Eatalian Cafe Reviews

One of my favourite restaurants pre-COVID and it does not disappoint to this day. The food remains superb and the limited contact COVID service was great.

Amazing food. This is what I consider amazing food. A real treat. The pesto linguine is perfect. They also have amazing dessert. Home made gelato and pastries. We also had the pizza which was super thin crust.

Very good paper thin pizza. They have some unique speciality pizza and pasta that you would not find at a normal Italian restaurant

This is a great place for Italian food. Representing northern Italy. I never would have found this place if not for my yelp. It's located in the industrial part of Gardena. Everything here is homemade. The bread, pasta, & the cheese. The cheese machine was not working the day I came, the hostess said it would be up & running soon. I ordered the seafood linguini, which was very good. The chef cooked the clams, octopus, squid, & shrimp to perfection. Very tender & flavorful, not tough & chewy. The staff is very courteous, kind. Nice variety of desserts. One of my favorite fresh gelato. Delicious! I will definitely be returning.

Food is always delicious 5 stars, but our waiter was not helpful nor attentive did not really care did not know the beer from light or dark and brought us wrong beer told us to wait with his hand up with attitude and since we had a big group gratuity was included he got a 18% $80 tip that we felt he did not deserve. He did not even split the check since we wanted seperate Checks we felt robbed. If you decide to go ask for Mike
As your waiter he is the complete opposite. Other than that waiter it's great restaurant.

I have been to this place twice now, and the first time I was wowed by the experience, but I think it was the novelty of it, plus I really loved the four-cheese riso, which was actually my husband's dish. I ordered some other item that wasn't that great, but because the risotto was so good, I totally overlooked the mediocrity of my dish. The pastries were good, too. The next time we went, we ordered the mimmo pizza, and it wasn't that great. The pizza wasn't very hot, and it was just kind of salty. The bread they bring out is soft, but it's not hot, either. Maybe it's just my preference, but I like my pizza and bread hot. Service is kind of slow, too. I may go back to try some other dishes, but I'm no longer enamored with it.

The Linguine Frutti di Mare in white sauce is delicious..... love it

Delicious food. Don't let the exterior appearance fool you. It doesn't look like any 5 star building. But why are you there correct to est good Italian food. Wafer thin pizza..seafood pizza is awesome.

Great food very different as you are in a warehouse.

Great atmosphere the thin crust pizza is excellent bye bye olive garden. the waiter and waitress are very polite snd knowlegeable about the menu.

Linguine al vongole was soupy. Could not taste any clams or garlic. Also tomatoes in my white wine sauce. No bueno. Chef is getting lazy or something. Still ate most of it because I m a fatty. But this is not pasta al vongole. Very disappointed.

Amazing food!!! Don't let the outside deter you. Must try homemade noodles!! House made mozarella is delicious! Dessert first! !!

The food is always great. On this visit I had the lasagna, it was delicious and too much to finish!

Some of the best pizza I have had throughout the us and Europe. I will be back when I am back LA

Good authentic Italian food. Reasonable price and good hospitality. A restaurant you must try with family and friends.

Excellent food, great portions, unusual atmosphere. My Italian wife loved it!

Great service. Amazing delicious food. Fun enviroment.

Authentic Italian cuisine without going to Italy...awesome!!! The food is so fresh and tastes outstanding!!! And then to follow that up with the desserts that are out of this world good!!!

Wow! This place is fantastic. I literally had a religious experience eating their delicious fresh mozzarella, panini and pasta.

Excellent food. Love the whole set up. I'm going back again and again.

Great food! Everything made here is spot on! Service is great also!

Always great food! Excellent pizza, homemade pasta, exciting dessert selection. This really is one of my favorite restaurants.

This place is awesome, I've been coming here since they opened. They have delicious food/desserts and a friendly staff. Highly recommend this place.

It looks like a dumpy little wearhouse on the outside but you step inside to a clean, inviting, great smelling atmosphere. The pizzas are good. The pasta is good. There is a bakery and gelato. What else is there to say? Parking is a challenge but there is limited valet parking for about four bucks.

We had our Christmas dinner for church group and the food, service was great.

Our favorite family dinner spot. This is authentic, Northern Italian cuisine with REAL pizza!! Makes me miss my Nona!

Always a great place to go out and enjoy traditional Italian.

This place is great! They offer food that is sooo good. A lot of them are simple plates but they are so good. It is usually really busy though so beware/prepare. Service is always great so that's a plus!

Birthday Party was the bomb good food good service and Thank You DD

This place is definitely a hidden gem in the city of Gardena!!! The food tastes fresh and the service is amazing! It was a little hard to find but totally worth it! I will be back!

First time visit and I was impressed. Got the Calzone with prosciutto &it es delicious. I'm surely going to visit again to try their other dishes.

In 2015 we went there to eat and my mom didnt liked it because the pizza crust was to dry

Great hidden spot. Fresh pasta and an array of legit Italian food. House made pastries and gelato to go with their Italian coffee.

Like the food, really like the Italian beer. Nice place.

I love how different this place is. The food was delicious and the staff was nice. My favorite part was the desert.

My bf and I go here all the time. They have two locations, one in hawthorne and one in Gardena/compton area. This is the closest you will get to real italian . They dont even serve ranch dressing. The location in Gardena has a dessert bar...MMMmmmm

Awesome cafe!! Everything we tried was delicious and reasonably priced. Outstanding cappuccinos!

