Cafe Italia
6705 N. Mesa, El Paso, TX, 79912
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Address :
6705 N. Mesa
El Paso, TX, 79912 - Phone (915) 832-0587
- Website https://www.elpasocafeitalia.com/
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Opening Hours
- Tue
Specialities
- Takes Reservations : No
Delivery : No
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Lunch, Dinner
Parking : Private Lot
Bike Parking : No
Wheelchair Accessible : Yes
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Ambience : Casual
Noise Level : Average
Alcohol : No
Outdoor Seating : Yes
Wi-Fi : No
Has TV : Yes
Waiter Service : Yes
Caters : No
Categories
Italian Cuisine
The immense popularity of Italian cuisine globally isn't unknown. You can find an Italian Pizzeria around every corner of almost every city in the United States. Not to forget that in every house, people enjoy mac and cheese as comfort food. But it would be wrong to believe that Italian food starts with pizza and ends with good pasta as this Mediterranean country has much more to offer other than these two dishes. In Italian Cuisine, there is a high use of fresh tomatoes, all kinds of herbs, great quality of cheese, all types of meat, seafood and fresh handmade pasta. Many find it hard to believe that Italians have been making noodles long back.
Italian and Greek cuisines are always mistaken to be same, but they are poles apart. The primary difference between the two cuisines is the use of cheese in most of the Italian dishes. Italians love to cultivate their own cheese and process them as per their food requirement. It is believed that some cheese is so expensive that cheese producers secure them in lockers.
If you are bored eating the same old pasta or pizza, you can try some of the authentic Italian dishes like Risotto, Polenta, Ribollita, Lasagna, Fiorentina Steak, Bottarga, Ossobuco, Carbonara, Focaccia, Arancini and Supplì. Another item which Italians love to relish every morning is a good cup of Italian Coffee. Once you taste a freshly brewed cup of Italian Coffee, you might not visit Starbucks ever again. Authentic Italian food is made with heart and soul, so go find a restaurant where you can relish Italian cuisine in your city.
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Mark M.
This is defiantly my favorite place in el paso. Its small and intimate. BYOW and they charge a small $3 corking fee. The pizza's are fresh and amazing, ive had almost every one and have never been disappointed. So why is it not 5 starts? well its kind of small, if you don't get there before 8pm you will be waiting quite a while for a table. Most people bring a few bottles of wine and sit around and enjoy it after dinner. Also the dessert menu needs some work. Bread with nutella baked into it isn't my idea of a dessert. Other than that this place makes me happy. Its a great for a date night and isn't very expensive at all.
(4)Hunter Q.
Cafe Italia is the best Bistro of its kind.. I have eaten my way around the finest and most flavorable greasy spoons from Texas to North Cal this place is to Italian Cafe what Dotty's true blue cafe is to brunch in San Francisco... People be thankful the population doesn't force 5 hr waits around the corner.. because if it did... I would be there with bells on, and maybe a tamborine in honor of SF. The Caprese is going yo make you believe you are in Toscana...
(5)Nicholas L.
This is a fantastic restaurant. My wife and I went for dinner last Wednesday. On a midweek evening, the restaurant was busy. We had heard the restaurant is BYOB, and took a good bottle of red wine. They charge a very reasonable $3 corkage fee. We ordered a caprese salad and a pizza with fennel and mushroom, to which we added Italian sausage. The pizza did not have a red sauce. The caprese salad had mozzarella made in-house. ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS. I have had caprese salad all over the world, including in Italy, and this is the best I have encountered. The seasoning was perfect. The bread accompanying the caprese salad, pane rustico, was served with herbed and salted butter. The bread was perfect for sopping up the olive oil and mozzarella juice of the salad. The pizza was excellent, with a nice crust, flavorful mushrooms, soft and tasty fennel. It was accompanied by crushed, dried red chilies, also fresh, with more flakes than seeds. Service was excellent. I spoke to the pizza chef in Italian, realized he didn't speak Italian, switched to English and was shocked to learn he is Mexican. I asked where he learned to cook Italian food, he replied, simply, "At home." He must have grown up in a great Italian home in Mexico. This dinner cost $37, and so far, is the best meal I've had in El Paso. My only disappointment: their sole dessert is a Nutella calzone. I think they should add a couple of desserts to the menu.
(5)Alison B.
Best Pizza in El Paso. Gracie and Andy c Basil are phenom. After reading reviews it looks like I'll have to try dessert next time!
