Reviews for La Fornaretta Restaurant in Newcastle, CA
Hidden Gem found on the way to the mountains! This family owned business was romantic at night with a large patio and working... heaters overhead. Meatballs were homemade and contained yummy pine nuts. The spaghetti tasted homemade too, or just higherquality than usual Italian restaurants. Prawns on the linguini tottomare were gigantic. You can tell this family cares a lotabout the quality of their dishes and making customers happy. Great service to top it off! Read more
Absolutely delicious, authentic Sicilian food! The pesto ravioli is phenomenal, and the wine selection is stellar. The service... was super fast and attentive as well. We arrived on a busy Saturday night, and were seated quickly, and our food was deliveredremarkably fast. I highly recommend this place! Read more
My wife has been wanting to try them out for over a year, but between COVID-19 and it being a 50 minute drive, we just hadn't... gotten to it. All I can say is that it was our loss. The food was awesome, and relaxing atmosphere. We are both stuffed, butwas sooooo worth it. YUMMY. To heck with the 50 minute drive, we look forward to our next meal, and will happily make thedrive. Read more
Cool old-school spot, been here twice. Good service and wine list. Pizza is okay, carbona is good, but I'm not a big fan of the... onion in the sauce. Very creamy and savory, and the noodles were perfectly al dente. The affogato is very good. Plating isgreat. Bread and oil/vinegar is a nice touch. I like how sprawled out the location is. Entrance is around the back, hard tofind. Definitely a nice place for an occasion, real crowd pleaser. Read more
What's in Newcastle? Awesome Italian. More specifically, Sicilian. I had Sicilian friends who invited me to their family home... meals when I was young. This was it. Loud. Flowing wine. Generous portions of yummy fresh food. Caprese was fresh. Tomatoestasted like it was just picked from the vine. Olive oil poured over the mazzarella cheese was rich, deep, nutty, and buttery,much tastier than olive oil provided with bread. Speaking of bread, it was warm and fresh like it should be. Spinach salad waswell tossed and balanced. The cheese was ricotta salata, something I never really tasted before like it. It was almost likeeating a cracker made of pure cheese. The pan seared halibut was cooked like how my grandma used to cook her fish! Crunch on theskin side and soft on the meat side. Since I asked for no salt, the fish was very sweet and flavorful. Seafood pasta came withlinguine ardente in tomato sauce with garlic slices. I loved the homemade Tiramisu with rich cream and good espresso. Stephaniewas very attentive and friendly, and please keep it that way! Molto bene! Read more
We enjoyed La Fornaretta! The service was fantastic, our server was very personable and prompt. The local wine and beer... selection was pretty good. The food was all very high quality, the cioppino was particularly good, as was the pesto ravioli. Thefettuccine alaksa was decent but found the smoked salmon to be a bit overpowering. Any of their menu items with the tomato saucewere fantastic, it was obvious the tomato sauce was freshly prepared. The pizza was good as well and much larger than weexpected. Overall a very nice experience. Read more
Small town mom and pop Italian restaurant. My daughter and son in law love this place and we do too. Our 100 percent Italian... daughter in law says this place is fantastic home made Italian food at its best. You start with there bread. Wow, best ever.Caesar salad very good and our main courses were really amazing. Small town and you get a small restaurant. But still very nicefor inside or outside dinning with heaters. You will love it. Staff and owner were super friendly and they work hard. Keep it upguys, we will be back often. Want to get there pizza next time. The ones I saw on other tables were loaded. Read more
I would have given them 5 stars but the waitress messed up 3 times with us. Amazingly surprised how good the food was and the... wine list they had. Great atmosphere and location. If you’re looking for good affordable Italian food, check out LaFornaretta. Read more