Peppone Ristorante

One of my favorite old school restaurants in the city. Food can be a bit pricey, but you always get an amazing meal. Their wine list is superb and most of their wait staff have been there for years (or decades), so they get to know the clientele well. Many/​most customers have been coming here for years, and for good reason. I hope this place never changes.

I’ll only give it a good review because family has gone here for years. Others enjoyed their food but my eggplant was more like egg cheese.
Service was not great. Waiter had an attitude and toward the end the busboy or bussman if you would kept taking everything off the table. I was in the middle of drinking my water and the jerk took it out of my had. WTF. We had them bring us back drinks and he still was an ass.
In top of it he told us to leave he needs the table Not great customer service.
Oh and watch the meter if you don’t valet park.

Good old school Italian restaurant and wow, this restaurant transports you back into time. The ceasar salad is amazing here and it’s just a really nice experience we had during our date night. The service is friendly and prompt. They do have a full service bar here. I ordered a Belvedere martini and it was perfect! Sand dabs and the cheesy garlic bread are a must!

Great ambience. But the food, though good, is ridiculously priced. And the service, while sincere, is super uneven and fluctuates rapidly, in the same sitting, between inattentive and hurried. A dinner here, without wine, is at least $ 75.

We left without dining, after noting the $ 12 bottles of wine selling for $ 69.
I know it’s Brentwood, but seriously ridiculous. Can’t imagine the food is worth it.
It’s a dusty old school Italian restaurant, well past it’s prime.

Old school Italian is right! My family has been coming here for 10+ years & it is always so wonderful. From the dimly lit interior to the table side service (salads are finished table side, dishes are plated table side) you get a real deal fine dining experience.
Not only do they have great food: Cauliflower, Cheesy Garlic Bread, Muscles, and Sand Dabs are a MUST: but they will practically customize any dish for you. True story: as a kid I used to make up crazy pasta dishes and they would always fulfill my wish!
I also highly recommend a Rudy’s Coffee to finish the meal… be careful… can be deadly :)

My favorite restaurant in Los Angeles. Been going here for over 30 years. Everything is great, and if you can imagine an Italian dish, they can whip it up for you. Traditional. Comforting. Classic.

When I opened up the menu at this restaurant today, I found a COCKROACH in my menu! I slammed the menu closed and gave it back to the waiter. I was eating with my elderly mother and it was extremely cold outside so I mistakenly did not leave. I was so DISGUSTED that I subsequently asked for my money back for the meal, but they wouldn’t even give me that. Terrible quality and service. I wouldn’t be surprised if in the future it fails to pass health inspection.

Shockingly bad. I’m Gluten Free (not a hippy, unfortunate allergic genes). After asking THREE times if a dish was gluten free and being assured THREE times, I ate it and of course it wasn”t gluten free, which rendered me horrifically ill for a week. If i hadn’t realised as fast as I did, I would have been in the hospital and sick for a month. I think these people REALLY need to take allergies seriously.
Additionally, the other dish that was ‘guaranteed gluten free’ was not. Luckily, i hadn’t eaten it yet. So we left after having 2 glasses of wine, 2 really unappetising dishes that also made me terrifically ill and they charged up $ 84.
Yeah, not cool.
I don’t believe in suing people but in this case, I was very tempted to make an exception. I hope this review makes them aware of their very serious problem.

The spaghetti with filet mignon meatballs is the bomb. And the service is friendly however the wines there leave a lot to be desired. I was there recently and bought two bottles of wine and each one of them was fairly undrinkable the reason being I presume is that Peppone’s doesn’t have proper cold wine storage facilities. They leave their wines stored at room temperature and some of them I’m sure get very hot in summer. I would avoid ordering wine here.

I was acutally very surprised at how much I really enjoyed myself at Peppone. A good time was had by all.
I met a friend there via her request as a place she used to go all the time many years back. She even remembers seeing OJ there with Nicole. Anyhow, I read the reviews and was not prepared for a really nice time as many Unilocalers were not too happy.
The reservations were easy and done by phone. The people answering calls are very courteous. Some other establishments could stand to take a cue.
Came late– after calling to let them know. Figured they’d not care because who wold be there at 6p on a Sat? EVERYONE. The place was hopping. Dates, couples, families (with loud kids). Everyone was here. Classy atmosphere. Old school Italian. RHNJ I tell you.
Food was pricey but EXCELLENT. Veggies were huge and plentiful. Mussels were huge and well cooked and seasoned. My friend has a pasta and had some add ins not on the menu. There were people around us having amazing food that I asked the server, whats that, whats that? They were all things not on the menu. Peppones has their regulars. I will be back and when I come, I am getting this cauliflower things– it’s a whole HEAD of cauliflower steamed, seasoned and sauced– looks like a brain– and cut at the table.
Coffee after the meal– strong, delicious.
Service classy, old school attentive
Didn’t use the bathroom– rare for me but a true story. One exists since my friend did but I didn’t ask.

