Staff is very friendly and the right amount of attentiveness. Lobster ravioli special is excellent recommendation.

Cozy, Italian restaurant, friendly staff focused on providing a good experience for customers. Food is excellent ! Thanks for making our Fathers Day wonderful! read more

We just came from dinner and had the best experience! We are from LA but this quickly became our favorite restaurant! Even my 10 year old son said this place had the best service he's ever seen :) Every single employee we encountered greeted us and talked to us with a smile. The waitress was sweet, funny and good at her job. The busboy was also so very nice and concerned we were well taken care of. The owner was there and you fall in love with him immediately, as is everyone else in the restaurant. He took special care to connect with each of us and made our dining experience one we will never forget. Now the food: My husband had the Lasagna, I had the ravioli and substituted for the pink sauce (vodka sauce) and my son had a pizza. Everyone thought their food was fresh and tasted delicious. My ravioli was amazing. After every bite I heard myself saying, yumm :D I can honestly say it was the best vodka sauce I've ever had. We all highly recommend Francesca's for the perfect dining night out. read more

If you are looking for traditional Italian food this is your spot. Great service and it's provides that home feel you sometimes like when you are out to eat with your family. read more

this restaurant is horrible. the service staff is extremely unprofessional. the food tastes disgusting and as if heating via microwave (my friend and i both ordered lasagna and it tasted worse than stouffer's). the bread was hard. the ambience was too dark to see anything. i'm pretty sure they try to fool everyone into thinking you're getting "nice" bottled water but they just refill them with tap. bleh, this place really wishes it could be fine dining, but my friends and i immediately regretted not going to in-n-out. and pricey for nothing! get it together, people! thank God i'm rarely in temecula read more

Steer clear. We were looking for an Italian restaurant on our way home and stopped here for a quick bite. The sign on the outside advertised their cooking classes, so we thought; sounds good. Incorrect. Ordered the calamari; rubbery, flavorless, with a dipping sauce that was unremarkable. Frozen? Likely Ordered cheese ravioli; arrived with halved cherry tomatoes, the same calamari dipping sauce and the cheese was coarse and flavorless. My guess, frozen or old. Ordered the shrimp fettuccine; two overcooked shrimp in a bowl of pasta with garlic and oil. Flavorless. The head chef needs to go to culinary school not run one. read more

The one star is for the decent service and the Carpaccio. The Vongole had, what seemed like, day old clams. The margherita pizza was most likely bought from Domino's two doors down and then fresh basil was cut on top. It was disgusting, really. We were hoping to find a place that rivaled Gourmet Italia as this restaurant is always packed and not a 'spur of the moment' weekend choice. Well, we'll just order from Domino's next time. Wait, we hated that pizza. read more

Had heard great things about this place. We finally decided to try it out and were not impressed. The food wasn't very flavorful and one dish seemed to have been thrown together with what was still left in the kitchen. I'd love to have a great Italian restaurant in this area, but Francesca's just isn't it. read more

O em gee! I came here for a date night with the husband and the waiter recommended the Seafood Ravioli. So me and my husband both ordered one each bc it sounded too good to pass up. And omg I almost cried from it being sooo good! It's light and savory all at the same time! And the service is exceptional ! Our waiters are so awesome and friendly! You guys have to come try! I'm actually still sitting here in the restaurant. And I told myself I have to give them a review bc the meal I had was so good! read more

I was pretty disappointed with this place because I remember I had come here for my hs prom, however I just went here recently and the food was awful! I work in an Italian restaraunt and I can promise you this is not the greatest food.. Alittle pricey too. read more

I never thought I'd find myself writing such a review for food we so enjoy. Our first time to this restaurant on Friday evening. Got seated quickly, maybe that should have been our first clue, why aren't they busy, it's a Friday night. It seemed too long before someone took our order. The table behind us was complaining why their appetizer was taking so long, second clue! We ordered our food and for how many open tables I saw the food should have come quicker. The portions are small for the money. Service wasnt good for what we expected. If you want Italian thats decent and you want good food with good salad and bread, just go to Olive Garden. Sorry Franchessca, buts its the truth. Very disappointing read more

This place was just ok. I was expecting more. The food was kinda bland. I wouldn't go back again. We had a groupon so that is why we tried it out. read more

