Patrizia’s
“They food is delicious, and if you do the all you can eat family style you get to try a little bit of everything….”
“it's a ton of courses, from appetizers through dessert, and a flood of all the wine, beer, and sangria you can guzzle down.”
“The seafood is out of this world and the lamb chops is spiced with just enough rosemary to make your mouth water.”
Patrizia’s
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Accepts Apple Pay: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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I came to Patrizias the weekend before Christmas with a group of 9 girls we waited about 20 minutes for our table to be ready but were given wine while we waited. Which was amazing. We were sat pretty close to the kitchen which meant the food just kept on coming right to us. Although the place is big and the tables are huge we didn't even notice there was anyone else there. At Patrizias you feel like everyone in the room is family. By the end of the night we were on our chairs waving around our napkins and crooning along to Billy Joel and the Grease mega mix. As was everyone else in the room.
Patrizias is the go to place to throw a birthday party or celebration dinner. So much so that I planned to have my birthday there a month after my initial time going.
Below I will give out the food that is included in the $65 prix-fixe dinner menu:
– Wine or Sangria or Beer
– Bread and olive oil for the table
– Pizza
– Fresh mozzarella (sometimes burrata) and caponata salad
– Fresh seafood salad
– Eggplant Parm
– Grilled Octopus
– Grilled Shrimp
– Fried calamari
– Baked Clams
– Pasta homemade tortellini stuffed with cheese in a prosciutto pink sauce (called MONEYBAG$)
– Lobster
– Lamb chops and skirt steak
– Dessert that includes – Tiramisu, almond cake, cheese cake and Nutella puff pastries.
I came here with a group of friends for a pre-race meal to carb up. This place did not disappoint. It's down at the end of a block by the water (though not with water views) and feels like what a classic Italian restaurant must have felt like in Brooklyn before it became hip. The interior consists of a bunch of long tables with tablecloths thrown together in rows, like what you'd find at a beer garden or your church basement, with large groups seated around them. There are four small 4-tops outside on the porch for warmer weather. Obviously this isn't a romantic date night spot, but a place to go with your rowdy family and friends to have a rollicking good time.
They serve up large portions drenched in flavorful olive oil and/or butter and all the right herbs. The bread basket has a wonderfully plump and soft focaccia that's impossible to stop eating.
They serve family style or a la carte, though from what it looked like the family style is a set menu and honestly unless you plan to eat like The Rock on a cheat day you're better off ordering a la carte.
In true old school Italian fashion you order your entree meats with a side of pasta, and entree pastas come with a side salad. I had the chicken with broccoli rabe and discovered they had slaughtered and pounded thin a chicken coop's worth of chickens for my dish. SO much chicken, so perfectly prepared and flavorful. And the broccoli rabe wasn't mushy or under-cooked and was slathered in garlic, just the way it should be.
Friends ordered pasta dishes that came with mountains of spaghetti covered in a sublime looking tomato sauce and enormous meatballs, or piled with all the seafood in the Atlantic ocean. Most of us couldn't finish our meals there was so much food.
The only warning I will give concerns their birthday "policy". They sing a version of some Happy Birthday tune, likely one they made up, loudly and with a large chunk of the staff while the rest of the restaurant swings napkins over their heads. This is novel the first two times it happens. By the 15th time it has lost it's charm and I have to imagine all the servers have PTSD from this song. It must haunt them in their nightmares. It happens no less than every 15 minutes. We asked if these was normal and they said yes. So if you're ever curious about who else shares your birthday in the city of New York, stop by Patrizia's on the day and you'll find the rest of the world that is celebrating with you. Just be ready to have that song playing in your head for the rest of your life.
First glance the place looks authentic and the food amazing but I came back and both times it was ok. Nothing wow.
They have a great stuffed pasta but that's about it. Their pizzas are as usual: paper-thin with 2 grams of cheese.
Everything else is average.
What I really don't like it's that is crowded and soooooo loud! You can't have a conversation with the person next to you. You end up losing your voice.
It's quite inexpensive but not worth the walk from the L train.