Came to eat with the fam for my grandmother s birthday and I wasn t disappointed. Friendly staff and we could asked better. The food was sooo good that we even asked for take out after we done eating lol. Love this little hidden gem

Food was decent but the wait was awful and the front desk didn t even offer us to look at any menus when we were waiting. When we called to ask about the wait time beforehand, they said max 10 minutes but we ended up waiting for 30 when there were clearly open tables to be seated in. Their system didn t make sense.

Additionally my wallet disappeared there. They have security cameras all over but didn t let us come back to review the footage with the manager. They claim their entire staff is very honest but one staff member who served us looked pretty guilty when we came back to question him about the wallet. He couldn t even look us in the eye when we asked. Whoever took it will get their karma.

Fantastic Italian food at moderately reasonable prices.

Server was friendly and attentive with a great attitude

this place is absolutely perfect i love the food the staff is great and its not overpriced

Not bad considering all the hype. Parking is a serious problem that takes the experince a tad down. Food is good though.

One of the best restaurant and we always had Me Paulo as our server. Too bad we had to leave California

Just three words:. Bacon covered spaghetti. Excellent dessert bar as well. Amaretto gelato affogato for the win!

We went to eat at this restaurant last Sunday. The food was very good. The place was very clean. The servers were very nice. The only think that I did not like was that they automatically added a tip of $16 on a $86 dollar bill. There were 3 adults and 2 children.

The lasagna was delicious as well as the tiramisu! I tried the gnocchi in the rour cheese sauce. It was amazing!

Everyone come to this place you will love their food and also their service...

Friendly staff, nice atmosphere , good price and nice food. I had ordered a salad and it s was actually large.

Still one of the best places around where food/desert items are made from scratch. You won't regret it.

Had the tagliatelle with porcini mushrooms. Nice fresh pasta although maybe a little much (portion) for lunch. Margarita pizza was cooked just right and thin crispy crust was a nice finish. The Emilia salad of roasted vegetables was just alright, would not get a 2nd time. Over all good lunch, if I lived in the area code would try coming for dinner, menu looked enticing. Was nice also they had a bar with wine and mixed drinks available.

Totally enjoyed the food. Or waiter was excellent. So appreciate real Italian cooking. Mom would have loved it.

Great place to eat Italian food with affordable price. Large section desert section with in-house made gelato. They also make cheese right in there!

No alcohol is served on Sundays. This was unexpected. Had we known this, our party would have come on a different day of the week. This is the only restaurant I've patronized that has this odd restriction.

The Lasagna was great - the tender noodles and well flavored meat sauce really stood out. The Gnocchi Ricotta e Spinaci was just ok and it arrived at the table lukewarm; perhaps it would've been tastier if it was hot. The Tomato and Mozzarella salad was a bit of a letdown, mostly because the tomatoes lacked flavor. The Hazelnut Cannoli and Lemon Gelato were both excellent. Service was good and our party of 4 was seated within just a few minutes.

the food is consistently good. A few times we ate at Eatalian Cafe Italian Restaurant and it was awesome

Awesome service awesome food super cool atmosphere !

Good food, good service, clean, great menu, but a little noisy due to the warehouse environment...otherwise great!

Not sure why this place is always crowded the food is not very good

Pizza was really good, good place to enjoy with family

This is an interesting restaurant it is in Gardena but has the feeling your are in Beverly Hills, unfortunately the staff has the attitude of BH. If you want a different take on Italian food this is the place. But to ask for something off the menu, say an Antipasto Salad you will be blown off and reminded you are at Eatalian.

Authentic Italian food, with a authentic Italian taste

We have been introduced to this place by some good friends of ours and we absolutely love it. Its a little hidden from a lot of the rest of the major city. In the industrial part of town and you can totally bypass it because of the warehouses around. Doesn't look like much from the outside however it's so worth it once you arrive. I love the openness to the warehouse and all of the options they have.

They serve pretty good house wine. Fair priced. I ordered a glass of the red and a moretti la rossa. Enjoyed both. I love that everything is made from scratch here. The pastas are all very delicious. The gnocchi is extremely popular here. The pizza we go to is the Marlon Brando. Amazing, so delicious and satisfying.

One of the main reasons we like coming here is the Gelato station/Dessert booth they have. SO delicious! We love coming here because all of the flavors are so fresh. We've tried almost all of them and they are so tasty. I recommend having a few bucks to leave as tip for the person serving the gelato. All in all, great service, great food. Hidden place. Love it.

Attentive service and perfect pizza. Their pizza is, pleasantly, not a thick slab of dough overflowing with overly sweet tomato sauce. Rather, very light and crispy dough and crust. Seems like they carefully select the meats, cheeses, and sauce, in just the right proportions. Also, pizza was a great price for the size. Although thin and light, I wouldn't call the pizza "flatbread". As for specific pizzas, I got the Rock and my wife got a pizza with mozzarella, oregano, and anchovies. Good selection of quality gelatos.

Doesn't get better than this! True Italian lives in Gardena. I keep coming back and never had a bad meal.

Decent for Italian in the area... Had the shrimp risotto and while good, they left the tails on some of the bigger shrimp, big no no for me as I'd rather not have any trash on my plate. Second, they seemed to mix shrimp sizes to save money I would assume. My girlfriend had the lasagna, came out flat instead of like a tower but the ragu was great... Tasted like they make it in house.

This place is amazing..I go there regularly, food is identical to foods you would fine in southern Italy! Driving through the neighborhood you would never know it was there but once you go you will not be disappointed. Pizzas are great, fresh pasta, gelato station and coffee station.