Atmosphere is good and so is the service. However the food is overpriced for what you get. The salad was very small and just spring mix lettuce and 2 cherry tomatoes. The garlic bread and breadsticks were good and the coffee was the best part of the meal. The pasta was a little to undercooked for me and both the Marinara and Italian sausage was very bland. Frankly I've had better Italian food at Olive Garden and Macaroni Grill. We won't be back. read more

Eh! Not great. Went for a birthday dinner on a random Tuesday. Bread was cold and no butter. House red wine tasted similar to rubbing alcohol. Dinner was boring. Main entree was good but really not anything special. No plans to go back. read more

Food is always fantastic and the team here is always welcoming. I have had at least four different dishes and the food is consistently good. Plus the tiramisu is the best I've ever had. read more

Wow, the food here is as grossly over priced as the portions are small. I've made better at home. The "free" bread sucks and the service is at best mediocre. It feels like all in all, you would be better off at Olive Garden or even Pizza Hut. $50.00 for two without appetizers, salads or any beverages other than water....REALLY? We ordered the Risotto that was bland, tasteless and undercooked as well as the linguine which was overcooked and missing the Pancetta that is was advertised as having. I live around the corner since before this place opened and I have wanted to come here for several years.... this was so disappointing. I will NEVER be back. Do not waste your money or time!! Only gave it one star as I couldn't give it ZERO!! read more

I'm not sure how long Francesca's has been open but I'm pretty sure we were the first one's there, our kids were young and now in and out of college. We love this place! We always have a great time here, the food is ALWAYS great, never have had a bad experience. Alessio and Francesca make you feel like family...especially on Taco Tuesdays! jk Seriously the best!! read more

My husband and I have been wanting to try this place so tonight was to have been the night. We walked in about 8:30pm ~ figuring that was early enough to not have the kitchen staff ticked off that we walked in as they were cleaning up for the night (we DO NOT walk into any place of business as they are about to close....especially when it comes to eating out). We were greeted very nicely and then were informed that the kitchen just closed for the night. Unfortunately they hadn't shut any of their lights off and the sign still showed they were open. The owner seemed nice enough and apologized and gave us a card and recommended to call ahead and they would remain open if they knew we were coming. We don't eat out like that and certainly don't drag business cards around with us ~ not with so many places out there to eat! I prefer a place that has set hours and don't close whenever the whim hits. I understand that things can get slow so you want to save money and send the staff home. I guess what irritated us is they didn't shut their lights out and have the closed sign up. I don't like wasting my time (since time is money) and I have recently had surgery so even walking a short distance can be a trial. We may give this place another try, but it definitely won't be for the dinner service! read more

I've past by this location many times and finally decided to stop in. I was seated promptly and the owner came by the table to welcome us. Then it went downhill from there. My Co-party and I each ordered the ravioli dinner based on the recommendation from the owner. When it came out I was shocked by how skimpy each portion was. Seriously there were less than six pieces of ravioli on my plate, at $14.95 a plate its outrageous. My co-party had about the same amount as well. If there is one thing that really irritates me it is when corners are cut to save a couple bucks at the expense of the customers expectations and happiness. It happened here and I shall never return. Hope saving the few precious pennies was worth losing repeat business. read more

I literally cannot write enough good things about this place to do justice. Phenomenal! Every last detail.

Great food! Great staff! Warm & welcoming! I ordered fettuccine alfredo & added cherry tomatoes. The chef came out to me to personally explain why he had to cook them separately & put them on the side (to maintain the color of the alfredo.) What a great, personal touch! The chef made dinner really special & fun! He came out to make sure I was enjoying my dish & professed his love to our table, even kissed my boyfriend on the cheek & said something funny with a thick Italian accent. I couldn't have had a better evening! Everyone I dined with felt the same & it appeared that the rest of the parties at the restaurant shared our wonderful experience. Let me just say that my fettuccini was cooked to perfection! The texture, the taste.. & cherry tomatoes on top! Ohhh myyyy! I was full with half of my plate left! Aaaaand kept eating until I was in a food coma. Our waiter was polite & attentive. My glass was never empty. Bravo!!! read more

This is our favorite Italian restaurant in this area. The food is fresh, menu is varied, flavor is delicious! We also love the service. It is great to see the owner and his wife- Allessio and Francesca are always around. The cook always has spectacular specials to offer! read more

We have had dinner here four times and the food is always very good, but the last two times the service was awful. Server, short Italian, curly hair seemed drunk, could not seem to get us our bill for 25 minutes. I"ve never been ignored like this thru my meal in a long time(maybe ever). Will do take-out or request another server next time. On a good note.... the people who are taking the cooking class seem to be having a great time. (they offer that a couple times a month I think). read more

