Highly recommend! Great date night experience! This is a small, intimate restaurant with an incredible wine list and amazing food! The bread is made in house, the carpaccio was the best I have had anywhere else except in Italy! I was not sure what I wanted and was in the mood for steak, which they oddly enough do not have on the menu. The waiter suggested this stuffed pork chop w/ prosciutto & mozzarella and a mushroom sauce (not Marsala) over it. It was beyond good and cooked perfectly! Great service! I had a port wine after and biscotti was delivered without ordering it. Fantastic night! read more

La Perla Di Pompano - Pork dinner - Italian Near Me - Pompano Beach, Florida

We walked in without a reservation. Initially told it would be a 40-minute wait, they made room for us in about 10 minutes. Food and service was 5-star and prices are very affordable. Perfect old-style Italian restaurant. Side pasta is plentiful. read more

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This has become my favorite Italian restaurant!! A true hidden gem. The food is amazing and they make their own bread!!! The restaurant is on the smaller side so reservations are required!! Don't pass this one up !!! read more

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Excellent, excellent experience. La Perla is the real deal. Period. Went last night to celebrate my birthday and had an amazing evening. Each dish is freshly prepared, the homemade pastas are divine, the saltimbocca was out of this world tender and perfect. Desserts (lemon cake and pistachio creme brûlée) were to die for, so deliciously made. Service was awesome, we felt well cared for and when our server heard us mentioning a bottle of rose to start, which is not on the menu, he said he had one in the back we could try. He even offered to open it for us and if we didn't like it, no worries. So accommodating, you feel the hospitality every second. The server made it perfectly clear that they could make changes to any dish if needed (how refreshing!), they wanted us to be happy. The atmosphere is cozy and charming. Def headed back! read more

We stumbled here on our vacation from Brooklyn,NY. Signore Salvatore is an amazing waiter, gave us a detailed tour of the menu and helped with selections. The food was delicious and the wine pairing was excellent. Italian music and Sicilian sights added to a wonderful experience. Can't wait to be back. read more

It was PHENOMENAL I loved all of the food that I had especially the Nutella chocolate lava cake. The service was absolutely fantastic and so welcoming and fun, you could tell how much they really cared about their customers. It gave a classic nice vibe and was very comforting. Overall the food was great, the service was fantastic and so friendly, and finally the actual restaurant was so nice and well put together. I literally downloaded yelp just to write a review for this AMAZING place! I would definitely recommend. read more

A well kept secret gem that has amazing handmade pasta and bread. The ambiance is a candle lit dinner with first class service but still warm and friendly. The dessert try should be illegal. read more

Loved our dinner Saturday evening. A little noisy but good service from our waiter who took care of our party of six. We shared many items including the beef carpaccio, clams and mussels, fettuccine boullanaise, veal Marsala, salmon. Everything was delicious and served beautifully. We were a little full but had to try an order of tiramisu and cannolis. Again, delicious. The owner Vanessa was friendly and charming. We highly recommend La Perla Di Pompano read more

The food was amazing and the service was the best I ever had!! The seating is very professional but they will still show kindness no matter what! Everywhere looks professional in every corner you look! I would recommend this place for sure and I will be back here to eat!!! read more

La Perla Di Pompano - The spaghetti (supper delicious!) - (10/10) - Italian Near Me - Pompano Beach, Florida

Make a reservation! We didn't know that this is a smaller restaurant and you need a reservation but luckily they were able to squeeze us in. The food was delicious and the service was great! read more

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Wonderful meal from beginning to end. From the homemade bread in the bread basket to the homemade desserts. I had the pistachio crème brûlée-outstanding! And my friend had the cream puffs with mascarpone and warm chocolate sauce drizzled over the top! To die for! For our entrees, we had the lobster pasta and the risotto. Amazing! The food, the service and well priced! 5 stars across the board. I'll definitely be back again and again :) read more

Authentic Sicilian food, family place the chef come to explain to you everything about the menu. Very nice place, every plate is best than the other one read more

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Salvatore!! The chef!! La Perla!!! Grazie, grazie, grazie!!! This may be the best Italian food in Pompano....and if you live here you know that is saying a lot! read more

