Best burrata ever, so creamy! Wonderful lasagna, great salmon filet, excellent tiramisu!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Joseph Nocella
Impeccable service and great food
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amy Kline
Excellent Italian restaurant with a great vegan and vegetarian options. I loved my vegan breakfast sandwich at our weekend brunch. The bottomless mimosas were awesome. Service was excellent. Everything was wonderful.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Julio Mejia
We wanted to get a little taste of everything that was recommended. Some appetizers I would definitely order again and some I would not try again. Overall it was a pleasant experience. Good atmosphere and good food. The cocktails were delicious and a great selection. I would definitely go again
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Patrick K
What a great local experience in Brooklyn! Staff squeezed us in last minute and I’m so happy they did. Live music, families chatting and laughing together while servers whisked around the room with plates of home cooked Italian American staples. It’s like the Brooklyn Italian restaurant this see on tv or in a movie. Verdict: would return and recommend!!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 4
Dan Spinello
Really good food, but the service was almost nonexistent. We saw our waiter 3 times. No follow up, no refill, one forgotten item. It was bad. But, the menu is interesting and the food is better and more unique than your usual Italian restaurant.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 1
Nelson Cobos
Spectacular Dinner! 🤤
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
David Barrett
Fantastic authentic Italian restaurant. The owner is warm and caring and has a wonderful voice! Live music was great.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jackie Clement
Perfect place for Sunday brunch!!! The food was so fresh and delicious!! Staff was so friendly and attentive. Highly recommend
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Susan Diamond
Great neighborhood place. Lots of couples and families with kids ( we were there at 6:00, all the kids were really good). Staff were on point, service was great. chicken parm was great (doesn’t come w sides or pasta) Chicken marsala was great ( comes w mashed potato) Meatball app (mixed reviews, I liked and husband didn’t. ). Meatballs were very soft. Sauce on the meatballs and chicken parm were very good. Nice variety of dinner music. Singer and strings after 7:00 (maybe 6:30) was a nice touch. The best was the owner, Giovanni. He thanked us for coming as soon as we walked in. The nicest man, came to our table and was so friendly. My husband said he would go back even if he didn’t like the food, just because the owner was so nice. That really made a big difference. We don’t live in the neighborhood (live near mill basin) but Def will be back My only suggestion is Lower the volume on the dinner music, difficult to talk :)
What a gem this place is. Food, service, atmosphere is phenomenal. It’s very hard to find a place that has all three. This place has it. Will definitely return.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Raphael Kummer-Landau
Great classic Italian to enjoy with a group of friends or family
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Anna H
There is true hospitality here. Dino the don and Giovanni is the dad and they do everything right here: the food is quality ingredients and I say this because you can taste it. My montipulchiano wine and Sardinian wine were top tier like when I go back to Italy to visit my cousins. The frito misto was amazing. Light and tasty. Good mix. Actually outstanding just like the table salad. Best I ever had. The fried zucchini flowers were so yummy like zeppoli almost. The vegetarian lasagna was the best I ever had in a restaurant. Seriously. The pasta was homemade and every layer was separate and well executed. Good pesto. The housemade squid ink pasta ravioli stuffed with lobster outstanding. Thh lobster was fresh. The lemon cello cake was the best dessert of my year. Live music. Friday and sat. We heard a great New Orleans band and got to hear Giovanni singing. What a treat. Packed out the door with people.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
karen ohearn
We ordered takeout. Worst pasta ever. It went right into the garbage can.
Food: 1
Jessenia Duran
I've loved Giovanni's from the moment they opened their doors in 2011. I've never had a bad dish, and the staff feels so personable and welcoming. I love coming here whether it's for brunch, family dinner, or a friend's night out.
Best burrata ever, so creamy! Wonderful lasagna, great salmon filet, excellent tiramisu!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Impeccable service and great food
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Excellent Italian restaurant with a great vegan and vegetarian options. I loved my vegan breakfast sandwich at our weekend brunch. The bottomless mimosas were awesome. Service was excellent. Everything was wonderful.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We wanted to get a little taste of everything that was recommended. Some appetizers I would definitely order again and some I would not try again. Overall it was a pleasant experience. Good atmosphere and good food. The cocktails were delicious and a great selection. I would definitely go again
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
What a great local experience in Brooklyn! Staff squeezed us in last minute and I’m so happy they did. Live music, families chatting and laughing together while servers whisked around the room with plates of home cooked Italian American staples. It’s like the Brooklyn Italian restaurant this see on tv or in a movie. Verdict: would return and recommend!!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 4
Really good food, but the service was almost nonexistent. We saw our waiter 3 times. No follow up, no refill, one forgotten item. It was bad. But, the menu is interesting and the food is better and more unique than your usual Italian restaurant.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 1
Spectacular Dinner! 🤤
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Fantastic authentic Italian restaurant. The owner is warm and caring and has a wonderful voice! Live music was great.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Perfect place for Sunday brunch!!! The food was so fresh and delicious!! Staff was so friendly and attentive. Highly recommend
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great neighborhood place. Lots of couples and families with kids ( we were there at 6:00, all the kids were really good).
Staff were on point, service was great.
chicken parm was great (doesn’t
come w sides or pasta)
Chicken marsala was great ( comes w mashed potato)
Meatball app (mixed reviews, I liked and husband didn’t. ). Meatballs were very soft.
Sauce on the meatballs and chicken parm were very good. Nice variety of dinner music.
Singer and strings after 7:00 (maybe 6:30) was a nice touch.
The best was the owner, Giovanni. He thanked us for coming as soon as we walked in. The nicest man, came to our table and was so friendly. My husband said he would go back even if he didn’t like the food, just because the owner was so nice. That really made a big difference.
We don’t live in the neighborhood (live near mill basin) but Def will be back
My only suggestion is Lower the volume on the dinner music, difficult to talk
:)
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
What a gem this place is. Food, service, atmosphere is phenomenal. It’s very hard to find a place that has all three. This place has it. Will definitely return.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great classic Italian to enjoy with a group of friends or family
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
There is true hospitality here. Dino the don and Giovanni is the dad and they do everything right here: the food is quality ingredients and I say this because you can taste it. My montipulchiano wine and Sardinian wine were top tier like when I go back to Italy to visit my cousins. The frito misto was amazing. Light and tasty. Good mix. Actually outstanding just like the table salad. Best I ever had. The fried zucchini flowers were so yummy like zeppoli almost. The vegetarian lasagna was the best I ever had in a restaurant. Seriously. The pasta was homemade and every layer was separate and well executed. Good pesto. The housemade squid ink pasta ravioli stuffed with lobster outstanding. Thh lobster was fresh. The lemon cello cake was the best dessert of my year. Live music. Friday and sat. We heard a great New Orleans band and got to hear Giovanni singing. What a treat. Packed out the door with people.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We ordered takeout. Worst pasta ever. It went right into the garbage can.
Food: 1
I've loved Giovanni's from the moment they opened their doors in 2011. I've never had a bad dish, and the staff feels so personable and welcoming. I love coming here whether it's for brunch, family dinner, or a friend's night out.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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