Food was amazing and service was great. Best Italian food in town. Live music was great too.read more

I have been to Positano's numerous times over the past year. It is great for anniversaries, special…read moreevents or just wanting an excellent dinner with your wife. The owner is available at each meal and he and his staff are very welcoming and attentive. The menu and wine list has excellent Italian selections. Sometimes just getting a few appetizers and some wine at the bar and listening to the live jazz music makes for a great evening. I recommend Positano's highly and I am looking forward to going there for a nice Easter meal.

Wonderful dinner. Superb service and excellent ambiance . Loved that the chef came out and talked…read morewith us!

The special was lasagna last night, it was the best I have ever tasted. This was just unbelievable,…read moreI don't know what the chef did and I enjoy a good lasagna but this was incredible. Everyone at the table tried some, I hope it shows up again some day.. .

It was 8:30 on a weeknight and I was the last person in, but not treated like a burden, they were…read morewarm and inviting, even so close to the last call. Well, I've been looking for my Italian spot on the west coast, and I could just cry tears of JOY! This place rejuvenated me, gave me a night of pure delight. They started me right with the perfect wine & marinated olives and table bread. I know what I was coming for, mixed seafood with marinara and linguini. The sauce was absolutely perfect. Not sweet and full of onions!!! But garlic-y, basil forward, with plump mussels, super tender calamari, and poppin' shrimp. The service was excellent- the waiter gave me great dessert choices too and will say that the tartufo was absolutely mind blowing. The chocolate ice cream on the inside gave me flashbacks of my childhood. This is the BEST Italian food I've had on Florida's West Coast!

Another great evening at Casa Ludovico! We were greeted by Stefano and seated right away. Juan our…read morewaiter explained the specials, and we started with the zucchini florets stuffed with ricotta...absolutely delicious. I had a Cosmo martini, my husband enjoyed a red wine, and both were perfect. For dinner, I ordered the tortellini alla vodka and my husband had the linguini alla pescatore di Sant'Angelo, both outstanding. Stefano stopped by to check on us, and we even shared a lovely conversation in Italian about our heritage. Thank you to Stefano and the entire staff. We'll definitely be back!

skip it. raw pizza, mush for stuffed mushrooms, maybe 10 pieces of toppings spread so thin that…read moreseveral slices had nothing. owner refused a refund without bringing the food all the way back to their store when it's already in the trash (offered to take a picture) hungry toddler. out $45. Note to jojo on your response, you LAUGHED AT ME WHEN I GOT UPSET AT YOUR COMPLETE LACK OF CUSTOMER SERVICE, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPATHY. YOU CALLED ME BACK AND LAUGHED AT ME AGAIN. BEST OF LUCK WITH YOUR FUTURE ENDEAVORS. ​

Our first visit. Restaurant appearance not great. Wait staff spot on. Price is important. Quality…read moreis important. Happy to share Jo Jo's is definitely a must try Italian restaurant. Our lunch pasta dishes were exceptional. Maybe a little more pasta would've been good but for $12 with a salad two garlic knots and a meatball it was fine. Give it a try!

A little late in posting this review, but definitely wanted to share. I really like the look of…read morethis place when I first walked in to grab a menu as it's kind of like an old school dimly lit restaurant. The prices are actually very reasonable, and I was even a little shocked at that. I ended up getting the seafood, over pasta for $23.99, which is muscles, shrimp, clams and calamari and I went with the white wine sauce. You could also get marinara or fra Diavolo sauce. It was fantastic. She ended up getting the veal Parmesan with angel hair and a side Caesar salad for $20.99 and that was fantastic as well. I think my only issue with my experience is we came in with about 45 minutes before they closed and the minute the restaurant closed. They immediately turned the lights on and started putting the chairs up. We were almost finished with dinner, but it just kind of felt very rushed in the end and I think it was they close at 8 PM. All in all very good experience, but just wish we had a little more time and I understand from working in the restaurant industry... You don't want to hang out all night and annoy the staff but turning the lights on immediately at close was kinda meh

Very disappointed in the food, party of 8. The food quality really has gone downhill. The muscles…read morein red sauce were very fishy tasting, and the sauce had no flavor. The penne pasta was overdone. The clams in white sauce was very saucy and mushy spaghetti.. The chicken piccata just wasn't as tasty as normally and again the pasta was well overdone I had ordered the eggplant with Angel hair pasta al dente and my al dente was mushy also and I had ordered all my sauces on the side, thank God The sauce they used whether it was marinade or they're just pasta sauce was very bitter and had no taste. . The atmosphere was good very noisy cause it was full of people. We waited a long time there were eight of us and we were in there for over two hours. The service was good. Our server was just so accommodating about everything. The atmosphere was good very noisy cause it was busy not full. But we were in there over 2 hrs. So I also heard there were new owners??? The Italian wedding soup was excellent in flavor.

