Reviews for Il Fornaio in Santa Clara, CA
Beautiful and well decorated Italian restaurant having options even for vegetarians - Really beautifully designed restaurant.... It is known for fine dining specially during lunch hours - The cuisines are delightfully delicious. There are very few vegoptions but they are really good. The sauce used is generally high in flavor as opposed to bland preparation done by manyItalian places. - Service is decent. Can improve the speed a bit. However they take care of your customisations. Read more
The ambience is definitely worth 5 star but the food was not good at all. The pasta I ordered was undercooked, salmon was... overcooked, drink was just mango juice with some vodka which had no flavor and no presentation. Place is overpriced and the foodwas just not worth it. You’ll find better Italian food at Olive garden ???? Read more
We enjoyed this Italian place, service and ambience were really good! We ordered burrata for appetizers that was great! The... vodka pasta and butternut squash ravioli were the best! The chocolate lake was really good too though not the best! Overall anamazing experience! Read more
This place has some great Italian food. The burrata I had is excellent! If you’re into good desserts, the chocolate one was... delicious! I also great service from the bar staff. They’re really friendly and helpful. Jeff was able to get creative andfind a wine that I liked to pair with my food! The food does come out quick but that might have been because they weren’t thatbusy yet. Read more
Overall ok experience. Our waiter wasn’t the friendliest (looked annoyed with us most of the time..) and I’ve never been to... an Italian restaurant that doesn’t give you complimentary bread and olive oil, especially for the price of the meal. However,the food was decent (don’t expect huge portions though! Just enough for one) and they had good Italian wine. Read more
Service was good and food came faster than expected. We saw empty tables and asked for the table for 4 but the server insisted... that we took the table for 2 since there are 2 of us. After we started dining, we saw couples assigned table for 4. Not sure ifthey look at the way you dress and determine which table you get assigned? Read more
It was definitely not worth the price. Each dish we got ranged from $18-30 and the quality was worse than boxed mac and cheese... from safeway. The pasta was pretty bland and portions were really small. Somehow, 5 dishes weren’t enough for 5 people. On thetakeout menu, I suggest not putting “gluten free options available upon request” as a subheading for the whole menu if itisn’t available for all items on the menu. Just label which specific dishes can be made gluten free instead of making us guesswhich ones can be made gluten free. The gnocchi was the consistency of mashed potatoes? (also, don’t hang up on customers whenthey call you on the phone. that was really weird.) Read more
Came here for my mom's bday and there was no line and we had a reservation! Good: - Decent Italian food - the bread here is... good but it also costs $2 so it's not free bread like other places! - Free tiramisu on my mom's birthday! Super happy about thatservice. - I was a fan of the vodka pasta tubes - they were smaller than I thought but tasted better than they looked. Bad: -Found that the presentation of food wasn't super appetizing, but the food itself tasted fine! Overall decent Italian place butthere was also nothing super special or memorable about it and the ambiance was alright. Read more