The Bottle Inn Hermosa — Restaurant in Hermosa Beach

One of the best Italian dining experiences to enjoy and savor!

This restaurant is run by an incredible and friendly team of staff and servers providing top notch hospitality, customer service, and truly amazing high quality food, beverage, and dessert. They are on point in all aspects of providing and servicing their guests from table touch ( checking in on how your meal is and making sure to your satisfaction), human interaction, and warm smiles.

A dream team of hardworking staff with a great synergy going above and beyond to ensure the guest and dining experience is the best. Many thanks to GM Abel, Manager Sandra, and the fantastic staff and crew Paola, Deana, Bella, Angela, as well as the chef, kitchen, bar, and floor staff. Such a pleasure to be in a wonderful place with positive energy and good vibes, beautiful art, a private room in back that can accommodate approximately 15 persons, a separate dining area, small intimate bar, and outdoor patio.

The food is absolutely amazing and succulent!!! The pictured baked eggplant parmigiana is one of the best I’ve ever eaten seasoned to absolute perfection including restaurants in Boston and NYC!!! The hot garlic bread is super yummy and served promptly as well as refreshed. The red wine paring blend was a fabulous choice suggested by the server as I’m a fan of Malbec. Desserts! OMG! Warm bread pudding (surprisingly light) ala mode with vanilla ice cream and the tiramisu(layered perfectly) both to die for. A friendly local couple seated next to me after opening dialogue about the food and a conversation about music and radio era circa 1960’s shared that they’ve been going there for 45 years!!! They told me that it was previously decorated with bottles on the walls hence the name The Bottle Inn and changed after the pandemic.

Highest recommendations for the ultimate best Italian dining in Los Angeles County in a quaint spot a half block from the beach! Will definitely be coming back!...

The worst dining experience imaginable. Every single thing was not as described, was soggy, was just blah. Wet croutons, “crispy breaded cauliflower” that was steamed with no seasoning, a supposed panini that was no such thing. Awful. And why only do pizza at lunch, not dinner? But the WORST part was our clueless young waitress. We ordered a bottle of Duckhorn sauv blanc. She came and started to open it and I said, “ oh, that’s actually Decoy.” (Duckhorn’s lower level wine.) So she says that was all they had. OK, we’ll take it. Later, after this lousy, barely eaten meal, the bill comes and we are charged $75 for the Duckhorn. We thought, oh, there was a mixup, they will fix it. Uh, NO! She said that was the substitute and the price would be the same! We argued back and forth, til finally I googled the price difference to show her. You can’t sub in a cheaper wine and still charge the same. She actually said to us; “Well, there’s a duck on the label! What difference does it make?” Can you imagine? We asked for the manager; she came back and said he was too busy to come over. What a joke! I left seething mad and totally unsatisfied with the whole thing.. Our night and our money wasted. The place doesn't deserve to stay...

Were able to be seated right away on a Friday night. Decor was dated, service was very slow. Party of 4 - two of us were served the entree while others were eating their salad. Then when that was finished, the remaining entrees were served while half the table watched us eat due to the poor timing of bringing food out together.

Staff were friendly enough, nothing extraordinary. Chicken parm was average, my husband did not finish his meal. The noodles were served dry alongside the chicken topped with marinara and cheese. My 10yo child didn’t see anything on the menu, so ordered $10 buttered noodles. We also didn’t receive the ice cream that was to come with the kids meal but service was so slow we didn’t bother to ask and just got the check and left.

Fettuccini bolognese was just average, portion was large and what I’d expect for almost $30/plate. The complimentary garlic bread was good, we probably ate more than we would have because we were starving upon arrival. The highlight of our meal was the meatball appetizer. While they were good, (4 for $13) they were not good enough to compel us to want to venture back. I love supporting small, local, family businesses but this one just...