Cannataros In Ch - Chino

I was craving pizza, so my wife and I visited tonight. Alva, our excellent waitress, brought it out and it was very good. In the middle of enjoying it, Alva came back out and told us that the cook wasn’t 100% satisfied with the last pizza, so he made us another one for free, even though we thought the first one was great. The service and food at this place is exceptional. We will be back here many many more times.

My parents took me out to Cannataro 's for my birthday dinner although my actual birthday was a couple days ago. I really like Italian food I had never been to this place before so we went. When we entered the restaurant, we were greeted by a friendly hostess. It took a couple of minutes to be seated because they had to check what table was available. Our server arrived quickly introduced himself. He asked if we wanted any drinks while we were deciding on what to order. We started off w/glasses of iced water w/a lemon wedge. Our server went to get the waters returning w/them a basket of garlic bread. The garlic bread was alright, a bit dry. My father I perused the food menu as well as the wine drink menu. My mother doesn 't really drink so she continued looking over the food menu. The menu itself is just a single laminated sheet w/items listed on the front back. I thought it was a good amount of choices. When our server returned to take our order, I ordered 1st. I 'm letting u guys know right now that I forgot to take pics, so sorry. Anyway, our server started w/me. I was in the mood for seafood so I ordered the Linguini Pescatore w/a soup/salad-$23.99. The entree consists of clams, mussels, shrimp, calamari chunks of salmon in a light marinara wine sauce. I chose the soup-Minestrone. I also ordered a glass of wine. I wanted the Flor da Moscato, but the server came back to tell me that they were out of that particular Moscato. He gave me 2 other options, one of which I hadn 't seen in the wine list. The other Moscato was called Cupcake Moscato. I figured, if it has the words cupcake in front of it, then it 's probably going to be sickly sweet. I ended up changing my mind going w/Sangria. Next was my father, who ordered the Cannataro 's Special Pizza-Sm 10 for $17.99. It has pepperoni, sausage, meatballs, fresh mushrooms, onions, bell pepper, olives garlic. My dad also ordered a glass of wine, a Chianti. But, when the server returned to tell me they were out of the wine I wanted, he informed my father that they were completely out of Chianti apologized for the inconvenience. My dad settled on a glass of Merlot. Finally, my mom ordered the Sampler Platter w/soup/salad-$20.99. Her entree was portions of Lasagna, Fettuccine Alfredo Chicken Parmesan. She chose a salad for her side. A short while later, our server returned w/my mom 's salad my cup of soup, plus mine my dad 's wine. For a side the salad was a good size. My mom split it w/my dad. U know, even though my soup was only a cup, it was rich, hearty full of flavor. I think it 's the best Minestrone I have ever had. At 1st sip, I was a little disappointed w/the Sangria. I was expecting that fruity flavor right off the bat, but it just tasted like regular wine to me w/ strawberries, blackberries blueberries in it. It wasn 't until I let it sit for a while that I got the fruity flavors coming thru. Our server asked if we were ready for the entrees. We said Yes. He quickly returned w/our food. My plate was more like a large shallow bowl. As far as the shellfish in the dish, there were 2 shrimp, 2 mussels 2 clams. There were plenty of calamari rings which were tender. There seemed to be a filet of salmon that had been cubed into bite size pieces. One thing I wasn 't expecting, but had no problem eating were the little squid tentacles. My mom saw a little cluster of tentacles, was like What is that?! I replied. What? What 's on your fork? I looked at my mom, then answered. It 's the squid tentacles. I shoved it into my mouth. She looked at me w/disgust. I just smirked continued eating. I really enjoyed my food. The only thing about the tentacles is unlike the calamari rings, they were a bit chewy. For those of u that have a problem w/eating anything spider like, the tentacles are in large enough pieces that u could set them aside. My dad enjoyed his pizza although he disliked the sogginess of the inner crust. He wished the crust was crispier.

I would give 5 stars on atmosphere, but they started playing music when we got up to leave, very nice music!! Great Antipastos Salad

This delightful Italian restaurant is hidden away in Chino. The food is amazing, prices are reasonable and the staff is very nice. Please come here and enjoy!!!

Great local family owned restaurant with authentic Italian food.