Berkeley Italian Restaurants

Pizza

1. Lo Coco's Restaurant

Neighborhood: North Oakland

We had beaten the dinner rush and got there w/ 3 tables to spare....being all excited we didn't know what to order, so it took us 15mins....  While waiting for a friend, we ordered a medium pizza Lo...

2. Pizzaiolo

Neighborhood: North Oakland

it (It was an eggplant flatbread which was amazing so I'm glad we did get to try it!)  We shared a pizza margherita which was very very oversalted almost to the point that it was hard to eat.  The saving grace...

3. Fellini

I'm in love.  If you're a vegetarian and you hate that those meaty-meat-lovers-meat pizzas smell so damned good, then get your compassionate ass over to Fellini and try the Smiling Cow.  Fake...

4. Dopo

Neighborhood: North Oakland

Took my girl here for a belated bday lunch.  We shared the mixed salad, roast beef and watercress panini, and buffalo mozzarella and basil pizza.  OMG the panini was delishooooosh.  Not sure how...

5. Spettro

Neighborhood: Lakeshore

Boasting the most bizarre pizza combinations on the planet, Spettro offers toppings such as peanut butter. With cheese???  Not my scene.   Their more traditional dishes are quite good...

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Pasta

1. Riva Cucina

i'd go back. we have the misto and two pastas. they were very good - but not over the top. i like pizziola's better. the beer and wine selections were very good. great service. also, it is a quiet...

2. Lo Coco's Restaurant

Neighborhood: North Oakland

Coco special, 2 pastas (raviloi and a penne w/ meatball), 1/2 liter of house wine and an mushroom appetizers. Deciding not to wait for our late friend to order, his wife ordered for him (note: 15mins...

3. Dopo

Neighborhood: North Oakland

then ordered the pasta with baby squid...so perfect.  The sauce clung to the pasta and there wasnt a pool of sauce at the bottom of the bowl.  Then of course we had to order the ricotta gnocchi.  We...

4. Oliveto Cafe &…

Neighborhood: North Oakland

not get the entree order in to save an  order of the veal.) I say, "OK, so she will have the pasta that she ordered for an appetizer as her main and the tongue as an appetizer." He says, "No the pasta...

5. Trattoria La…

Neighborhood: Claremont

reasonably priced for 4 people, about $110 with a bottle of wine, flexible 'family style', 1.5 or 2 times the normal size entree; we shared salad and 2 pasta dishes, delicious  CONS: a little smoky...

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