Posto Pizzeria and Bar

This is one of the best Italian restaurants in the city! They serve most delicious pizza — it is hard to say which part of pizza is better: dough or toppings. Service is spotless: welcoming staff (and they are not tiresome!), fast and professional. Posto simply feels like home.

A very cozy place to relax and enjoy good food.
Extraordinary friendly staff who care about their guests and go above and beyond to make sure they’re having a pleasant time. Thank you.

Good pizza, bad ambience, and slow service.
Sat at the bar. The 1950s version of Godzilla was playing on the TV which was completely out of place and distracting. This set the tone for the service that was slow.
It’s too bad because the pizza here is pretty good.

I fist-​pumped the air when Posto was voted as the best pizza in Calgary. While there are some consistently good and great competitors out there in YYC, this is up with the best of the lot from my pizza-​lover travels, including Flatbread company’s Mopsy’s Kalua Pork pizza (in Paia, on Maui), and a few excellent pizzas had while backpacking through Tuscany. I only take good friends and good people here because it is my favourite place to eat in all of Calgary and what will probably be either what keeps me here or what I will miss most (beyond friends) if I ever had to leave. The crust is perfection in texture — light but crispy, moist but hardy. I love sitting up at the bar, basking in the ambience of this intimate restaurant and watching the pizza wizards and witches work their magic with the dough. They work with precision and deftness to ensure a beautiful and flavourful work of pizza art that glistens in the dimmed electric dazzle of their retro lampshades. Everyone I bring quickly converts into a Posto-​lover as well, and I would highly recommend this as a perfect place for a special date –one that feels like fine-​dining without quite the fine-​dining price tag. Also, it’s worth it to order more pizza than you think you can eat because you’ll probably want to take extra home for later!

Thought I would try this place as it had good ratings. I will never go back. First off… Charging 10.00 for a gin and tonic, that’s just a little ridiculous. Second off the special for the night was horrible. They said lobster risotto was the special… so I ordered it and got lobster broth. Again just a little ridiculous. My boyfriend order a pasta dish and substituted the mussels with more vegetables. When it came out it was pasta with some vegetables with no flavour and to top it off the pasta was swimming in water. Again just a little ridiculous. When we mentioned this to the bartender she shrugged it off and said well that’s what the kitchen calls the food. Hahahaha I’m sorry what? That’s your response? Not a sorry… Nothing. This place is way over priced and not worth it.

Overpriced, somewhat boring, mostly just really bad food. It’s not the worst you’ll ever eat, and it probably won’t make you sick, however you should still keep some extra money after you eat here so you can go to McDonalds and get something better.

This one is in contention for the belt. Pizza is damn near perfect. You can tell when a place takes pride in their ingredients and imports what is necessary to get the right flavour. The prosciutto and olives just seemed on another level.
I like how the pizzas are just listed from 1−10…no fancy names required and it means that they can change the selections regularily if one doesn’t seem to work. I got the #3 with garlic, shallots, chanterelle mushrooms and spinach in a light cream sauce and I added prosciutto for 2 bucks. It was insanely good and the only reason I didn’t crush the whole pizza was because everyone else only ate half.
Will definitely be back with a vengeance! As long as they don’t get too trendy and wimp out on making quality pizzas… or sell the joint to some hipster… either will not go over well

Surprised that I haven’t reviewed this place yet as it is one of my favourite spots here in the city. Posto is delicious. We have had many of the pizzas on the menu and they have all been quite impressive.
Insider tip — I’m a fan of prosciutto so I always add it on as an extra topping. So worth it.
The ambience of the restaurant is intimate and great for a date night. Just a heads up that the restaurant is not the largest, so I would recommend getting a reservation if possible.
5 stars.

So here I go!
I have had my fair share of PIZZA’S both in the USA and abroad, but when it comes to this place I gotta quip: All hail the queen of great Britain! And Yes this is a classic example of how a Canadian corrupted an American foodie… (ref: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut)
OMG like a million times, every single dish here is literally world class, I can fill up pages, go on a rant for days, compose songs admiring every little detail, and every single subtle note I tasted, (don’t get me started lol) from the homemade bread to there unique meatballs, to the godly unreal display of perfection known by some as PIZZA, I mean after eating here I feel uncomfortable calling it PIZZA u know! If it was up to me; I would of come up with a new name for it, don’t worry after the first bite you will know what I’m talking about, the name PIZZA does it an injustice.
Ps. I have to throw in the following: we all know that when it comes to dining out it is extremely hard, and very rare to find a place that caters to all your needs, from the ambiance, to their selection of beverages (even non alcoholic) sometimes you don’t realize what was missing till after you leave, so while I was still taking in the experience here; I was awaiting something to go wrong, or for that imperfection to occur, but I’m sorry to disappoint; but I couldn’t find any…
I will badly miss this place.