A hidden Gem, a Diamond in the Rough, Great Service & Excellent Food is what I received the night my Grandson and I decided last minute to stop in for dinner after a round of Golf at the nearby course across the street. We both ordered the Lobster Ravioli special and deserts to take home. Tiramisu & Torta di Nutella, everything was excellent. I will return soon. Free Parking in Back. read more

La Perla Di Pompano - Lobster ravioli. Great dine In visit. Very good. The 3 deserts I brought home are amazing. - Italian Near Me - Pompano Beach, Florida

The best restaurant in my location. Great food , great service, nice clean. I love all of food here . Desert is top . Love and love I happy find this restaurant . Everyone should come here . Thumbs up read more

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Having dinner here is always more than just indulging in fine meals and drinks, it's also a world class experience thanks to one of the best hosts around, Salvatore and Vanessa! We keep coming back for more! read more

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The best hidden gem in South Florida. Everything was absolutely perfect. The atmosphere is a small and quaint dining room where you feel like you are dining in an Italian family home. The alcohol offering is limited to an extensive wine menu and the staff is happy to help you with a pairing. The service is friendly and knowledgeable. The staff were extremely friendly and knowledgeable. We will definitely be going back. read more

La Perla Di Pompano - Pork chop was excellent. - Italian Near Me - Pompano Beach, Florida

Ladies and gentlemen- If you want an authentic Italian meal- come on down to this unassuming little gem in the middle of federal hey tucked away on the east side with a parking lot in the back. Lino and Manuela know how to bring you back to Italy. As an Italian from Lombardy I can tell you that this place is like going to eat at any one of your relative's houses back home. We have been here a dozen times, and it never disappoints. Here you can experience the true flavors of several regions of Italy. Lino is from Puglia where my dad is from and where I spent many of my summers as a kid. Manuela is from up north, close to where I was born and raised and you can experiment this in one evening when visiting them. I have had the pleasure of having dishes like vitel tonné or vitello tonnato which is a topical Piemontese dish on a veal eye round topped with a tuna sauce. Manuela adorns it with caper berries and some little biquinho peppers. Amazing. This is a true flavor of the north as an appetizer. Staying up in the mountains and hills of the north, there are exquisite dishes such as traditional boscaiola sauces made with porcini that are accompanied alongside a protein like a veal chops and some of Manuela's incredible home-made pasta like her pappardelle. If you want something a little more southern the octopus never disappoints; it's tender, delicious and charred, accompanied with a balance of an acidic accompaniment like citrus. Just delicious. There are also a plethora of seafood options. The other night I had a home made squid ink pasta with shrimp and shellfish that was out of this world. Don't you dare leave this place without trying one of the desserts on that dessert tray! Tiramisu, cannoli, Nutella cake, profiteroles...and make friends with Lino- you'll get some limoncello if you behave! Buon appetito, everyone! Def one of our favorites. read more

My husband and I had an early dinner at La Perla last night and it was incredible. Everything is fresh and homemade to order. Probably the best pasta I've had in the states. The service was personable and impressive. We cannot recommend enough read more

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Once again 2023 LaPerla is still our #1. I ordered Chicken Francese and it was delicious. Husband had his new favorite Grouoer perfectly cooked. Atmosphere is nice and service is outstanding. read more

La Perla Di Pompano - Limoncello cake YUM !!! - Italian Near Me - Pompano Beach, Florida

Cute little place! Bruschetta was good! Brussels Sprouts were DIVINE! Very very yummy! Pasta e fagioli was amazing. I would go there just for this soup. Finally, one that has flavor!!!! My aunt got the Strozzapreti alla Norcina. This is the one I wanted so badly, but I can't have all that cream. I tried hers though and OH MY. SO GOOD!!! So much flavor My sister got the Pollo alla Fiorentina with pasta instead of veggies. She said it was really good but too heavy for her. She switched dishes with my aunt! My aunt loved this dish! My mom and I got the Fettuccine Bolognese special. It was good! but the Strozzapreti alla Norcina was just so so yummy... it won. So delicious! read more

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This is our "keep coming back and can't get enough" place. It's by far the best Italian restaurant outside Italy! Trust me on that - I've spent years in Italy. Everything is home made from scratch and you can see and taste that Manuela ( the chef) is not into compromise at all. A fair warning: Eat here and you really won't want to frequent any other Italian restaurant. read more

La Perla Di Pompano - Burata with black truffle. - Italian Near Me - Pompano Beach, Florida

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Amazing food and service will return here to eat in the future. Beautiful ambience as well.

