Oustanding pasta and Italian food. Cute spot with very attentive friendly service. Highly recommended.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Elijah Nivison
Absolutely amazing experience. Everything was perfectly prepared and beautifully presented.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Shirley Wang
The second time came here. Pastas are still great. White wine sauce with seafood is fantastic.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
sandra spade
Their Cesar salad used to be so good but no anymore. Barely any croutons, and they stopped giving the focaccia slice with the salad. $25 for this??
Food: 1
Vicky Tuttle
High quality food. They have home made pasta and gluten-free items. I noticed that they are usually busy so decided to try it. The decor is informal and if you are a Capitals' fan, then this is your place.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Tonya Hewett
Excellent service and delicious food
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Runqian Li
Nice cozy place! Perfect for a date night. My friend and I went and we had a lovely time. The ravioli and mousse cake is bomb
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Miruna Tecuci
This place is a hidden gem! The homemade pasta and sauces are probably the best I've had in northern Virginia. The staff is friendly and welcoming, makes us feel like family. This isn't a fancy place, and I wouldn't say the location is great, but the food is delicious.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jacqui LaFon
I have loved Dal Grano for years, but haven’t reviewed it…currently touring Italy. Rome, Siena, Florence, now Bologna, and soon Milan. I have had sooo much pasta. After tonight’s gnocchi in Bologna, I thought…wow, I really much prefer Dal Grano. The pasta is fresh and delicate, and the sauces are clean, and not greasy. I have had all the sauces and all the pastas at Dal Grano, while I typically am a red sauce, short pasta lady, their mushroom cream sauce on the fettuccine is like silk. If you prefer thick, paper-machet-like glue for Alfredo, then Dal Grano’s cream sauce is not for you. However, if you appreciate the nuances and finely made cuisine, you will appreciate what they offer. Highly recommend.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Josie Howdyshell
What a great find! We loved every one of our dishes. The pasta was amazing and home made. The sauces were delicious and the desserts were perfect. I love a good crème brûlée 🤤🤤 we live over an hour away but we will be back.
Del Grano has been a mixed experience for me. The first time I visited, shortly after they opened, I was charmed by the warm welcome from the owner (a treat for an old Tosca fan like myself). That night, the roasted beet salad and the black ink pasta with mussels, squid, and shrimp in a white wine sauce was absolutely outstanding… fresh, flavorful, and memorable.
Unfortunately, my second visit a few months later was far less enjoyable. I ordered the same pasta dish, but the seafood was gritty and poorly cleaned, which was a real disappointment after such a great first impression.
The location isn’t my favorite, it’s tucked into a McLean strip mall and the dining room can feel cramped. With tables packed so closely together, it often gets noisy enough that carrying on a conversation is difficult.
That said, many of my friends absolutely love Del Grano and rave about their meals. Despite my uneven experiences, I’m willing to give it a third try in the hopes of recapturing the magic of that first night.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
West Side Vegan
They have daily vegan specials but they will gladly make you custom food to order. They made me a custom vegan risotto with mushrooms, spinach and broccoli. They loved it so much they said they’re going to add it to the menu!
Underrated gem in McLean. Amazing pasta, sauces, and service
Alex Bajan
As a agricultural scientist expert who is the long time research of Italian restaurants worldwide and very disappointed about minestrone soup was terrible and also I checked the flour for pasta making it's not good quality includes a lot of glucose out round up and it's partly GMO so I don't recommend as a long time residence of McLean to take your kids because the nervous system for kids is very sensitive with those chemicals and they don't use the good sauces as well do you have a lot of preservatives starch and many more when I dress I miss you to the owner and the waiter they pretty much ignored the situation I did take the picture of the delivery so I know exactly what they are getting and the minestrone soup was like $11 or $10 tax and tip I have to pay $14 for the really couple of lentils in the soup which you can make from one back which costs you can make 20 of those no parsley no extra ingredients really mediocre quality of Italian cuisine
Oustanding pasta and Italian food. Cute spot with very attentive friendly service. Highly recommended.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Absolutely amazing experience. Everything was perfectly prepared and beautifully presented.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
The second time came here. Pastas are still great. White wine sauce with seafood is fantastic.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Their Cesar salad used to be so good but no anymore. Barely any croutons, and they stopped giving the focaccia slice with the salad. $25 for this??
Food: 1
High quality food. They have home made pasta and gluten-free items. I noticed that they are usually busy so decided to try it. The decor is informal and if you are a Capitals' fan, then this is your place.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Excellent service and delicious food
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Nice cozy place! Perfect for a date night. My friend and I went and we had a lovely time. The ravioli and mousse cake is bomb
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This place is a hidden gem! The homemade pasta and sauces are probably the best I've had in northern Virginia. The staff is friendly and welcoming, makes us feel like family. This isn't a fancy place, and I wouldn't say the location is great, but the food is delicious.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I have loved Dal Grano for years, but haven’t reviewed it…currently touring Italy. Rome, Siena, Florence, now Bologna, and soon Milan. I have had sooo much pasta. After tonight’s gnocchi in Bologna, I thought…wow, I really much prefer Dal Grano. The pasta is fresh and delicate, and the sauces are clean, and not greasy. I have had all the sauces and all the pastas at Dal Grano, while I typically am a red sauce, short pasta lady, their mushroom cream sauce on the fettuccine is like silk. If you prefer thick, paper-machet-like glue for Alfredo, then Dal Grano’s cream sauce is not for you. However, if you appreciate the nuances and finely made cuisine, you will appreciate what they offer. Highly recommend.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
What a great find! We loved every one of our dishes. The pasta was amazing and home made. The sauces were delicious and the desserts were perfect. I love a good crème brûlée 🤤🤤 we live over an hour away but we will be back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
Del Grano has been a mixed experience for me. The first time I visited, shortly after they opened, I was charmed by the warm welcome from the owner (a treat for an old Tosca fan like myself). That night, the roasted beet salad and the black ink pasta with mussels, squid, and shrimp in a white wine sauce was absolutely outstanding… fresh, flavorful, and memorable.
Unfortunately, my second visit a few months later was far less enjoyable. I ordered the same pasta dish, but the seafood was gritty and poorly cleaned, which was a real disappointment after such a great first impression.
The location isn’t my favorite, it’s tucked into a McLean strip mall and the dining room can feel cramped. With tables packed so closely together, it often gets noisy enough that carrying on a conversation is difficult.
That said, many of my friends absolutely love Del Grano and rave about their meals. Despite my uneven experiences, I’m willing to give it a third try in the hopes of recapturing the magic of that first night.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
They have daily vegan specials but they will gladly make you custom food to order. They made me a custom vegan risotto with mushrooms, spinach and broccoli. They loved it so much they said they’re going to add it to the menu!
Fantastic food, fantastic service. Everything 10/10
Underrated gem in McLean. Amazing pasta, sauces, and service
As a agricultural scientist expert who is the long time research of Italian restaurants worldwide and very disappointed about minestrone soup was terrible and also I checked the flour for pasta making it's not good quality includes a lot of glucose out round up and it's partly GMO so I don't recommend as a long time residence of McLean to take your kids because the nervous system for kids is very sensitive with those chemicals and they don't use the good sauces as well do you have a lot of preservatives starch and many more when I dress I miss you to the owner and the waiter they pretty much ignored the situation I did take the picture of the delivery so I know exactly what they are getting and the minestrone soup was like $11 or $10 tax and tip I have to pay $14 for the really couple of lentils in the soup which you can make from one back which costs you can make 20 of those no parsley no extra ingredients really mediocre quality of Italian cuisine
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