Terrible service. Food was awful n pricy. To make it worse. They rush u out the door too. No one was friendly at all. Not the front desk nor the waiters. Will not be back. Plenty of other better Italian restaurant. Dnt waste your time n money here
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Rooney Valentine
Made a reservation two weeks in advance, which that process could certainly be improved. You have a to call, you can’t reserve online, they don’t answer the phone and you MIGHT get a call back. Reservation was for 6:30pm, we were seated at 7:20pm with zero explanation as to why we waited almost an hour for a table we reserved. The hostess was doing everything but her job- sitting at tables with customers chatting them up and loudly and proudly exclaiming that she had just had a drink on the job after disappearing for 20 minutes.
Waiter was neutral at best but his overall vibe was dismissive and uninterested in us. We’re in our late twenties and the average age of the other customers was more middle aged so maybe we just weren’t being taken seriously or maybe it’s a visitor v. regular kind of thing with their customers. Regardless, the service was bad.
Food was mid. Nothing to write home about. Chicken parm breading was soggy and the chicken was dry.
Overall, wouldn’t recommend but if combative hostesses (she also bragged about how she got in a fight with another customer earlier that night) and mediocre Italian food are your thing then this may be your place.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 1
Chris P
Beware, if you make a reservation and you’re not a “regular” you might get stuck at a table in the side alley where you are at the whim of the wind and weather. Nothing on their web site or reservation system warns you that you could get places outside. The food was excellent (maybe a bit too much sugar in the sauce?) and the service lovely. Prices very reasonable. But watch out for one of the few table out back!
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 4
Charlotte Robinson
Classic LA. We always have a good time here. Always. Top notch service, fantastic food from start to finish, excellently crafted drinks. I wish we lived closer to Dan Tana’s so we could visit more than we do - but even with a long drive we make sure to eat here at least once every couple of months. Worth it.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Andrew Marks
Fun, buzzy interior and nice locals vibe. Food was unbelievably mediocre even when ordering their specialties. Would not recommend at all.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
Michael Cole
This place only exists for its regulars. If you're not a regular then their service is garbage. Reservation or not they seat you outdoors. We got the steak and veal chop medium rare. The steak was dry and overcooked. The veal was. Place is cooked. Italian cash grab.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 2
Krystal Tristan
I’m sorry but just because there’s a line outside and a crowd that says this is a thing.. doesn’t mean it’s a thing. He literally returned my ravioli Alfredo because it was terrible. So not eat here for the food. Because that’s not a thing. It’s packed. Don’t bother. Skip.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Princess Jessica
Rudest staff I've ever experienced. Made reservations month in advance for my birthday and then sat us outdoors by the bathroom. Threw parmesean on my friend. And put a tip on my card I didn't sign or authorize. They wouldn't give me a refund. When I tried talking to them on the phone about my experience they hung up on me. Plus the food was way over priced and not that good. Better food at olive garden and better service at McDonald's. Do not waste your time. F- this place.
Roger Queen
This restaurant is amazing. Been in business forever serving great Italian cuisine to the Stars of Hollywood. Fun and busy, suited waiters, quick and experienced. Red check tablecloths and Chianti bottles overhead. Perfect ambiance. The Ceasar salad was perfect, we ordered the Chicken Vesuvius, dark and light meat in a buttery garlic sauce. Awesome. But their Chicken parm is famous. A bucket- list to-do.
TLDR: racist rude staff and mediocre food for a ridiculous price
I hate to leave a bad review but I feel very strongly about this particular one. From the moment we walked in, I got an uneasy feeling. The host was curt, short with us, didn’t feel nice. But whatever I shrugged it off.
We got seated and were waiting for two more from our party who were running late. We asked to order some appetizers and the waiter made a big fuss about taking the appetizers separately from the order. He seemed like he was talking down to us.
My friend recounted how when he asked a staff member for the restroom, the staff member looked up down at his clothes with a sneer.