What an interesting restaurant. You gotta make sure you don't have a headache when you come here cause this place gets very loud. Where do I even begin… Came here with a friend and we got the calamari in spicy sauce to start and then the gnocchi and chicken parm to share. Everything was really delicious and I'd do it all over again. We also got tiramisu which was great. I didn't love how loud it was and we had to wait about 15 minutes for a table and there no room inside to wait so you'd have to wait outside which sucks during the winter. If I come back it will be during the week when it's not too busy or loud. It's also not cheap so be ready to pay if you're planning on trying a few things.
Wow! If I didn't have to write a review and I could just say that I'm speechless, that would honestly be enough to describe my dining experience here. The food was absolutely fantastic! I didn't find any flaws in the appetizers, the salad, the entrees or the desserts. I just love the atmosphere of this place too. If I could picture an authentic Italian restaurant in the heart of Italy, this would be the closest thing to it. Everything is made fresh, from the bread and pasta, to the decadent desserts. The service was also top notch! I'm a fan! Just a heads up though, you may want to make a reservation for dinner time because this place fills up very fast!
I came here with a group of 11 for a friends bday. Since it was the middle of the week the place wasn't crowded and we didn't have to wait for our table like I read on other reviews.
I found it weird that they don't tell you what the prix fixe menu is but since I'm far from a picky eater that didn't bother me.
The food felt like it just kept coming out let me see if I remember all of the dishes. shrimp and calamari salad, fresh mozzarella, peppers and tomato salad, pizza, eggplant parm, grilled shrimp and octopus, fried calamari in buffalo sauce, lobster and mussels, cheese filled pasta, baked clams, lamb chops and skirt steak.
I have to say everything was good and those are a lot of dishes to be eating in one seating. My only complain and the reason they didn't get a 5 star is that I was expecting more pasta dishes.
When I go to an Italian restaurant I want pasta and I could have done with a little less seafood dishes and maybe one or two more pasta dishes.
If we weren't full yet they brought out a platter of desserts. Nutella crepes, tiramisu and some other cake.
Apart from all of the dishes you get unlimited wine, sangria and beer.
The bill came out to $75 a person which is a steal for all the amount of food and drinks you get.
This is a great place for a group but make sure everyone likes seafood since most of the dished contained some sort of seafood.
OK, you don't need to order Prix-Fix menu here. Hubby and I dined here recently. After this we wouldn't order Prix-Fix menu again but will try entrees. Prix-Fix menu costs around $57 per person including wine (not crazy about the wine). Some of the meals were delicious and one probably not so. The order of the sampling dinner goes like this: seafood salad, eggplant Parmesan salad, thin crispy pizza, squid and prawns in red sauce, octopus and baked clam, lobster with tiny clams, 2 types of pastas (tomato & creamy sauces), baby lamb chop and steak. I loved loved loved the lobster plate, octopus and eggplant salad – incredible! The samplings were not done here, after all that we were served with outstanding desserts which I couldn't stand. I could stand all of the meals although I couldn't finish them and had to take the left-overs, but trying to lure us with the desserts? You're too much Patrizia's! You either had successfully filled me up or successfully made me happy. Hubby and I said OK, we'll come back but no samplings, just dinner for two. My review is not over without sending a message about the service. Our server Oscar was of course a very efficient server. From the moment we sat down to the time we said goodbye, he never left us out of sight. Because we're too happy, hubby made a request that the manager take a picture with me and he did. We had a great time here although we both looked like zombies. It wasn't a planned date but we decided to be outside in a rainy night. The place is very spacious. More Pats than Patrizias at this place, even the servers. It's a family dining Italian restaurant, not an Italian cafe style. So if you have a big group, this place suits the purpose. While we were having dinner, the birthday song was played twice. So that explains that you should throw a birthday party here. It's a big place to come and dine, it's about time.
You've been warned — This isn't your typical italian restaurant.
Tips-
Come here with a group, NOT a couple.
When you come with your friends/family, make sure it is some ones birthday — or just fake it.
GET the family style, DON'T get separate meals.
You should like seafood.
You have a reservation on a Saturday night at 7? Too bad, you will probably still have to wait at least a half hour / hour.
The atmosphere is fun, laid back, & loud. Sing a longs and napkin twirling are involved about 3x's during your meal.
Always a damn line to the bathroom – empty your bladder before you leave the house.