Great experience. Just left the restaurant, food was excellent
Best Italian in the area.
Outstanding Italian at the beach. Funny it's better than home in pa. Byob is a huge plus. Can get crowded but wait if you must it's worth it.
Bianca Marie Brasslett
+4.5
I love this place I come mostly every Sunday and they have the best Italian food in the world the service is fast and there extremly friendly hope you will go one day and enjoy it just like I do
Great Food - Poor Service. BYOB. Had a party of six. We sat right down and were waited on promptly. Appetizers, especially the Calimari was excellent. Dinners were superb. Had homemade desserts with our coffee. Food absolutely scrumptious and extremely well prepared. Trouble with this place is that the waitress was in such a hurry to turn our table over that she was picking up plates before we had a chance to finish half of our dinners. Felt like were were at the diner in a train station the way we were hurried, should I say harried?, through our dinner. Wait staff really needs to be trained to allow their patrons to enjoy their dinners at a unhurried pace, especially on nights like ours which had a good, but not monstrous crowd.
Very good Italian restaurant in Strathmere, NJ. Had a dish with breaded chicken topped with greens and tomatoes. The menu titles were in Italian, which I don't speak. I love that! Food was good. Service was great. Our server Raquel was awesome. The dessert was a caramel peanut butter chocolate ball cut in quarters. Yum. I'll go back.
The food is nearly always excellent!! Straight up Italian and Seafood. Prices are reasonable for the shore although some might find them to be a little steep for a large party. When they are not busy, the service is very good. However, when they are busy the parking is horrible, the service tries their best but they drop off, and the wait (even with a reservation) can be ridiculous.
My friends took me here to practice speaking Italian. I had been told by one of the staff the day before that no one there spoke Italian. However, when we arrived, our waitress not only spoke fluent Italian, but also 4 other languages! She was awesome! I got to order my meal in Italian and have a little conversation as well. I had the Rigatoni alla bolognese, which was tasty. However, I thought the prices were too high for the quantity of food you received. Our group of 4 ordered the mozzarella as an appetizer for $16. We received 4 round discs of mozzarella cheese, just slightly larger than a quarter! Wow! A huge disappointment. Overall, the experience was fun and enjoyable. The waitress made it a pleasant evening, and I can't say enough positive comments on her.
Service and food were amazing. Had 2 of the special appetizers and the pasta/seafood special. OMG the homemade angel hair and big chunks of seafood including lobster. Definitely worth the drive and will go back again BYOB
Got the Lobster-filled ravioli (special of the day) with lumo crab and shrimp. My partner got the Gnocchi Gorgonzola. Both were amazing. Our starters were the calamari fritti abd artichoke hearts wrapped in bacon. The artichokes were different and delivious.
Frenkli was our server. Great guy and great service!
We tried La Fontana Del Mare for the first time, yesterday. 2022, was our first time eating there. The food is delicious and the service is really quick with serving the food. They chefs specials are a great catch as well. All the food was good, zero complaints.
Our party dined for the first time at La Fontana this evening. Our server Anthony was fantastic and the Halibut and Salmon special was out of this world. A bit pricey but this is expected at the shore. We will definitely return.
Place is always packed. The food is great. We love the clams, chicken milanese and angel hair pasta with tomato basil.
It is BYOB. Must make reservations.
Celebrated Mother’s Day and Wedding Anniversary. Everything about this place was fantastic. Seated on time, Server was very good, food was great, and restaurant had a nice atmosphere and was very clean. Will definitely be back.
Cute place. Food was ok not the best I have ever had but it is fine for a quick meal. Busy place but service was great and staff was friendly. We'd go back.
We dined in during Tropical Storm Ophelia. The weather was horrendous, but dinner, the staff and the atmosphere were quite pleasant.
Great service and delicious food. Risotto scampi was incredible. I've been 4 or 5 times and it's never disappointed.
Delicious food, wonderful service! I only visit this area about once a year, but this restaurant will be part of my annual vacation!
My wife and I go to LA Fontana every year while on vacation. The food is always excellent. I normally stick with the pastas, but this time I went with the Milanese, which was delicious. It was a large serving and normally I would have saved half for later, but I finished it. Desert was also delicious. I went with the cheesecake and it was well worth it. I highly recommend this place and the new outdoor seating area was great. We had great weather where it wasn't too hot, and with the fans and the bay breeze, it was quite nice.
We had dinner there with another couple on Sunday evening and the food was excellent. All the servers we interacted with were friendly, efficient and helpful. It was a wonderful dining experience. Love that it's a byob, too!
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