Loved this place. Everyone is so friendly and the service and food was fabulous! Will definitely go back on my next trip through Solvang. read more

My wife and I happened upon this place while walking around Solvang. We decided to see if we could walk in and get a table on Valentines Day. not smart i know but figured it was worth a shot. We were seated within 5 minutes at the bar area were they make the pizzas. This is a great place to sit not only because you get to see whats going on but is smells amazing. The food was really good ( I recommend the SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE ) I wanted to try something that had the wild boar in it and i was happy that i did. read more

Great food, great atmosphere, great service. I visited Solvang recently and we were wandering around looking for a place to eat. We decided on Cecco because it had some fantastic outdoor seating. My husband and I shared a Marco pizza...it was ridiculously delicious. I never thought tomatoes could taste that amazing, and the prosciutto was an amazing addition. It was balanced beautifully. Definitely a place to try! read more

Solvang was one of our spots for my wife and I during our honeymoon trip. We walked passed this restaurant late at night and decided to try it. When we showed up to the front door the hostess gave a disgusted look. We're thinking it was the way we dressed ( tank top and shorts for me and shorts and t- shirt for her, due to being in Pismo beach) she right away put us a super dark corner away from everyone else except for one couple that was in that area. She gave us our menu and never returned to us! The couple that was there before us was sitting directly in front of us and the waitress gave them all the attention! Not once did she re serve me water or take our order! I asked another worker, "who is our waitress" and she pointed towards the lady that was neglecting us and i told her to tell her to come and help us. and she still didn't come! that other worker finally took our order and brought us our food and that idiot of a waitress kept helping the other couple and not once bothered to attend us. I finally demanded to talk to the manager to bring about our negligence and he literally didn't care! he just changed the topic and asked us why we came to solvang and we told him we were on our honeymoon and he just looked at us and left. Never before have i ever been treated like dirt at a restaurant! The customer service here sucks!! please take my word for it!! just read the other reviews that rated it 1 or two stars and they all bring about the same thing, customer service!! read more

This restaurant is really romantic. Really enjoyed the service and the ambiance. Wine prices are pricey, but the beer/cocktail prices are totally reasonable. Pizza from the Wood-fired oven was fantastic. Our server was friendly and attentive. Would recommend to anyone looking for a romantic night out. read more

Great pizza! Great wine! Great service, too! A relaxed lovely atmosphere and you won't be disappointed. We always have a great te here.

Regular food, regular ambiance.... What is very disappointing is the waiter didnt tell us how huge was the pizza! And my friend and I ordered 2! read more

Started with a glass of tea that almost could not drank. Ordered a Margarita Pizza for my wife, and Pasta Carbonara for myself. Starting with the Pasta. It was not on the menu, but the chef agreed to make it for me. The egg, which normally is mixed in, was fried (Sunny side up), and placed on top, but overall I thought it was very good. I would say an 8 out of 10! Now the pizza. I have never written a Yelp review before. I don't know who thought that this was how a pizza should be served, but it was the worst I've had in all my 50 years. Whatever sauce (which you normally dont get on a Margarita) was on top tasted like it came out of a very old can. Almost no flavor at all. Watery Mozzarella cheese, cherry tomatoes cut in half (instead of sliced Plum tomatoes), and full leaves of Basil haphazardly thrown onto the top. No garlic to be seen. The dipping sauce was regular balsamic vinegar, but the olive oil was actually bitter tasting. If the patrons of Solvang think this pizza is good they must be losing get they're taste buds. Stick to the plated dishes, I highly recommend the Pasta Carbonara, but run from the pizza. IL SUO MALE... read more

We ate lunch here after the parade on July 4th. Service was not great. We were only allowed to eat outside in the sun. Ordered Iced Tea and got a small glass for $3 and no refills????? Next time we will eat at Tower Pizza. This place is too expensive and not worth it. read more

This restaurant was great! We sat outside on the patio, service was good, but the food was awesome! We ordered a little of everything: Caesar salad, Marguerite pizza, pollo, mushroom ravioli and a pasta dish with rib meat. There wasn't a speck of food left on anyone's plate! We will definitely return to this restaurant the next time we are in Solvang! read more

So good!!! Appetizers and pizza and the pasta were great! The outdoor seating was nice, and we went around 7:00 in the early spring!

