Pomodoro Pizza & Pasta

San Francisco, United States

2.6

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21 reviews

Accepts Credit Cards

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Telephone:
+1 415-399-9210
Website:
www.pomodorogourmetpizza.com
Address:
240 Kearny St, San Francisco, CA, 94108
b/t Hardie Pl & Sutter St
Financial District
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
520 ftBig Bus Tours Stop 17, China Town
830 ftMontgomery Street
0.2 miSacramento St & Kearny St
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Takes Reservations
Yes
Delivery
Yes
Take-out
Yes
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Good For
Lunch
Parking
Street
Bike Parking
Yes
Wheelchair Accessible
Yes
Good for Kids
Yes
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Ambience
Casual
Noise Level
Average
Alcohol
Beer & Wine Only
Outdoor Seating
Yes
Wi-Fi
No
Has TV
Yes
Waiter Service
Yes
Caters
Yes

Today

Today 10:30 am – 9:30 pm
Open now
Local time (San Francisco) 4:50 PM Friday, November 29, 2024

Business hours

Monday 10:30 am – 9:30 pm
Tuesday 10:30 am – 9:30 pm
Wednesday 10:30 am – 9:30 pm
Thursday 10:30 am – 9:30 pm
Friday 10:30 am – 9:30 pm
Saturday 11:00 am – 9:30 pm
Sunday 11:00 am – 9:30 pm

Description

Specialties

Simply to create a tasteful environment that uses all fresh ingredients and preps daily in order to provide great food, good friendly service at a reasonable price.

Offering crust from homemade dough & low fat cheese

Fresh pasta & sauces made in our kitchen daily

All foods are made to order…

Gourmet thin crust pizza

Traditional Italian Pasta dishes

Homemade Tiramisu

4 big TV“S to watch your sport

7 premium beers on tap…

Corporate & office Catering…

History

Established in 1993.

In 1993, I convinced my wife that we should pour our hearts into the things that we enjoy the most — food and people.

Wholeheartedly she agreed and Pomodoro Gourmet Pizza & Pasta was born. Like everyone else, we appreciate good service, great food, and a tasteful environment, but as customers our dining expectations were not consistently met. With Pomodoro Gourmet Pizza & Pasta our goal was to create a casual Italian restaurant that delivered the entire experience at a reasonable price.

We combined our experience in business, operations and service and spent the following months pulling together a sophisticated advisory board with seasoned professionals, developing and testing our menu, building relationships with local suppliers and hiring and training our employees.

In March 1994 Pomodoro Gourmet Pizza & Pasta was opened in downtown San Francisco, Financial District. Thank you for your support and we look forward to continuing to serve you!

Meet the Business Owner

s S.

Business Owner

Specialties:

Simply to create a tasteful environment that uses all fresh ingredients and preps daily in order to provide great food, good friendly service at a reasonable price.

Offering crust from homemade dough & low fat cheese

Fresh pasta & sauces made in our kitchen daily

All foods are made to order…

Gourmet thin crust pizza

Traditional Italian Pasta dishes

Homemade Tiramisu

4 big TV“S to watch your sport

7 premium beers on tap…

Corporate & Office Catering…

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21 reviews of Pomodoro Pizza & Pasta

