Restaurants near El Segundo Station

We had a reservation and was seated right away. We started with a few delicious appetizers and then the main course and each tried a different dishes. Everyone loves what they ordered. You have to have dessert while you are there. The restaurant has a great atmosphere and pricing.

The steak and African lobster was cooked perfectly and had a great flavor to it. The crab cakes were delicious and the fresh squeezed lemonade was everything. However I didn’t like that our food was not packaged for us like the other tables and when told a certain sauce we didn’t want with the crab cakes the response was “it’s on the side” by both waiters when clearly even on the side it’s on the food as well and if asked to have it with none it should’ve just been okay. It’s whole have it brought out. Other than that the service and everything else was perfect ! Enjoyed my bday my ID OK thank you 6 yeah yeah that’s not my ID. Yeah I forgot. I just put it in like my little finger.

Meat took long to come out, ended up leaving early because we did not want to wait any longer.

Joey is a VIBE! This time I brought my daughter for her 15th Birthday. The ambiance was amazing and the energy was flowing. Our server was amazing and as always the food was on point! Such a great Thursday with the Joey family!

Although I have eaten at this restaurant dozens of times, hosted parties, and made it a tradition with my family, this is the first time I have ever given it less than a five star review. The service was totally off. Our server was very inattentive, pace of service was very slow, we had to repeatedly try to flag down our server, who never offered us the signature bread with olive oil & vinegar or a second round of drinks. We were ignored while tables that were seated after us were serviced attentively, and we found it impossible to get our server’s attention….like we were invisible. It was becoming our first really sub-par Il Fornaio experience, but the evening was saved by the asst GM, Celia, who noticed our discomfort, heard our concerns, took over for our server, and was very attentive and kind for the rest of our visit. I can only assume that our server was having a bad day, and I realize that no place can always have perfect service. Il Fornaio still ranks very high on our list of wonderful places to dine, and this one experience won’t our alter our general opinion of this restaurant.