Crosta - Italian Bites
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The Crosta counter, with trays of focaccia and pizza al taglio behind the glass

Kampala · Uganda

Crosta - Italian Bites

Focaccia, the way it should be. Baked here, every day.

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Ciao.

We bake Italian focaccia in Kampala. That is the whole idea.

The dough is slow. Very slow. It sits there doing apparently nothing for hours while we keep an eye on it, then it goes in the oven and comes out with a crust that cracks and a middle that stays soft. There is no faster way. We looked.

We fill it with the real thing. Parma ham, mortadella, stracchino, burrata, pesto, fresh mozzarella. Italian ingredients, not Italian-sounding ones. A sandwich is only as good as what is inside it, and that is not a corner we are willing to cut.

Pizza too, red base or white. Tiramisù, made here, usually gone by the evening. Coffee that tastes like coffee.

We started in Muyenga. We tiled a counter in red, hung up a sign, put a bar in the garden and left the door open. It worked, so we are doing it again somewhere else in Kampala soon.

Ciao Hello. Also goodbye. Italians use it for both.

What we make

Three things. We take them seriously so you do not have to.

  • Focaccia filled with Parma ham, rocket and stracchino

    Focaccia

    Classic, filled, or built your own way. Cut to order at the counter, wrapped while it is still warm.

  • Margherita pizza al taglio, fresh from the oven

    Pizza

    Red base or white base. Margherita for the purists, salsiccia e patate for everyone who has stopped pretending.

  • Crosta tiramisu in its paper-wrapped tub

    Dolce

    Tiramisù, made here. Order it early. We are saying this as a friend.

The Muyenga location

Our first one. A counter tiled in red, a room in wood, and a garden bar that goes blue after dark. Nobody will rush you.

The display counter with fresh focaccia behind glass
The counter, mid-afternoon
The neon Crosta sign above the garden bar
The sign, after dark
The red-tiled service counter and the menu boards
Red tiles, blue boards
Wooden dining room with Italian prints on the wall
Posters from home
The red wall room with tables set for dinner
The red room
The bar counter at night with stools and string lights
Bar open, lights on
Red armchairs in the lounge corner under the canopy
The slow corner
Tables and stools looking out to the garden
Tables facing the garden
The wooden room seen from the entrance
Wood, all of it local
Woven mats and string lights across the garden canopy
Mats, string lights, sky

Find us

Open

Every day11:00 – 22:30

Every day means every day. Sunday included.

  • Muyenga

    Crosta – Italian Bites
    Stone Quarry, Bukasa Road
    Muyenga, Kampala · Uganda

    Look for the red door. You cannot miss it.

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  • Number two

    Opening in Kampala, soon.

    Same dough, same counter, different neighbourhood. We will say where once the paint is dry.

    Tell me when

Fame?

That is Italian for “are you hungry”, and the answer is usually yes. Delivery and pickup across Kampala.

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