Sat down with my wife on the patio. Waited like 20 minutes to be served. The server was actively ignoring us. It looked like he was trying to avoid eye contact. We just walked out after 20 minutes of being ignored. Really weird experience. read more

We were greared by the waitress with a smile as sion as we walked in. We were seated outside due to a party inside which was fine because the weather outside was nice and breezy. Our server came out with water as soon as we were seated. The ban on straws is effective in this area as a heads up. The sausage sandwich has red peppers, onions, provolone cheese, and mustard. I very much enjoyed this sandwich along with the cesar salad i got with it. The ambiance is quiet and peaceful with a little bit of background music. All in all, this is a very good place to stop by and frab a bite to eat while you are exploring Solvang read more

This is, hands down, the best Italian food we have had in a long time. We had the Caesar salad, which was perfect. It had just the right amount of dressing which, by the way, they make themselves. We had fried calamari - perfectly delicious is an understatement. And don't forget the Margherita pizza - yummy. My husband raved about his bolognese pasta. The ambiance was romantic. We sat on the patio covered by a pergola. Sarah, our server, was amazing. She is so knowledgeable and pleasant. She made the whole experience even better. Highly recommend! read more

Don't bother coming here with kids unless you don't mind waiting 15 min without even ordering. Never even met the waiter. Head over to Leonardo's if you want to experience real service. read more

Good food lousy service. Our salads were served and eaten before our drink order was taken. We constantly had to ask for things.

Excellent restaurant in a beautiful setting. The staff is friendly and helpful and the food is exceptional. The pizzas are different from the ordinary and they have vegetarian choices also. But there is also a dinner menu that offers a variety of dishes including wild boar meatballs to die for! Try it - you'll love it! read more

The calamari was delicious. The pizza crust was perfect. I was not impressed by the pasta, but it was not enough to damper the experience.

After whirlwind wedding weekend...my brother, not mine..before heading out of town we stopped ad Cecco... Lots of tourists in Solvang...wow..had fried calmari which was perfect...Gianni pizza was also very very good...shared tiramisu...to die for...Emily our server was a super friendly and helpful... read more

Walking in the restaurant we got a table right away. But 40 minutes later we hadn't even been asked if we wanted anything to drink, nonetheless something to eat. So we left, and don't plan on coming back even though we are locals. Go to Fitpatricks for better service and food quality. It's across the street from Cecco's. read more

