a flat rate. Good cutting board, not exaggerated. The fondue was truly forgettable. Sauces that taste like nothing. You can't put a flavorless yogurt dip on beef. However all tasteless. Let's now talk about the fondue "broth". Basically hot water. Now, how tasty do you think meat boiled in just water and seasoned with tasteless sauces is? In the end they offer us to drink the broth... everything is left over! Something that is unthinkable both with and without sherry. We definitely expected much more. The quality/price ratio is extreme. Exaggerated prices for quality at least a third of the price. I certainly won't tell you until next time.

Place to be every time !! Bravi

You can eat very well in an environment of rustic memories.

Gastronomic review of Mendrisiotto: excellent baked suckling pig with potatoes and deer fillet. Friends tried the cazöla and the tagliatelle... excellent too. It's worth a gastronomic visit.

Few words but well spent. The event was a company dinner. I liked the place a lot. Very particular and rustic, it has its charm (photo). Friendly, nice and patient staff (we made quite a mess 🤣). The food is also rustic and meat-based, with the necessary differentiations for our vegetarians and intolerants. It was a nice evening in a nice restaurant

The Grotto Pojana is an authentic culinary jewel. The enchanting atmosphere, with a rustic and welcoming setting, makes you feel at home. The food is exceptional, with dishes prepared with fresh, high-quality ingredients. The staff is attentive and friendly, ready to advise you on the best options. I can't say enough about this place for its authentic Ticino cuisine. If you want a memorable evening, Grotto Pojana is the right place.

Nice place. Excellent dinner. Friendly staff, fast and attentive service.👍 Venetian liver = a real delight!!

Simply beautiful! Ate the skewer. Friendly and fast staff.

EVERYTHING EXCELLENT! high quality food, the meat melted in your mouth it was so soft, the grotto appetizer was exceptional and the first courses were delicious! friendly and nice staff! I recommend everyone to go!

Friendly staff, very good food and a nice atmosphere. Have already spent several very nice evenings there. Gladly again!

Good food, great choice. Friendly and helpful staff. I always come back willingly

Super very tasty, large portions, great service💯💯💯💯👍👍👍👍🏆🏆🏆👑👑👑👑👑

It's a grotto that I've known for decades, but hadn't visited in a while. For those who love lake fish, such as perch, it is the right place. The complete menu can be found on the site. Friendly staff and cool place.

Grotto located directly on Lake Lugano with rustic furnishings. Good food and drink with friendly staff.

Supper food, nice service! Immediately again

Lovely little place, good welcoming cuisine

Very positive experience, I recommend.

Quiet place on the banks of the Ceresio. Local but high quality cuisine. On the menu card you will find dishes that you don't usually find in other restaurants. For me perhaps more of a restaurant than a grotto. Excellent service.

Beautifully located with a view of the lake

Just the place for enjoy and have a nice meal

The first, but certainly not the last, braised goat. Simply delicious

We had a great time. Friendly staff and excellent food. The large side window allows a wide view of the lake; it is warm, but it feels like being on the terrace.

Context: Business lunch. Presentation: 4.5/5 Quality: 4.5/5 Quantity: 4/5 Price ratio: 4/5 Service: 4.5/5 Staff: 4.5/5 Average: 4.3 Observations: there was no menu of the day but they offered me a salad with a first course for 20.- All very good and well presented. Nice environment with a nice view and sufficient parking available.

Nice place with a wonderful view. Loved the menu choices and tasty food at a reasonable price.

Very attentive people, very good service. They have informed us about the area and the surrounding architecture. Unmatched views. Exquisite food especially the meat.

Delicious baked suckling pig and cassoeula! Abundant and succulent portions

Excellent food, especially now during the “Rassegna mendrisiotto”. But everything else is for the best. Super friendly service, an absolute master chef.

Very beautiful and well-kept grotto. A bit remote but worth a detour. Easy to reach by bus. Charming staff and the food was wonderful, we will definitely be back!

Good food, nice staff, nice to sit outside

Very good food Very fresh tiramisu Average service

Beautiful place to eat at good prices on average in Switzerland

Nice place, by the lake. We ate very well. The menu card offers a good choice. Attentive and courteous staff. Value for money OK. Advised.

Excellent restaurant for taste, quality of products and service.

Cool place near the lake, fast service, varied menu of both meat and lake fish, average prices, generous portions.

Fried aoborelle, a historic dish of this grotto. But whatever you choose from the menu will not disappoint! Characteristic place near the lake, friendly and always friendly and fun staff. Honest prices! Free parking.

Very tasty food in a great location with a super nice waiter

Friendly, tasty, uncomplicated, fast.

good and friendly service, good food, will come again!

Excellent in welcoming and in what was served. A great dinner with great service and price.

