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Trattoria Vittoria
30 E. Victoria St, Santa Barbara
Phone: (805) 962-5014
- Category: Italian
- Hours: Lunch: Mon - Fri 11:30AM - 2PM + Dinner: Mon - Sun 5:00PM - 10PM
- Chef: Executive Chef Stefano Cepak, Sous Chef Roberto Prelazzi Owners, Giovanni Comin & Sofia Gallina
- Price: $20+
- Serving: Lunch & Dinner
- Reservations: Yes, recommended
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Reviews by the General Public
Good Food, Worst Service Ever, 3/10/2013
Reviewer: Michael
from Santa Barbara, CA
Title says it all. Food is good (when you can actually order some). Although restaurant was busy it is no excuse for non-existant service. When it takes 20 minutes just to have the waitress acknowledge your presence you know it's gonna be a bad night. Try eating at the bar, at least you'll get your drinks quicker. I guess if you can rope enough tourists inside then the bad service (i.e. no repeat customers) won't hurt you. I can forgive slow service or even really slow service, but rude and uncaring service is not acceptable.
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Best Calamari in town, 2/15/2013
Reviewer: Fay
from Santa Barbara, CA
Arnoldi's and Enterprise were my goto places for calamari, but TV takes the cake.
We dined here a few weeks ago with another couple and the food was amazing and sure, it was noisy, but it felt like a little Italian eatery. My husband wanted to get the lasagna, but ordered the special instead; he was delighted with his special, but the couple seated at the next table had the lasagne and it looked fantastic so we returned last night (Valentine's Day)to tackle the lasagne. It was great! You must try this place.
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Awesome Food, 11/30/2012
Reviewer: Glenn
from Buellton
The food here is really great as is the service of both bartender and waiter. The nits are that if people are at the bar the noise in the room elevates but what small Italian place does not have that esp. one with a long bar. They could purchase a decibel meter and experiment with foam or something but its probably inherent to the acoustics of the place. The lasanga was some of the best I've ever had and the some of the nicest/friendliest waiters I've ever had too. Definitely a place to try.
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Great Food, Great Service ... a little noisy, 7/17/2012
Reviewer: Ray
from Montecito, ca
Have eaten here many time ... it just keeps getting better and better. Best calamari in town. Taking six for dinner tonight. I DO miss the piano playing of some years ago.
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Lovely meal!
Reviewer: Charlotte
from Goleta
My family and I had an absolutely lovely meal last night! It was our first time and we were very impressed with nice atmosphere and our server was terrific. My kids ordered the prime rib ravioli w/pink sauce (wow! Excellent!). My husband's tortellini was also excellent. I had eggplant which was as good as it gets. The cannoli were house made and fabulous! Will be back! With my kids.
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Politely Disagree with Herman
Reviewer: Jody Crane
from Santa Barbara, CA
I love Trattoria Vittoria! I think they do a fantastic job of taking care of their customers and making sure that the ambiance is suitable for ALL diners. Unlike Herman, who also complained about the music at Zaytoon, some diners prefer to have the music to accompany their dining experience. My husband and I have frequented Trattoria and have NEVER felt the music was inappropriate or too loud. If you don't like the music in the background, stay home and eat!
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Loyal Customer Really Really Wants Management to Hear this
Reviewer: Herman Melville
from Santa Barbara, CA
Very happy with the food. No complaints but thanks for small pasta portions so do not gain weight. And for how the bread is so carefully, I do mean carefully! rationed out. But the acoustics are horrible especially when at lunch there is more than one person sitting at end of bar away from window. Cannot escape sound bouncing off ceiling to our tables against wall but if move to back of place the tables are cramped and there are speakers right over those tables. No escape as usual from what management considers its own personal music choices it imposes and why do restaurants insist on background noise in any case in a world where silence is insanely impossible to find? Play Italian opera or Italian pop at low levels (amazing how Italian food comes alive when opera music is played...a case where music and food go together perfectly...how fully Italian are people in this place?) and create "atmosphere" if you have little regard for a customers' desire to converse and find peace in a noise ridden world. Why do Americans fear quiet? Silence means they are alone, a nobody? In a rest home? Oh for a little class because do not go to hear background noise and especially torture for those of us with ears of musicians (around corner from Granada, hello?) who do not hear but cannot help but listen. Go to La Valencia in La Jolla where there is more money and more real class and also George's. Oh please, why can't we have dignity when we eat by allowing for civilized conversation rather than intrusive background noise because that is what music is when cannot focus on it. Off to Monterey and Carmel and La Jolla to eat not to mention fish food in San Diego.
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Hand-made pasta!
Reviewer: Anne
from Santa Barbara, CA
I ate in this restaurant a couple of years ago and found it good, but went in last week and found it excellent. I don't know if it was there before, but this time I noticed there was a section on the menu for hand-made pastas. Naturally, I would prefer hand-made to packaged so I ordered the tagliatelle with fungi and it was SO delicious. The other dishes were excellent as well. It's a very sweet place--quite charming inside--and has a coziness that some restaurants lack. I'm a new devotee and looking forward to more visits.
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Excellent!
Reviewer: Andrea
from Santa Barbara, CA
Everything was great from start to finish - the drinks, the service, the food, the ambience. Highly recommend to anyone looking for delicious Italian food in a beautiful space.
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Good Riddance
Reviewer: Scott
from Los Angeles
I am planning to go to Trattoria Vittoria this weekend, so I was reading some of the reviews posted here. All I have to say is, "Thank goodness Karen from Santa Barbara, CA won't be there!" Her review is a rant from the word go and offers the reader not one shred of helpful criticism. I can deduce from her so-called review what kind of customer Karen was. (Not a good one.) It takes two to tango, my friends. I'll let you know what I think next week.
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Great Experience, Superb Bartender.
Reviewer: David
from Santa Barbara, CA
Came in on the Friday of the Jerry Seinfeld concert at 6:25 and sat down right away at the bar, because there was a 45 minute wait for a table. I mentioned this to the bartender (buzz cut with the tattoos on his arm) who would be helping us, and he was on a mission to get us to the 7pm show at the Arlington. Not only was he hilarious, but we got our salad and drinks right away, and finished our entrees and paid by 6:55. The service was possibly the best we've ever experienced, and the food was epic. My brother and I split two pasta dishes, and I can't even say which was better, because they were both incredible. Definitely coming back there, and already recommended it to my friends.
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Very good Italian restaurant
Reviewer: Mike Haskell
from Santa Barbara, CA
We kind ended up here on a whim, and were stunned by how good the food was. I have been to Italy many times in fact just returned and found the food to have that great simplicity that makes great Italian food what it is. My girlfriend grew up in "Little Italy" in Chicago and we have frequented Francesca and Rosebud and found Trattoria Vittoria on par with them. We really enjoyed the lamb ragu with gnocchi (a special) and the ravioli with pink sauce, the salads are very good, our favorite the arugala with shrimp, and "horror of horrors" the spaghetti with meatballs which her son ordered and we devoured. We have been back many times since our first and it has been consistently good. And the noise level not that bad, check out the decibels at Ca Dario
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