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Place rating: 4
San Carlos, CA
I’ll give it 4 stars, since its got good bang for the buck. I had the Marco Polo pasta which was an awesome and well-​balanced dish. Beers for $ 3.50 all day made me happy. Staff was attentive, prompt and competent. Didn’t try the pizza but it looked so good,…next time tho. Recommended!
Place rating: 1
Oakland, CA
Rude rude rude service. The pizza isn’t even good. The place is dirty. The waters all had floating crumbs in them when we got them. Our waitress did a whole lot of eye rolling and acting irritated. However, she treated another table with smiles. Maybe racist since everyone but me is African American at our table. Do not recommend is place at all.
Place rating: 1
Santa Ana, CA
False advertising!!! It’s says free meal but when you check in it shows the full message that it has to be on your birthday week n you have to bring 2 paying friends with you!
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
Went in on a rainy day and so glad we did. Delicious pizza! Delicious seafood pasta! All in all the food was very good! Seriously hit the spot. Service was really good also. I’ll be back soon!
Place rating: 5
San Lorenzo, CA
I love this place! The food is excellent & not expensive. Great wine/​beer & the service is awesome!!!
Place rating: 1
Los Angeles, CA
Very disappointing experience. The lady at the counter has issues. The most unfriendly person on the planet. She slammed our condiments down in front of us, never spoke or smiled at us. A very unwelcoming experience. She was actually mad we sat down. REALLY RUDE. Lots of competition downtown. I’m a bartender. If I treated my customers like she treated us, they would be writing this Unilocal about me. Word of mouth. Would not recommend to enemies. 11÷20÷15
Place rating: 2
Woodinville, WA
The woman working has an attitude problem. Acting like we upset her by simply sitting down. Slamming things down in front of us… RUDE and abrasive. Left without ordering, won’t be coming back.
Place rating: 5
Tucson, AZ
We didn’t come to this place on purpose, rather, we were going to a restaurant next door but found out there’s no hot food there. That’s when we see this restaurant. It’s not large or fancy, but we love it.
The food: we ordered ciopinno. What we got here was about 2⁄3 of the price of the same item from a restaurant with this in its name near the wharf, but quite surprisingly this tastes way better. We both completely finished our big plates.
The service: I have not seen such caring and helpful waitress in a long time. Comes to our table all the time checking if we need anything, always prompt, always patient.
I am quite surprised at their low rating here on Unilocal so I thought I’d share my experience, because they definitely deserve a lot higher.
Place rating: 2
Seattle, WA
Not bad… we were hungry after my husband got into town late at night, and this was what was open and close to the hotel… so off we went.
Service — Meh/​Okay. Friendly enough.
Food — Okay. I ordered a salad and pasta. Wasn’t great, wasn’t horrible. My husband ordered pizza, he ate it all, so it was apparently good at least.
It’s okay. Seemed sort of like a «neighborhood» bar/​pizza type place.
Place rating: 4
Daly City, CA
Great place to go for lunch if your in FiDi and especially if you like crispy and crunchy pizza!
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
I come here several times a week and it’s a wonderful experience every time! The food is excellent (if they have the lasagna special when you come, you HAVE to get it; for the pizza lovers — it’s thin crust, and very good thin crust, which is a lot coming from me because I’m a deep dish person) and the prices can’t be beat. This is not common in a place like San Francisco, which is super touristy and most restaurants take advantage of that. Thankfully Pomodoro doesn’t :)
Literally everyone who works here is awesome and in a genuine way, NOT the fake «customer servicey» way.
If I need to meet clients or friends in the Financial District for lunch, this is my go to place. I know they’ll be happy here (and they always are :)
Place rating: 1
Costa Mesa, CA
Terrible… The service was talking behind our backs. Salad was rotting and would not exchange it for a pizza slice. When we brought it to the manager she told us that romaine lettuce salads are supposed to be brown in the center… Avoid this terrible spot
Place rating: 1
San Francisco, CA
Worst WORST delivered pizza ever!
We ordered 2 x-​large pizzas, which both got here in an hour (1 star). But both boxes were smashed, and half of the cheese and toppings slid off both pizzas. In addition to that, the dough was not cooked all the way through! And the pizzas were not warm.
Disgusting. I will never eat Pomodoro’s pizza again!
Place rating: 2
Jacksonville, FL
The husband was hungry and I was tired, so my list of great places to eat was thrown out in favor of walking out our hotel’s front door and following our noses. The smell coming out of this place turned on the husband’s pizza craving, so we stepped inside, were seated quickly, briefly perused the menu, and ordered the meat lovers’ pizza.
In the very long time it took for the pizza to get to our table, I checked in on Unilocal and noticed the not-​super reviews, but figured whatever, it’s pizza with meat on it, how bad could it be?
Well, it was pizza, and it wasn’t bad, exactly, it was just aggressively bland. The crust was tasteless and almost crumbly, like a tough cookie, and of the four meats that graced the top of the pizza only the pepperoni was really recognizable. Even the sausage managed to be a texture more than a flavor, and I did not think that possible.