Did I catch them on a bad night? Because the reviews here seem to describe a totally different restaurant. First, the service. While our waiter was very polite, the staff was extremely disorganized, loud and unprofessional. We were in the front room rather than the "noisy" back room, but you wouldn't know it. The other guests were fine, but the staff spent our entire 2 hours there yelling at and arguing with each other over tables, practically right in your ear. The restaurant was not busy, and they seemed to have adequate staff, so I don't know what the continual lag in service and constant yelling was all about. They brought completely wrong (as in, not even in the same food group wrong) dishes out twice to the table next to us, thankfully we escaped this particular "service." Second, the food. We ordered the mozzarella in carozza as an appetizer. It came out COLD 25 minutes later, and swimming in a lake of marinara. The bottom was soggy from having sat in the sauce for so long, and the cheese inside looked like a block of string cheese. It wasn't even warm, it was just cheese that had been fried (with tasteless bread crumbs that look like they were from a can) at some indeterminate point in the past, then floated in cold sauce. For my entree, I ordered the chicken parmagiana. I asked for the sauce on the side after the mozzarella was drowned in sauce. No dice. I got a half-warm, cracker-thin slab of tasteless chicken in tasteless bread crumbs, again swimming in sauce. The chicken was literally red all the way through from being floated in the sauce and then having more poured on at the last second, I suspect to warm it back up after it had sat a while, since the top of the chicken was warm but the bottom was cold. I like marinara, so I almost could have enjoyed this dish... had it been good marinara. Instead, it tasted like they'd gone 2 streets over to Stater Bro's and bought a jar of Prego or Tombstone. No herbs, salt-o-rific, blended into a consistency that does not occur outside of jarred sauce made by Kraft or something. My dining partners all had varying levels of (dis)satisfaction with their food, but no one was particularly impressed. The veal was flavorless and overcooked, though the marsala sauce was tasty; the salad just "okay," and the salmon well cooked but the sauce it was in not well liked by anyone. Some of the desserts sounded good on the menu, but we dared not order for fear that they too might be drowned in a canned sauce, since that seems to be their default way of covering up substandard food. Will not be coming back to Francesca's. I awarded it 1 star initially, then felt generous in retrospect and awarded it 2 - it was clean and besides being inappropriately loud, the staff was polite, and the meat was at least cooked through. That's all I can say to it's credit, it was cooked enough to kill off any potential diseases. I wish I could say better about it, but I can't. Having a good and consistent Italian restaurant in town would be a great thing, but if that's what you're looking for, I suggest you cross Francesca's off your list. read more

The waitstaff here is wonderful. The busboy, the hostess, the waiter-- all SO kind. We didn't eat a whole meal, as we were running 13.1 miles the next morning and did not want fettuccine alfredo sloshing around in our bellies. Thus we opted for a caesar salad and bruschetta. Caesar salad was very, very average. Nothing special about it at all. The bruschetta was great. It was piled high with fresh tomatoes and drenched in balsamic reduction. If I'm in the Temecula area again, would like to visit for a proper meal. read more

Half of the menu was unavailable, price was high for 5 ravioli's, fresh baked bread, blah! Service was ok.

Great atmosphere, delicious food, average prices. Love the service and the personal greeting from the owner. We'll be back!

My mother and I went because she found a 50% coupon in a mailer and had been wanting to try this place. We were not disappointed! We shared a salad, pasta dish and meat dish and all were wonderful and authentic. My mother and I have been to Italy several times and this is about as true to the italian food we had near the northern area as you can get. And, though it is easy to find truly Italian restaurants in larger cities, it is refreshing that there is now a wonderful place in Temecula to go. Francesca and Alessio were both extraordinarily gracious. They both visited our table and made us feel at home. Gladiatore Salad - Wonderful, light dressing, perfect ratio of cheese and nuts to salad. We split the portion and it was a perfect starter. Penne - I cannot remember the name of the dish, but it has a cream sauce and chunks of chicken and then on top, a little dollop of bolognese. The bolognese was some of the best I have had, obviosly made with veal and simmered for a long time. The cream sauce was also delightful. Neither of the flavors were overwhelming and the sauce to pasta ratio was perfect. Veal Saltimbocca - As good as I have had in Italy. The veal was so tender you could cut it with a fork. Overal... just a lovely experience. We will be back! read more

