Spumoni Trattoria - Hermosa Beach

We arrived at 6pm on a Monday for a birthday celebration. I know with the 50% off it can get crazy so we decided to go and put our names on the list but they have a policy where you can 't be seated until your whole party is here which is fine. Our whole party doesnt arrive until 6:50 to which I let the hostess know and she said it will be another 45 minutes until a table for 6 opens up. To which I see a four top then a two top with one individual sitting there and 2 more two tops on the other side of her open. So I ask the hostess if I can ask the one individual if she could move to one of the other 2 tops so we can push these together and get six top. She says 100% sure now worries . Well Monica who was the manager told the lady that she absolutely won 't be moving and they don 't ask guests to move. To which I told her I asked your hostess she said I could I then asked the lady and she was more than happy to move. The only one Unhappy was Monica. I went back to the nice lady and said the wont let her move and she says That ridiculous I 'm happy too Monica saw me talking to the guest again and came over and the women lied to Monica and said she offered to move and that she insisted to which Monica begrudgingly relented and allowed us to do it. After that whole debacle the service was atrocious, Waiting 45 minutes for our appetizers, Wrong items/Missing items on our salads, We asked for goat cheese on the salad which she brought out blue cheese and when we told her we think its blue cheese she said they dont even serve that. *Spoiler it was blue cheese*. We asked for the check 3 times and for boxes twice, The didnt have any large boxes just small boxes so we had to cram our food into 4 small boxes. Just ALL around an awful experience. Will not go back.

Been there before, excellent food. Made a reservation (name, phone, email) today (a Monday). Upon arrival, was told no reservations on Mondays and that a call would have been sent to notify me that reservation was not possible, but a phone call was never received. I could wait 45 minutes for a table. Home page and reservation page on website (using Edge) apparently not working properly at the time reservation was made. Reservation website looks different after trip to restaurant, whereby day of week error is flagged; home page has video (was blank when reservation was made).

My wife and I visited with a friend for dinner. The food was excellent, from the charcuterie plate and warm bread, to the pasta amatriciana and chicken Marsala entrees. The service was very good and the atmosphere pleasant. We brought and shared two bottles of wine, each with a very reasonable $10 corkage. My wife and I had eaten there many times before, always with similar experiences. We’ve tried a number of pastas, several chicken dishes, the pizzas, the lamb chops and several salads. The food is uniformly flavorful and well-prepared, as well as being very reasonably priced. It’s well worth a visit for Italian food lovers.

We were intending to go to an Irish pub because it was St Patrick’s Day. We failed to find an Irish pub that we liked so we went on looking for other places. Spumoni just happened to be on our view so we decided to turn right towards the parking and promptly got inside the Trattoria.We were pleasantly surprised at how nice this place is. The only slight drawback is that it is located at the corner of two busy streets, thus the noise outside.Food is the biggest discovery. It was wonderful.Ambiance, they made the most of what they could given the location. It may seem to fall short but I still give them 5 stars for the effort of trying what they could. Oh, they have an in-house performer. That added much to help keep this place authentic and unique.

This place is always a pleasure to go to especially on a Monday while they have their happy hour that is basically 50% off the menu minus alcohol and desserts, I believe. Perfect place for a date night or just a good bite of Italian but be for-warned that the bread basket will always arrive to your table at different times. Some days you might get the bread before you food and most of the time will be after your main course arrives.Parking: Shopping lot center parking is available.