I was so happy with my dining experience. Lookimg forward to going again. It was great place to celebrate my moms birthday.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Michael Shematek
Great food and lots of it. Family style dishes with plety for everyone. Seevice was great and the place is great.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Foccacia, Gnocchi Campanelle Pasta Concia, Focaccia Ebraica, Tonnarelli Alla Carbonara, Broccolini
Ariel Loh
This place rules! Had such a cute date night here, ordered a full course meal, food was overall incredible. Steak tartar was just on par but everything else hit. The “Viola” beet salad was a flavor bomb, the pasta was deep with flavor and perfect texture - the Cavatelli with duck was really special and stood out. The whole branzino was also perfectly cooked. Service was friendly and helpful in helping us decide what to order. Ambience was great, we sat inside in the main room at a booth where the lighting, music, and volume were all vibing. Wine was excellent, desert and amaro also very satisfactory.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Emma Matsuda
The food is five stars.
I came here because Donna’s was too busy, and I’m glad I did so because this place is better than Donna’s.
Every dish surprised me and delighted me, it also helped that I befriended some strangers and we ended up trading parts of dishes so I got to experience a lot of the menu.
I can tell you that these were the highlights from everything I tried:
- Mafaldine pasta - Gnocchi alla Romana - Broccolini - Radicchio salad
Also highly enjoyed the squash blossoms with ricotta as well as their famous ‘focaccia ebraica’.
Lastly, I’d recommend the sparkling red Lambrusco wine with the dishes I tried. It was so good I needed two glasses. (Could’ve kept going).
Damn, writing this review made me hungry!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Foccacia, Radicchio Salad, Short Rib Ragu, Broccolini
Tony Yang
First time in my life we didn’t even finish the food just asked for all to go out of polite. Food was sorry to say this terrible, my other 2 friends also couldn’t eat it. The broccolini, never in my life have I tasted bitter(burned), salty(way too much salt) and sour(too much lime juice) in one dish.
Disclaimers: went there a couple months back hopefully they now have a new chef
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 5
Kimberly Pasteur
My favorite place!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Shannon Bumgarner
Had the best time at Bacetti while visiting family in the Echo Park neighborhood of LA last weekend. We ordered many dishes to share family style & each one was better than the next. Our server Grover was a hoot, and I would love to return the next time we are in town.
A dining experience that feels both effortlessly cool and deeply satisfying. The place draws you in with its ambiance—warm wood tones, dim lighting, perfect for a date night or a dinner with friends. The outdoor seating provides a charming option for those who prefer to dine al fresco and enjoy the evening air.
The focaccia ebraica is a must-order, a masterpiece of bread-making. If you’re even thinking of skipping this bread, let me stop you right there. Studded with taggiasca olives, currants, rosemary, honey, and sea salt, this focaccia is so perfectly moist and flavorful that you’ll forget any bread basket that came before it. I initially thought, “Eh, just focaccia, I’ll save room,” but when I saw (and smelled) every other table getting one, I had an immediate case of food fomo and flagged down the waitstaff. It’s the only way to start your meal here.
The fiore di zucca, or crispy squash blossoms, are stuffed with a creamy ricotta filling and topped with calabrian chili, honey, and pistachios. It’s solid and simple, delightful and addictive—my only complaint is that there weren’t enough of them. For something on the lighter healthier side, the radicchio salad does its job. Shaved fennel, walnuts, grapes, and goat cheese make a fresh, earthy mix, but I think the use of dressing was excessive.
The pasta—where Bacetti really shines (well, alongside the focaccia). The mafaldine pasta with short rib ragù was a rich and hearty dish. The pasta was cooked perfectly, the ragù generously loaded with tender short rib. The tonnarelli cacio e pepe pasta also delivered, but it could have benefited from a bit more black pepper to really nail that cacio e pepe punch. For drinks, the house rosé was an easy sipper, and their house drink vertice hit the right notes, balancing bitter and sweet.
The service was cheery and efficient, matching the overall laid-back, good-vibes energy of the space. The staff knows their menu inside and out, and they’re quick with recommendations. Bacetti is a place where you can indulge in some seriously good Italian fare if you navigate the menu right. Just don’t make the mistake of skimping on that focaccia.
Elisha Zepeda
The vibe is the selling point for me. Food was good and worth the stop, but my qualms are:
- Carbonara: Al dente is really al dente. We almost told our servers that this was undercooked. Stick to your teeth kinda stuff.