(5)Elijah G.
I lived in Italy for seven years and I can assure all the readers that the pizza here is the only pizza in El Paso that matters. If you want to become fat as a hippo, then go eat pizza elsewhere and suck down mountains of cheap cheese and oil. Here you will get an authentic pizza, prepared light, as in Italy, with truly excellent ingredients. Those who complain about the portions or the prices have no clue and should stick to Papa Johns. This is the real deal.
(5)Elizabeth D.
Cafe Italia is hands down, the best pizza restaurant in El Paso. I have been there numerous times and I'm trying to get in as many times as I can before I move this summer. The food is always fresh. I often get their white pasta which is the best pasta dish in El Paso. I like that they use what fresh vegetables they have. The pizza is always delicious. They understand what makes a good Italian restaurant: simplicity. The pizza sauce is amazing. We always get a bowl full on the side. The last time we were there the waiter saw me adding some of the red sauce to my white pasta and told me even though it's not on the menu I can ask for what they call a pink sauce where they mix their red and white sauces. The pasta menu is limited but it's so good that it doesn't matter. I'm a vegetarian and always find plenty to eat here. My partner is not and he is always happy with his non-vegetarian dishes. Cons: The size of the parking lot and the size of the restaurant. As some others have mentioned, there is not a lot of tables so a weekend night can turn into a very long wait. I also wish their menu would rotate. It's been the same menu since I started going in 2009ish. Sometime there are long wait times for the food but it's so darn good that has never factored in my decision to eat there. Pros: Everything else. Great food, great wait staff. Best tasting pizza and pasta in El Paso.
(5)Kristine D.
"It's really good, and we're in Mexico - IT'S FIVE STARS" says my boyfriend who has been desperately trying to find anything that isn't Mexican food. When we went on a Friday night around 7 there was a 10 minute wait, which is to be expected when the dining room has less than a dozen tables. We split the house salad and the Bianco pizza, both of which were quite good. I'm looking forward to going back and getting a pie with a red sauce on it, as ours was olive oil, mozzarella, ricotta and arugula. Pro-Tip: It's BYOW, so come prepared if you're looking to drink.
(5)Casy M.
This has got to be one of the best pizza places in the US. I was extremely surprised to find such an awesome pizza shop in the middle of the desert. The crust is crispy yet chewy and beautifully flavored and textured. The perfectly done flavor of the crust is enhanced even further by their oven which is a wood fire oven. The sauce is also home made and beautifully seasoned and fresh. The toppings like the hand made mozzarella and the fennel sausage are exquisite. I've had each and every signature pizza and not a single one was a let down. Cafe Italia does cary a few different appetizers and salads, my favorite the house w/ fresh pears and walnuts and homemade vinaigrette. The menu is dedicated to their pizza so you won't find any other choice of entrees. It is also BYOB so be sure to grab a nice bottle or two of wine to accompany your meal.
(5)Stephen L.
I've been wanting to go to this place for months now, but just never made it until now because it's like 40 minutes away from my area. I will definitely make the trek again, because it's just fantastic. It is a little pricey, but you can kind of taste why when you actually get everything, as everything tastes super fresh and high quality. The appetizer we got was my favorite part of the meal. I don't remember the name, but it came with meats, pears, cheese and bread, so look for that on the menu and give it a go. The bread was probably the best I've ever had, and everything else on the platter combines to an absolutely delicious series of sandwiches. The pizza is just stellar, especially the sauce. The Nutella calzone was really good, but it just got a little too thick after a while. If they were to throw in some riccotta or something in there, it would switch up the flavor just enough to perfect it. The bring your own bottle thing is the best thing ever, and I wish every restaurant had that option. It's way cheaper, and you can have your meal with your favorite wine that might not be available at restaurants. Again, it is a little pricey, but I will be back for sure.
(4)Sunay P.
