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Petrini's - Goleta
5711 Calle Real, Goleta
Phone: (805) 964-1200
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Reviews by the General Public
I'd go back!, 11/20/2012
Reviewer: Tina
from Santa Barbara, CA
I have eaten here three times and so far not much to complain about. The first time me and my husband had sub sandwiches and my only complaint was that there was not a lot of meat on the sandwiches, but they were still good. The second time I got an antipasto salad to go and it was great. And today I went for lunch (using my new Axxess card 2 for 1 deal) and got chicken piccatta with alfredo for my lunch and an order of chicken alfredo to go for my husband. My lunch was very tasty. It was hot, portion size was good for lunch, and the service was excellent. I will definitely go back when I get the urge for Italian.
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Underwhelming Chicken Parm, 8/14/2012
Reviewer: Lil
from Santa Barbara, CA
I stopped at Petrini's in Goleta for take-out this Tuesday evening. The man at the counter was polite, friendly and efficient. I ordered the Chicken Parmesan dinner with pesto pasta on the side. When I arrived home and tasted my entree I was very disappointed. The marinara sauce covering my chicken was so sour that I could not eat more than two bites. My pesto noodles were decent but I wished the sauce was more flavorful and had more garlic. In my opinion, $16.00 is far too high a price for an underwhelming chicken parmesan. The portions however were beyond generous and I do appreciate the new gelato bar. I believe this restaurant has the potential to prepare good food if they would only season their sauces with better care and perhaps make them from scratch rather than using canned tomatoes/ marinara etc.
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Great Food, Great new Comedy Show!, 7/15/2012
Reviewer: Andrey
from Santa Barbara, CA
I heard the food struggled its first year, whatever they are doing now - they fixed it! Pizza was great, and that is saying alot coming from a New Yorker.
Their new comedy show is great too!
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Great experience, 6/13/2012
Reviewer: Fred
from Santa Barbara, CA
Had a great meal here at Goleta. food was very good and the service was attentive. The place is defantly a local, family run restaurant and I believe they have been around for 50plus years. I would very much recommend this place for a great meal. The chicken picatta is delicious and the thin crust pizzas are very unique.
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Graduation Dinner Bust, 6/11/2012
Reviewer: S.
from Santa Barbara, CA
Took our family there for the 1st time. And will never go back. Let's start with the fact that the table was covered in crumbs and I had to ask for a rag to clean it. Garlic bread is absolutely tasteless. Greasy and tasteless pasta that must come from a can. If that's Italian food then no thank you. Portions are huge but I would rather have tasty well done food. Waitress is very quirky and not very attentive once you order your food.
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Not bad, but it could be so much better
Reviewer: Scott Schwartz
from Santa Barbara, CA
Petrini's has recently returned to Goleta, now occupying the old Luigi's Pizza parlor. It seems to be much larger restaurant than their Santa Barbara store. I'm pretty sure the menus are the same, if not exact. To put it nicely, without (much) judgement; I consider myself and my family fans of Petrini's. The downtown store has a waitress who's a kick, the food, while average, isn't bad and the atmosphere is right out of 1958 somewhere in Baltimore. The Goleta store only hits 1 of the the 3 above charms, and that's the food. Which on it's own really isn't enough reason to go. Our visit last night was proof of that. Our pizza was so greasy the cheese slid off the crust. The crust, not burned, but was much too crispy for my taste. We also ordered a family antipasto salad. The salad was rusty, the toppings too few and far between. I should mention the gelato bar, that was a nice touch and we did enjoy our cones after our dinner. Overall I think I will stick to the downtown location.
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A lot better!
Reviewer: Glenn
from Buellton
Went here for a group dinner and its a lot better! They have a neat room in the back now that shows photos of Italy on a giant screen, you feel like you are in Italy. The wait was still a little long for the food but it was very good! The pizza and pasta were great! The servers were really nice and professional. Worth a 2nd try at this place, I think they may have found their groove now.
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Wanted some Italian food. Wasnt so good.
Reviewer: David
from Goleta, CA
when we walked in the resturant it had a good amount of customers. Thats a good sign. Sat down ordered a beer went with Telegraph California Ale it was a good choice. I ordered the baked meat ravioli with chesse and my girl friend got the spagetti. the salads not so good,. the pasta is horrible I felt like they openend a can of chef boyardee and threw it in the oven. All in all was not pleased with the food. the service was good polite and friendly. Will not be going back for pasta.
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Rather Luigis was still there
Reviewer: B
from Santa Barbara, CA
Have given this place 2 tries and it has failed each time. First time we did chicken parm, garlic bread and baked ravioli. Garlic bread had a neon yellow butter (spray?) and was not crisp. Raviolis looked from frozen and there was hardly any sauce just large chunks of tomato and huge chunks of onion. Chicken parm was over cooked and again the bread was not toasted.
Then we tried the pizza... No sauce yet again and the pizza and crust just tasted horrible.
Add more actual sauce, toast the bread, use real butter and garlic and I can't even guess what to do to the taste of the cheese and the crust then maybe it'll be ok.
Good thing though is the service was pretty good.
Huge disappointment will not be going back without some major changes.
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So disappointing...
Reviewer: Huyen
from Santa Barbara, CA
My second time trying this new location. The first time was MUCH better - thin crust pizza is probably the best item on the menu. We had a variety of dishes and only one person was satisfied with their food (group of 6) - which was the chicken picatta. Everything else - minestrone soup, chicken wings, marinara sauce, pastas, eggplant seemed out of a can/box/pre frozen. Very lacking in flavor, hard noodles, sauce was sweet like it had cinnamon in it and stranger after taste. Didn't taste like restaurant grade Italian food. Our waitress was..hmm..interesting..quirky one with braces. It was an interesting and underwhelming food experience. I don't know where to go in Goleta for decent Italian food. Guess I'll stick to Santa Barbara for that. Such a bummer because Petrini's on Upper State is sooo good.
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Rehearsal Dinner
Reviewer: Michelle
from Santa Barbara, CA
Just had a wedding rehearsal dinner in the back room at the Goleta Petrini's. Everything was GREAT! The owner was easy to work with and got our menu planned ahead of time. The service was fabulous. We loved having the back room to ourselves. If we had been a little more prepared we could have made a slide show or something for the enormous screen and projector they had set-up. There was tons of food and it was delicious. This place is great for a large group, private party, and for children!
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Great spot!
Reviewer: Tarrah
from Santa Barbara, CA
While I agree with the previous poster that the service and atmosphere at this restaurant are accomodating, I must respectfully disagree with her critique of the pizza. I personally love their cracker-thin crust - I like all the taste of the yummy cheese and toppings without feeling like I'm chewing on a wad of dough. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
My husband swears by their chicken picatta, too. The portions are HUGE!
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