- Short rib ragu: Meat portions are a joke. Literally only one of my bites had meat and the rest was just red sauce. Load me up, I'm paying over $25+20% tip on this.
- The lights are so low that it makes the mood feel great, but I have a feeling if I saw my food in more light I would not consider it worth the price point.
Incredible job to whoever did the interior — it has a great mid century modern vibe, the wall to wall wood is fantastic.
If you’re going for dinner, reservations are encouraged! Awesome staff and well knowledgeable. Architecture is beautiful and good balanced menu that has al dente homemade pastas. Short rib mafaldine is filled with flavor and spice and pasta is beautifully cooked. Servers are kind and provide good guidance. Great experience
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Short Rib Ragu
T M
Had a wonderful Sunday dinner here with some good friends. I ordered the Focaccia Ebraica, Stonefruit Panzanella. The service was amazing they were able to move our reservation because I was running late. Our server answered all our questions and gave us great suggestions and said everything was shareable.
Food was great. Wine was ok. Unfortunately, a 20% tip was added automatically (we were 2 ppl), and we weren’t made aware of this beforehand.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 3
Nathan Williams
Great food. Mushroom pizza was awesome, and so were the starters.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Focaccia Ebraica, Branzino
Yevette Brown
Tucked away in LA's Echo Park neighborhood is an excellent Italian restaurant with some interesting takes on classics.
For starters we enjoyed Gnoochi ala Romana made with pillowy polenta, not potato, that simply melts in your mouth. Surprising but delicious. Then we had the fresh Sardine ala Griglia perfectly grilled served with salsa verde and toast points, perfect. As a pasta carbonara fan, I ordered this, though good I prefer it with the usual long noodle spaghetti instead of the short rigatoni. I missed twirling it in the sauce. The breaded lamb chops were outstanding and won as the favorite dish. We finished with a dessert favorite, Budino, an Italian pudding which was a nice end to the meal. But this one showed off a bit, with chocolate cake at the bottom and crushed hazelnuts on top. Very good.
If you're in Los Angeles and travel to the east side, do stop in. They can't stay a local secret forever.
I was so happy with my dining experience. Lookimg forward to going again. It was great place to celebrate my moms birthday.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great food and lots of it. Family style dishes with plety for everyone. Seevice was great and the place is great.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Foccacia, Gnocchi Campanelle Pasta Concia, Focaccia Ebraica, Tonnarelli Alla Carbonara, Broccolini
This place rules! Had such a cute date night here, ordered a full course meal, food was overall incredible. Steak tartar was just on par but everything else hit. The “Viola” beet salad was a flavor bomb, the pasta was deep with flavor and perfect texture - the Cavatelli with duck was really special and stood out. The whole branzino was also perfectly cooked. Service was friendly and helpful in helping us decide what to order. Ambience was great, we sat inside in the main room at a booth where the lighting, music, and volume were all vibing. Wine was excellent, desert and amaro also very satisfactory.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
The food is five stars.
I came here because Donna’s was too busy, and I’m glad I did so because this place is better than Donna’s.
Every dish surprised me and delighted me, it also helped that I befriended some strangers and we ended up trading parts of dishes so I got to experience a lot of the menu.
I can tell you that these were the highlights from everything I tried:
- Mafaldine pasta
- Gnocchi alla Romana
- Broccolini
- Radicchio salad
Also highly enjoyed the squash blossoms with ricotta as well as their famous ‘focaccia ebraica’.
Lastly, I’d recommend the sparkling red Lambrusco wine with the dishes I tried. It was so good I needed two glasses. (Could’ve kept going).
Damn, writing this review made me hungry!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Foccacia, Radicchio Salad, Short Rib Ragu, Broccolini
First time in my life we didn’t even finish the food just asked for all to go out of polite. Food was sorry to say this terrible, my other 2 friends also couldn’t eat it. The broccolini, never in my life have I tasted bitter(burned), salty(way too much salt) and sour(too much lime juice) in one dish.
