L'italiano Trattoria - Bayside

This Sicilian restaurant, owned by a family, is truly wonderful. It offers the closest experience to an authentic home-cooked Italian meal that you can find at a restaurant.

The meals at this restaurant are consistently excellent, with top-notch service to match. It is rare to find such consistent quality in dining experiences these days.

The food and service at this restaurant were amazing. As soon as we walked in, we were warmly greeted and seated. The dining room had a cozy, family-like atmosphere and the staff made us feel right at home. This place is family-owned and truly a local gem. I highly recommend saving room for dessert!

This dish was supposed to come with garlic oil (I think) but I wanted red tomato sauce instead. Waiter said I got you! he delivered. Was it good? I 'll let the picture speak for itself!

A couple of weeks ago, my family and I stopped for an early dinner to celebrate my dad's birthday. The place had only other 4 patrons eating at the time, however, the manager stopped us at the door so she could check if there were any tables available.She then proceeded to offer us the table by the open door (it was cold and we came with a baby) which was getting the worstglare of the afternoon sun, I'm pretty sure she thought we wouldn't take the table and we'd just leave. We had just come frompumpkin picking so we weren't dressed in gowns tuxedos, but the other two diners there were in sweatpants so it couldn't havebeen the dress code that upset the manager. The food was ok, the only positive thing was the waiter. Needless to say, we didn'tstay for dessert and we won't be going back. Learn to treat your customers better, especially in a diverse neighborhood!