Frankie's Italian Kitchen — Restaurant in Los Angeles

I have a NEW FAVORITE RESTAURANT!!! THIS PLACE IS AMAZING!!!!!!! Frankie’s Italian Kitchen is a family owned restaurant that has been in the same location for 30 years, and I have no idea how we have missed it for so long! The food, staff & service were all PHENOMINAL!! We had such a FANTASTIC experience at dinner, that we came back the very next day for Lunch!

Carol (the ROCKSTAR with the red hair), was so wonderful and accommodating. She was the first person I spoke to when I called for a reservation, and she was just as pleasant in person as she was in the phone! The other waitress Karen, was great and super nice as well! Rodrigo, our busboy was very attentive, and made sure our glasses were always full and we had everything we needed.

Now on to the food! Everything is made to order, and you can taste it!

The food came out fresh and piping hot!!! I was so impressed with their selectons. They had many choices, covering all dietary restrictions, including Vegetarian, Vegan and Gluten Free!

The garlic rolls and homemade balsamic and ranch dressings are to die for!

I've tasted 5 dishes so far, and they were all 5 Stars!!! ☆☆☆☆☆ I highly recommend:

Drunken Pasta Chicken Piccata Mushroom Ravioli Eggplant Parmesan Veal Parmesan

And I cant wait to go back and try more!

I would strongly suggest you visit this HIDDEN GEM! I promise you will be HOOKED just like us!!! If you want INCREDIBLE food, served by WONDERFUL people, at REASONABLE prices, Go to FRANKIE'S ITALIAN KITCHEN, and tell them Tony sent you!!! (You can...

I don't recommend. Nothing about this place is Italian nothing. I've eaten here years ago I came back to try the food again I ordered a meatball sub me and a friend it was great. Went back for the cheese ravioli the cheese was dry inside and it was just with tomato sauce it had slices of vegetable that were not cooked all the way through it was hard to eat. Cheese ravioli sauce is not made the way they do it it tastes like a jar of regular tomato sauce like ketchup like ketchup. I will never eat here again their chef is not Italian they have Mexicans running the show. They know nothing about authentic Italian the sauce had No flavor. The sauce should have had been a creamy orange texture cooked with oregano garlic thyme all Italian seasoning there was no basil. The manager who's Mexican ask me how an Italian sauce should be it should be Italian I've been to restaurants in Malibu authentic Italian restaurants amazing food because it is done right way! Italian kitchen terrible I can't believe they charged me $41 for two items the soup is supposed to be free. Minestrone soup is from a can. The sauce is just nothing there is nothing special about their sauce! Get a real chef and the place looks empty. I understand you have your Mexican chefs so you cut your cost you don't have to pay more wages to get a real chef in there you would rather have bad reviews then have an outstanding Italian restaurant. That is your choice good luck with your mindset. Oh and by the way they don't have garlic bread it happens...

These days it's hard to find something that the whole family will eat. Frankie's has always been a go to restaurant for my family for four generations. My 9 yr old loves the calamari and my 6 yr old loves the pasta marina. Great! Not anymore. Now all of a sudden they won't do a kids pasta to go (which they've done in the past, recently a couple times in the past two months) and want to charge for a full dinner. Hmmm...let's see I bet a child size dinner which is $4 less is also rightfully smaller than the adults. So wouldn't they actually make out better portion/dollar or at the very least break even. If that's what keeps their doors open, as was their explanation to me, then I think they are doing something wrong. While I understand that you cannot confirm if to go is actually for a child, again I argue that generally a restaurant makes out better portion/dollar. The fact that I'd even come to them in the first place for an $11 kids spaghetti marinara should speak more volume to them than the volume they mistakenly think they are mIssing out on. My kid won't finish it even in leftovers, so please keep more of your spaghetti but charge me only four bucks less, which I'd be fine with. Seems really ridiculous and makes me frustrated when it makes no sense. Petty and lame for them to...