Piccolo South Pasadena

We shared the trout, culotte steak, Filet mignon, grilled calamari, watercress salad and pancetta. They we’re delicious. If I were you I would definitely go for the pasta dishes! The trout was perfectly cooked and the steaks were well seasoned. We all loved the calamari. The cocktails could use some work but the wine was great. The deserts were delicious.

Enjoyed this place! Lovely ambience. We sat at the bar, which I initially thought was too dimly lit but it ended up being fine. The server was very friendly and nice. Everything on the menu was delicious! They have an especially amazing selection of pasta dishes and I miss it already. So good.

This was a swing and a miss on every dish we had at our table. My first red flag of the night was the dining room was lit so dimly that you could not read the menu, much less see the food, without unabashedly whipping out your phone light. It wasn’t so much that any of the food was especially bad, it was just all incredibly mediocre and made with poor technique. The flavors were all just there and then gone, no dish really capturing your attention and making you stop and go wow, that bite was amazing, and definitely something I couldn’t do at home. The gnocchi were dry and crumbly, the beet lasagna side was overcooked and dry and ultimately flavorless, the asparagus still had their tough fibrous bottoms, and the rest of our pastas just really not hitting any high notes on flavor or technique. It could have been a bad night with the technique being the problem with a lot of our dishes (cook time, vegetable prep, etc), but even with that being fixed I think the underlying issue here woul