Cosimo's Trattoria & Bar

What a wonderful experience. A professionally managed and staffed restaurant. Before we sat, two bread baskets were on the table, dipping dishes of oil and balsamic vinegar for the bread, water carafe and menus waiting for the seven of us. This was a Sunday night at 6:15 and the place was packed with customers. Matt P. , our waiter was attentive, anticipated what we would want, he helped make the dining experience enjoyable. The food portions were ample and reasonably priced. Some in our party ordered various kinds of pizza; the crust was reminiscent of what we ate in Italy; lovely. I had the pasta butera, great; others had the chicken parm and lastly the sausage fennel and pasta. The noise level was on the high side but we didn’t have too much trouble hearing each other. The desserts were very good (cannoli, flourless chocolate cake, tartoufo, chocolate lava cake and a root beer float) were all very good. If the tip was calculated at the typical 20% of the pretax total or double the tax, it would be too low to show how much we appreciated Matt P.

I have been to Cosimo’s three times within the last year and it just keeps getting better and better! The service is great and food is consistently good. Everything is cooked to perfection and they can specialize/adjust whenever you need. I love all of their flatbreads and appetizers, they are by far my favorite items on the menu! They also have great salads that come in large portions (and the portions are large for most of the meals!) One of the best restaurants in Poughkeepsie by far!

I love cosmo the server is very atmosphere
Is so cool and you can see the brick oven and I got the chicken parmigiana is so good highly recommend it and so five stars would come again

It's still early in the evening, Piper our hostess/ dinner assistant, is very helpful, informative, not to mention ,and excellent representative for the restaurant but humans in general, steered us in the right direction for our first time here...it will be my go-to when in this area...im already planning to bring many friends up here... they have a great wine list, the bread is fresh, and comfortable surroundings make me thankful we chose this place....you will not be disappointed ... thanks to the management (Tim) and cook (Angel) and the rest of the staff for a lovely evening 🙂 I wish we had 8 to 10 people here so I can try a litte of everything

I absolutely love this place. This is one of the best Italian food I ever had in NY state period.

I am from the Albany NY area and I would even drive an hour and a half just for this place. Excellent service, chicken franchise is even of the best I have ever had too. Highly recommend it.