Excellent food, fantastic service. Old school ambiance makes this a wonderful restaurant!

We came here for Valentine's Day dinner. I liked the fact that they had a regular menu and not a (overpriced?) price fixed set menu which I asked about when making our reservations. And reservations are highly recommended on weekends. There is a small parking lot right behind the restaurant. It's one way entering and you can miss it if you go too fast. Just circle the block as we did... It was quite busy, as you can imagine, so it was a longer dining experience than anticipated, but that's to be expected on a holiday. This is not a place for fast food. It's a tad upscale with white table cloths. You'll enjoy it more if you come dressed appropriately. But it's not a stuffy atmosphere, either. They first brought us a complimentary plate of bruschetta to the table. After you order, they brought the bread basket with thin garlic toasts and slices of crusty house-made Italian bread. With the basket is a small side dish of eggplant caponata. We decided to share a burrata appetizer to start. It had thin slices of prosciutto and strips of roasted red peppers around the ball of creamy burrata. All of this was on top of a mound of mixed greens. The burrata was the star. For an entree, I selected off their daily specials menu, and chose their branzino Francesca. It also had a few pieces of shrimp on top of the sea bass fish. The seafood was in a light egg batter and topped with a lemon sauce. It was quite good. I didn't care for the vegetable mix on the plate (broccoli, squash, carrots, etc with pieces of potatoes), but that was a minor quibble. My husband had their pappardelle della nonna from their regular menu. The house made wide noodle pasta was topped with a red tomato sauce that contained wild mushrooms, peas, and small meatballs. Someone's grandmother (nonna) knew what she was doing. It was very good. For dessert (they have a huge selection from an enticingly full tray), we chose their amaretto lady finger cake. The almond flavor came through once we dug through all the creamy whipped topping. A lot of restaurants have come and gone in this same location, but I think this current one will be quite successful here. Buon Appetito!! read more

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There have been a number of very good Italian restaurants that have occupied this location but La Perla Di Pompano is the best of them. But before I get started on their excellent Italian food let me point out that there is plenty of free parking in the back which you can access by a driveway along the south side of the building or going around the block and entering from the rear. Unfortunately a lot of people seem to miss that. When I first stopped by for dinner I was thoroughly impressed with the new décor and bar. La Perla Di Pompano has certainly spruced things up from the time of its predecessors. It's now upscale elegant and well set up with white table clothes and perfectly set tables. And I'll add that those of their wait staff are now thoroughly knowledgeable, polite top notch professionals. I found the menu at La Perla Di Pompano be one with amazing offerings in seafood, meats, poultry and pastas. Just glancing it over you'd swear you must be in Italy and the best part of it is that you might just as well be as everything is authentic Italian. It has none of this Americanized Italian stuff you'd never find in Italy such as spaghetti meatballs dishes. Instead, here's it's the real totally authentic Italian. After I was seated I was first presented with an excellent complimentary bruschette of an oven roasted bread, olive oil, olive, Romano cheese, basil and garlic seasoned tomato which couldn't have been better in both taste and flavor. Then for dinner I ordered their classical Italian vongole, "Linguine alle Vongole Marechiareo," which was a delicious dish of clams tossed in olive oil, garlic and white wine with fresh chopped tomato over an al dente linguini pasta. The dish exuded with a certain clam freshness perfectly enhanced with the white wine reduction and garlic with sprinklings of Italian parsley. As far as restaurants go and particularly for Italian, La Perla Di Pompano is one of the best in the area and one of the few that I'd call Italian authentic. read more

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The food was true Italian cuisine and the staff was educated in the food and their history.

