Barone's

This place is old school cool, like Smokehouse meets Lil Toni's.Service was perfect, food was fantastic. Dirty martinis were excellent & not too expensive $13 I believe. But ofc we ordered non well gin & they were $15.I had the spaghetti in meat sauce added a salad, both were good - spaghetti and meat sauce were excellent BUT 20.99 for literally just a plate of pasta & meat sauce is crazy! And with the added salad my total was $27.99. That's expensive, good food but crazy expensive.The pizza looked scrumptious and more wallet friendly.Does come with complimentary bread which was warm & yummy.Valet is $8, so find street parking if you can.And they have Spumoni (which I love) but again, expensive, one scoop was $7.(if you love spumoni, go to Little Toni's on Lankershim; their scoop I think is 3.95).

I've been coming to Barone's for decades. It's old school, unique and delicious. It had been a while since we visited since we'd moved out of the San Fernando Valley a few years back, but nothing can prevent Sunday night from being pizza night, and we thought we'd venture back into the old stomping grounds and see if it's what we remembered.It was!We love the old-school Valley/Italian restaurant vibe. One might expect a place like this to feel run down with the decor and old-style booths and tables, but it was as if the place had just opened. Everything was "shiny" and comfortable.The place was also packed on a Sunday. (At least in the dining room they had open.We ordered a medium pie with garlic, onions and tomatoes (extra crispy), and an individual pineapple pizza. (Pineapple pizza naysayers need not apply.) We love the square pies with crispy edges...sort of Sicilian and slightly Detroit style, but really unique, crispy and delicious. It tasted just like the first time I'd had it decades earlier.The house salad we had with it was enough for 3 of us, with a generous amount of non-lettuce items to keep it interesting.Service was friendly and fast. Prices are reasonable. I hope Barone's goes on forever.

After watching a matinee feature of Nosferatu at Regal North Hollywood Theater, my relatives suggested having Italian-American pizza and beer for lunch. We eagerly agreed and knew he meant we were going to nearby Barone's Pizzeria on Oxnard Street, where we've eaten several times since the late 2000s. Upon arrival, we scored an open parking stall near the entrance of the pizzeria/restaurant. From the building's Swiss Chalet-like exterior, you'd not expect to find Italian-American cuisine here. The interior gives off a retro 1940s vibe. Upon closer exploration, our cheery male server explained that the building used to be the former Old Heidelberg Restaurant and Matterhorn Chef (Swiss) restaurant. Also, he said that a scene from the 1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High was filmed in their main dining room. Another fun fact we learned about Barone's Pizzeria is that they were the first restaurant in Los Angeles and Southern California to sell pizza.While scanning the menus, we each ordered 12 oz of Peroni ($7 ea) beer, which we knew was served from draught/draft taps. Our server immediately poured our beer at the bar and returned to order our food. Since the pizzas are made to order, we chose a plate of golden-fried and lightly battered calamari rings and legs (calamari fritti) to quell our growling stomachs. We ordered Barone's famous thin-crust rectangular House Combination ($28.99), which includes pepperoni, sausage, and green peppers, but we requested additional sausage and pepperoni. The medium size is 9" x 12", and we wolfed it down while drinking our beers to wash it down. We enjoyed our lunch at Barone's. Their Sicilian and Neapolitan-style rectangular pizza was the perfect foil to our post-horror/romance movie day. Kudos to our lone server, who managed to maintain his composure and humor while serving the dining room.

Restaurant was nice, decor reminded me of those old school Italian restaurants. Food was a little pricey. Pizza was not that good, crust tasted like it was just microwaved. The lasagna had way too much ricotta cheese. They charged us $3 extra for a tablespoon of mozzarella cheese for our salad but the server didn't inform us of the extra charge. The bus boy kept bringing us wrong dishes that belonged to other tables. Restaurant only offers valet parking for $8 and there isn't a lot of street parking available. Staff was friendly.

Like stepping through a time portal... Friends of ours invited us to meet here for dinner. They've come here a number of times and said it's always pretty quiet. Luckily we'd made a reservation because this Friday night the main dining room was packed. Everyone seemed surprised by that, not least of all our server. Though flustered and apologetic, she remained friendly and on top of things for us. Service didn't suffer for how slammed they were, but we felt bad she was stretched so thin. Hope she got herself a good stiff drink at the end of her shift! Speaking of which, drinks were okay. The vibes called for martinis and manhattans, and they were passable. One friend reported acceptable wine. Not a lot of vegetarian options on the dinner menu. Even easily vegetarian pasta indicated it was prepared with chicken broth. I ordered a small Frank's Special pizza (tomato, anchovies, black olives, basil, parmesan). A little sad that it arrived round instead of rectangular like their larger sizes. It was truly small but plenty enough for me. It was fine. I tried a taste of the eggplant parm which was tasty. All in all it wouldn't be my first choice to return to, but I also wouldn't turn down another invitation to come back.

Finally got a chance to visit this institution with my husband and I'm so glad we went. It's your classic Italian restaurant with red leather booths and dark furniture with old pictures on the walls - a total vibe. We got the 10" two topping pizza with pepperoni and mushrooms, and the cheese lasagna with meat sauce. The pizza was great! The crust was in between a thin and standard crust, and the sauce was delish. The lasagna was different from what I'm used to; I've never had a lasagna with the meat sauce on the outside and not layered in between, but it was still tasty. Staff were attentive and super accommodating. Parking lot is valet only ($8), but street parking is pretty hard to find around dinner time. Good overall experience.

I only tried Barone's because it was used in one of my favourite films, "Fast Times At Ridgemont High", as Rat and Stacy's date restaurant. Though unnamed in the film, the establishment is an erstwhile German restaurant, Old Heidelberg. When Barone's moved in, they didn't change the aesthetic, and it looks nearly the same as it did in the decades-old movie: dark wood, tufted red booths and chairs, stained glass.Though I was mostly excited to be in the filming location, I was pleasantly surprised by how good Barone's food is. The garlic bread is great, the sausages are tasty, the red sauce is flavourful, and the lasagna was a beast: a decadent hunk of their zesty sauce, pasta, and cheese.The small adjacent lot is valet, but there should be plenty of parking down one of the nearby side streets. It's a pretty safe area; no need to worry about anyone stealing your radio whilst you're parked.

My neighborhood favorite. I've been coming to this restaurant since I was in my teens and it was located on Ventura Boulevard now luckily I live up the street from this location. I love meeting friends for drinks. Their pizza is amazing. They're Barones. Chopped salad is one of my favorites. They always treat you like family and make you feel at home.

Delicious very highly recommended, food is delicious and the best service. We got a House Special pizza and mushroom ravioli sooooo good. A must!

The pizza here is amazing! And the place gives me nostalgic east coast Italian vibes in the best way