The whole time the staff just seemed rude and cold. They took forever to take our order and purposely seemed to spill water when serving us. It just seemed like a bizarre situation at first but comparing ourselves to the other tables of ALL white patrons, we quickly realized the staff and waiters were being gorgeously kind and nice to everyone else.
My friend asked the prices for a glass of wine. This is because the wine prices are not written on the wine list on the back of the menu. The waiter just rolled his eyes and said we don’t say the prices.
The final straw was when our main course came and I asked the waiter for a knife. He squinted at me and I repeated myself politely, slightly louder. He said “I can’t hear you” and then WALKED AWAY. I raised my voice and said “I would like a knife please.” He turned around and grabbed a knife and handed it to me. It wasn’t like he was holding something or in the middle of something else. He just clearly wanted to be rude.
Guess what? The main course he had brought me was not even what I had ordered.
At this point I had half a mind to not tip 20% but my friends didn’t want them to fulfill the prophecy of a person of color being cheap so we did tip. I walked out absolutely fuming.
I wish I could chalk it up to the waiter having a bad day or just weird perceptual vibes but this is the first time I’m confident that this place was just genuinely racist or classist or whatever. Our party was polite, quiet, and didn’t even demand anything out of the ordinary. The place wasn’t even that crowded.
Not to mention the food was below average for such an expensive place.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
Brian Erickson
Great atmosphere. Good food. Way over priced.
David Berke
Everything was very nice about my experience at this restaurant this evening. Celebrating a friend's birthday lettuce to start off with cocktails at the bar, and the big thing there is it's very hard to get a seat because at 5:00 it's already getting filled with regulars. They took us to our table and is a very homey looking Italian restaurant and that makes it just a lightful. My glass of keonte was really good and so was my spaghetti and meatballs. I'm glad that I finally got to come here cuz it's only taking me 30 years.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Steven McCarthy
We had 7:15 reservations because we had tickets to a show at the Troubadour - we were seated at 7:45 after several appeals to the maitre d' (others who arrived later were seated first ). The food was mediocre, just typical diner-grade Italian with no sophistication. The prices were outrageous at double or triple what you'd normally pay for pasta in heavy red sauce.
Terrible service. Food was awful n pricy. To make it worse. They rush u out the door too. No one was friendly at all. Not the front desk nor the waiters. Will not be back. Plenty of other better Italian restaurant. Dnt waste your time n money here
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Made a reservation two weeks in advance, which that process could certainly be improved. You have a to call, you can’t reserve online, they don’t answer the phone and you MIGHT get a call back. Reservation was for 6:30pm, we were seated at 7:20pm with zero explanation as to why we waited almost an hour for a table we reserved. The hostess was doing everything but her job- sitting at tables with customers chatting them up and loudly and proudly exclaiming that she had just had a drink on the job after disappearing for 20 minutes.
Waiter was neutral at best but his overall vibe was dismissive and uninterested in us. We’re in our late twenties and the average age of the other customers was more middle aged so maybe we just weren’t being taken seriously or maybe it’s a visitor v. regular kind of thing with their customers. Regardless, the service was bad.
Food was mid. Nothing to write home about. Chicken parm breading was soggy and the chicken was dry.
Overall, wouldn’t recommend but if combative hostesses (she also bragged about how she got in a fight with another customer earlier that night) and mediocre Italian food are your thing then this may be your place.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 1
Beware, if you make a reservation and you’re not a “regular” you might get stuck at a table in the side alley where you are at the whim of the wind and weather. Nothing on their web site or reservation system warns you that you could get places outside.
The food was excellent (maybe a bit too much sugar in the sauce?) and the service lovely. Prices very reasonable.
But watch out for one of the few table out back!