On the plus side, my husband was the hungry one and he can eat anything, so none of the pizza went to waste. But we will definitely be more wary about random pizza places in the future!
Place rating: 1
Santa Teresa, San Jose, CA
Worst service. Bland food. Pricy menu.
The waitress threw the menus at us. Gave us water 15 minutes later. She didn’t take our order for 30 minutes. When she did, she THEN told us the chef was not making appetizers. Our food took an entire hour to get, with one order wrong. They never refilled the water or even asked us if we wanted something else to drink.
Don’t ever go here.
Place rating: 3
New York, NY
The three star rating on this restaurant is entirely deserved. There is nothing inherently bad about this restaurant, but also nothing that makes it stand out. My biggest complaint is probably the service because:
1) It took them a while to put a table together for us.
2) When the food came out, they were very confused about who had what, and the dish names they said didn’t seem to match up with what we ordered.
3) The waitress seemed to be bumbling around and knocked over a glass of water and broke a dish while we were there.
I had «Romina’s Spicy Penne Pollo Pasta.» It was pretty good, it had just the right amount of spice for me, however it seemed to lack other flavors. The portion size was a bit smaller than you may expect from pasta, but I actually think it was quite reasonable compared to the massive portions some restaurants give you (looking at you, Cheesecake Factory). Unless spice is the thing that makes the meal for you (rather than spice augmenting other flavors) I would recommend trying one of the other dishes, if you choose to go here.
Though I did not partake, they have $ 3.50 beers all day, which is a pretty decent deal.
As an aside, the «Check in for a Free Meal» option has a caveat that you see (after checking in) that it is only on your birthday and ID is required.
Place rating: 2
Atlanta, GA
After walking to the ferry building to find a bite to eat (bad idea since everything was closed on New Years), we wandered to this restaurant, one of the very few that were open today. Now I know why. This is probably the most business they get on any given day. My fears were confirmed after I took a bite of the Caesar salad. It was a sad salad with wilted lettuce. The chicken fettuccine Alfredo was soupy and the chicken didn’t taste fresh. My pizza was mediocre, crust wasn’t bad but toppings could of been higher quality.
Service was fast and friendly though, however wouldn’t warrant a repeat visit unless I was desperately searching for any open restaurant on a national holiday.
Place rating: 2
San Francisco, CA
This is probably the worst Italian food I’ve ever tasted. Like even worse than MY cooking. I always see this place super busy, but I guess it’s just because it’s conveniently located on a corner in FiDi. The waitresses barely speak English, so they’re pretty nice but generally not too welcoming. I even asked them a question about the Unilocal special but she left to ask her boss and never came back.
As for the food itself, I ordered the Carciofi e Pollo Pasta ($ 12.95) which is linguine with chicken, artichoke hearts, and vegetables in olive oil herb sauce. Usually when there is an olive oil herb sauce, the pasta is more flavorful but there really was no flavor. The chicken had good flavor, but it was overcooked and hard. I wish the vegetables were more… whole instead of just small shreds.
There are so many other places to eat in FiDi. I’m always willing to try new places, but I’ll also recognize when I’d rather not come back to a place again.
Place rating: 2
San Francisco, CA
Update: This restaurant no longer wants business people having a piece of pizza. Everything else from my previous review is still valid.
I returned for lunch on Jul 22 2014 only to find that the menu says IN BOLD RED CAPITAL letters that the single slice of pizza is only to go. Needless to say there were only four people in the restaurant at 12:15 pm on a sunny Tuesday afternoon.
3÷8÷2011
The beer is great, the soccer on the TV is nice and the staff, friendly and the reason I keep going back. The food is nothing special; it’s not bad but just a little boring.
Place rating: 3
San Francisco, CA
It’s nothing fancy but post run along the embarcadero on a warm SF evening, we were drawn to the outdoor seating and all day, everyday, happy hour pints.
The happy hour deal is $ 3.50 pints and they have a pretty good selection of taps here including Trumer, Stella, Lagunitas, and Speakeasy’s new lager Metropolis. To accompany the beer, we thought we would share a couple of things to snack on. We started with the caprese salad and I was pleasantly surprised by the portions although the tomatoes were a little under-​ripe and tough. We also split a personal Pucillo pizza and it was pretty satisfying with meatiness courtesy of the Italian sausage and prosciutto.
Again it’s nothing fancy and the servers are pretty casual but cordial here. For a quick bite and some pints, it more than suffices especially if you want to sit outside on Kearny St. I remembered there being more Pomodoro outlets in the city but this might be the last one standing.
Place rating: 2
Hamburg
We came at 9:30pm and besides a cloud of cheese smell we were greeted by the personal with a restrictive: «slices only!» 3 out of 4 of us enjoyed the take-​away-​slices but the lack of friendliness and service isn’t worth any more than 2 stars!