Casa Arpino Lounge Bar

Top-rated.online cuts through the clutter, highlighting only the reviews that are most helpful, earn the most likes, or come from the most active contributors. Right in the heart of town. This café/bar was always busy when we went past. Service was and staff were friendly. Food and drinks were all very good. We stopped here several times in the week we were there for both food and just drinks. This is where most of the action happens in bra for the fancier kids in town. Dress up in your lounge-bar best. Beware, this is one of the crowd hotspots of the weekends and there will be a lot of people there. They screeb for green passes at the door and it'll be a little more chill inside. Nice relaxing daytime drink and lunch, the chicken and fries were really good. Excellent service with a smile, food and relaxing atmosphere 👍 Casa Arpino is a café-restaurant with great food, great service, great atmosphere and very reasonable prices. No wonder they're quite busy. A sign is that a lot of patrons are loyal locals which demonstrates they're getting a lot of things right. We started off with a 'tagliere' (literally a wooden cutting board), a big rectangular platter that was heaped by about 5 types of cold cuts: salami, mortadella, coppa, and 2 kinds of ham. I eat a lot of cold cuts and these meats were superior, which was a pleasant surprise because a lot of places will try to wow you with quantity or presentation only for you to realize they just served you some industrial low grade stuff. The platter included a amount of bread sticks (grissini), wedges of a mild cheese, and cubes of a spinach omelet. I couldn't believe it only cost 9 dollars. My Italian friends ordered pasta Amatriciana and were VERY pleased: they say the guanciale (roughly, a kind of bacon) is key to this dish. The quantity was also abundant and they brought us a nice, big wedge of cheese and a really cheese grater so we could make it 'snow' on the pasta. Casa Arpino is in the town of Bra so it's no surprise that they offered burgers with Bra sausage, which is made of veal (vitello), and this is the dish I ordered. Although Bra sausage is traditionally eaten umcooked, these burgers were cooked, and served with sweet sauteed red onions, with a copious side of french fries. They were delicious, juicy and tender. The fries were too, not underdone. Like a lot of places in Italy, the condiments they give you, mustard, ketchup, mayo, are in little packets; I would prefer fresh-made, but you can't have everything. The hamburger buns were too, later I found out one of the owners is a baker and runs a separate bakery which explains why their baked goods are so fresh. One of us got a nice octopus dish (polpa) served on a bed of mashed potatoes, and we also ended up ordering a secondo of Guancia, which was a big hunk of calf cheek, with a nice dark brown sauce, succulent, rich. We accompanied this feast with a couple of bottles of Prosecco and 2 bottles of red wine, including one that really stood out, not sure if I remember correctly, but it might have been 'Angelo Nero.' Finally, we had a hazelnut tart, a typical piedmontese desert (after all, this is the land of Nutella!). This was a great meal and a great time. The service people were attentive, very friendly, and fast, even though the place was cracking full inside and on the terrace, and there were no mistakes on the order. Best coffee place in Bra Good service and I recommend on the pistachio croissant, they have an ice coffee that is very special Excellent place for coffee and pastries while visiting Bra. Friendly staff. Clean restroom. Best coffe in Bra Website change monitoring Monitor any webpage for changes – get instant email alerts when prices drop, new jobs are posted, products come back in stock, or competitors update their sites. See how the number of reviews and average review scores have changed over time. Bar Pastry shop Restaurant Bar Espresso bar