Trattoria Lombardi’s

Traditional Italian Restaurant. Basically pasta and pizza. Beer and wine ofcourse. Pizza was great, especially the one with anchovies. Prices are reasonable. All around very nice restaurant. I recommend it.

My first review was only 3 stars because of a mix up with calamari. Ive been coming here 2 times a year since and the food remains consistent. More on that later. Today I’m tempted to leave 4 stars because they told me they can not handle a party of 13 on the phone. Basically told me not to come. We arrived as a party of 6 and a party of 7. We ended up sitting all together with no problem at two tables made for 8 people each. I’m not sure why they didn’t want the business.
Anyways. Not only did our drinks, apps, and food come out fast, the food was great. Some of us split a supreme pizza which in my vast pizza experience usually has one ingredient overwhelming the other ingredients. Not here. This is absolutely the best supreme pizza I’ve had in my life. The slices were so filling most could only handle one. The calamari appetizer, although looks like it came frozen in a bag, was super tender. It was actually a large size portion for our table and we struggled with that too. We usually are the type to shut down a buffet if you know what I mean.
Hey, too much to read?
–This is a gem in OC.
–Get there before the rush.
–Have the supreme pizza.

Amazing delicious food with great service. Found this place by complete accident and had the best meal of our vacation. The owner came out to greet us, the waitress was wonderful and the food was top notch.

Real New York/​New Jersey style thin crust pizza. Can’t beat it. Just go. Just do it. Would both repeat and recommend.

First off, I would like to say how I adore the owner for being a part of the restaurant, standing there and talking to every customer that walks in. That’s great! And the food was also really good! My boyfriend and I shared the wings. He had the shrimp parm and I had the penne a la vodka. The shrimp parm was good, the shrimp was fresh. I liked the penne a la vodka. Definitely a place to try if you’re visiting OC.

We ordered take out. Two large pizzas: Lombardi’s Famous Summertime Pizza (white pizza with fresh tomato and basil) and the Supreme (everything: sausage, ham, ground beef, pepperoni, sweet green peppers, olives, mushrooms, and onion. The service was quick and they provided us with additional plates, napkins, red pepper flakes, and grated cheese. Both pizza pies were pretty tasty, but a little too pricey for pizza in my opinion.

We ordered half cheese half sausage pizza. The price was average for the stay and the wait time was only $ 15 minutes. The crust was thin which was nice and there was a nice cheese to sauce ratio. Only thing is the pizza was over cooked so it was burnt all around the outer crust, making it inedible, and a little on the bottom just adding a bad flavor

We dined here last summer, we got the white pizza it was excellent. We also got the frutti di mare, it was not good! Frozen and canned seafood. I figured when in Rome, but that does not apply here! Get the pizza and call it a day!!!

I’ve always wanted to try this place because whenever I passed by it was always packed. My friend and I had split a 16 inch «The Woik» pizza, which has everything on it including anchovies. It was very good and everything was fresh. I don’t remember the last time I had anchovies on pizza before so it was a little on the salty side. However, the pizza was still very good and filling. The 16 inch could probably feed 3 hungry people. I ate 2 slices and was full. I would come here again if there wasn’t a long wait.

Good, honest old school Itailan food. Hard to come by these days. The sausage and meatballs are just like grandma’s. I dipped my bread in the «gravy» all night.
Do yourself a favor and try this place. It took me one time to make me a customer for life!

Started the meal off with some calamari, which by the way has only the o’s and no tentacles. The tentacles always creep me out so thankfully they didn’t have them. It was cooked really well, where you can taste the squid but it’s super crispy.
I got the meat tortellini in Alfredo sauce — which was really rich and tasted homemade. My only problem is that everything is overpriced for the amount that you get. I also met the owner and he was really kind and funny.

Pretty good old style Italian food. Lines can be long but it does move fast. The food comes out at a fast pace hence the high turnover for tables. I really liked their pizza– had a nice chew and good tomato sauce. My wife enjoyed the clams with linguine with white sauce and my kids loved the shrimp scampi pasta dish. When you need a break from seafood or Beach food this hits the spot.

Stopped by around 9PM and the place was pretty busy. My boyfriend and I had checked out the buffet at Embers and that looked dismal and it was late so we were on the search for some yummy pizza.
The pizza was HOT, and super greasy. The dough though was thin and chewy. Too Chewy. I love think pizza but this one was not anything to ooooohhh and aaaahhh over. We were starving and still were like Eh. We had ordered pepperoni as our topping and for the 16 inch they’re weren’t many pepperonis on it. They were hastily tossed on in the middle only.
Now to go backwards, we ordered a tossed salad. We love our salads. I was craving a good salad. lol how hard can that be to make? A tossed salad is normally a mix of vegetables. Lettuce, red onion, tomatoes, cucumber sometime carrots and croutons and a little cheese even. Well this salad was its sad little cousin. A bowl with a bunch of iceberg lettuce, and a few slices of tomatoes, two olives and two peppers. It looked pathetic and they charged almost 6.00 for this! And their house dressing sucks.
I did see the people next to us get spaghetti and meatballs and well it didn’t look to good. Looked like cheap Italian beach food.

