Voted Best of the Bay 2004 by the San Francisco Bay Guardian! Again!
Best Italian Restaurant
Everybody loves Italian. Our readers love it so much that they chose two. One is perennial favorite Delfina [...] The other is longtime North Beach stalwart Café Macaroni, which reminds us all that once upon a time North Beach really was the city's Italian neighborhood.
San Francisco Bay Guardian - July 28, 2004
Tiny Caffe Macaroni Fits the Bill
For one long, surreal moment, it feels like a Fellini movie come to life: a doll-size dining room; bouncy renditions of "Volare" and "Feniculi Fenicula" playing on the sound system; saucy servers trading quips in Italian; and food so heady with garlic, fresh basil and olive oil you almost want to leap to your feet and shout "Ciao, bella!" to the world.
San Francisco Chronicle - March 28, 2003 [Full Article]
Best Neapolitan Experience (Best of the Bay 2002)
With all kinds of macaroni stuck to the ceiling at Caffe Macaroni, you need not question how they know when your pasta is done. The place is teensy-weensy - expect a Being John Malkovich experience if your table is on the second floor - but you'll come back for more because the food is so tasty: antipasti worthy of its North Beach locale and prosciutto that must have come from Parma make you long for the Mediterranean sun. The black pasta is a very popular testament to the fact that squid ink won't hurt you.
San Francisco Bay Guardian - July 31, 2002
"Italian food is abundant in North Beach, but much of it still represents the red sauce and meat ball school of cooking. One popular exception is the bustling Caffe Macaroni at 59 Columbus Avenue, where local people line up to be wedged into this small, funky restaurant."
The New York Times
