Picarelli's Cucina Italiana

A fun, comfortable dining choice with superb homemade entrees straight from Italia itself! You won't be disappointed!

Very good, modern classic Italian fine dining without the harumph We were in town for a CSULB event started by searching Yelp, but nothing very good, or at least with a good description showed up I remembered Open Table got the info I needed. 7 of us enjoyed a great meal bottle of wine. mostly locals there, so you know it's good.

The decor is charming and there is live music on Fri Sat nights. The food was delicious. All 3 courses we had were excellent. It's a not to be missed restaurant.

While the service was quick and attentive, the food was only slightly above average. We had a caprese salad (simple but well done), salmon (dry) w/ pasta, their signature stuffed peppers (all bread crumbs). It 's an OK Italian joint, but there are better.

The food was good. The waiter was abrupt and bordered on rude. It was not a good place to carry on a conversation. Table were close together and you were part of the conversation at the next table. The wine list was sparse, and not a lot of variety. the food was good.