Excellent excellent excellent. That is what I'd say. Was in the area around dinner time and thought…read moreI was getting a small strip restaurant but instead found top notch service and great food. Ambiance outside is horrible but inside very nice and authentic looking. Food was cooked fresh and great wine selection. Will be back again to try other dishes

***GLUTEN FREE REVIEW*** On my Gluten Free journey to find…read morenew places to enjoy, I came across suggestions for Casa Cosenza. I read that the Chef is the wife/owner and the husband/owner runs front of house. I read they offered GF bread, pasta and other options. We went in right after they opened for the evening at 5:30pm. There was a couple at the bar and 5 gentlemen at a table. The ambiance and decor is nice and comfortable. There's a full bar. As we sat a young man brought water and menus right away, then brought a bread plate. I asked if he could bring GF bread. He returned and let me know there was none available. Not a big deal. The owner greeted us and I asked about the menu. On Yelp a menu shows clearly marked GF options, but none were on this revised menu. It did have a notation that GF options were available upon request. He said to just pick what I like and he'll see if it can be GF. I'll be honest, I "think" the server(s) must have called in sick because it was just the owner and the young kid, and the owner seemed very disorganized about serving and it wasnt even busy yet. It took a good 10-15 minutes until he was able to make his way back to us to order wine and a cocktail. His response to hubby's cocktail was that he's not a bartender and cant make a Moscow Mule. I asked if he had GingerBeer (I would walk him through it) but he said no. Hubby drank water, I had a glass of Pinot Noir. I knew things like Lasagne, Ravioli, etc could not be made GF, but the 3 plain pasta options weren't appealing to me. So I asked about the Eggplant appetizer and could it be made a dinner. He said he could make it dinner sized. Sounds good! Hubby got the Veal Scallopini Marsala. It does take awhile to get the food but you are forewarned that everything is fresh and made to order, so we were ok with the wait. My eggplant and sauce had a delicious flavor! However, the portion was small...either they forgot to make it larger (but charged me for it) or it just wasnt sufficient. Sadly, I left hungry. Worse, it was also COLD. I was so surprised! It was so cold that the Mozzarella Cheese was hardened on the inside. And speaking of hard....both hubby and my potatoes were hard and undercooked so we couldnt eat them. The veggies were good, but I also couldnt eat the chewy round parmesan crisps. Husband's Meal was decent, he said the sauce was delicious, but the veal was a bit tough, and again, his potatoes were undercooked and couldnt eat them. So to sum up, service was a bit disorganized and a tad slow (but I really do think someone called in as there was no server or bartender), the food was cold and small portions, BUT.....the flavor was really good! It is a bit of a disappointment to leave a restaurant hungry and paying $80 for a meal. Reading all the excellent reviews I think we just caught them on an off night. My suggestion, take your chances, it is a charming restaurant and the flavor of the food is really good--just try to catch them on a good night! For more GF reviews in Pinellas County FL, follow my new Facebook page "Gluten Free Pinellas" and my new group "Gluten Free Pinellas (FL)" GF options- 6/10 Menu GF Clarity- 1/10 Server- 4/10 Food- 5/10 (cold eggplant, undercooked potatoes, tough veal-but good flavor) Price for Quality and Flavor - 5/10 Overall 5/10 Post Meal Gluten Reaction - 0/10

food is great and service is amazing. thank you to Jeremiah for letting us know about such an…read moreamazing place. highly recommended

Staff and food are excellent, as usual. But now it gets better with a rewards program! We signed up…read moreafter we paid, but I emailed the receipt. Hope we get credit for today. I ordered the personal pizza with pesto (can't have tomato products including sauce) with spinach. It was delicious. I'm bringing half home. Husband had his favorite - sausage with spaghetti and traditional sauce. He's taking half home too! We are full. This place has excellent background music, employees who care (manager came by asking our opinion about our food, and so did the chef!), and a clean, welcoming atmosphere. It is a delightful place in which to dine. As we left we were offered a gelato sample. We had to decline. Too full even for that. We've had it before and ALL the flavors are wonderful to our taste buds. We'll be back!

Amazing Italian food. Menu almost exactly mimicked the olive garden one but this tasted a little…read moremore authentic. Their butter toast was so good. Alfredo sauce was chefs kiss. Service was nice.

Julian's Little Italy is a great, affordable spot for a family dinner. We really enjoyed the…read morebruschetta and calamari--although the calamari portion was smaller than expected for sharing, it was cooked perfectly. I didn't try the mozzarella triangles myself, but others at our table said they were delicious. For mains, we ordered the "Combination for Two," lasagna, and the special of the day, a parmesan-crusted salmon. The salmon was outstanding and cooked to perfection. The combination platter itself was very generous--easily enough for three people depending on your appetite. It came loaded with fried eggplant, two sausages, spaghetti, cheese ravioli, plus a basket of garlic bread. The bread was excellent, especially with the flavorful garlic butter seasoning. For dessert, we split the lemon cake with raspberry drizzle, which was light, refreshing, and a perfect ending to the meal. If I had one critique, it's that the red sauces across different dishes tasted very similar, which made it feel a little repetitive. That said, I definitely plan to return and try more dishes to explore the variety of flavors they have to offer.