Try dishes of Italian cuisine at this restaurant. Cooks at Gaetano's Italian do their best to provide visitors with good spaghetti carbonara, Pepperoni and meatballs. You can order tasty cannolis. Delicious chianti, beer or house wine are among the best drinks to degust. This place is good for guests who have dinner on the go as they can order food as a takeout. Imagine a combination of great meals and the efficient staff, this is exactly what this spot provides you with. The terrific service is something these restaurateurs care about. Prices at this restaurant claim to be reasonable. You will definitely like the charming atmosphere. The average score of Gaetano's Italian on Google is 4.5.
Not a family friendly environment. I'll never even look in the direction of this place again. This location gave us one of the most Discriminating Horrific experiences I've ever had in my life. The food is absolutely delicious, homemade authentic Italian, and the only thread of dignity they have left. There are two older women that serve here, hopefully not for long after this eye opening post. I can't even call them ladies, these excuse for "women", were entirely rude and don't belong in exquisite dining or customer service, and for their "matured" age, they definitely should've know better than to treat a lady with such disrespect and discrimination. I was so excited to come back this second time given the exceptional grand visit we had the first time here, when the gentleman Eric served us the greatest experience, leaving us craving to return!! He made us feel like we were in Italy and absolutely cared for! We left delightfully that first time saying, "this was by far an extraordinary meal and amazing customer service with some of the best Italian food and just can't wait to return"!! Our second time back, regarding this current review, was about a month later. We sat down knowing exactly the dish we wanted to order, the famous well-portioned, Lasagna!! My fiance ordered himself some wine, and I ordered a glass of water. These "women", who are old enough to be retired with too much make-up and bad hair-dye in denial to accept the reality of their age, absolutely refused to serve me a simple glass of Water. First of all, I didn't order the wine, my fiance did for himself. Second of all, little did these grumps know, I wasn't even drinking any alcohol because we literally just had a heartbreaking loss due to my fertility challenges being the aging lady that I am. The last thing I wanted was wine or any alcohol for that matter. All I wanted, was a glass of water and the delicious lasagna special posted in my video above. The first haggard looking woman looked at me up and down with burning judgment and treated me as if I were a child - I'm 37 years old, an RN working in trauma literally saving lives, and a professional grad student studying for my doctorate degree. Not only did this woman refuse to bring out my glass of water after demeaningly demanding my ID that I said was left in the car, I made it very clear and politely told her, I specifically only wanted a glass of water. She then made me wait over 15 minutes and sent out this even more haggard looking back-up buddy, who Also refused to give me a simple glass of water, demanding my ID again while she discriminated against me looking me up and down like she was jealous and in disbelief of my natural youth. I may look young, but I definitely don't look underage. Normally, I would take someone asking for my ID as a compliment, but this was blatant disrespect. Once my fiance stepped back inside from his phone call, I told him what happened and we quickly and quietly walked out vowing never to return. I don't care how good and authentic the food is, we'll never be back. They added insult to my injury and clearly, do not support the historical family values that both Son's of Gaetanos pride themselves on. I will only ever go to the Lakeside location where Maria and her husband run a tip-top fine establishment and treat everyone with courtesy kindness and respect...they serve the same menu with the same exceptional quality food, even better than the brother store located in La Mesa. This is such ashame. I have over 7 Million views on my Google reviews, in the top 10% of restaurant reviewers, and very loyal to my trusted establishments. This traumatizing experience is a complete disgrace to the Gaetanos family name. I strongly recommend reconsidering allowing such ignorant employees to continue working for this location, they're not even part of the family, clearly, because if they were, I honestly don't feel I would've been treated with such disgusting disrespect. I'll definitely be sharing this horrible experience with Aldo Sr., Junior, and Maria, in Lakeside.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$10–20
Food: 5
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 5
Recommended dishes
Lasagna with Meat Sauce
Amazing food here.
Service
Take out
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$50–100
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Recommended dishes
Lasagna with Meat Sauce
The service is horrible. The whole front staff is very unorganized and rude. They don’t seem to handle heavy foot traffic well and they end up taking it out on the customers. My husband and I order two antipasta salads for take out. Once we got home we noticed they did not give us any dressing at all. We went back and the staff was very rude about us asking for our dressing even though we were the ones that had to make the drive all the way back. No apologies no nothing. Not coming here again.
Service
Take out
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$20–30
Food: 4
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 2
EVERYTHING ABOVE AVERAGE PRICES R DECENT. TO BAD THEY R CLOSED ON SUNDAY MY FAV DAY TO EAT OUT IVE BEEN EATIN HERE 4-30 years mostly takeout of pizza but I do dine in occasional y I ALWAYS AM SATISFIED 👍👍👍👍
Food: 4
Service: 3
Atmosphere: 3
