Ristorante IL Porcino - Fremont (CA)

5 /5 Akshat Devrani: This is our favorite Italian restaurant in Fremont and they never disappoint! Excellent collection of wines and a wide range of reds from Italy. Quick service and their specials are always a hit! Highly recommend getting a reservation for weekend nights, specially for larger groups.

5 /5 Patric: I have enjoyed each and every time I have visited. I have had a few dishes off the menu and they have been mouthwatering delights. Everything is fresh and they bring cheese and pepper to grind at the table. Very accommodating for a small to med size group. Staff is very responsive my bread nor my water glass were never empty. The owner is a very nice gentleman and has a lot of restaurant experience, remembered my name and what I usually drink. Parking is ok, so give yourself a few minutes to get a good spot. The place is decorated in a vintage and reminds me of the places in the Bronx. Handicap seating is available and I would encourage making a reservation. Quiet place for lunch or dinner. Enjoy !!!

4 /5 Navang Shetty: The portions were large and the food was good. The price point for the food was a bit high for the quality but the service was prompt. The day was nice and sunny and favoured the outdoor seating. Options were plentiful for all dietary requirements. Its a good place for a family get together or catching up with friends casually.

4 /5 Anil: This place is confusing. Fremont is woefully short of decent spot to have an elegant dinner. So this little small restaurant is about as good as it gets. It has the typical Italian ambience - plenty of art in frames on the walls, Italian tenor on the music box, prim waiting staff, and nearly appointed tables. But short on customers. So it was a pretty much couple of people dining and all the tables empty. The food was ok-ish. The bread wasn’t fresh by any stretch the way one would expect in an Italian restaurant. The pasta was made fresh but the sauce was watery. At $50 per person average you would definitely expect better food. May be a few more customers would have made this a near perfect little Italian spot. Or a bit less of Spanish conversation coming out of the kitchen into the dining room. Or simply, fresher bread. In Pleasanton downtown this restaurant would be a 2. But in fremont this is a 4. Sigh.

1 /5 Tereza Kocianova: The most expensive frozen pizza “Margherita” and cold spaghetti with fake parmesan. This "Italian" restaurant pissed me off for several reasons. The environment is quite clean and nice, but the food is terrible and the service is not great. My husband and I each ordered one simple pizza, which had absolutely nothing to do with Italian pizza. We waited a long time for our food, the table that came after we had already ordered got their food before we did. I dont mind waiting for good food, but this was awful, both pizzas were semi-finished, probably frozen, see photo. We ordered spaghetti with parmesan for our daughter. When the waiter brought the spaghetti without parmesan, I asked him for it and he was back a moment later and grated "something" on my daughters partially cold spaghetti, it was definitely not freshly cooked spaghetti but badly heated and most importantly it was not parmesan. The waiter was otherwise nice but if he didnt have parmesan he should have said so. We didnt finish the pizza, it was impossible to eat even when we were extremely hungry and my daughter wouldnt touch the spaghetti with the fake parmesan, when I tasted her pasta I couldnt get mad at her for not wanting to eat it at all. That was the worst restaurant weve ever been to in America. Never again!