Il Fornaio - Palo Alto
Jeff Ho This is an excellent Il Fornaio location. We had our office holiday lunch today. What a beautiful way to celebrate. We sat outside and they have heaters above. It was a nice quiet area to have conversations. All the food tasted great. The memorable dishes were the calamari $22 and my shrimp pasta $28. The calamari was tender, easy to chew and coated with a light batter. As for the shrimp pasta, it had this light green pesto sauce with soft crushed pistachio nuts. Service was excellent. The waiter even helped us take a group photo. Bonus points for taking our photo in focus.
The only minor nit was pizzas were not available. I wanted to order some pizzas to share. They had some really good looking pies online. Perhaps next time.