Fantastic service. Food takes you to Italy. Ambience is really there. Definitely go. Ask for Sal

This place never disappoints! Great food. Not expensive. Sister in town, this is where I took her family. Amazing time here! Even the baby had a great time!! read more

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Tonight I came to this restaurant with my family. One of the best italian restaurants we have ever been. We had as an appetizer the grilled octopus. It was amazing!!! For the main course we had the squid ink tagliatelle (Seafood pasta), veal marsala, chicken florentina and the gnocchi burratina. We couldn't decide which plate we loved the most. Thank you for a great night. The food and the service was excellent. We will visit again soon! read more

Decided to try this place. Do keep in mind parking is in the back. It seems a little sketch until you walk around front and your transported into the restaurant. The restaurant is very cute and quaint. I love the decor. The waiter we had was very nice, attentive, and handsome (It never hurts to have something nice to look at during dinner ) We had bruschetta and it was Devine. Very very good. Definitely get it! For dinner I had the lobster ravioli. Then fish had spinach and shrimp. The food was good and I ate it all. My only critique is that the ravioli/sauce could have used a tad more seasoning but again I ate it all. The deserts looked really tasty but unfortunately I was too full for desert. We had cappuccinos after and it came with biscuit cookies that were also very good. Overall I think the experience was very positive and I would highly recommend trying this new gem! read more

La Perla Di Pompano - Italian Near Me - Pompano Beach, Florida

Loved this small business in pompano beach. Real Italian food and impecable service. A must try.

My husband and I ate there on Friday and it was a wonderful experience. The service was outstanding. The restaurant is quaint and tasteful decorated. They serve you a basket of homemade bread before your meal that was delicious. Our meals were very tasty and it was a lot on your plate. I ordered the chocolate lava cake for dessert which was the best Ive ever had. It was decadent. I highly recommend this restaurant if you are in the mood for high quality food and wine. We will be back for sure. read more

Great food. Excellent service. Most of the pasta dishes were excellent, the wine was great and it reminded us of Italy.

It was a quiet night at La Perla as the weather was not so good but the restaurant is still wonderful. Sal (one of the waiters) was "above and beyond" as usual. The octopus salad was a starter worth the trip. Everyone at our table loved their choices and the limoncello cake is still excellent. This is still one of only a handful of outstanding real Italian quality restaurants in the area. If you haven't tried it you should give yourself a treat. read more

Everything was fantastic! Our waiter, Salvatore, was very personable and provide both great recommendations and excellent service through the dinner. We ordered the burrata appetizer, which was more than enough for both of us and was uniquely presented with grilled pineapple, pine nuts and pesto. I had the veal chop with a parpadelle pasta, both of which were in a very good mushroom cream sauce. My wife has the chicken Florentine, which she loved. We finished the meal with pistachio creme brulee, almond cake, and each had a cappuccino. Everything was perfect. We will absolutely be back for that great food and excellent service! read more

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A true Italian perl! A small and intimate restaurant that instantly makes you think you're in Italy thanks to the warm and friendly Italian staff. They very extremely accommodating with our vegan dietary restrictions and the food was the best Italian we have ever tried. We had sautéed spinach (side item) which was out of this world delicious along with a side of vegetables/potatoes which was absolutely delicious. Huge portions for side items. Also tried a citrus salad that was very fresh and tasty, the basil spaghetti was cooked perfectly al dente and we got complimentary freshly baked bread that was fantastic. Be aware you might need reservations since it seems to be a rather popular restaurant with a lot of people coming back on a regular. Small parking lot is in the back of the restaurant. Highly recommend this place and will most definitely return. read more

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After many years of desire, during a visit to Pompano, finally arrived at La Perla. All I can say is, Wow. On 2/8 had a reservation for 5p. By 6p the place was filling up. Reservations are a must. I had the tagliatelle pescatore. It was bountiful with pasta, clams, mussels, squid, fish pieces and a rich sauce. Absolutely delicious. And, huge. My wife had insalata mista with salmon crowning it. She said, it was the best. Spinach and roasted potatoes as sides were a terrific compliment. The finale was strong French press coffee and a piece of limoncello cake. Not to be missed. Wait staff was very helpful with explanations. Overall, a wonderful experience. read more

If you want a real Italian experience with spectacular food this is the place. Everyone who works here is Italian. Everything is fresh and made that day. The deserts are ridiculously good although it's hard to have room after there generous portions. read more

5 stars all around,we didn't have reservations but they welcomed us and gave us a great table.Bill was our server, he brought us bruschetta and then hot homemade bread with herb butter also homemade. My husband had a house salad, large serving perfectly dressed. I had delicious home made linguine and clams and my husband had equally delicious bolognese with homemade spaghetti. We were to full for dessert but they had a large selection of homemade treats. I will definitely be back and bring my family. read more