Sunday 3pm, 38 degrees.....Welcoming, cool place with a beautiful view of the lake and a relaxing temperature. Excellent quality cutting board, good bruschetta and a fantastic giardiniera!!!! 👍🏻😉

Staff 1a. Kitchen also very fine. What more could you want for your 30th wedding anniversary? Just the right thing. Grazie mille.

I'm removing a star because we were brought a different dish than the one ordered. The error was then remedied quite quickly. For the rest, lots of choice and good food. A little noisy because it is located right next to the cantonal road. Friendly staff.

Extremely friendly welcome, smiling and competent service. The cuisine is excellent, the menu is well stocked but not overloaded which is a guarantee of freshness. In my humble opinion and I am not a gastronomic critic, the only slight fault in taste is the industrial runny chocolate on the dessert. It would be better to melt a real piece of chocolate than to use this type of product on an excellent dessert. But we ate very well. The setting is idyllic, we came by chance. We will be happy to come back. Excellent value for money.

Amazing grotto. Exquisite food. Wonderful service. It's far away from the main roads and not easily accessible by public transport so you need to make an effort to get there. But it's worth it. One of the best restaurants I've ever been in and around Lugano. Everything we ate was perfect.

Excellent cuisine, very friendly service

Nice location by the lake, the road in front of it is a bit annoying. Typical grotto menu and large portions. Friendly service and fair prices.

Excellent, unique, friendly staff and delicious food!

Overall pleasant experience. Very friendly and helpful staff. Excellent quality food and refined in the raw materials used. Beautiful view of the lake. I was only disappointed with the first one which turned out to be more of a tasting rather than a course. I can't comment on prices as I was a guest. In general I recommend it.

Highly recommended. Friendly and good cuisine. Reserve a table, a must!

Great place overlooking the lake. It was delicious. Thank you

Very nice place, good and well served!

Last night dinner at the Cazzoeula Club Ticino. Charming restaurant. Very kind and competent staff. High level cuisine. Dishes with attention to the smallest details. Congratulations to all the staff and a warm greeting to the owner, friend and member of our club Cazzoeula Renato.

Truly a good pig, congratulations

Very nice and rustic location, small and ideal for not getting lost among the other customers. Friendly and always smiling staff and fast service. A place I would happily return to!

Ample parking available in the area, restaurant with a single large room, good food

Excellent location on Ceresio, rich wine list and interesting dishes on offer, friendly staff and fair prices.

Typical Grotto menu. Something is lying there right on the cantonal road!

Superb location with lake view. The food offered is of a high standard as is the service. In particular, the meat dishes stand out for their goodness. Absolutely recommended!

Grotto on the lake, beautiful personal view, medium-high prices, good à la carte choice. I totally don't recommend it.

very good cuisine! service very good.

Compliments to the waiter, competent and with the right spirit 👍

Very good and special food, but must be reserved in advance. Staff friendly and also German speaking. Recommended 👍

Excellent quality and excellent service!

!! Be careful if you have a car that you love, the parking lot is full to the brim. There are people parking on the side behind the normal row (you will be parked in)!!! .the dessert and the main course were very good. In my tomato salad the tomatoes were halfway green. There were 5 of us and we only got 3 tickets for dessert, it looked like they didn't have enough tickets. but all in all the food was very good and we had a nice time.

A lakeside restaurant with a magnificent view. It's worth the detour. Decent food and service.

A little patience, but it's worth it.

Restaurant on the water's edge where tasty Ticino dishes are served. The staff is very nice.

Wonderful 👍very nice people and great food

Nice service directly on the lake, initially very intimate but quite confusing with the arrival of other customers. Excellent food, slightly high prices, rather slow service

I often go to eat the "little fish", the staff are friendly and the food is good! 🤗

Absolutely great! Friendly service with humor. Best Ticino ambience! Price/performance perfect. If it were closer, it would be our local pub!

Very good dishes. Prices not very cheap. Friendly staff but on their own.

All in the menu are delicious,and the view in front the lake complete the wonderful climate .

We had a really good time! Friendly and competent staff. Cuisine with typical flavors that is truly appreciated.

Very fine risotto with porcini mushrooms. Very friendly, we will definitely eat here again.

Fantastic location Excellent staff Good dishes ......definitely to return

Very good and super friendly staff

Stopped by for lunch while fishing and it was very good, great service and food! It's nice that you can park your boat!

We had dinner with an exquisite Pecagna. We were very satisfied, we will happily return.

