Cataldo’s Restaurant

I called Cataldo’s to get food delivered to my daughter in Brooklyn. What a fantastic find!!! Friendly, fast, free delivery and absolutely incredible food. The menu is only the best Italian dishes. It’s as if they made a list of all the real Italian home cooked meals you constantly crave (at least I do) and then prepared them better than you’ve ever tasted. This is a place you pray will not be replaced by trendy foo-​foo food. A bastion of quality ingredients well prepared in a warm, family environment — what more could you want?

I live in Prospect Heights and love eating at Cataldo’s every couple of months, it is such a treat! No matter what I order it is always delicious and I love the family atmosphere. Their specials are fantastic (especially the pesto shrimp!) and the pasta all tastes homemade. They also have a few prepared dishes if you are in a hurry (hello chicken rollatini). My go-​to is the veal pizziaola (I may be spelling it wrong) the red sauce is so flavorful. Best kept secret of my hood and every time I go in I laugh at all the hipsters waiting outside of Chuko :)

Nice family owned restaurant! I love this place! I would definitely recommend the Chicken Francese

Just an average pizzeria with a wood burning oven. Nothing to brag about. I wanted to give it four stars but wasn’t really impressed about the pizza. The seafood salad was good, but how can anybody mess up something as simple as that. Sorry, but, I won’t waste my time coming back. Disappointed in the pizza.

I came to this place because I was craving a stuffed artichoke. They told me that they ran out upon attempting to order one. My confusion was that a lot of their dishes being described to me by the server contained artichokes, which implies to me that they are using ones from the jar to prepare the other dishes. Seafood salad was okay. Pizza was horrible for wood burning. I was totally disappointed, but relieved that I didn’t order more food. This is basically a pizzeria that also has prepared food dishes. If you can’t get the pizza right, I can’t see getting anything else right. I think people come here for the value but I personally will not be back.

Ate here a couple of nights ago for dinner with a group of 4. I had the linguini with clam sauce; I also tried my friends dish which was the fettuccini Alfredo. The pasta tasted homemade and al dente. Very refreshing to have some tender fresh pasta! The white wine clam sauce was very flavorful and comforting. The Alfredo sauce was rich and creamy– perhaps a bit too rich. Our server was attentive and made good suggestions. Only problem was they sat us by window and this curtain would blow near our table whenever someone came in. Not a huge problem but was a bit distracting. I like this place overall because it feels like you’re escaping New York and eating at a cozy homey mom and pop Italian restaurant. Not pretentious at all and prices are decent!

Old school. Loved it. Glad places like this are still around. Only one visit so far, but going back. Decent wine that isn’t expensive. An arugula salad that’s simply dressed and doesn’t try to be dainty. A solid spaghetti bolognese. Solid. Ordered it with meatballs that stood up. This is the place for that. Companion ordered a lovely sole with olives and penne on the side. The kind of place that makes New York New York.

I love everything about this place. The food is great, the atmosphere is perfect. Like being in someone’s kit hen. Always a mixed crowd, everyone treated with respect. I’ve dined in and had take-​away. Both options were delicious. Loved the fish dishes especially, but I can’t imagine you’d go wrong with anything you ordered.

Love this place. I always get different things. Pizza is amazing. My fav is penne with vodka sauce. They should sell their sauce i would so buy it. The specials are always on point. The calamari cakes are my favorite. Love the staff and atmosphere. It feels like I’m eating dinner at home.

yaassss!!! saturday night.
firstly, our server was super nice. she was a brunette and had pretty blue eyes; she was sociable, professional and informative of the food.
we have never been here, so she walked us through the menu.
penne vodka= ummmm… the sauce was outside of this world.
meatballs= simple, moist, old school, very good
mussels= marinara (they made it spicy on request) was the best in NYC. the only other time i had sauce like this was when i was in providence, rhode island (little italy strip).
however, next time i will try a different wine. the pinot noir was not my favorite but it was not bad at all (just personal preference). they have a great variations of wines i would like to try next time.
we sat at this cute table outside\ inside (front of the restaurant) watching the peeps.
what a lovely date my boyfriend and i had. very affordable too.
definitely coming back to eat some amazing italian food.

a great place to just sit down, take a break, and fill your stomach with delicious pasta dishes. I’m Italian and always a pasta snob, but Cataldo’s was great! Especially the meatballs.

