Il Cortile Ristorante Caserta - Buy Reservations

We dined here for a late dinner and we were glad we made reservations as the restaurant was busy from start to finish. Such a treat to have such an authentic Italian meal with great service and ambiance.This is a classier joint and everyone was dressed nice (no t-shirts and flip flops). Very romantic and the perfect spot for a celebration. The inside was classic and sophisticated. Primarily indoor seating but a couple tables out front too.Our waiter here was lovely. Said he was from Italy and gave us 5 star service all night. He was the man of the hour talking with every table and giving you those real Italian feel good vibes.The menu had a nice variety of appetizers, pastas, and main course dishes. Everything looked so good it was hard to choose what to order, a good problem to have.We started with bruschetta and the melon with prosciutto. If I had to pick one I would hands down say go with the melon. The prosciutto melted in our mouth, a great start to an even better meal.I had the fettuccine with sausage in a light tomato sauce. The fettuccine of course was fresh and every bite transported me to a happy place. The pastas here are magnificent and you really can't go wrong. Ribeye: if your not a pasta fan (whose not a pasta fan?) then I'd highly recommend the ribeye. Cooked a perfect medium rare with the best crust on the outside. Cooked with some olive oil it still had the taste of Italian flare, just subtle. Cooked to perfection it was another A+ dish.You get what you pay for so pricing is $$$ but also not outrageous for how great the meal and service was. I would come back in a heartbeat.

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Krystal at the bar was awesome, great charisma and so fun and helped us pick out the wine and bubbly to go with our dinners. We couldn't sit at a table because we didn't have a reservation, even though several tables were open outside. But, it was a blessing because Krystal (bartender) was fun and made our night even better. And yeah, the food was good too! And incredibly fast.

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Girls trip to Paso for the Midstate fair and we wanted good Italian food. We stopped in on Friday to make reservations for Saturday night for the 3 of us. 9pm was all they had so we took it and asked to be put on a cancellation list. 9pm is late for me and I get hangry!Flash forward to Saturday. We werwalking by at 5pm and decided to take a chance to see if we could get in. They seated us right away.We ordered a nice bottle of wine and an appetizer to share. Caprese was fresh and delicious. The bread was warm and tasted great.Dinner selections were a bit difficult to choose from. Didn't really want bison meat and we wanted to do family style and share. We ended up ordering 2 entrees. The fettuccine salsiccitia and the pasta fave. The fettuccine was to die for. The pasta fave was delicious but we pretty much picked out the fava beans. I mean really? Fava beans? Would have been excellent with shrimp or chicken. It needed a protein.We still had room for dessert so we ordered the cannoli. Yummy.Service was great and our server was amazing but we noticed from 6pm to 7pm there were 8 empty tables and not 1 new customer walked in the door. Wondering WHY we could only get a 9pm reservation??

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Yes. It is that good. Check the specials. Forget the diet. Enjoy.

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I've heard that Il Cortile is a must visit when in Paso Robles. It's a fancier Italian restaurant but the attire is very casual. I got the spaghetti alla bottarga, which is a pasta dish with shrimp, clams and cured fish. The bottarga (cured fish) gives a slightly salty fishy flavor that really adds to the dish. A very filling meal. There seemed to be just a couple of staff actually taking orders and getting the bill. The rest were cleaning up tables and setting the tables again for the next customers. The two staff were running in and out of the indoor area to care for all the customers. The tables are a little small but well spaced out.

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Our waiter was also very knowledgeable on the specials and friendly.

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Small restaurant and it's very easy to miss it, but the food is amazingly delicious. The pasta is made fresh daily, and you can taste the freshness in the pasta. Fresh veggie of the day is not just like many other places that serve you flavorless boiled veggie. It is a few different types of squash sauté with fresh herb and sprinkled with cheese. I don't like peas, but the purée sweet pea soup has the natural sweetness that is hard to forget and surprisingly delicious. Panna cotta can be found in many Italian restaurants, but this one is not too sweet and it's uniquely tasty! Most importantly, the service is fantastic and food is served quickly.

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Food - 5Service - 4Location / Ambience - 2The food at Il Cortile is top notch. Some of the best Italian food I've had on this side of the Atlantic. My wife and I both loved our pasta (Squid Ink Shrimp and Boar Ragu) and the Grilled Octopus was great too. I also love their selection of wines by the glass, which is one of the more extensive lists I've seen. They have a good mix of local Paso Robles wines and wines from Italy.I think the best way to describe the service is efficient. Our waitress was not chatty, but she was attentive enough especially given how busy this place is. She did bring me the wrong wine but quickly fixed the issue once I pointed it out. As for the location and ambience of the restaurant, let's just say Paso Robles is definitely not Yountville. We sat outside, and the tables right near the sidewalk are not very nice at all. There's parked cars a few feet away from you, there's random people walking right nearby on the sidewalk, and there's really no decoration to speak of in their outside area. There's a lack of plants, lack of any decorative lighting, or really anything that would make the space more inviting. My wife wasn't happy with the place when we first sat down because of how it looked, but once the food came out we understood why people come here.

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Looks lovely and romantic from the front but be prepared to drop your expectations once you step inside. The front of house woman is incredibly rude. Drinks were so slow the main meals came out first. Chocolate lava cake in fact had no lava anything and had very little flavor. We were seated at the back and despite not being hard of hearing found it difficult to hold a conversation over the sound of the kitchen and restocking the cutlery drawer etc all happening right behind me. Asked to move to one of two other spare tables and was denied. All round disappointment.

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Food-wise, truly ranks up there as one of the best Italian restaurants that I've experienced in my life (and this is coming from someone who has lived in New York, Europe, and Tokyo, so the bar is high). It is so, so difficult to find good pasta that has the delicate, fresh taste of truly homemade pasta; and the sauces were refined to perfection too, not overly heavy and with great ingredients that showcase their own natural flavour. I was obsessed with my spaghetti with clams and shrimp, and my husband loved his tagliatelle. We even loved the sautéed vegetables - again, seasoned but not too heavily salted or oiled. Service was great too, attentive but not suffocating. Some of the other reviews seem to complain about not enough attention, which maybe makes sense if it was a special occasion dinner, but since it was a normal date night for us it felt to me the right level of interaction. It's definitely not the eight course French prix fixe over the top style service if that's what you're looking for, but I would argue it's also not that price point.Ambiance also great. The patio is small but cute, and situated in a nice, leafy part of town. Definitely looking forward to coming back.

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