Délicieux repas et super accueil ! Merci

Bell'ambiente, bella vista adiacente al lago, struttura curata. Posteggio comodo. Camerieri sorridenti e gentili, anche sotto stress. Il cibo era abbastanza buono, ma sicuramente non eccelso. Riporto ad esempio il tagliere: 19 CHF o 20 CHF, pochissime fette, qualità mediocre! Oppure il gelato: 2 palline industriale a prezzi esagerati! In generale potrebbe andare, ma i prezzi sono decisamente troppo alti per essere un grotto. Capisco l'"inflazione del Gruppo Bordogna" ma ritengo che i prezzi potrebbero essere abbassati sensibilmente!

Sehr freundliche Bedienung. Das Essen schmeckte mir sehr gut.

Best Grotto! Food is awesome! Crew is very friendly. Will come back.

Immer sehr gut bedient und gegessen,sehr zu empfehlen!!!

Ogni anno andiamo al grotto Pojana per la rassegna gastronomica. Mangiato bene.Personale gentile

Vuoi spendere bene il tuo tempo nel Mendrisiotto, magari a cena con amici e gustare quanto di meglio ha da offrire iop territorio a tavola? La grande cordialità e l'ottima cucina del grotto Pojana ti lasceranno sicuramente un ricordo indelebile

Essen war superlecker! Bedienung superfreundlich! Alles hat gepasst. Ist sehr zu empfehlen! Kellner hat uns nach Hause gefahren, da kein Taxi zur verfügung war.. Nochmals viiiiielen Dank 🥰

(Traducido por Google) Muy buena comida, servicio amable y una gran vista del lago. A nuestros nietos ya nosotros los abuelos les encantó. (Original) Sehr gutes Essen, freunlicher Service und ein toller Blick auf den See. Unsere Enkel und wir Grosseltern waren begeistert.

Sehr gutes Essen, Risotto oder Polenta sehr zu empfehlen! Mit kleinen Kindern und Hunden absolut kein Problem. Super nettes und aufmerksames Personal. Kommen sicherlich wieder.

(Traducido por Google) Los camareros sirvieron sin máscara, la carne mixta a la parrilla llegó casi fría ... Se recalentó pero aún no estaba caliente se presentó en un plato frío ... Negativo en todos los sentidos y. ¡Ni siquiera hay una buena vista porque la carretera separa el lago! Ser evitado (Original) Camerieri che servivano senza mascherina, la grigliata di carne mista è arrivata quasi fredda... È stata riscaldata ma non era ancora calda era presentata in un piatto freddo... Negativo in tutti i sensi e. Non c'è neanche una bella vista perché la strada separa il lago! Da evitare

(Traducido por Google) El plato tradicional de filetes de pescado pequeño y perca es excelente. (Original) Ottimo il tradizionale piatto di pesciolini e filetti di persico

(Traducido por Google) Acogedor en el lago y buena comida. (Original) Gemütlich am See und gutes Essen

(Traducido por Google) Encontré un diente de cerdo en los aperitivos y casi dejé el mío. Pero el segundo plato es muy bueno (Original) Trovato un dente di maiale negli antipasti e quasi ci lasciavo il mio. Peró molto buona la seconda portata

Im September war ich wieder da und habe wieder schön im Grotto gegessen. Ich mag Landestypische Speisen. Im Grotto hat es viele Stammgäste due auch frische Speisen bevorzugen. Gerne im nächsten Jahr wieder. Danke.

(Traducido por Google) Buen lugar. Hermosa vista. Perca sombría y fantástica (Original) Bel posto. Vista bellissima. Alborelle e pesce persico fanfastici

(Traducido por Google) ¡Todo es maravilloso! Comida genial! Gran servicio y la vista simplemente fenomenal! (Original) Alles wunderbar! Essen top! Service spitze und die Aussicht einfach grandios!

(Traducido por Google) Excellentes; acogedora e idílica gruta con mega fino risotto milanese ai porcini o excelente rosbif con papas fritas !! Personal muy agradable y excelente vista del lago Lugano ....? (Original) Excellentes; gemütliches, idyllisches Grotto mit mega feinem Risotto milanese ai porcini oder auch excellentes Roastbeef mit Pommes!! Sehr nettes Personal und top Aussicht auf den Lago di Lugano....🌅😎😉

(Traducido por Google) Muy buena comida y condiciones amigables ... ¡simplemente genial! también apto para niños. (Original) Sehr feines Essen und freundliche Bedingung... einfach super! ebenfalls Kinderfreundlich.

(Traducido por Google) Lugar muy acogedor, comida deliciosa y personal agradable y amable. Muy recomendable 🔝💯 (Original) Locale molto accogliente, cibo prelibato e personale simpatico e cordiale! Consigliatissimo 🔝💯

(Traducido por Google) Hermosa ubicación comida deliciosa y servicio muy amable ... ¿Qué más necesitas? (Original) Beautiful location delicious food and very kind service ... What else do you need?