My family and I were visiting my brother in Brookyln and staying at an Air BNB close by, walked over for a take out menu and placed a carry out order at about 6pm. They had a small crowd at the hour but by the time our food was ready (which was very quick actually, around 20 minutes for a large order) they had filled up — a definite good sign in a neighborhood with lots of italian options.
We got an order of the chicken milanese w/​pasta, cheese raviolis with meatballs, the chicken sorrentina w/​broccoli, and filet livornese w/​string beans, as well as an order of fried calamari.
Two of the four dishes were spectacular, the other two were alright. The fish and milanese were excellent, everyone agreed. Chicken sorrentina was over cooked, and otherwise decent, while the raviolis and meatballs were average at best. Both vegetable side dishes were pleasing, though be careful as they had large chunks of garlic (whole cloves) and lots of olive oil in each — if you are put off by those flavors (why are you eating italian?) ask them to take it easy. The fried calamari were somewhat rubbery, with a very heavy amount of breading — the rubber factor could have come from the carryout element, as they might have somewhat «steamed» in the container. Fortunately, the marinara with the calamari was absolutely delicious, probably the best element of the entire meal. Perfectly sweet, acidic, and fishy, with good pops of garlicky tomatoes.
So while the even mix would give this place 3 stars, I’m bumping it to a 4 because the portions, especially for the prices, were gigantic! Everyone got enough food for two meals, they included 3 loaves of fresh italian bread, and the bill was right around $ 70. For four people in Park Slope? That’s really hard to even imagine, let alone beat. I would love to go back and try their pizzas, as they looked fantastic, but would be more than happy to just order more of that amazing fish.

Came to this small Italian restaurant with some friends and enjoyed the experience! The restaurant is very cozy and feels so mom and pop.
One of my friends and I split the veal parm with pasta and pizza. Both servings were huge! The pasta portion that came with the veal parm was probably enough for dinner.
They also have some options for wine. we all split a bottle. Service was kind of slow because their technology is pretty old school (wrote our check by hand) but the overall restaurant feels cozy and has good food at a decent price so would definitely recommend!

One of the best places to eat. I have wonderful memories of working for this family. Great food great service great family.

Love this place. Love the momma!
Calamari hero, baked clams… Great pizzas, eggplant parm, penne alla vodka… Actually, it’s all really really good.
Just eat there… Just do it

Very good pizza at this place. I would say the best in the neighborhood. But i would not say it about their pasta thou…
Service is pretty fast and friendly.
Guys should improve their menu except pizza:)

My company and I stumbled into here after trying to go to a different place that had a really long line. So, here we were. We got a pizza and a pasta dish to share. By far, the pizza was better than the pasta. But one can get better pizza elsewhere in NYC. The pasta dish was bland. It was suppose to be a garlic olive oil sauce, but it didn’t really taste like anything. The vegetables that came with the dish seemed to have been boiled or steamed and then put together with the pasta. It didn’t seem cohesive at all.
It is an unpretentious restaurant. There seemed to be particularly a lot of children in the restaurant, so perhaps its a good place to come with kids.

After debating between Cataldo’s and two other local joints I went with my gut and chose this one. So glad I did.
I called in an order for the four cheese (quattro formaggio) with tomato sauce. The guy on the phone was nice and told me delivery would take around 30 minutes or so. This was a Saturday night so I was a little skeptical that it would be longer, but nope, they came right on time.
The pizza itself was delicious. Soft, tasty crust, and the cheese… oh my god, the cheese. Creamy, salty, and just so good. I was in pizza heaven and devoured the pizza.

Yesterday was my first time at Cataldo’s and I’m impressed! I had Quattro formaggio pizza and added prosciutto. It was perfect, sause, crust, cheese, everything!
My husband had veal saltimbocca with spaghetti. Everything was perfectly prepared.
Service was really attentive and fast.
Price for two was only $ 50 + tip. We had 2 entrees, one soda, 2 beers and one espresso.
This place is really genuine. I’ve been to some places that call themselves «fine italian dinning» and have double the price, smaller portions and worse service than this place.
Although we don’t live in the neighborhood, we are definitely coming back!

Stumbled in here one Friday night by chance, and was not dissapointed. The family-​owned and operated pizza /​Italian restaurant is one of the best accidental finds I’ve encountered in Brooklyn. I was in the mood for veal pizzaiola once we had settled that Italian was happening and my girlfriend got the chicken piccata. When we came in, there was one other table seated. By the time our entrees arrived twenty minutes after we had sat down, the restaurant was nearly packed.
In terms of food, I’d say Cataldo’s is a 4. The kitchen produces good dishes, and everything came out to the table hot, tender and ready to be wolfed down. The veal pizzaiola was a major win, from its texture to its taste and was complemented very well with the spaghetti and bolognese sauce it comes with on the side. A house red for $ 5 to drink it down with and it’s a damn good time. The house salad we started off with was honestly just OK… it lacked a certain something and looked just haphazardly thrown together. My girlfriend was happy with the chicken piccata and said it was quite possibly the best she’s had in a restaurant. The reason I’ll stick the 4 on it is because there’s really no originality to the menu; a lot of traditional heavily sauced dishes which I feel like are commonplace and done well elsewhere.
The reason I’ll give Cataldo’s 5 stars is because it’s genuine; there are no cheap attempts to lure you in with false style adjustments. It is what it is. From it’s simple (real and not fabricated old-​school) décor and it’s straight-​forward service (some instances of inattentiveness but I’ll credit that to the sudden explosion of customers during our meal) to it’s more than reasonable price point, this was a great find.
I’ll be back for the pizza because that looked like something I wouldn’t want to miss either.