Il Fornaio

Category: Italian restaurant in Palo Alto, California

Address: 520 Cowper St, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA

Phone: +16508533888

Opening hours

Sunday: 12–8:30PM

Monday: 5–8:30PM

Tuesday: 5–8:30PM

Wednesday: 5–8:30PM

Thursday: 12–8:30PM

Friday: 12–9PM

Saturday: 12–9PM

Reviews

Victor Wang

May 29, 2022

Large restaurant able to handle a large quantity of guests. Lovely outdoor patio area and we are able to get a party of 7 seated on Friday without reservations on the outdoor patio. Plenty of parking nearby. Food was quite delicious and classic Italian dishes. Not a bad dish out of all the ones we tried.

Sor Pallocca

May 22, 2022

Very nice place to meet both indoor and outdoor, Friendly staff and decent food. There are a few details that I don't understand, For lunch they open at 12pm, I'm not sure why this choice, you end up waiting outside together with other hungry customers to then enter the establishment and provide the staff a big wave of clients coming in all at once. However, we tried quite a few items from the menu and they are of good quality but nothing to rave about. The bruschetta bread was hard to cut and chew, the beet salad was terrific, great job, the calamari was quite small and over cooked, The mix of grilled fish is pan fried not grilled and the seafood food pasta was quite tasty, well cooked and with an abundance of seafood. Overall a good experience, small easy changes would set it apart from other restaurants.

Ryan Villanueva

Mar 5, 2022

Very nice and clean place. Steak was not as flavorful as I'd expect for 48 dollars, but super tender. Cut with a fork status.

Andrey Kurenkov

Feb 15, 2022

Nice Italian restaurant. Liked the menu quite a bit, good amount of variety and fairly affordable. The dessert we had (pudding bread) was amazing. However, I was a bit underwhelmed by the general look / atmosphere of this location. Still, definitely a good option for this sort of food.

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Questions & Answers

Hi Folks hey is Michael Savage there now???

James | Sep 6, 2020
211 MOB | Sep 6, 2020

Yes

What is the noise level during dinner hours

Lori Taylor | Sep 7, 2019
Jon Harvey | Sep 7, 2019

Differing sections are well soundproofed

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What is the tipping policy?

Lalit Gianchandani | Sep 7, 2018
Misha Hawk-Wyatt | Sep 7, 2018

Open - it's based on the quality of your waiter's/waitress' service to you as their guest.

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