Cafe Barbosso

5501 Palmer Crossing Cir, Sarasota - 34233
518 reviews
Italian Pizza
(941) 922-7999

Not just delicious food but, the ambiance and service is exquisite. Love the live painting and amazing artwork and decor.

🥰 this place.. great service from Joseph our bartender.. absolutely yummy HH 🍷 and appetizers were awesome 🤩 will be definitely be visiting again soon ! 🙋‍♀️🍷

One of the best meals I’ve ever had—the Chef’s table experience with Chef Joe DiMaggio Jr. Awesome Michelin Star level food, Italian with global influences. Simply superb. The regular menu and experience is great too, it’s a fun place, we love the vibe with the artists in house and artwork everywhere. Bravo!

Delicious food. Creative, innovative and artistic atmosphere. Excellent service. Live Music. A little bit of NYC in SRQ! Love it ! ????‍???Joe Jr - perfect host !

OMG!This is a favorite of family who live in Sarasota area. When visiting they took us here. Like being in NY. Service, fantastic,, treated like family!The food,, excellent! From pasta to pizza!Highly recommended! Enjoy!!Oh, btw, they have artists painting inside and a live orchestra outside!!!

We ordered the steamed Mussels appetizer half were closed and inedible. For dinner I ordered the Seafood Fra Diavolo Linguini Pasta, Clams, Mussels, Shrimp, Fresh Fish, Marinara Sauce $28.00 It came with 2 clams, 3 mussels, 2 shrimp a filet of fish broken into little pieces hidden in a half of pound of pasta. I have ordered this dish many times at different restaurants and received much more shellfish. I asked for the manager, Debbie came to the table I explained the problems with our food, she said, "I'LL PASS IT ON" and walked away. Rude. To top all this, when we received the check there was a $2.00 up charge for ROCKS. I asked the waiter what it was, he stated it was because I ordered my cocktail on the rocks. There are many more restaurants in Sarasota where you can get great meal and not be ripped off.

What a cool place! My dad who doesn’t like anything actually said he loved his food! Everything about this place is fantastic. The full orchestra out front, the live art and the food. We went here a few weeks ago and since then all of us keep talking about wanting to go back.

Restaurant was busy. Was seated at bar area. Got the brusetta, veal Marsala and chicken piccata. All excellent! On weekends, many local folks set up their lawn chairs to view the jazz orchestra outside. A real find in Palmer Ranch. Would recommend!

I enjoyed the premise of the artists painting as we dine. The atmosphere was high energy all around. A bit loud, but could easily have conversations. The menu is excellent, many comfort items that I love. The service excellent and my choice of drink was exactly how I like it. I chose the short ribs. Unfortunately, disappointingly, the short ribs were tough enough to need a steak knife. One of the signature aspects of short ribs is that the meat falls off the bone and one doesn't need a knife at all. On top of that, I had 3 globs of fat from the meat that I spit out! The gravy/sauce had great depth of flavor, but I would never order that dish again. The Caesar Salad was a very bland flavor, not even worth eating......so I didn't. The tiramisu that came with the dinner, was excellent.

This isn’t so much about the restaurant as the service we received. It was the worse service ever. Our server had an attitude as soon as we were seated. We placed our orders. Got one meal wrong. When meal was brought out we told them what was ordered. Server came to table and said I read the order back to you. Everyone at the table agreed on what was ordered. I decided to cancel my meal because by the time I would of gotten mine everyone else would be done. When I asked the server to cancel my meal, he threw the cheese grater down and stormed off. When we got our bills to pay he shorted one of the other couples $10 change and they called him out on it. (If you get RICH, as your server I’d request another one) The food that was served was good.