Piccola Trattoria — Restaurant in Santa Clarita

Clean, delicious, sophisticated Sicilian Italian food. Yes, I'll be back. Piccola is by far a Treasure!

This is an Italian Family business, husband & wife, etc. It's a Modern, classy, Italian spot, affordably priced.

The food at Piccola is one of those places that reminds me of cooking for close friends & family at a home holiday, something over the top, special occasion type dishes.

Service: If I could give them 10 stars, I would. A very meticulous Team, working in unison. The kitchen staff is by far one of the best! Attention to detail, refined side dishes. This place, the food and all the staff deserve a Michelin Star!

Food: No other Italian place within 50 miles compares. It's worth the drive from Westlake Village, West LA, SFV, Bay Cities, Malibu, etc. AND Piccola Trattoria puts those spots like Nonna and Basta to shame.

The food in general is very clean, not oily or greasy at all. Just the right amount of salt, and no overburdeny oregano either. The meat they use to make their sauces is lean, so the final result is not fatty. The dough in the pizza was fresh made through fermentation, not store bought yeast. The desserts were savory, not overly sweet or loaded with sugar. They were divine. The meat dishes were cooked to perfection and to your liking, the lamb chops, osso bucco, ribeye.

Some of my favs: Pizza w/ mushroom & prosciutto. I think they use Mozz & Sharp Provalone cheese. Yum. The Baby Rack of Lamb Chops medium rare. Omg, tender and juicy. No funky game taste at all. Sauce on the side, so you can dip. Ribeye cooked Medium. Savory, tangy, filling. Get a cannoli! You'll thank me later. Light/flaky shell, perfect savory filling. Oh, the Tartufo Classico was my favorite dessert.

Prices are Affordable. I feel like you could easily get a meat dish at this place for much less than the price of a pasta dish or even a pizza at other Italian places. Piccola's menu is evenly balanced between meat dishes, seafood, pasta and pizzas. It's a good, well-rounded assortment that aims to please.

Atmosphere is elegant, call it business casual. It's a great date spot, or a place you would bring your closest adult relatives. Kids welcome too! But by no means is this any kind of NY hole in the wall spaghetti with meatballs joint. It's more sophisticated than that.

December 2024 Parking is $6 valet, or some street parking is available.

If you're a first-generation Italian to the United states, or your parents are straight out of Italy, this is definitely the spot for you! Piccola T is exceptionally great food, at an affordable price, with great service.

Honestly, dinner for FIVE people came out to around $300 WITH Wine, shareable appetizers, desserts (plural), 1st and 2nd courses. Good Luck trying to get those prices in Westlake, Malibu, or the West side. I feel like I got my money's worth at this place, and everyone at the table was definitely satisfied, felt full, and we all had a very delicious and enjoyable meal. AND we had leftovers to bring home.

I came here once in 2018, and because of the pandemic and other reasons, couldn't get back until just now. But I will definitely visiting here more often for sure!

Please give this place a try if you're looking for good Italian food at Great prices, without the hype. And please tell them I sent...

We'd been looking forward to trying Piccola Trattoria...the website and reviews make it, and its sister restaurant look like the nicest Italian restaurants we have in the Santa Clarita Valley. The experience was good, the service and ambiance excellent, but the food itself didn't quite live up to what we were hoping for.

I enjoyed the glass of red wine I got, a smooth Italian the waiter recommended. He was spot on with his choice and it went down the way I wanted.

My wife had a peach bellini. She didn't taste as much peach in it as she would have liked and I agreed it was not as present as one would want in a bellini.

We shared 2 appetizers...the Misticanza salad (which my wife asked for light dressing or dressing on the side...there was too much dressing on it) and the Cauliflower Soup special, which was super tasty.

For our mains, my wife had the Pomodoro pasta but with gluten-free pasta instead of the angel hair it's usually served with. Kudos to Piccola Trattoria for offering a gluten free pasta...this was a basic dry pasta but it was cooked right (it's super easy to mess up gluten-free pasta.) The sauce itself was light...maybe because of the thicker Gf penne noodles whereas the pomodoro usually comes in a thinner angel hair...there wasn't enough of the sauce and it wasn't particularly amazing, but serviceable.

I ordered the Tagliolini con Tartufo Frescho off the specials menu...it's a house-made tagliolini pasta with a thick cream sauce and, probably what made it the most expensive item on the menu was the shaved truffle the server added tableside. The house-made pasta was perfect and exactly the right texture and taste you want from fresh pasta, but overall the dish was super-dense and rich. The truffles didn't have or add much flavor to the dish and the sauce itself was more cream than "mushroom and truffle fondue" that the item description said. I wish I hadn't ordered this.

We shared the molten pistachio cake for dessert. We liked this, the cream pistachio filling and moistness of the cake, along with the fresh berries an whipped cream were a delight to eat.

The website menu makes this place look like classic Italian food with a modern flare...our experience was a very nice fine dining, classic Italian restaurant experience with food that overall could have been better.

Could have been an off night for the food, or just our particular selections...we'd give it another shot because it's such nice place, but the food, for us, is going to have go up a notch before we match it...

My family and I moved from Escondido to Canyon Country in 2017. At the time, we appreciated going out to various restaurants, trying different foods, experiencing different ambiances, etc., but we yearned for finding a local spot that would feel like home. I grew up where there were several Italian restaurants (Tivoli, Vittorios, Cafe Misto) that felt like home. You walked in, and everyone knew each other. The service was impeccable, and the ambiance made the food dance and taste better.

Piccola is this type of restaurant. You can order everything and anything on their menu, and it will be excellent. From the owners, hosts, waiters, bus boys, valet (Sal and his team are the best), this restaurant feels and is like home. The food is exquisite, and the service is not just timely it is impeccable. I suffered a major medical episode recently and am happy to still be alive. I forgot that my family and I made Christmas Eve reservations. Maybe I am biased, but I savored every bite of their Ragu Special (my favorite). The food tasted better than ever before, and I can not imagine not experiencing their food again. Piccola is, in my personal opinion,... my...