I have never experienced a restaurant worthy of a one-star review until going to Cecco Ristorante this evening. We never set out to eat here, but after finding out that the Actor's Corner Cafe didn't serve kids under the age of 7, this place was suggested to us by the hostess there. I don't know what we did to you lady... We were seated fairly promptly and that was about the point where it all started going downhill. Thirty minutes after we ordered, our server told us one of the dishes we chose was no longer available. Fine. I get that, but why on earth did it take so long to figure that out? The food is nothing to write home about. The bolognese was bland, the carbonara was ok, the funghi pizza was eclipsed by the goat cheese, and the beet salad has pistachios (not macadamia nuts like we were informed by another server). It would have been nice if we were offered the standard Parmesan shavings that most Italian restaurants offer, but it turns out if you want something here you're probably better off going into the kitchen yourself. Anyway, service was sub par. Our server never came to check and see how everything was until we mentioned it to each other next to our empty water glasses. When she finally did refill them, we noticed that the quality had changed. It was as if she went to the restroom to get the water because it tasted like it must have come straight out of a sewer. We then made the mistake of ordering dessert. The panna cotta was a complete waste of calories (as small as it was our party of five didn't even finish it). The real kicker, though, was the gelato. I asked our server for the flavors and she told me "Spumoni and Jelly Bean." Spumoni was out of the question because of the nuts and Jelly Bean Gelato? Is that a real thing? Well, my kid happened to hear her say that and got all excited so we ordered it, but unfortunately it ended up being Vanilla Bean. Our server came back to tell us there was actually no Spumoni (not a big deal since we weren't trying to get that anyway), but that there was also mango, so we ordered that too. I had specifically informed her that my kid has a nut allergy and she said she'd make sure it was nut free. Well, here comes the gelato with almond biscotti sitting directly on top of both sides of both gelato cups. And you know what she says to me? There's no nuts in the gelato, but there are some in the biscotti, but only a little bit. So if I were to tell you I have a life-threatening nut allergy, you'd be totally ok with saying "but there's only a little bit of nuts"?!?!? An attitude like this keeps cross contamination alive and well. I was absolutely LIVID. In case you need me to spell it out for you, gelato with no nuts + biscotti with nuts = GELATO WITH NUTS! And the gelato was $11/ea. It would have been fine if it was good, but after that experience, it felt like highway robbery. My hands are still up in the air! FYI - the biscotti could have easily been put on the side of the serving plate or just left out altogether. The cherry on top was when we got the bill and noticed we were still charged for the original dish we ordered that was unavailable. I can't with this place. I just can't. read more

The food is great no questions about it until something happened... We ordered calamari, pizza, chicken fettucccini and tiramisu. So we are seated at the patio, moved at the next table because it smells like dog. Flies are flying everywhere..one went in our pasta, one in tiramisu. First, for the pasta, they did offer to give us a new plate amd apologize. When we got the new plate, the food tasted differently from the first one. Tasted bland and not as creamy as the other one. So we suspected, they just took out the fly, added some noodles and chicken and remade it. Put to waste! Second, for the tiramisu, it took them awhile to replace it so hmmm we wonder why.. all you need is get a new slice right? So, here it comes... it came out cut in half(first one is not and tiramisu are always served one whole piece) We all looked at the plate and so shocked that we don't know what to say until the server said "oh its a new piece, really it is new" yeah right! And you asked, what's the problem? Do you think we would really buy that alibi?! What they did is took out the portion where the fly have landed and just added another pice of tiramisu. We told the server that we don't want it but we'll just pay it anyways since it seems like they really need money for them to be doing dirty business like this. What a waste and a horrible experience! read more

The only reason this place stays open is because there are no other options for dinner in Solvang! We went for dinner, the first night we reached at about 8:40 and were sent off because they said they stop seating at 8:30. Then we went there for dinner tonight Firstly everything in the menu is in italian, which is fine but really doesn't help making a choice - an english translation would help! We enjoy good food and are willing to pay for it, but not if it is substandard The service was really bad. I got my pesto pasta but it was drenched in oil. I was waiting and waiting , and waiting for the waitress to check on us ( which shouldn't be too hard because it is a really small restaurant) and finally i walked up with my plate and told her that the pasta is super oily. I showed her the oil i poured out my pasta into another small plate. What happened next was the most appalling reaction i have ever got from a waitress - in a very condescending tone she said that pesto is made with oil... and made me feel like I didn't know what I was talking about, hello!!! I have eaten pesto before but not drenched in oil where I could pour it out into a cup... literally it was drenched and about about half a cup. . So I walked back to my table and she came over and again tried to explain to me that this is how pesto is made, it was only after I had to almost yell at her when she changed her tune to "this is how we make pesto". She said that she would get it made again but it would be the same thing because "this is how we make pesto" I am really sorry but this kind of service should not be tolerated when you are paying for a fine dining experience. Was very disappointed by this, and will not be going there again, on our way back to the hotel we notice that there was a subway which would have served us better lol! Restaurants are not doing you a favor by serving food and this is the attitude they have there which is very sad! The simple tomato soup was 9$ and was not even that good, if you have ever visited Nordstrom cafe you can get an amazing tomato soup for about 5$. Price is high which is fine but if you are paying 20$ a dish it should be at-least be worth it. read more

