Nado Republic

From the moment we sat down, the entire experience was great. The food was very good and the drinks were also very tasty !! Service was good and they do some fun stuff for you if it's your birthday

This is an interesting restaurant shoehorned between the parking lot and the other businesses. You will certainly be seated close to yet-to-be-made friends. Kudos to them for seating us - even though our online reservations became lost. As you can see from my pic of their table service for pepper flakes and salt, there is a bit of "airs" about them. You'll also see this in the dishes from my food pics. The service was okay on this busy holiday. We started with the Strawberry Salad. This was a great mix of flavors and textures, without the salad being overly bearing of strawberries. As you can see in my pic, we had the strawberry dressing on the side. By mixing, this semi-sweet dressing with astringent arugula lettuce, we blended a great compliment of flavors. The goat cheese was a super creamy compliment with the toasted almonds. And when this was eaten with the dressing and lettuce, this became a very good and unique salad.Our salad was followed by the Bosciaola Rigatoni, see my pic. Again, this was another very good dish. The rigatoni was cooked just right, and served with ample red cream sauce. The spices were bright and the sausage was savory and rich. There was the right amount of sausage to pasta, and sauce, such that each bite had ample flavor.The food was quite good, but the seating is very tight. The wine by-the-glass pricing was reasonable. They don't accept any payment methods that require a PIN, and they didn't voluntarily provide us a bill or receipt for our meal.

I would have given this place a 2-star but the experience just left me with the biggest ick.I chose this restaurant because it was dog-friendly and near the dog beach, it had a beautiful outdoor patio seating area, and the food looked amazing! What I was not expecting was "nice" passive aggressiveness from our waiter throughout the whole dining experience and how he/the restaurant was not honest. Read further for more info.Waiter took our drink orders and we asked for just water. Towards the end of our meal, he came back to ask if we wanted more water which we thought was nice. Turns out the water cost $7 and no where was it disclosed.We ordered 5 dishes for our party. For appetizer, we ordered tuna tartar, but were notified they ran out. Instead, the waiter tried to upsell us on plain house bread (which most places serve on the house anyways) but we didn't want that because we were going to be inhaling enough carbs. We ended up ordering a pizza to share and four pasta dishes: (2) Pappardelle Bolognese, Bucatini Amtriciana, Boscaiola Rigatoni. Waiter suggested adding a meatball add on in the Bucatini Amtriciana, which I ultimately said yes. It arrived with two meatballs and when the check was delivered at the end of the meal, he had inputted and charged for two ($5/meatball) which was not the quantity that was ordered!The food was not great either - pizza was a large flatbread and the crust was hard and stale (though the toppings were good with a kick). The pappardelle was overcooked and too soft. The biggest peeve was feeling deceived and how the waiter took advantage of our busy group.

Tables cramped and close together. Can't get filtered tap water / you have to pay for bottled water. They offered bread - and that was additional charge too. Order was wrong - and they tried to charge us for the added prosciutto that we didn't order. Pasta just ok. They do offer a military discount - and although dogs are welcome on the patio is is so cramped I don't recommend bringing pups.

Me and my girls were in Coronado for a mommy and me trip while I was here for a conference. We like fancy Italian food served with IG worthy aesthetics and Yelp reviews pointed to Nado.The servers, hostess, food runners are all friendly and knowledgeable and making a rezzy thru OpenTable is much appreciated so we had no wait to be seated. The dishes posted here are all drool worthy esp the pink cream rigatoni and brussels. The meatball was kind of flavorless which was surprising. The pizza has a thin crispy crackerlike crust which I loved. Pros: the covered patio and inside bar area are BEAUTIFUL and photo worthy. Staff is friendly. Pasta and Brussels are so good!Cons: you MUST pay for water as they do not serve tap water. So you need to buy bottled water which is not served cold nor with ice so you need up ask for ice. (?!) And if you order bread (which is not free) and you want a topping other than oil and vinegar, you need to buy butter! It is because of these 2 upcharges that they only get a 4 star from us.

We came back here after a month and the food wasn't as good as the first time, especially the gnocchi. This time it was dry and doughy. And we ordered the ravioli which was okay. The burrata was really good. Service was friendly.

Nado really helped us celebrate my sisters graduation. The servers were attentive and the set up was beautiful. We had a difficult time finding the walkway into this very crowded restaurant. the walkways and table space seemingly overlap, making maneuvering quite difficult especially with a wheelchair. the food was good, and i was able to leave with leftovers. we ordered a few table items and each had a different pasta, pizza, or salad. a vegan member of our table requested no cheese in her salad, a need that was not met unfortunately. the desserts we tried (tiramisu and ice cream) was my favorite part of the meal, aside from my martini. the decor tried to be very aesthetic.

Wow! This place is the best in Coronado. The food is 10/10. Service is amazing. And ambiance is out of this world. Love this place!

Came in for a drink, saw the food. Couldn't resistant ended up here 3 days for food and drinks. Good time! Great service! Amazing food!

best italian food in san diego.bread to die for.best gnocchi and piccante pizza.grazie sandro for taking care of us every time.phenomenal negroni