Luigi's D' Italia — Restaurant in Fullerton

This is probably a well kept secret Italian restaurant that people local to the place don’t want you to know about. Because it’s really really good.

Nestled in a strip mall next to a grocery store and some other dining establishments you wouldn’t know about it unless you googled or Yelp it. We were over at Brea Mall and the kids wanted Italian food for late lunch/early dinner. So off goes my wife to search for Italian restaurants in the area.

We pulled up walked in and it’s pretty no nonsense. There’s about 6 or so tables inside and a few outside, looked at the menu and it wasn’t crazy loaded with dishes which for some can be a problem deciding what to order.

Here’s what we ordered 2 adults 3 kids: Kid1: Margherita pizza (small about 4 slices) Kid 2: Italian sub Kid3: linguini with clams in a red sauce Wife: cheese ravioli Me: Italian spicy meat pizza (medium)

After we ordered we were given complimentary cheese garlic bread. Amazing, we destroyed it quickly

Shortly after, came our order. Portions were generous but not overly abundant as we stuffed ourselves with the garlic bread it was perfect.

Wife’s ravioli sauce was spectacular, rich hearty and herbaceous. My wife normally never finishes her entree and usually takes home the rest to eat later, nope not today she cleaned it.

Son’s linguini and clams was equally rich and thick full of little clams and you can see chunks of garlic. He powered that down and normally would eat anyone’s food if they couldn’t finish it, not this time he was stuffed. For a 16 yo to say that you know the portions were just good right for that growing boy.

Daughter 1 equally finished her pizza and daughter 2 couldn’t finish her sun because of the garlic bread she chowed down prior.

My pizza was great as well loaded with slices of Italian sausages and the crust was thin crust (the way I like it). I managed to eat all but two slices which I’m looking forward to eating later.

All in all great dining experience and loved the fact that it was a casual sit down restaurant with no frills just good quality Italian food.

Local Fullertonites don’t be mad i have to share this...

Didn't eat anything before coming here for dinner. Wife wanted to try this place. The owner of this location used to have a place in Anaheim (was on Hell's Kitchen). Don't know. Didn't care. I was hungry.

Ordered: Fried Calamari (Full), Luigi's Special Pizza (Large), Spaghetti with Marinara Sauce, Fettuccine Alfredo, Italian Sausage with Pasta , and 1 Diet Coke with 4 Waters. Waiter gave us free garlic breads.

I really can not give this place 5 Stars. Why?

Dine-In area was small...5 tables inside 2 tables outside. Past Saturday 5/21...only 1 waiter was working. It was good to see that it was busy (always supporting small businesses).

Tastes: Remember...I have not eaten anything all day. So, anything I ate that night...tasted very good.

I did not like my Italian Sausage with Pasta and Bell Peppers. Sauce was good.

Garlic Breads were good. After eating some, I didn't get that heavy feeling; not like eating breads at Cheese Cake Factory.

My oldest son liked his Fettuccine Alfredo. He even ate Fried Calamari. He said Onion Rings were good with Lemon. LOL!!!! My second son liked his Spaghetti with Marinara Sauce.

My wife loved her pizza. After eating 1 slice, she wanted to take rest home. More people were coming in...and she didn't feel safe about people talking and walking back and forth near our 5 month old son. Plus, our daughter was acting up.

Dessert: They ran out of cannolis. Not their fault.

I would literally have to give this place another try, when I am not starving. I...

Food is very good, staff is super friendly and service is great. HOWEVER, I will limit my family's visits due to the female owner with the short dark hair. She had us move from a table I requested after clearing it with the staff that the table was not reserved. She started screaming in Italian at the staff about our party size not being enough for the larger table, I understand Italian ;). She came to me and made up a reservation in an hour. We were there for that hour and what appeared was another group our size with another server, that that owner also tried to fight but that female server shut her down. This woman was the same one with the attitude on the remodel/chef Ramsey cable show. I didn't want to further ruin my son's birthday dinner, with my attitude, but now I realize that I should have told her off and vowed to not return. Which I...