Very disappointed with the service. The manager was very disrespectful, accused us of being drunk when we arrived. This was far from the truth. We ended up leaving before we ordered as we were over the comments from the manager. Ended up having a star 5 dinner at the Solvang Brewery. We had eaten there the night before and had another great dinner. We wound strongly recommend avoiding Cecco and eating at The Solvang Brewing Co. or Route 246. read more

First visit, and last visit!!! Calamari had no flavor and was chewy. Margarita pizza had completely burnt crust all the way around and should not have been served. It was also limp and soggy. The items are also very pricey...pizza that was burnt was $16. Save your money and frustration! read more

Yikes. Please let me preface this review by informing you that we spend at least one weekend a month in the Solvang/Santa Ynez/Los Olivos area. We have nothing but great love for this part of California and wish we could spend all our time here. Cecco proved to not be representative. Let's start with the service. We arrived on the nose for our reservation. The restaurant was busy but not packed to the gills. The hostess (and as we later learned, manager) immediately seated us at one of the several open tables. Our table, though reserved, was not yet set. A back server sporadically and awkwardly dashed around the restaurant to set our table. This was a sign of things to come. We stared at each other for about 15 minutes, trying to decide if we should bail. unfortunately before we could make our escape, our server decided to check in with us. Fearing we may never see him again, we placed our order for everything at once. We then watched him pour one of our glasses of wine - the sparkling one, which usually is best not left out. He proceeded to diligently ignore that glass of wine and check in with all the other tables he was serving. Then, he appeared to remember that he had another glass of wine to pour, but first decided to bring over the glass of sparkling by itself, and then wandered off towards the bar again. We watched for about five minutes as he once more checked in at the other tables and then again realizied that he had another glass of wine to pour. We had the opportunity to take in the loud, intoxicated patrons seated at the bar while watching him hunt for a "clean" glass for this second wine. The hostess brought us our salad, which was surprising given that there seemed to be a multitude of servers and back servers aimlessly hustling around. The Cecco Salad. Drastically over dressed with oil. Salad dressing? Not so much. Mixed greens, sad wrinkled tomatoes, random unevenly-cooked cold potato chunks/slices, flavorless non-descript cheese. Its crowning glory, however, were the cold and soggy lightly-breaded FRIED artichoke hearts. WTF. My girlfriend had to hide hers beneath the sad bread they had brought to the table. Inedible. I would tell you more about the store-bought loaf of bread that I just mentioned, but it hardly seems worth the trouble in light of the pizza, about which I will now elucidate. Now, other Yelpers have stated that the pizza is a redeeming quality of this otherwise uneven experience. That was, sadly, not the case. They should eat out more often and elsewhere. We ordered the mushroom, excuse me, "funghi," pizza. Oh boy. It arrived moderately hot and with a concern-inducing sheen of oil floating across the surface. At Chuck-e-Cheese they at least have the good manners to provide paper napkins to dab away the grease. I mention Chuck-e-Cheese (and its sister company Showbiz Pizza) simply to provide a sense of the level of pizza satisfaction available here. Two half-eaten, tasteless and worryingly ketchup-flavored pizza slices later, and we were headed for the door. The hostess/manager did take the pizza off our check, but the two substandard glasses of wine and sad salad still resulted in a $30 tab. She apologized and told us no one else had complained "that night." Perhaps she said more than she meant to. Regardless: If you're going to charge $17 for a "wood fired" pizza, it better be really good. Many many other restaurants achieve this feat. Cecco does not. Run, don't walk, but in the other direction. Or, to quote "Billy Madison,": "I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul." read more

