Pesto's Italian Restaurant

This is literally a neighborhood small Italian restaurant. I've been here several times at lunchtime. Its always been good, but some reason it's very quiet in terms of customers, which I don't understand. It's nice for me - easy to get seated. But I want them to stick around! I hope other folks in the south Torrance area will check it out. Today I had the Italian sausage with spaghetti (I believe it's on the menu as "Spaghetti Sausage"). It's a slightly flat kind of spaghetti pasta, with marinara sauce, Italian sausage, bell peppers and onions. Absolutely delicious. The sausage was perfect (I'm really sensitive to too much salt, and this sausage was perfect!). My friend had the pesto with chicken. I got to sample the pasta, and it was delicious (lots of basil and butter). Pleas

Been coming here for years. We def have our faves Mama Mia Chicken Eggplant Parmesan, Carbonara, Pesto Linguine, Chicken Alfredo, Ravioli. Always ask for 2nds on bread basket w chimichurri--fresh and hot. Fresh lemonade. Hits the spot. We come for the food. Server is same gal for decades. Always pleasant.

Sad. I was in the mood for some Italian and so decided to try a new place. Let's just say I'm never going back. The chopped Italian salad was essentially just lettuce. The meat sauce pasta was tasteless and the pasta was overcooked. The only redeeming quality was the bread and chimmichuri sauce which was warm and tasty. Otherwise, I crossed this off the list.

Food: The garlic bread was not great. The Carbonara did not look or taste like a Carbonara but was nice. The calzone was very good. Service: even though there were only 3 tables (6 people) we had to ask for service multiple times and the food took longer than expected. Atmosphere: for some reason the restaurant was playing what sounded like funeral music.

$16 for the smallest pizza ever with barely any toppings. We didn't pick anything off before the photo. Meat lovers? Not nearly enough to love. Service was super slow and not very helpful. It took almost an hour for our food to arrive. Bread with the garlic basil dip was yummy however no offer to refill. Got their specialty soup, can't remember the name but it's the creamed veggie soup, had no flavor at all and for 8 bucks? No thanks. My Chicken Florentine had no flavor either. The only bright spot was the shrimp pesto. I would only go back for the pesto... Maybe.