Basta

Came across this place while in town on business. Fantastic spot with some really great menu items and amazing service! Rachel really helped to make the evening very pleasant and memorable. She makes a mean old fashioned!

Great food fantastic service. We had the Cesar salad you can tell the dressing is home made with the perfect acidity and pistachos it’s perfect. We also had the Roberto pizza delicious and the lamb I loved red and juicy inside crispy out side it was perfection.

A lovely intimate dining experience! On a solo business trip so I sat at the bar, and my bartender Avery was great at making beverage and food recommendations! I loved having a direct view of the wood fire oven - very cool!! The pizza is SO GOOD you cannot pass it up when you visit. And if you love ice cream… get them all. I loved the bay leaf but I regret not getting the smokey vanilla!

This spot is amazing. Had our 10th anniversary here and we couldn't be happier with the food and service. There were no highlights. Everything was equally delicious. From the piada to the burrata and chicken liver mousse, to the risotto and steak and bok choy to the burnt honey semi-freddo, it was all incredible. August was an exceptional server and everyone else was super friendly. 10/10

We’d driven into Boulder earlier that day and spent the afternoon wandering around downtown—cold, hungry, and killing time while waiting for our 5:15 reservation at Basta. It was the only slot we could get. Everything else was booked solid. Clearly, the people of Boulder already knew something we were just about to learn. Dinner kicked off with oysters. Cold, clean, perfect. Then the clam pizza showed up. Full on religious experience. Focaccia was thick, warm, blessed. Trout was perfectly cooked. The sunchokes and morel mushrooms? Fine. They showed up, did their job, but definitely took a back seat to the headliners. A little pricey, a little shy. I had a non-alcoholic beer that was somehow “beautiful”—don’t ask, it just was—and my girlfriend had a glass of red wine that paired perfectly