Boyfriend and I both couldn't finish our food and we are not picky eaters in the slightest. I got the chicken fettuccine Alfredo and the sauce is a gravy like texture. It was gummy and almost slimy. Very similar to frozen TV dinners. The meat in my partners lasagna and the chicken in my pasta tasted spoiled and we lost our appetites. First time I couldn't not finish my food at a restaurant. 2 stars because the soup was fine and the waiter was really polite. read more

Always close parking and greetings just inside. Clean and comfortable, seating with quick and helpful service. Our waiter was efficient and accurate, fast delivery and the food was very good, like always! Strings is a modest jewel in Lodi and a place to remember for a mid-priced dinner and family friendly. The calamari is awesome! read more

Grabbed takeout last night, and my favorite, Pasta Sienna was great, as usual. Salad and fresh bread included were also great. They never disappoint! P.S. support our locally owned businesses! read more

This is my favorite Italian restaurant. The food is delicious and always tastes perfect, and I love the salads and bread they include with meals. They also have no problem preparing dishes that are no longer featured on the menu. The service is also great, all of the staff is nice. Their prices are very reasonable compared to other Italian restaurants, especially considering the amount of food you get. I highly recommend trying their brownie lasagna for dessert. read more

The meatballs were amazing and the sauce was rich and smooth... will definitely get this again read more

Strings Italian Cafe Lodi - Spaghetti & Strings Meatballs. - Italian Near Me - Lodi, California

Jordan was the best server ever! He was attentive & not in an overbearing way, even gave us bread to go. The food was also very good (wish the serving for the tortellini was bigger) bread was bomb as hell :) read more

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This place seated us immediately on a Sunday night at 7:30pm. There was a large birthday party but our waitress still managed to give us her time and attention, promptly. Our food came out as we ordered and our waitress checked on us but not too overwhelmingly often. It was a nice family setting place with TVs. Food was nice. Will most definitely go back. read more

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Food was super good and prepared perfectly. Server was very attentive and refilled our drinks without us asking . We ordered a to go meal and it was packaged super well. The server pointed out everything in the package to ensure we received it all. Overall a very nice dinner read more

We always come here whenever we are in Lodi, we get the pasta sienna with no meat/shrimp and we get the house salad, their salad is amazing!!!! They also have gluten free noodles called zoodles which are made out of zucchini. If you are in Lodi stop by here, I've been to other strings but this one is the best by far. read more

Strings Italian Cafe Lodi - Zoodles pasta, completely gluten free - Italian Near Me - Lodi, California

Best takeout meal ever. Ordered the family chicken parmesan meal and it was beyond fantastic!!! Plenty of food for 4 adults. So hot and fresh even after my 20 min drive home. Thank you for a wonderful meal!!! read more

This is our go-to place. My boyfriend and I love it here! Lovely atmosphere, delicious food, and great service. I find myself over-tipping much too often. :) Love it! read more

I came here with my mother, aunt, uncle and brother for a late dinner (around 8 pm or so). We all decided to take advantage of the all you can eat pasta, Wednesday special (so only happens on Wednesdays). For only $8, you can get all you can eat salad, soup, garlic bread and pasta (limited selection) (http://www.yelp.com/user_local_photos?select=cd-DeS8t13VzcJgAQaY9vA&userid=3UIa8YVjETNwJwnOl4SEdg). My brother and I shared a few of our plates so that we could try each sauce. Honestly, I thought the alla panna was the best. It is kind of like alfredo sauce, but a little lighter and a little less cheesy. It also has peas and ham in it, which the ham gives it a strong ham flavor to the sauce. I had originally started off with the fettucine but after the 1st dish, I opted for the penne since the portion size for penne was a little smaller than the fettucine (if you want to try more than 1 pasta, then it's better to go with a smaller portion right?). Anyways, service was pretty quick and the server did come by every so often to check up on everyone. The pasta itself was just average tasting (how can you mess up pasta? Well besides making the noodles too soft, which was not the case here). I liked that our salad dressing was on the side, like I had requested. What the server did was just bring out a large bowl of salad (unfortunately it is the cheap iceberg lettuce, instead of those dark green leafys that are better for you) and a small side of dressing (so you don't have to have your salad swimming in a pool of dressing). Now we arrived, there was maybe 2 other tables dinning (well on a Wednesday at 8 pm, I wasn't expecting it to be crowded). After we finished our meal, we were actually the last ones to leave (left around 8:50 pm and they close at 9 pm). The place was clean and for the value we paid, it was pretty good for a group of 5. This place isn't fancy, but it does the job to feed you and get you full. I wouldn't go out of my way to eat here, but I wouldn't mind if I had to dine here again (much better than Olive Garden, service wise, that's for sure). read more