Disclaimers: went there a couple months back hopefully they now have a new chef
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 5
My favorite place!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Had the best time at Bacetti while visiting family in the Echo Park neighborhood of LA last weekend. We ordered many dishes to share family style & each one was better than the next. Our server Grover was a hoot, and I would love to return the next time we are in town.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Gnocchi Campanelle Pasta Concia, Honey Butter, Focaccia Ebraica, Branzino
A dining experience that feels both effortlessly cool and deeply satisfying. The place draws you in with its ambiance—warm wood tones, dim lighting, perfect for a date night or a dinner with friends. The outdoor seating provides a charming option for those who prefer to dine al fresco and enjoy the evening air.
The focaccia ebraica is a must-order, a masterpiece of bread-making. If you’re even thinking of skipping this bread, let me stop you right there. Studded with taggiasca olives, currants, rosemary, honey, and sea salt, this focaccia is so perfectly moist and flavorful that you’ll forget any bread basket that came before it. I initially thought, “Eh, just focaccia, I’ll save room,” but when I saw (and smelled) every other table getting one, I had an immediate case of food fomo and flagged down the waitstaff. It’s the only way to start your meal here.
The fiore di zucca, or crispy squash blossoms, are stuffed with a creamy ricotta filling and topped with calabrian chili, honey, and pistachios. It’s solid and simple, delightful and addictive—my only complaint is that there weren’t enough of them. For something on the lighter healthier side, the radicchio salad does its job. Shaved fennel, walnuts, grapes, and goat cheese make a fresh, earthy mix, but I think the use of dressing was excessive.
The pasta—where Bacetti really shines (well, alongside the focaccia). The mafaldine pasta with short rib ragù was a rich and hearty dish. The pasta was cooked perfectly, the ragù generously loaded with tender short rib. The tonnarelli cacio e pepe pasta also delivered, but it could have benefited from a bit more black pepper to really nail that cacio e pepe punch. For drinks, the house rosé was an easy sipper, and their house drink vertice hit the right notes, balancing bitter and sweet.
The service was cheery and efficient, matching the overall laid-back, good-vibes energy of the space. The staff knows their menu inside and out, and they’re quick with recommendations. Bacetti is a place where you can indulge in some seriously good Italian fare if you navigate the menu right. Just don’t make the mistake of skimping on that focaccia.
The vibe is the selling point for me. Food was good and worth the stop, but my qualms are:
- Carbonara: Al dente is really al dente. We almost told our servers that this was undercooked. Stick to your teeth kinda stuff.
- Short rib ragu: Meat portions are a joke. Literally only one of my bites had meat and the rest was just red sauce. Load me up, I'm paying over $25+20% tip on this.
- The lights are so low that it makes the mood feel great, but I have a feeling if I saw my food in more light I would not consider it worth the price point.
Incredible job to whoever did the interior — it has a great mid century modern vibe, the wall to wall wood is fantastic.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Short Rib Ragu
The best food experience I've ever had
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
If you’re going for dinner, reservations are encouraged! Awesome staff and well knowledgeable. Architecture is beautiful and good balanced menu that has al dente homemade pastas. Short rib mafaldine is filled with flavor and spice and pasta is beautifully cooked. Servers are kind and provide good guidance. Great experience
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Short Rib Ragu
Had a wonderful Sunday dinner here with some good friends. I ordered the Focaccia Ebraica, Stonefruit Panzanella. The service was amazing they were able to move our reservation because I was running late. Our server answered all our questions and gave us great suggestions and said everything was shareable.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Honey Butter, Focaccia Ebraica
Food was great. Wine was ok. Unfortunately, a 20% tip was added automatically (we were 2 ppl), and we weren’t made aware of this beforehand.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 3
Great food. Mushroom pizza was awesome, and so were the starters.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Focaccia Ebraica, Branzino
Tucked away in LA's Echo Park neighborhood is an excellent Italian restaurant with some interesting takes on classics.
For starters we enjoyed Gnoochi ala Romana made with pillowy polenta, not potato, that simply melts in your mouth. Surprising but delicious. Then we had the fresh Sardine ala Griglia perfectly grilled served with salsa verde and toast points, perfect. As a pasta carbonara fan, I ordered this, though good I prefer it with the usual long noodle spaghetti instead of the short rigatoni. I missed twirling it in the sauce. The breaded lamb chops were outstanding and won as the favorite dish. We finished with a dessert favorite, Budino, an Italian pudding which was a nice end to the meal. But this one showed off a bit, with chocolate cake at the bottom and crushed hazelnuts on top. Very good.
If you're in Los Angeles and travel to the east side, do stop in. They can't stay a local secret forever.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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