La Famiglia - Port Charlotte

Our family had a great dinner together. Thanks for the wonderful food.

Nice atmosphere, great food and the owner was friendly. My mother in law was in Fort Myers on vacation, we live in the Tampa Bay area so I was looking for a place to meet up to celebrate her birthday. She is an excellent cook, specializing in Italian food so finding an Italian restaurant that she would enjoy can be challenging. I chose this place because I read so many wonderful reviews. We were VERY pleased! We had a party of 8 and not one complaint!

Food was amazing the first time we went the owner extremely courteous and inviting the second time we went they were out of pizza dough FYI letting us know after we ordered and then they wanted to charge us for Sharing a meal even though the second meal we wanted was pizza We asked if they would waive this sharing fee and they declined so we left we will never go back rather earn a meal then losing a meal. We are locals! We live in Port Charlotte and when summer comes we still eat out that will never happen or come to this restaurant again. I hope the owner of this establishment sees this post and handles it appropriately

Wait staff was great, but experience was NOT. Arrived for 6:30 reservation with party of 8, only to be told they “could not seat us together”, despite 2 6-tops sitting vacant while we sat at 2 separate table of 4. After 5 meals arrived, the final 3 arrived at 8:00 (yawn . Asked to substitute ziti for spaghetti, but apparently that’s too complicated (Chef ultimately delivered it, but why the drama? . Food was good/ok, but won’t be back with our regular Friday night crew...

We used to go to the previous restaurant on a regular basis but this new owner?? RUDE At least I assume the bald guy is he?? If not then it’s the bald guy who needs attention Saying it’s Poorly managed is better than deserved Food we ordered was horrible. I would say easily the worst place we’ve been to. I would say it was tasteless and “Wet” as the sauce was not good and watery We like dining out and do so on a regular basis. Especially when we find that nice Ma/Pa type establishment but not here Hopefully it won’t take long for a new place to move in that we can try Update After reading a few other reviews it seems that the 5 stars are friends or family as the negative reviews have the EXACT same comments as I Things such as rude, explosive and argumentative, unprofessional, charges for everything even an American Express card fee Things like these are what will be his demise