Ristorante Italiano

555 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, California

3.5

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Size: 154 x 38

Phone:

831-458-2321,

Website:

www.ristoranteital.com

Email:

ITALIANO@GOT.NET

Message from Ristorante Italiano Ristorante Italiano has been serving traditional and innovative Italian dishes since 1980. We are continually voted Best Italian Restaurant. Choose between the dining room's inviting Italian decor ... more on insiderpages.com

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17 reviews

3.5

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17 reviews

100% of guests recommend this place.

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Their atmosphere is very warm and inviting, with dim lights and private booths. more on CitySearch

Great food, I have been to Ristorante Italiano many times and enjoyed the experience each one. more on insiderpages.com

They also manage to be one of those rare places that can manage to stop cooking their pasta before it is fit for wallpapering. more on Yahoo! Travel

I ordered the Seafood Ravioli special and my wife ordered stuffed shells. more on TripAdvisor

My favorite is the SPAGHETTI CARBONARA-(Cream and cheese sauce topped with sauteed onions mushrooms prosciutto and bacon). more on Yahoo! Travel

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10 reviews

Top Reviews From TripAdvisor

This is a family type restaurant with fun decor (murals on some of the walls). Food is wonderful and there are things ... more on TripAdvisor

Great place , busy on a Sunday night. Sunday night special Lasagne and red wine for $16 great value. more on TripAdvisor

Ristorante Italiano, was not awful, but was not great either. For the prices that they charge I expected the food and service ... more on TripAdvisor

Great food and atmosphere more on TripAdvisor

Thick greasy, delicious pastas. more on TripAdvisor

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5 reviews

Top Reviews From Yahoo! Travel

We live in Santa Cruz and Ristorante is one of the favs of the locals. You can't say much more than that. There are many great eating establishments in SC but this one is great for a good meal. The outside seating ... more on Yahoo! Travel

All right, so perhaps the word 'solid' is slightly misused. What I mean is, this is a consistently good place for classic Italian food. I can think of nothing ... more on Yahoo! Travel

I thought it would be difficult to screw up pasta, but I was wrong. We visited this restaurant as a group of 7 or 8 and none of us liked what we had ordered. The pasta was overcooked and dripping with oil. ... more on Yahoo! Travel

The food is good seafood pasta is excellent. The desserts, especially the "baked potato", is worth the trip alone. The service varies ... more on Yahoo! Travel

Ristorante Italiano's is a pleasant place to have a comfortable meal. Good food in a comfortable, yet not chintzy or silly environment. Their meatballs are the best in Santa Cruz, and they serve a lot of simple Italian comfort food. ... more on Yahoo! Travel

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I had a night out with my boyfriend here. It was pretty good italian food. It wasn't crowded, the dining room was very nice and well decorated. I got the spaghetti margherita; ... more on CitySearch

I was becoming somewhat jaded with the restaurants in Santa Cruz, believing there weren't really any places to get decent food. My girlfriend lives right near Ristorante Italiano so we gave it a try. Their atmosphere is very warm ... more on CitySearch