Bar Rosa is a modern Italian restaurant and bar on Hardy Street in Nelson South. It holds a Google rating of 4.9 from 39 reviews. The website describes a menu made for sharing, with handmade pasta, wood-fired pizza, fresh seafood and small plates.
The website names dishes such as Marlborough oysters, arancini, seared beef carpaccio, pork and paua ragu, and a linguine carbonara with house-made guanciale. Wood-fired bread with roast garlic butter is also listed, and the desserts include a limoncello cannoli. The restaurant says dishes can be adjusted for dietary needs when you book.
For a shared plate of pasta and pizza with friends in Nelson South, it is a bar worth booking on Hardy Street.