We called at 8:00 p.m. to ask what time they closed and they said 10:00 p.m. Then we asked if we needed to make reservations for 2 at 8:30 p.m. and they said no. We arrived at 8:28 p.m. and they said they are no longer seating people for the night. Wow. I doubt an L.A. restaurant can beat this one! read more

Awful just awful Service! We went there on a Monday night - they were hardly busy! Took forever to seat us and that was just one of the many issues! Finally seated a waiter- came over a and practically threw 4 glasses of water at us- when we tried to explain we didnt need so many- he just left without letting us say anymore! We were there with 2 little kids and obviously thought we'd be waited on in a reasonable amount of time- 15-20 minutes went on with trying to entertain our very hungry children and no one had even come over to take drink orders! Let me say I'm really not one to complain- we visit a lot of restaurants and I don't writer bad yelp reviews so u can imagine! Long story short- my husband finally calls over the waitress who takes my order but forgets to take my husbands order!!! Come on!!!! My son orders a milk- which by the way we never get until he's practically crying about it towards the end of dinner! We ordered the pizza- very mediocre and penne arrabiata also nothing to talk about! No tip I tell you no tip!! Oh also- they placed us right next to their very large dog dish outside! Yuck/ imagine smelling a wet dog all night!!! One more thing- who puts the Heater on when its in the eighties!!!! I was sitting under a furnace- icing on the cake!!!! read more

I went here on Saturday. The waitress informed us the menu is printed daily. The calamari appetizer was so good. The bread that is served as well is yummy as well. I had the vagone (sp) which was a spaghetti noodle maybe with clams, tomatoes, and a few other things. The sauce was INCREDIBLE. I felt like I could drink it! My boyfriend had a pasta that had shrimp and a red sauce. It was beyond incredible and I will definitely go again. I just thought that my boyfriend was served more pasta than my plate. Maybe it was cause his was a little more? read more

Best Margarita pizza I've EVER had bar none!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So off the charts delicious. The crust Omg....works can't convey.....

Amazing food and awesome service. My bf and I had the pesto dish and the tortellini. Shared a ceaser salad and had the best panna cotta for dessert. Emily was our server and she was attentive and friendly. Highly recommend this restaurant and we will be back! Thank you! read more

There are definitely better Italian restaurants in The Valley for the price. I ordered pasta pomodoro which is about the most basic pasta dish you can get. Flavor was good enough, but it was $17 and the portion was small. My husband ordered a pizza and asked for it well done. The waitress replied with "the pizza will have varying levels of char" ... not what he asked, but ok. Pizza came out soggy and floppy with way more cheese than necessary. Another disappointment for $20. read more

Went there at one pm not aloud to sit inside because they were getting ready for a party 6 hours later waitress was rude we left and went to solvang brewery. Wonderful food there. Monday dec 30 read more

We just arrived in Solvang tonight and were so excited to try the wonderful food and soak in the atmosphere in this town. None of these were offered at Cecco! What a horrible and expensive dining experience. We had to sit outside bc we didn't have reservations and were 1 of 3 tables seated but yet no one seemed to notice (including the hostess who seated us) that we had been sitting more than 15 minutes without water, bread or even an acknowledgement from anyone. I finally asked and we were told the server hadn't been notified of our table. Well again how is it that no one noticed us when they were all walking by us. No visible manager walking around and the young staff seemed to be. Ore onterested in noMing and standing around. I heard the table near us complaining about how long their food took and that could've given me a big sign to walk out then and save the $70 for the mediocre meal and a horrible service. I hope this is not going to set the tone for the rest of our trip. Save your money and your time and find another restaurant in this adorable town. read more

