Trattoria Mediterranean Cuisine

Amazing food, great service. Love this place. My favorite italian spot in Orange County

A small restaurant on the Main Street on Balboa Island. We went there for dinner during the week and had no problem finding a table. It was not crowded. I ordered veal scaloppine. I enjoyed the meal. it came with potatoes and vegetables. The vegetables were very good. I did get a chance to taste my friends Carbonara, which too be honest I enjoyed more than my dish. If I went back I would get the Carbonara. I also had a Caesar salad which was fine but nothing special.

My bf had been wanting to try this Italian restaurant out for a while now. We have walked by it many times and it looks cute from the outside. We thought it would be a hidden gem. We were wrong. I was already a little apprehensive about eating here as the recent yelp reviews were not the best and the people walking out after they had eaten said it wasnt the best. We started off by asking our waiter for some bread and ordered the melon/prosciutto as an app. The prosciutto came out dry and the melon was cut in thick chunks. Definitely did not taste freshWe ordered pasta with red sauce and it tasted worse than canned sauce. I was really disappointed with the taste of the food because we thought it was going to taste fresh. I will not be coming back

Garlic bread 6/10Caprese salad 6/10Iced tea 9/10Fettuccine Alfredo 2/10Chicken Marsala 7/10Hours of operation 1/10Seating 1/10 We've been waiting to try this place for a while. The issue we had was every time we would come here, they were closed. The hours are on Yelp and on their website. We would call when it was the "open hours," and they would tell us they were CLOSED. We have walked over to this place at 1:30pm and it was CLOSED. When they are supposed to be open until 3pm. So, the hours of operation are confusing and appear to change on a whim. How do you run a business like this? Very unprofessional when customers never know when the restaurant is open. The dine-in experience was not good. The chairs are hard wood with no padding. My chair was uneven and rocked back and forth. There is not air-conditioning, so it got hot inside. The better seats might be the "patio" area, so you at least get a breeze. Seating is cramped. The restaurant is TINY. Seriously, I have wide hips and had a hard time walking in and out of the restaurant without bumping into chairs. On to the food. If the hours of operation and the cramped seating wasn't enough. The food added to disappointment. We started off with appetizers; garlic bread and caprese salad. The garlic bread was sort of bland tasting. The weakest garlic bread I've had. Where is the butter flavor? It was super basic garlic bread. I think I could have made better garlic bread at home. The caprese salad was good, but the tomatoes were wayyy too thick. I mean the tomato over-powered the mozzarella cheese. It didn't have good balance of all the flavors. Chicken marsala was alright my partner said. And my fettuccine alfredo was very disappointing. The alfredo sauce wasn't thick and creamy the way I like it. It didn't have a cheesy, buttery, depth to it with garlic. It was watery, runny alfredo sauce with basic flavor. Tasted like plain noodles with diluted alfredo sauce (something you would serve from the kid's menu). Never going back here. There are far too many great Italian places to eat at in Orange County. Makes this place look like a joke.

Cute little Italian restaurant. The restaurant is quite small with limited seating. The food was excellent. The garlic shrimp was done very well. The lobster ravioli had great flavor as well. I thought garlic bread was a bit bland for the price.

Best Cesar salad I have ever eaten in my life!!! Amazing food! Great location. Loved the veal parm.

Great food. Linguine alla Genovese is a must if you like fresh shrimp and scallops. The owner is very nice, too!

Delicious! The quality of the food is top shelf! Quick service and very knowledgeable of the food. Great wine list. A very enjoyable evening with great food.

Wonderful service with nice ambiance, soft Italian music was playing while we eating Caesar salad, Cozze E Vongole and Carbonara Pasta. Taste of the food was authentic!

This is our all time favorite restaurant in Newport. The owner always makes it so special whenever we come in and the food is incredible! I feel like I'm in Italy every time I go from the ambience. This is a must try restaurant!!