A friend of ours had never been to Café Italia, so last Saturday seeing that two of our friends were at a loose end due to their husbands being out of town for a football game, we all decided to treat ourselves to Café Italia. This is a tiny little café on the Westside of town in a former TCBY location in front of Savers OR Discount Tires however you decide the front. This place since its opening has been a favorite of ours. This is a classic example of a place which has a small menu but does everything on the menu well. There may have been one time in our umpteen visits, when the pizza may have been slightly soft in the middle...but hey the odds of getting a just okay pizza are pretty slim. This place has a small wood-fired oven and churns out super thin crust pizzas (reminds one of pizzas in Rome and strangely enough Lombardi's on Spring Street in NYC), a few pasta dishes, outstanding appetizers and salads and three desserts. All cooked excellently. One quibble I have, that I will get done with early on so I can wax rhapsodic about the food, is that this place has started nickel-and-diming you nowadays. They are a BYOB establishment and used to have no corkage fee. Now they have corkage fee, which is fair given that they do provide glasses, but they charge the fee is per bottle! The fee is reasonable, and again, not that big a deal considering that you can bring a wine you like and want to drink. The other quibble is that none of the appetizers come with bread anymore. The bread is made from the same dough as the pizza and is fabulously light and crispy...and immensely desirable. A few slices of this heavenly bread used to be complimentary and then if you wanted a bit more bread, there might be a small charge for more. (Actually in the very beginning not only was the bread complimentary, but we were plied with bread any time we needed more). Again, this is a part of the small irritation that adds up. We certainly have no issue with having to pay for stuff this good, though. Anyway, we started with the roasted vegetable antipasti. This is a substantial appetizer for sharing with a beautifully roasted medley of green and red bell peppers, purple onions, zucchini , yellow squash and some absolutely fantastic eggplant. This eggplant was the star of the show: very meaty, with small tender seeds and a fantastic smoky flavor from being in the wood-fired oven, no doubt. We had a pleasant wait for our main course with good conversation and a Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. Our Gracie's pizza showed up (along with the other pizzas ordered by our friends, a Yukon gold pizza and a margarita pizza with sausage. These pizzas were great smelling too and our friends loved them, but I don't have room for descriptions of stuff I did not eat!). The Gracie's arrived looking crispy and smelling wonderfully of the flavorful elements that were spread on it. This pizza, in my humble opinion, is the best pizza in this place. Gracie's is a bianco pizza (no tomato sauce) with homemade fresh mozzarella, thinly sliced fennel, roasted mushrooms and fresh rosemary. All these flavorful components are highly enhanced by being roasted in the wood-fired oven resulting in a beautifully thin, crispy crust with charred bits acting as flavor enhancers and the wonderful sweet crunchiness of the fennel, enhanced by the earthiness of the mushrooms and rosemary mellowed by the soft creamy melted mozzarella. Needless to say, a fabulous pizza! Even though we were full, I ordered the pumpkin mousse that they make in-house. This is served in a martini glass with a good dollop of whipped cream. The desserts at Café Italia have always been phenomenal (though I think they have upped the sweetness lately...but that could be an El Paso demand) and this one is no exception. It is not piped in fancy swirls or anything, but the flavors are completely redolent of fall flavors. You get a gentle flavor of pumpkin with nutmeg and cinnamon floating through each spoonful. The four of us shared the dessert, which was an ample and perfect end to the meal. Run don't walk to Café Italia. If you want to go for dinner, get there early since there can be a wait at times. I have pretty much eaten my way through the entire menu and have not found anything that is not good.
(5)Bruce F.
Cafe Italia got lost and landed in a former TCBY Yogurt shop in west El Paso. The regulars here bring two bottles of vino, not one. No corkage. The limited menu means they get everything right. Traveled all over Italy and find this to be as authentic as any I've found. From the freshly home-made mozzerella and light tomato sauce to the fresh basil, the Margherita pizza is the real deal. Wood burning brick oven. Crisp crust with just the right amount of char. This is really a pizzeria--very limited menu. The antipasto is fantastic and the Nutella calzone is tops. The only downside is its downsize--almost always a wait.
(5)J W.
Finally got the chance to check out this little pizzeria that has garnered an remarkable amount of 5 star reviews on yelp. I could definitely see the charm and attraction of the place, it was quite loud and packed to the gills on a Friday night with the $5 BYOB corkage fee being taken advantage by several tables to relatively young patrons. The menu is small and our group had the chance to sample several items. The highlight was probably the Panne Rustico, Prosciutto, Goat Cheese, Salami, Pear, Walnut, Honey anti pasti plate which was well portioned and probably worth the 14 dollar price tag. Although the pizza is what seems to raved about most by fellow yelpers, I found the several types that I tried decent, but not phenomenal and a bit over priced for a pizzeria. This is a decent pizzeria, although a bit overpriced the ambiance and relatively low corkage fee makes up for it.