Strings Italian Cafe Lodi - All you can eat pasta night on Wednesdays ($8 per person, prior tax) - Italian Near Me - Lodi, California

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I bought shrimp scampi for 9$ and I got 7 shrimp super small portions but it tasted good

Came in this past weekend for an early dinner late lunch. We had a group of 4 of us, so we ordered a lot and just shared everything. I ordered the braised ribs, and unfortunately it was terrible. One bite and I couldn't eat anymore. The meat had a funny tasted, almost as if it were old. My mom tasted it as well and she had to spit it out. We told our server and he removed it from our bill. He said it was made fresh and he tasted it and it was fine, claimed it was probably just not to my liking, but hey I had to say something just in case. I got salad with my meal and that is always fantastic! The salad dressing and raisins really make it such a great salad! I think we asked for refills a couple of times, so I had my fill on salad, oh and you can't forget the bread! It was warm and garlicky and just plain yummy!!!! Aside from the braised ribs our dining experience was good! I always enjoy going to strings! read more

Food was fantastic as always. Best bread and minestrone soup. 2 of us ate for a little over $20. Young fellow that served our table very polite. Overall, great place to eat. read more

I've been here at least two or three times in the last two years. It's a very casual ambience, and the place is comfortable and unassuming. The service is always friendly and warm. The food is pretty run of the mill. Nothing spectacular. I've had dishes like the eggplant parmigiana and the fettuccine Alfredo. The salads are pretty good. read more

This a place that my family and I have visited many times. Today was the last time we will step foot in this establishment. My daughter-in-law left her clutch purse and phone and within five minutes we returned and it was gone. The cafe was not very full and the clutch had been left on a chair. We were told that the clutch was not thee and the male who was in charge that people leave items all the time. We did check and the clutch and phone were not there. My daughter-in-law said she would go to the cell phone company and have the phone tracked. After arriving at the cell store we received call and told the clutch had been found. When we went back the hostess met us outside and returned the items. She said she did not know where the clutch had been found. We thought it weird that the male in charge would not speak with us or give details how an item they did not see suddenly appeared. While we were glad to receive the items back I can't imagine ever going back and trusting them with an item like my credit card to pay . Read the response and it is full of holes. Keep in mind two trips were made to the establishment to retrieve the item. We were told they cleaned the table and had the new customers stand up so they could check. When they were told going to the cell phone company they and left we were called and did they had the item. When we arrived in front the hostess "ran" outside gave us the item and said she did not know how it was found. Notice the owner did not walk out or speak with us. I have visited this establishment many times over the past 25 years and bought gift cards for people for there. That won't ever happen again. read more

The salad is always good. Today, I'm having the baked combo. Delicious !!! Lunch time can be a bit busy, and the staff always do a great job. read more

Strings Italian Cafe Lodi - Great food, great service !!! - Italian Near Me - Lodi, California

My family and I went back to Strings to give it another try and it was great. Food was good and service was even better. There forever I have to update my review. Everyone has bad days and it more than made up for the one bad experience I had. I highly recommend. read more

This is my go to Italian spot when in the Central Valley! Always welcomed by friendly staff and greeted with to die for bread and salad upon each and every visit! I normally go with the chicken picatta or the chicken Marsala but decided to switch it up and go with the braised short rib and I was nothing short of impressed! read more

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First time in Lodi. My daughter had a golf tournament nearby. We had a party of about 14 people. They took the reservation and did a pretty good job with service. Good classic Italian spot and everything seemed to be on point. I didn't hear any complaint from anyone in our party. Not sure when I'll be in Lodi again but my first option. I'm try to be back! read more