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 4
Classic LA. We always have a good time here. Always. Top notch service, fantastic food from start to finish, excellently crafted drinks. I wish we lived closer to Dan Tana’s so we could visit more than we do - but even with a long drive we make sure to eat here at least once every couple of months. Worth it.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Fun, buzzy interior and nice locals vibe. Food was unbelievably mediocre even when ordering their specialties. Would not recommend at all.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
This place only exists for its regulars. If you're not a regular then their service is garbage. Reservation or not they seat you outdoors. We got the steak and veal chop medium rare. The steak was dry and overcooked. The veal was. Place is cooked. Italian cash grab.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 2
I’m sorry but just because there’s a line outside and a crowd that says this is a thing.. doesn’t mean it’s a thing. He literally returned my ravioli Alfredo because it was terrible. So not eat here for the food. Because that’s not a thing.
It’s packed. Don’t bother. Skip.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Rudest staff I've ever experienced. Made reservations month in advance for my birthday and then sat us outdoors by the bathroom. Threw parmesean on my friend. And put a tip on my card I didn't sign or authorize. They wouldn't give me a refund. When I tried talking to them on the phone about my experience they hung up on me. Plus the food was way over priced and not that good. Better food at olive garden and better service at McDonald's. Do not waste your time. F- this place.
This restaurant is amazing. Been in business forever serving great Italian cuisine to the Stars of Hollywood. Fun and busy, suited waiters, quick and experienced. Red check tablecloths and Chianti bottles overhead. Perfect ambiance. The Ceasar salad was perfect, we ordered the Chicken Vesuvius, dark and light meat in a buttery garlic sauce. Awesome. But their Chicken parm is famous. A bucket- list to-do.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Classic
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
My favorite restaurant 😋
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
TLDR: racist rude staff and mediocre food for a ridiculous price
I hate to leave a bad review but I feel very strongly about this particular one. From the moment we walked in, I got an uneasy feeling. The host was curt, short with us, didn’t feel nice. But whatever I shrugged it off.
We got seated and were waiting for two more from our party who were running late. We asked to order some appetizers and the waiter made a big fuss about taking the appetizers separately from the order. He seemed like he was talking down to us.
My friend recounted how when he asked a staff member for the restroom, the staff member looked up down at his clothes with a sneer.
The whole time the staff just seemed rude and cold. They took forever to take our order and purposely seemed to spill water when serving us. It just seemed like a bizarre situation at first but comparing ourselves to the other tables of ALL white patrons, we quickly realized the staff and waiters were being gorgeously kind and nice to everyone else.
My friend asked the prices for a glass of wine. This is because the wine prices are not written on the wine list on the back of the menu. The waiter just rolled his eyes and said we don’t say the prices.
The final straw was when our main course came and I asked the waiter for a knife. He squinted at me and I repeated myself politely, slightly louder. He said “I can’t hear you” and then WALKED AWAY. I raised my voice and said “I would like a knife please.” He turned around and grabbed a knife and handed it to me. It wasn’t like he was holding something or in the middle of something else. He just clearly wanted to be rude.
Guess what? The main course he had brought me was not even what I had ordered.
At this point I had half a mind to not tip 20% but my friends didn’t want them to fulfill the prophecy of a person of color being cheap so we did tip. I walked out absolutely fuming.
I wish I could chalk it up to the waiter having a bad day or just weird perceptual vibes but this is the first time I’m confident that this place was just genuinely racist or classist or whatever. Our party was polite, quiet, and didn’t even demand anything out of the ordinary. The place wasn’t even that crowded.
Not to mention the food was below average for such an expensive place.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 1
Great atmosphere. Good food. Way over priced.
Everything was very nice about my experience at this restaurant this evening. Celebrating a friend's birthday lettuce to start off with cocktails at the bar, and the big thing there is it's very hard to get a seat because at 5:00 it's already getting filled with regulars. They took us to our table and is a very homey looking Italian restaurant and that makes it just a lightful. My glass of keonte was really good and so was my spaghetti and meatballs. I'm glad that I finally got to come here cuz it's only taking me 30 years.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We had 7:15 reservations because we had tickets to a show at the Troubadour - we were seated at 7:45 after several appeals to the maitre d' (others who arrived later were seated first ). The food was mediocre, just typical diner-grade Italian with no sophistication. The prices were outrageous at double or triple what you'd normally pay for pasta in heavy red sauce.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
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