A-​List. Some of the best pizza (yep, better than Una) and service you’ll find in town. The food is wonderfully prepared, service is friendly and smart and the customers keep coming. One awesome place after a hectic day. One of the best kept secrets downtown. Treat yourself. As always — for real. You decide.

My boyfriend and I had a wonderful time at Posto! Great food, great wine, the service was a tiny bit slow, fantastic atmosphere!

Excellent food! The duck confit was heavenly. The restaurant decoration is very nice and the waitress attention was excellent!

Conveniently located near MEC (Canada’s REI), Posto is a great lunch option in the area. We didn’t know what to order so our helpful and friendly waiter, but possibly owner since he wasn’t dressed like the rest of the wait staff, recommended a pizza with prosciutto and potatoes, which he said was what they were famous for. I ordered a cocktail with Pimm’s, which was refreshing that hot and muggy afternoon, while my husband got a Guinness-​like beer on the house! The drinks were great and the pizza was outstanding. I don’t remember eating a pizza as creative and delicious as that in recent memory.
I texted my cousin, who lives in Calgary, telling her how awesome this place was. She already knew that though :) I’d gladly return next time we’re in Calgary!

Posto was a most unexpected and delightful dining experience. Let me just start with noting that we did not even have one of their unique and artfully assembled pizzas. Instead, chef Ben spent a few hours wowing us with the most unique and flavorful small plates that one could never anticipate.
I’d be remiss to recount the dishes as I am certain I could not do justice to the description of these wonderful Italian tapas. Suffice to say they ran the delicious gamut between breads, vegetables, cheeses, poultry, sausage, prawns, and lamb, all with complex and delicious flavor profiles.
And as if that were not enough, he finished with an encore of lovely desserts ranging from infused white chocolate, zabaglione, strawberry panna cotta and chocolate mousse with hazelnuts and cherries. Bravo to Chef Ben and to all the servers who made us feel like we were part of their family.
Go to Posto for their fabulous pizzas, then go again for this one-​of-​a-​kind experience for which you would otherwise need to travel to Italy.

This is a great little place. Very Italian, but then when you are going for the experience, that is perfect. I like that they stick to the Italian food, wine and style.
We had the Antipasto plate for $ 24 shared. It was amazing… great food and presentation. A nice basket of bread for $ 2. Wine was great at $ 11/​glass. Would suggest this place anytime.

Delicious pizza and great service. I am vegetarian and they always take care of me. Nice wine list too!

The first time I went here it was only ok… I think they had just opened and were still working out the kinks. Also, it was my performance review for work and my boss wanted to try it and we all know that you don’t really want to rock the boat when you’re about to find out if you still have a job amiright?
First visit spoiler: Food decent, service good, performance review good (I still work there… hehe!)
Well, my new boss and I went here for this years performance review and again… didn’t want to rock the boat. But my visit was just SO good (she suggested we have wine and I’m not one to refuse a lunch time libation if my boss insists).
Our server was excellent and recommended the pasta special. Now, I am not normally a pasta eater so she must have really romanced the hell out of that special because I ordered the pasta and it was amazing. We also had calamari as a starter and my boss had a salad (one of us is more responsible in the healthy eating department… haha).
The best part was I couldn’t eat all the pasta so I took it home and reheated it the next night for dinner and it was still amazing.
Bottom line — Let your boss take you here, listen to the servers, and order the pasta!

I love the pizza here! I also love tapa style meals and am always up for sharing. We took a seat at the bar considering how busy it gets on the weekends and we rolled in on a Friday. We were able to discuss the menu with the bartender, along with any recommendations in regards to drinks. We will definitely be back to enjoy some drinks and good eats.
One thing you need to know, is that you should either try to make a reservation or be prepared to wait. It’s quite small and you don’t wanna miss out.

Went again. Waiting service was much better this time (I was acknowledged upon entry of the restaurant). We didn’t get a bread basket this time (though everyone else around us did) so I was a bit pouty about that, but I’m sure we could have asked and received one.
I was able to try a lot more off of the menu this time, we tried the smoked salmon pizza, the spinach pizza (with extra truffle oil and an egg… a MUST try), octopus, the buffalo mozzarella, the swordfish, the sunflower seed risotto. I love the chili garlic oil that they give you, it has a bit of a kick and a lot of flavor.
I would (like I said before) recommend the spinach pizza with extra truffle oil and egg. The rest are fun to share as appies. I particularly liked the mozzarella and swordfish.

Hello Posto!
You were a delight, thank you for the amazing service, food and wine.
I really could write a review that would go on for 8 pages, but instead, you need to experience it yourself.
And I love the boar, who has an italian name, but our server called him Harvey, so Harvey he shall be.
My only regret was I was too full so I couldn’t try dessert.