I am so glad they're open for take out and delivery! As soon as it's open, we'll be ready to dine inside. Thank you for always having great good and great service! read more

Food: 5 stars Service: 0 stars Our waitress was very short with us and snotty. Not very attentive at all.. and as soon as we paid it's like we were no good to her anymore!! She wouldn't come back to check on us, even though we weren't finished eating, and she left both of our drinks empty, I pushed them to the edge of the table to get her attention and she just walked right past every time and wouldn't help us! Finally got pissed and changed the tip on the receipt she hadn't picked up yet and walked out! Food was and is always delicious and is what keeps me coming back, but from now on I will get it to go only! Soooooooo disappointed in the service. read more

DONT GO HERE. Seriously. We went here for lunch the other day as a family and my sister-in-law set her huge wallet down FLAT on the chair she was sitting in that was completely pulled out from under the table. She got her daughter ready to leave and forgot to grab her wallet, but never pushed in her chair. We left, and only when we returned home did she realize she didn't have her wallet or phone. We called the restaurant and they stated they did not find anything at the table. My brother showed back up at the restaurant and the staff went to check the table for him and stated it wasn't there. My brother left, and my mom and sister-in-law returned to ask again. The owner stated that everyone at the table was asked to stand up and they checked the chairs and specifically said "didn't you make everyone at the table stand up? it is not here." My mom and sister in law then let them know her phone was in her wallet and they were headed to Verizon to turn on the location for the phone. (Keep in mind, her wallet was a large Michael Kohrs wallet, and it is 100% not possible to not notice it if you were to sit on it in a chair, and it would have fallen on the floor through the back of the chair if it got pushed back.) they arrived at the Verizon store to locate the phone and my brother called saying the restaurant had found it. When we arrived back at the restaurant, the hostess brought the wallet out to us, gave zero explanation as to where it was found, and returned inside. Again, she literally said NOTHING. Now, after the fact, the owner has argued that we have wrongfully accused his staff of "stealing." The wallet literally can not be missed, I have even made the comment before that it is impossible to misplace it. He has stated that the customer sitting at the table gave it to staff. Is this the same customer from the group you made stand up and check their seats and under the table? If the owner wanted a resolution, he should have presented her items to us personally and told us where it was found. Instead, he waits until we post a negative review to argue that a customer gave it to staff. Again, he wasn't present when it was "returned" to a staff member. It's a bummer that an establishment is so unapologetic and dishonest. Either you did not check thoroughly as you said you did, which is horrible business and obviously something they personally would be pleased to go through, or a staff member had it who was unaware a phone was inside of the wallet that could be tracked and returned it only because that would get them caught. I believe one person was responsible for it, and it's sad that in this world, an owner can't just own up to it and simply apologize, but would rather argue with customers and attack them over a yelp review and tell us how damaging to business we are as a group of people. Seriously, find the other review. My sister-in-law took her review down because he was so verbally abusive to her and told her what a horrible person she was. On the bright side, my sister in law has her wallet and phone back, and after my family has lived in Lodi for over 30 years, we have been able to spread the news by word of mouth instead of a yelp review. I didn't plan on sharing this, but the fact that the owner personally attacked my family on here, I wanted to be sure we shared all of the facts that he says we "didn't know." I'm not sure how he would know if we knew all the facts or not since he and his staff didn't say a word to us after it was found. Quite frankly, we knew what we were told, and if they withheld "facts", then that is on them as a business, not us as customers. To the owner, no need to respond and verbally attack me and accuse me of things, our friends and family won't be back, and if your business is truly as good as you feel it is, this review won't matter to you anyways. Congratulations on serving Lodi for 25 years, and if anything comes from this, I hope it helps you to grow from it and work with future customers better. read more

It had been a few years since I had been there. Atmosphere was as expected but our server. Was less than expected. We were not greeted. All interactions with our waiter were short and abrupt. Food was as expected. Nicely seasoned and presentation was nice. It was the experience with the waiter that ruined it read more

Food was really good and service was even better. Our server was Jordan and he was very attentive and did a great job!