Good ambiance and very friendly staff. They even had a sax player doing a little jazz number. I really wanted to like the food but it was ok at best. The garlic bread they served must have been those you pick up in the freezer isle at the local grocery store. We tried 3 different pasta dished and they were all meh. Price was too high for the quality of the food. The chocolate soufflé we had at the end of our meal was really good, and so was the sauce that went with it. I'd go back just for the soufflé. read more

We come here every time we're in town. First time we came for lunch and everything was great. I ordered the gnocchi and it was delish. My husband got the seafood pasta. The owner has always been there to greet customers and very lively with conversation. He's an avid soccer fan, big plus with us since we're big fans. The restaurant is very cozy, they have a lighting fixture in the center that reminds us of the creme brulee. Which they serve too! We've also had dinner here and just as good. We will continue to come out whenever in town. read more

If you want real AUTHENTIC Italian food (and no, Olive Garden isn't authentic) then come to Francescas! The owners Francesca and Alessio will go around to every table to make sure that you're having a great time and that your well taken care of. The dinner lobster ravioli is to die for and all the desserts are amazing! When i was there i also discovered they just opened for lunch! Judging by the menu it looks just as delicious and affordable! If your in the area you HAVE to stop in for a bite, you won't regret it! **side note; they have a Very handsome, dirty blonde haired, male waiter... he will also take very good care of you and your group! ** read more

I have to say right off the bat, the food itself was 4-star (even though my wife's eggplant was non-breaded and oil-soaked). I had the Ravioli Agosta (lobster-filled) and it was very good, albeit a little under-seasoned (it needed crushed red pepper to perk it up) and a little lacking on the shrimp side (I got 2). My wife's meal (eggplant)--other than what was mentioned above--had a marinara that was too tomato-tangy, and could have used some basil or sugar to cut it down. Our 2 kids had spaghetti with bolognese sauce and lasagna. These 2 dishes (according to our children) were good. The wife and I both agree that the bolognese sauce was MUCH better than the marinara after doing "The bread dip test". All in all, the food was worth 4-stars, and we would dine there again except for one thing (and this is why they lost a star). When we ordered soft beverages (the wife and I don't tend to drink when we're dining with kids), they came back with cans of soda and glasses. Really? A nice sit-down restaurant and they serve canned soda? What's the deal? They have an actual bar. Do they pop-the-top of a can when they need a mixer? Hmm. Maybe next time it'll just be the wife and I, and we'll order wine instead (served from a bottle thankfully). ...and would it kill them to add more garlic? ;-) read more

First off, customer service was fantastic! Funny and professional. I'd come back just too l see the staff again. I ordered the creme brulee ( doubt I spelled that correctly) and it was just delicious. My date had the penne with vodka sauce and he enjoyed his meal. Overall, I'm very satisfied! read more

Needed some pampering. Husband took me to Francesca's. The mood was elegant. Nice crowd. Live music. The food was superb and served piping hot. Our server was gracious and outstanding! Thanks Alessio! read more

One of the best Italian places in Temecula, hands down. Alessio, the owner, makes you feel like a member of his family rather than a customer, which adds to the authenticity of the place. They have the best selection of various Italian dishes, and this is coming from someone who does not really like Italian food! On my last order, there was something a little off with my order on accident, and I was so impressed how quickly and apologetically the issue was resolved. My family has been coming here for years and I don't think that will end any time soon. read more

I was in town wine tasting and we wanted some italian food. The food was okay nothing really stood out. I had the lobster ravioli and the pasta was really thick. read more

This is one of my top 3 favorite Italian restaurants ever. Any time I am in the area, I eat her. The food is amazing. The atmosphere is great. The people and service are wonderful. read more

My first time in this restaurant, the food, customer service, atmosphere are excellent, the prices also very good. I will come back again.

Amazing service! Massimo has been my server every time I have been here and he was fabulous! The gnocchi was aamazing!

Been coming here off/on for several years but last visit will be the last. Service and food quality has always been uneven. Sometimes it's good, sometimes just okay but never outstanding. Lately though it's been more on the disappointing side. It's almost like they're trying to cut corners to reduce cost. The bread has been blah and the servings have been getting smaller and smaller. How often do you walk out of an Italian restaurant hungry? And it's not like it's a cheap bill. I don't mind paying a little more for food, but it better taste like it. And it sure seemed like the salmon filet is what you'd buy at Costco in the frozen section. read more