(4)Tavo R.
Great little place. The pizzas are DELICIOUS! and the pasta and cheese, we were told by the owners, are made in-house, which means is has to be more than good! Pastas, salads and sandwiches are finger-licking good as well. Next time you feel like having Italian go to this little place instead of going to the same old "Italian" restaurants in this city. Did i say they have a wood oven? yeap, WOOD oven yum yum!
(5)Jayne T.
We have been here three times now, and Cafe Italia is consistently amazing. It is small and quaint inside, and the menu is short and sweet. The pizza is authentic Italian, made in a wood-fired oven. The crust is thin and perfectly crisped on the outside, and the toppings are ample but never overdone (we have had almost all of them now and the Gracie's and Smoked are standouts). The salads are fresh and served with a dynamite house dressing. The wood roasted vegetable appetizer could be a meal in itself; it arrives piping hot from the oven and perfectly browned on the outside. They make their own mozzarella, and it is mouthwatering when served with their fresh bread and olive oil. Our next visit we are going to try the nutella calzone, which sounds heavenly. They don't serve alcohol, but they are a "bring your own wine establishment" and the corkage fee is only $3...unbelievable deal! The prices here are very reasonable for this caliber of food. Service is always good, never overbearing but attentive enough. The restaurant has been busy every time we have visited, sometimes there will be a wait but it is so worth it! This is our go-to for pizza in El Paso, hands down.
(5)Michelle Z.
The best pizza we've tried so far in El Paso! The pizza came out so quickly too!
(5)Scott N.
great pizza. i like the small menu - you know you're getting fresh ingredients. real deal italian food for sure. very small place, maybe 14 tables and make sure you bring your own alcohol. i'll be returning real soon.
(4)Janella F.
This restaurant is amazing!! I got the roasted veggie platter. The veggies are grown in their own garden and they melt in your mouth with every bite you take. The pizza was cooked to perfection!! Super creamy mozzarella (handmade). The parmesano reggiano was salty and creamy!! Super crisp Arugla with a nicely cured prosciutto!! My mouth waters everytime I tell someone about this place. I wish they would open one in Arizona.
(5)Tavoludo R.
Great little place. The pizzas are DELICIOUS! and the pasta and cheese, we were told by the owners, are made in-house, which means is has to be more than good! Pastas, salads and sandwiches are finger-licking good as well. Next time you feel like having Italian go to this little place instead of going to the same old "Italian" restaurants in this city. Did i say they have a wood oven? yeap, WOOD oven yum yum!
(5)Snackly P. Hungrypants I.
Roasted seasonal vegetables. House-made fresh mozzarella. Perfectly (and i mean perfectly) wood-fired Neapolitan pies. And all in a town that has been suffering a tragic pizza dilemma since always. Perhaps there is a god. If there is, he eats this pizza.
(5)Kat Y.
The hubby and I just got home from this fabulous restaurant, while we're suffering from a food coma I had to take a second and let yall know how great this place is. It is quaint however it makes up in service and flavor. The shrimp linguine was delicious and we did also have pizza and it was so yummy we ordered a pie to go! Every dish we saw being served looked good, and their bring your own wine feature seems great....looking forward to our next visit to try some new dishes and their nutella dessert which i hear is delicious!
(5)Linda P.
The absolut best pizza in el paso! Tried other pizza joints in elp and this beats them all by far! Pasta was simple but very delish! We're driving the hour and a half tomorrow just to eat here! Bringing our friends with us as well to show them what theyre all about! See ya tomorrow! Oh yea! It's a bring your own wine for $3 per bottle for cork fees. That's the way to do it if u wan alcohol
(5)Joeyl L.
went there because the place had consistently high review on Yelp.It is well deserved. I had the linguine with shrimp and it was great. In El Paso it is very hard to get al dente pasta in Italian restaurant and this one was the first to deliver perfectly cooked pasta. The sauce was just right, not too rich or thick, and seasoned well. The shrimps were nice, I wished there was more though but just because we lived in New Orleans for a while and are used to mountains of shrimp! My wife had the marguerita and they added chicken on her request although they told us it was a one time thing since they like to keep the pizza simple, and that's understandable but not something to say while we are still eating it. It was very good with the fresh basil. The server took our orders quickly. We could have ordered less food since the pizza was enough for 2 I think. I will go back to try the other items on the menu.
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