I ordered from GrubHub and the order was wrong. I called Strings the customer representative on the phone was very professional and polite. I had my correct side delivered by GrubHub within 20 minutes at no charge. I was very impressed with the service. read more

Strings has always been a go to for my family. We love the food, friendly service and and overall enjoyable atmosphere. That being said, I would have given them 5 starts anyways. However, the icing on the cake was the private birthday party that they allowed us to host there this past weekend. Mark and his staff were EXTREMELY helpful, accommodating and attentive during the entire planning process as well as during the party. The staff made all of our guests feel welcome and taken care of and Mark made sure that everything ran smoothly and that everything was to our liking! I am so grateful to him for making this event flawless!! Although I was pretty much impressed with everything, one of the standouts was of course the food! I know sometimes when restaurants convert their dishes to buffet style some quality is lost. This was definitely NOT the case!! The food was great if not better than any other night at Strings! We had several appetizers to start with during our first hour ( they were kept warm and fresh the entire time, thanks to the staff's attentiveness!!) and four signature Strings dishes and salad and bread for dinner! For desert, we brought our own cake which the staff helped cut and distribute. It was an amazing and special event and all of our guests were super impressed by all aspects of the evening from the food to the impeccable service to the great space that they allowed us to accommodate our almost 90 guests!! I really can't thank Strings enough for making this event so special!!! read more

Strings Italian Cafe Lodi - Italian Near Me - Lodi, California

My family has Loved this restaurant for many years! The food and service are Always amazing! The Manager Mark goes above and beyond for his customers to ensure the best possible restaurant experience. I would recommend Lodi Strings to anyone and everyone who enjoys good food and great service! read more

I can't believe this place is still open. Food tastes like its frozen and service is horrible.

Good service during lunch. Yummy chicken with lemon sauce and mushroom ravioli s. Not impressed with the adult lemonade.

Italian food taste about the same anywhere, but what really makes this place stand out is their breads buns. I love their unlimited bread buns, they are so warm, toasty, tasty, and soft. This place has pretty good salad too. The employees are super nice and helpful when you don't know what you want to order. Gets pretty packed sometimes but the wait is never super long. read more

I just want to warn everybody now...FALSE ADVERTISING BEWARE!!!! (I will explain later)... First things first, I waited 2 years to go to this place because I knew that it would just be another Olive Garden (which isn't a good thing, in my book). Or how about the Italian version of Applebee's (nah, that would be an insult to Applebee's). So I eventually went because my wife wanted to on Mothers Day. The interior was ok, it seems all 2 Italian Restaurants in Lodi have the most dull and boring ceilings for some reason. But that wasn't a big deal. - My dinner, which was a pasta dish with chicken, sun dried tomatoes and artichoke hearts was gross. The pasta was average but the chicken tasted like I was eating cardboard. Lets just put it this way, I usually take food home that I don't finish because I don't like to waste and I declined a box. - My drink, which was a yummy Zinfandel, was served in the smallest wine glass I have ever seen. They could probably get about 7 glasses out of 1 bottle, and if you know a typical glass, you can usually get maybe 5 if your lucky. So in other words, they are pinching pennies there big time. Now the real killer, so as I said, we went on Mothers Day and brought our two little boys with us. Now when we walked up we noticed a large sign on the window saying kids eat free after 4 on Sunday and Monday. It being Sunday at 6 we thought "hey cool!" So after the very disappointing dinner at I received the check and quickly noticed that it was about 10 dollars too much. At the register I asked my server about the kids eat free sign and she said "Oh, that doesn't work on Holidays...", I was initially blown back and said to her that there should be some sort of disclaimer about holidays on the sign and said it was false advertising. Much to my chagrin she said nothing, so I just signed my bill and left. I wasn't going to expect much from a mediocre 18 year old server that probably couldn't give a flying F*** for this establishment. read more