Stayed at the Princess Royale across the street and ordered two large pizzas to go. Picked it up in like 20 minutes.
The pizza was really good, and they also supplied me with plates, napkins, two small containers of parm cheese, and hot peppers.
$ 36 was a bit more than I’m used to paying for two large one topping, but it is OC, and it’s expected.

Omg the food here is AMAZING! We ordered chicken parm which was outstanding! Shrimp scampi was out of this world!
There tomato mozzarella pizza was the best I’ve ever had!
The salads were crispy and fresh. Yummy hot baked bread with plenty of butter and also the garlic bread was delish!
Very friendly staff and the kitchen was bang on!
It was our first time here in all the years we’ve been going to OC and I can’t wait to go back!
If you want great authentic Italian cuisine including the best pizza I’ve ever had all at reasonable prices and served with a smile, take your family here! They do offer carry out as well and even the carry out cashier was a doll!
One of the best meals we’ve ever had at OCMD.

Checked out Unilocal to find an Italian joint and came across this gem. Cozy mom and pop Italian feel. The smell is amazing right when you walk in.
We started off with a pitcher of beer, mozzarella sticks and meatballs. Absolutely amazing. The marinara is probably some of the best tasting that I have ever had. Meatballs were perfect and delicious.
Ordered a large supreme pizza, 16 inches of pure heaven. Some of the freshest tasting pizza I have had. My friend ordered the chicken parmesan, and he loved it. Perfectly breaded with enough marinara to fall in love with.
Service was super friendly and attentive. The waitress was knowledgable about everything on the menu and steered us in the right direction.
I even woke up this morning thinking about the pizza and marinara, I will be going back one more time before I leave.

I am in town visiting with my parents and they went out to dinner tonight and I wasn’t really interested in cooking, so I looked for a good pizza place. I called and ordered a white pizza with pepperoni and drove down the street to pick it up.
The woman at the carry out counter was doing carry out, ringing up servers checks, and working the bar. She was a bit busy and it took a few minutes to catch her attention and get everything sorted out.
I got back and opened up the pizza and was so excited. Sprinkled a little crushed red pepper and went to town. I have a tomato allergy so white pizza is my go to. The flavor was amazing! There were onions and garlic under the cheese and it might be the best flavor I’ve ever gotten from a white pizza. The pepperoni gave it a little more flavor and the red pepper gave it a kick.
Overall, very very good pizza. Would have given 5 stars if the carry out counter had been managed a little bit better. For a Tuesday evening I didn’t think there was a reason for it to take quite so long!

Short & Sweet:
We both had tossed salad with homemade Italian dressing. Iceberg lettuce with tomatoes, olives, and pepperoncini. Good. Not great.
Next we tried spaghetti with tomato sauce and ravioli. The pasta was good. The sauce was just a little on the spicy side — perhaps a little too much black pepper.
The ‘homemade’ bread and butter was — well, if it’s truly homemade it must have been at least a few hours old because it was good but not great. (Being from NY we know good bread!)
The service was good (no complaints whatsoever) and the restaurant itself is nice enough — very «old school» Italian. Wooden tables with wooden benches.
We saw several people sharing pizzas. They looked good!
For dessert we took a tiramisu with us. It was good.
Overall, fine for a quick Italian meal on a Monday night but I wouldn’t call it «fine dining».
Three stars! :)

Not much of a pizza fan, but this place wow’ed me!
We ordered an appetizer of wings with hot sauce on the side and a 16″ Lombardi’s Famous Summer Pizza. My only complaint is that the wings were fresh and crisp, but I don’t think they fried them long enough because one of my wings had a «cool» spot where the meat didn’t look thoroughly cooked and tasted cooler than the rest of the wing.
I let that slide because 1) it didn’t change the taste quality of the food and 2) the pizza was fantastic. My expectation was to see bits of basil sprinkles and sliced baby tomatoes. nope! Here came our pizza on a pan covered in large basil leaves and slices of regular-​sized, juicy tomatoes. On top of that, the crust was right in between a deep crust and thin crust, so not too much bread, not too crunchy, and not too chewy.
Just as we were leaving, I believe either the manager or owner came over and asked if everything was alright, which is always a nice plus to any dining experience.

Where do I start? My first visit was 2006. I’ve been coming back ever since. 2 for 1 pizzas in the winter.
White pizza is excellent. My fav.
The onions are sweet and cut thin.
Lombardis pizza is best every day pizza you can get. Dough is perfect. Brick oven baked. So crunchy and perfect. Cheese is so good.
All of the pastas are yummy. Salads are good. A little huge. Small salad is basic so we skip it.
The cokes are well carbonated and yummy (I don’t usually order pop)
Paolo the owner is usually there. Super cheerful and happy to have your business. He has the best pizza in the country!!!