After a hot, long day spent wine tasting and walking around we were looking forward to a lovely dinner here last night, but unfortunately we were super disappointed. As many other customers mentioned it, it's all about the service (especially when you're spending a lot of money) but this place deserves zero starts for customer service. I guess they don't train their employees? The girl who sat us down looked annoyed when we walked up to the door. She rushed us to our seats and things just got worse from there. We asked for water, which took them a long time to bring and tasted moldy. The guy didn't even look at us when he filled up our glasses and didn't say anything back when I said "thank you". He pretty much had his back towards me, facing the street. I mean who does that? You don't have to be trained to know that that's not OK in this kind of job environment. When they brought the food the girl forgot to bring me a fork for my pasta (which is fine, we are all human) but when I asked for a fork she had an attitude, like I bothered her or something. I felt so uncomfortable and unwelcome which is quite bad when you spend $24 on a pasta dish which was very very oily. Such a bummer after a fun-filled and lovely day ...but hey, life isn't perfect right? However we will definitely take out money elsewhere next time. read more

We ate here tonight during our stay in Solvang. The calamari was a little salty but was fried with a very light batter and nicely seasoned but a little too salty. We had the spaghetti bolognese, which was a wild boar and short rib ragu and was very good, and the short rib tortellini in a cream sauce with criminology mushrooms. All in all a very good meal. Service was very good and prices were reasonable. Will visit again. read more

So disappointing on so many levels. From the teetering tables, annoyed staff (we needed utensils) , from our water glasses directly poured from the tap. Most disappointing, the food. We tried their "famed" bolognese and it came cold/ warmish. The sauce which is supposed be rich and laced with long cooked/stewed wild boar was instead sad and dribbled with small pieces of meat the resembled something from a carne asada burrito. The whole meal had me wondering how fresh it really was. We got the Marco pizza and except for the crust (wood fired ) , I didn't know you could ruin a pizza. Way too much prosciutto , flavorless sauce and the cheese, once it cooled revealed its true nature. It could've been Monterey Jack, who knows but most definitely not mozzarella. We poked , dissected and ate what we could but most of it we left it on our plates. To add insult to injury , we were charged full price ( way over priced in the first place for the quality) even after we discussed our concerns with the manager. He informed us we should have told him immediately. Immediately, later ; what's the difference? I'm letting you know now. You can't fix what is overall a poorly executed -not fresh made meal. He should have at least compensated one of the meals. I should mention the caprese was good but for 4 slices of tomato, cheese and 4 leaves of basil for 15 bucks? Ouch. Been coming to Solvang for over ten years, this is by far our most disappointing meal, experience. I should've listened to the other yelper's warnings . They were pretty spot on . read more

Solid little Italian place in Solvang. One step up from a pizza joint is cecco's. Go for the butternut squash ravioli in sage butter sauce. This is not an overly complex version of the dish, but it's made with tons of butter. As comedian John Caparulo says, "Anything is better with butter on it.". This dish is no exception. The wood fired pizza oven yields good enough pizza. I had the aglio olio white pizza with chiles and tons of garlic. Give this pizza an 8 on the EJW pizza scale. Stay away from the tomato soup. I think they opened a can of Campell's and threw in a leaf or two of basil and called it their own. Service is by a group of just out of high schoolers, and just about right for this little Solvang restaurant. read more

We made a reservation for 6:30, but at 6:26 we found out that our table had been given away. We discovered this because a hostess and a waitress were arguing loudly about it in front of us. Ok, we'll wait, no problem! We were seated next to the busser station and waited 20 minutes for someone to greet us/ take our drink order. Weird, but we're trying to be flexible. When we finally order, we had to tell our server what was on the "specials" board outside. Five minutes later, no pasta special, they're out... Ok, improvise. Aside- when we left the special was still on the board outside. The calamari appetizer was just ok. When our food arrives the pastas were both really small and SUPER salty. Because pasta is so inexpensive, $19 is ridiculous for the porion size. The pizza my son ordered was great dough but greasy. We kept hoping for greatness throughout the meal but it was a disappointment. read more

Bad place! I ordered a clam dish but the clams were full of sand!! Plus there was a tiny fly in the dish...the salami pizza was extremely salty and unfresh. Service was bad. Gave me 15 one dollars for change! Such an unpleasant experience. read more