We've stopped at this place a few times when driving down the interminable strip that is Kettleman Lane on our way to or from the mountains. We have largely given up since ie is overpriced, utterly mediocre mass-produced Italian food. I didn't realise at first that this was a chain with places all over the place, but it shows in the food. Since even mediocre Italian food is generally pretty good, this place is ok, but really it is overly salty, overly creamy, overly garlicky, one-dimensional basic stuff. It is almost certianly the best place on Kettleman Lane, but there are other, better places in Lodi (which is, of course, much more than just this strip of suburban sprawl) and the area. We have never had anything bad here, but never anything that really made us ever want to come back. All the dishes we have had are serviceable, but just that. read more

Came here just for dessert and it was well worth it. Service was excellent! FYI Stockton location has horrible service. read more

Strings Italian Cafe Lodi - Brownie Lasagna!!! Amazing - Italian Near Me - Lodi, California

Wow, I'm shocked to see all these bad reviews !! My family and I have been coming here for years and love it. Our frequency has slowed down but its not due to the restaurant declining. Strings isn't big on traditional, rich italian dishes, but for the price you get solid food, fast and cheap. We can get in here, order, eat and done in 30 min. if we wanted to and under $20 easy for 2 people. The raisins in that salad ?? A lot of ppl come here for that salad !! No raisins here would be like no dressing!! (which is their own, they bottle n sell the stuff) Its not a fabulous, high quality salad but a good, inexpensive, delicious salad!! I like the Chicken Lombardy and Pasta Sienna. Other items I've had were also good. For dessert, Spumoni Amore (ya I think its pre-packaged but whatever!) is superb !! Service is always good, most of the staff has seemingly been here for years. Business does seem to have slowed, we used to come here every month, now its like a few times a year and when we go, its almost empty. But nothing has changed, food is still good, comes out fast, service is there (if anything, the bread seriously sucks now), I'm not sure what happened. Maybe I just come at the wrong times but I do hope business is better than what I've seen of late. Again, its a great, inexpensive italian place to eat that hasn't changed over the years except for swallowing the small space next to it (because they needed it then, now not so much). It also saddens me to see the newer Trinity location with what I experienced as inferior quality, having better reviews. read more

I love the salad! I love the pasta sienna! People love love love their cioppino! Some of the waiters are blah but some are excellent. One of my family's favorite places to go! Awesome bread too! read more

Our waiter was ok kind of blahh, very to the point. As for the food let me tell you I have come to this place many times and I have been very happy tonight the food tasted as if there was another chef in the kitchen and lemme tell you if that's the case count me out .......... my seafood Alfredo was a Nono you can taste the shrimp flavor as if they were not washed, my mussels that I ordered tasted like they were bought from a wal Mart in those plastic bags and it was just bad I'm so sad... I braggg about thIs place to everyone and this was a smack in the face..... hold on our waiter just walked by ugh nope still no convo, this place is busy and will probably continue to stay busy but taste ur food and really focus .....just witnessed our waiter get in trouble for something that was said ugh oh ..... proves my point. read more

Very Underrated Italian Restaurant. We went to the Lodi location on 7/22/18 for a late lunch/dinner. The food and service was outstanding. Our waiter, Jordan, was terrific. Impeccably dressed, courteous, professional and just the right amount of attentive. My Pasta Sienna was over the top delicious. Shrimp and Chicken with penne pasta and sun-dried tomatoes, bathed in a incredibly tasty pesto/Alfredo/curry sauce(not too much curry)with basil and Parmesan. I tell you, one of the best pasta dishes, I've ever enjoyed. My spouse had the equally tasty Peach Pork Tenderloins, with mashed potatoes and asparagus. Portions were generous. We had the Family styled dinner salad with olive oil, slathered focaccia bread. They were so delicious. Like a separate meal. I also enjoyed very reasonably priced glass of Pinot Grigio. Again, a great selection. We'll be visiting again. Give it a try. read more

Where do I begin. I have heard horror stories about what some of the staff does to food here; this coming from someone that had worked there at one time. This isn't too surprising as I've had an experience with not feeling too well after eating here. Next, the service has been so-so, but definitely nothing to write home about. Don't do take out on the weekends unless you plan to wait a while to pick it up because you'll wait. Seriously, if Italian food is what you're looking for: LOOK NO FURTHER THAN PIETRO'S on Kettleman Lane. read more