Viva Italiano Pizzeria & Restaurant — Restaurant in Pacifica

This was our first time trying the place. The food was really good. We had Carbonara and a specialty pizza. The only issue we had was that the pizza was pretty oily on the underside and towards the middle. They knew it was oily too, because when they offered to pack it up for us, they stacked the box with parchment paper under the pizza to catch the oil.

Atmosphere was nice, but pretty dark. We could barely see the menu, and not that many tables and seats around, but we felt cramped.

Service was JUST ok. Host was nice but only came by to take our order, and then someone else came to give us our food. No one ever checked on us after that. We ran out of water halfway through dinner and never got refilled. What upset us most, was that we were seated right next to a table of older folks who the waitress kept checking on constantly, like every 3-5 minutes. She was probably hoping for a big tip from them. We had to flag someone down for the check after waiting 20 minutes. Towards the end of dinner after we paid, someone from the kitchen brought over a pizza straight to our table thinking it was ours. When we said no, he asked every other table. Makes me think they could easily give your food to the wrong table and you might never get your food. They didn’t deserve our tip, but we tipped anyway. I hope they do better.

We plan to do carry out if we ever come back. It’s not worth the lack of service/attentiveness just because we don’t look like we have money like older folks. We definitely felt the...

This was initially one of our favorite pizza places in Pacifica, and I told countless co-workers and friends how grand and great the pizzas are. When the pizzas have the toppings you order it is an amazing pizzaria. But if you and your spouse enjoy ordering 1/2 and 1/2 pizzas I would refrain from doing so online, or possibly not on Sundays. We have ordered multiple times without any issues 5 topping extra larges. No premium prices are listed online for specific ingredients and when I did a sea food pizza one week was surprised at how awesome it was done. Usually I ordered on the phone in the past and if you have specific requests I would make sure to continue that trend. Otherwise you may end up spending way too much and notice after the fact that they said the charges are for extra topping ( none over the 5 allowed on half a pizza) and don't even get all the toppings on my wife's side. Over all I would recommend coming here if you want an excellent 🍕, but if you have specific requests please call and order and make sure to check your pizza so you get everything...

The waitress was very sweet and very helpful, as well as prompt. The food, however left a LOT to be desired. If you're going to put sauce on a steak it should be noted on the menu, especially if the customer is ordering a cut like ribeye. They fixed the problem with my steak, which is that I ordered it as rare as possible and it arrived well-done. I thought the reason the meat was tough when I cut into the first steak was because of how cooked it was. My second steak, which was cooked really well, was also tough, which was odd, as ribeye is usually pretty tender. The other thing is every single pasta dish, including the pasta and also vegetable sides for my steak, had too much garlic, so much so that it overpowered every other flavor. Also, for some reason, the cannoli filling was grainy and overly sweet. It didn't taste anything like ricotta, unfortunately. The pastry was flaky and yummy, however. The fried zucchini was very good, and the garlic bread was a bit burnt, although...