Riverside's Italian restaurants offer cuisine such as pizza, plus pasta and lasagna.
Riverside, California, a city alongside the Santa Ana River and 60 miles east of Los Angeles, has many restaurants for diners searching for Italian cuisine. Offering casual or formal dining, most Italian eateries feature the ever-popular pizza. Riverside is also home to a University of California campus with 40 acres of botanical gardens.
Mario's Place
Mario's Place serves Northern Italian cuisine, with menu selections that include appetizers like raw Carpaccio of beef, classic Caesar salad and butternut squash ravioli. Grilled swordfish and roasted breast of chicken count among its main dish choices, along with basil pesto and pear Gorgonzola pizza. The restaurant offers a selection of Italian desserts, cheeses, dessert wines and grappas to its diners. Mario's Place serves lunch and dinner, and patrons enjoy live jazz music on Friday and Saturday evenings, according to the restaurant's website. The facility also has private party rooms.
Ciao Bella
Ciao Bella Ristorante offers lunch and dinner selections such as pasta, pizzas, salads, gourmet sandwiches, steaks, seafood and poultry. The restaurant's website says it offers many gluten-free and vegetarian selections. Signature dishes for lunch include chicken farfalle, sun-dried tomato and artichoke ravioli, and steak salad rustica. Dinner items feature lobster ravioli, veal osso bucco, filet mignon and halibut. Ciao Bella takes reservations, offers catering services and has space for private parties.
Romano's
Romano's Italian Restaurants and Chicago Pizzeria has four locations in Riverside, with most offering a full Italian cuisine menu, plus a Chicago-style pizzeria. It has dining for families, as well as people looking for a quieter, more elegant dinner. Appetizers include bruschetta, fried mozzarella, and sauteed clams and mussels. Diners can select soups and salads such as minestrone, Caesar salad, spinach salad and antipasto. Pasta selection include spaghetti marinara, Bolognese, fettucine alfredo, penne mushroom and many others. Romano's Riverside locations also have a children's menu.
D'Caesaro
D'Caesaro Pizza & Italian boasts pizza selections, along with pasta dinners of spaghetti, ravioli and lasagna. Its menu includes sub sandwiches and a small selection of salads. Customers can also choose from specialty dinners at D'Caesaro, such as chicken cacciatore and chicken parmesan. This Italian restaurant has dine-in and take-out.
Antone's
Family-run Antone's Italian Food in Magnolia Center opened in 1965. Menu selections include hot and cold grinder sandwiches, spaghetti, salad, pizza and bread. Antone's special dish is pizza on garlic bread. The restaurant also offers catering services.
Famous Joe's
Famous Joe's Italian Kitchen & Jazz Club offers online ordering of its wide selection of Italian cuisine, with appetizers that include brushetta, calamari and shrimp scampi. Chose from salads such as Caesar, spinach and caprese. Pastas include fettucine, penne pesto, carbonara and capellini pomodoro. The restaurant also offers pizza. Famous Joe's also serves sandwiches for lunch, such as the classic club, pastrami dip and a hamburger. The restaurant does catering, too.
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