Came here for a family dinner on Sunday and wow can I say absolutely amazing! Their food and presentation is one of the best I have seen in an Italian resturant.
To start we had the amazing zucchini fries, to die for. The melon con brucuttio… my mouth is watering just thinking about how fresh the melon was!
Cesar Salad anyone? The best you will ever have!
Pasta for everyone! Their meatballs holy cow!!! Wowowow so good!
I’m not a veal lover but this dish was also fabulous!
Highly recommend to come here with friends and family. Make sure to call and make a reservation!

Very delicious. I recommend getting the cauliflower as an appetizer and a pasta as an entrée. Although very delectable, it didn’t have descriptions of each of the food items, so I didn’t know what I should take out of add to the dish. It was very expensive too. Overall, this restaurant is outstanding and I definitely would come again. It is totally worth the price.

First time there and I love it! Italian meatballs and sauce was Mmmmm, good !! I would recommend this place for everyone.

Incredible, the service was amazing and the food was seriously incredible I couldn’t get enough. Would recommend this place to anyone.

Growing up on the East Coast, it is difficult to give this restaurant anything more then a «Meh». I can get a meal ten times tastier at a third of the cost at just about any restaurant on Hanover Street. Translation: This place is exorbitantly over priced and the food is decent at best. The red sauce is so/​so and the pasta is always over cooked, even when I ask for «el dante». If I want to satisfy a craving and spend $ 40 on so/​so pasta, it will get the job done.

Peppone’s is my favorite real deal classic family style Italian joint in LA. I’ve spent New Year’s Eve here– birthdays, anniversaries, and family Sunday’s. The food is always great. Linguine in red clams and chicken parm are the best in town. The staff is professional and always accommodating. Highly recommended.

The food at Peppone’s is terrible and overpriced. We ate there recently and were treated to a table-​side Caesar salad prepared with bottled dressing. Our $ 28 tortellini ragu tasted like Trader Joe’s tortellini with bottled meat sauce.
The old-​world atmosphere and gentlemanly service are the only positives about Peppone’s right now. The cuisine has declined terribly, and the prices are simply unconscionalbe. How do the owners of this restaurant live with themselves, charging these prices for this food?

Great food! After a terrible experience at Brentwood Grill we were more than appreciative for the great service and much better food! Love my Italians ;)

Went here on a personal tip from Jonathan Gold, food writer for the LA Times, further proof that the man knows less about food than most Unilocalers. Basically, this is Olive Garden at Valentino prices. Exorbitant, considering the quality of the fare– though that’s understandable since the real estate on which it sits is second only to Rodeo Drive in cost.
Appetizers:
Squash blossoms– not stuffed and lightly breaded, as would be appropriate for such a delicate, fine flower– sautéed in an uninspiring brown sauce that rendered them limp and as flavorless as boiled Zucchini. Grade: F
Carpaccio– thin sliced to the point of such transparency that each piece disintegrated when attempting to gather it onto a fork, with so much Steak tartare style prep on it that all I could taste was mustard, onions and capers. Grade: D
Caesar Salad– made tableside, but with a pre made dressing so, what’s the point? Grade: C
Mains:
Veal Osso Buco: Veal shank swimming in a red sauce that was merely adequate, but the dish was so heavily salted I could barely eat it, atop gnocchi that was gummy and as easy to swallow as Silly Putty. Grade: F
Veal Chop: Pounded and served Milanesa style (breaded and fried). Cooked beyond recognition, though raw next to the bone– how they pulled that dichotomy of temperature off is a mystery, as are the 5 star reviews this place has gotten. Not an ounce of flavor. Grade: F
Wine:
Barolo: Way past its prime, and reminded me of Monty Python’s Wine routine– «This is not a wine for drinking. This is a wine for laying down and avoiding.» Grade: F
The staff was affable and knew the preparation of each dish by heart, but they might have warned us about the wine…
The type of place where 70 year old 1 per centers take their 30 year old dingbat girlfriends to impress them with the lavish décor, neither of whom are likely to know anything about modern Italian cucina.