Best Italian Restaurants in Ditmas Park

We loved our food and our waiter Juan !!! Great night

Café Mars is my favorite restaurant. We came for the Global Italian: Chicago event thinking "This could be fun." We left having had the best meal we've had in recent memory. Every dish was interesting and drop-everything delicious. The cocktails were terrific, complex, and very silly. Service was friendly, fun, and responsive. And little touches galore (a welcome taste of wine/kombucha, multicolored glassware, etc.) that make this place stand out. Overall, these folks are having fun with a restaurant in a way that is really, deeply admirable. There's a thoughtfulness and sense of play here that is so rare and special. Everyone owes it to themselves to have a meal or three here. It truly bears repeating: Café Mars is my favorite restaurant.

Everything was fresh and delicious, but it was a little long of a wait for bread and oil that we asked for. I got the ravioli with butternut squash and my husband got the short rib it was good! Waiter was great

My husband and I live in the neighborhood so we've been here a few times for dinner. The food has always been consistently good, the staff is friendly and knowledgable, and the atmosphere is very romantic (aside from being a little cramped.) We enjoy coming here, but were pretty shocked when we received our bill the last time we went. Overall, I think for the quality and location, the prices are fair, but be wary of the pricing on any of the special dishes. For my entree I got the special pasta (which was good, but nothing exceedingly spectacular - fusilli with a white wine cream sauce and Italian sausage) and we split the special dessert which was creme brûlée (which was very mediocre and curdled.) The pasta was $42 and the dessert was $20. This prices were not disclosed when we were told about the dishes, but I guess that's my fault for not asking. I would definitely go back, but will most likely only be ordering on menu items from now on.

We held a birthday celebration dinner at Travere for 9 people...it was a blast! The food was outstanding, very high quality, and the service and ambience were great.