L'Angolo Ristorante — Restaurant in Philadelphia

This is one of my favorite restaurants since our first visit in 2018. My husband and I ate here many times and every time was wonderful. We paused coming here for dinner during the pandemic and came back this year. I have to write this review because the service seemed to change for me. The first thing we noticed was that we felt rushed when we ordered. They brought everything out including our appetizers not giving us a chance to enjoy the dishes separately. And our main entrees followed almost 15 minutes later and they were constantly saying are we done? Is there anything else we want? I felt we did not have a lot of time to relax and enjoy our meal, enjoy our wine or even to fully digest our food. For this reason this time was not a good experience for us. The second thing had to do with my entree. I had ordered lamb chops medium, and my husband ordered his medium rare. My husband was very satisfied with his dish, however I felt mine were alittle undercooked for medium and that they should have only been pink inside. I told my waiter about it and he replied to me that “it’s how medium should look”. I ended up giving half of them to my husband. Finally my husband said to ask the waiter to have them cooked alittle more so I requested that they be cooked more, which they did. The waiter came back saying to me next time order them medium well. I was alittle taken back by his comment. Their food is delicious every time but the service and experience did change for me which is why I gave 4 stars. In closing, this was our wedding anniversary and they did ask (when we made the reservation) if there was any special event for this dinner and noted this which we perhaps thought they would come over and say congratulations or give us a better table which was...

Sat outside on a beautiful September night. We would’ve sat inside but they were full. I did make a reservation two weeks earlier but outside was the only availability. When I went inside to tell them that we have arrived no one approached me. I had to approach one of the waitresses. They told me to choose any seat I want outside. When we chose our seat and sat down, our server immediately approached us and we were off. It is a BYOB. So we chose our appetizers which our server recommended. We chose the grilled calamari as well as the smoked mozzarella. Both were outstanding. Then for our entrées, I choose Asobucco (it was a special.) the veal was cooked to perfection. It fell off the bone. The pasta was homemade and excellent. Would definitely recommend. The other entrée pictured was shrimp and lobster with linguine. It was also excellent. For dessert we chose chocolate mousse cake. It was very good. As far as the service it was very good. My only complaint is that we asked for bread several times before it was brought to our table. Like I said, in the beginning, we sat outside so I did not get a chance to review the inside. It is very small so make sure you make your reservations early. Parking is not easy as well. It is free street parking but not many spots available. Uber if you can. For four people, our bill...

Our visit to L’Angolo before a sixers game started out a bit iffy. On a Tuesday we made a 5pm reservation for Friday at 5. It was the last opening and was made directly by phone. When we got there they had no record of the table. Luckily we were a little early and when I showed him the call record on the phone they found a place for us. At that point only one other table was occupied, 10 minutes later every one was full. After that minor hiccup everything was wonderful. The place is very homey and the service by committee was friendly and efficient. Being a BYOB is also a bonus. We started with mussels red. At $15 it was a huge portion and paired well with the delicious bread on the table. I had the beef braciola. It came with spaghetti but for a $3 up charge I got a big portion of large homemade gnocchi instead. My wife had the Pappardelle with shrimp and langostino. It had a nice kick and was delicious. We were very pleased with all the food and for the size and quality it actually felt like a bargain. The only area for improvement would for them to be a little more generous with the sauces. All the dishes had the bare minimum to cover the food with not a drop left when you got to the bottom. This was most noteworthy for the mussels since there was no sauce left to sop up...