Trattoria La Famiglia in Essen

For professional development, I spent three nights in Essen and ate dinner at Trattoria La Famiglia each night. It was delicious every time, and the staff was super friendly. If I'm ever in Essen again, I'd be happy to come back.

Thank you very much. Despite the fire service in the neighborhood and a brief power outage, it was great. Everything was delicious and the service was great. Keep up the good work and see you next time.

Absolutely fantastic family restaurant with great food, generous portions, reasonable prices and MAGICAL service! ❤️

Top service, very friendly and very good food!

Very attentive and friendly service and very good food

Very good service and super tasty 😋 large portion of best quality ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

Was seated in a nice spot without a reservation despite the busy period. Wine was good and the tagliatelle with tomato cream sauce and shrimp was also good. Price performance was right and I would go there again.

We were very excited, a small restaurant, friendly service and very tasty food. If we're in Essen again, we'll be happy to come back!

We were here for the first time, cozy, very friendly staff, ordered lasagna, pasta frutti di mare, panacotta for dessert. We were satisfied with the food. I recommend it!

Great service even though it was very busy on Valentine's Day. The food was great! Card payment wasn't a problem either

Super nice, super tasty. Everything at its best, with an Italian flair

Food very tasty. Service exemplary.

To put it in Viennese terms = Canvas! :) Very good pizza, super nice staff, a family business that (unfortunately) rarely exists anymore! Great, we'll be back.

Cuckoo... Always really good... Very very tasty... Really great staff 😗 Any time..

Great food, very warm service. At least 5 stars. I'd love to come back!!!

The name says it all. I was there twice. The food was great twice, the price was right and the service was very charming. I'll be back when I'm in town again! Authentic store with authentic people.

Our favorite Italian at work for many years. Of course, if we have time, we prefer to sit there. The food is delicious, the staff is always friendly. Everything is just right.

Super tasty food for an affordable price.

Delicious Italian food. The prices are in the middle segment, fair and appropriate for the quality of the food. Stauder on tap and free rolls with spread and limonchello as a nightcap served with the meal. The waitress was very friendly and always there immediately when you were thinking about ordering something. Great, we ate there for the 7th time and everyone was completely satisfied. The atmosphere is ok, could be nicer and more comfortable. Standard seats and no proper separation from the adjacent tables.

Very tasty food, great service. Rarely have I eaten such ingenious pasta. Whole team super nice. Nice evening, gladly again!

Spontaneously looked for a restaurant and discovered this small, cozy restaurant. The atmosphere was very appealing and the service was extremely friendly! We had bruschetta, pizza tonno and spaghetti with prawns. Everything was extremely tasty and the prices were also reasonable. Highly recommended! 👍

The two of us were there spontaneously, it was very, very tasty, the service was great and the food was very, very tasty, always a pleasure 👍👍👍👍

It's a small restaurant, but the staff is really friendly. Pasta is delicious. There are a lot of them. Margherita pizza is a bit salty for Korean tastes. I felt the same way when I traveled to the US or other European countries, so I don't think it's a problem with this restaurant. The prices were not expensive compared to other German restaurants. In particular, it is kindness that prompted me to write this article. Two people ordered three menus. The dining table for two was small and a bit inconvenient, but they allowed me to use another table even though it was busy. And we accidentally left our bags behind, but even in the rain, they came running and handed us our bags. Thank you so much.

Super tasty, nice people. Tip top

We went there spontaneously for dinner. 2 adults and a 7 year old. My son was allowed to place his own order very lovingly and special requests were also implemented accordingly. The food came promptly and was extremely tasty. Large portions and really tasty. Loving treatment and no complaints.

Delicious pizza and very friendly service. I live in Poland, but it is hard to get something like this and taste a real Italian cuisine. I would love to make it back to here one day :)

The food was very tasty, but the supply of drinks often stalled Still happy to come back

We were a group in the next room, which was very loud - no acoustic elements. Unfortunately there was no gluten-free pasta. But the seafood salad and capaccio were good. Very friendly family service.

The best trattoria I've eaten in so far. Super tasty Tagliatelle Gamberetti, perfect service. We were there as a group of 12 people and felt absolutely comfortable.

A small family-run restaurant. The food, service and service were excellent. Small drawback... the lighting. Every table was well lit, so I would have found it more comfortable if the big lights weren't on, but that didn't detract from the meal

Food was great and the service was super nice.

It's a fabulous place, I loved the food here. The delicious noodles were to my liking. The inside is clean, which is great, thank you, I will come again

Very tasty and fresh food. Super nice and attentive staff.

Delicious pasta dishes and a perfect host, we always enjoy coming there

Good pizza, good pasta, fast and friendly service. Be careful when sitting outside, the street is very loud. Otherwise everything you could wish for.

My Italian - original food. Top service and very friendly. Food tastes good and is always freshly prepared. I can only recommend it.

Waiting time for the food was ok. The rump steak was quite well done, but the menu was good overall. The kitchen was closed at 10 p.m. and so no dessert was possible after dinner. It's a shame, it could have been said.

I had a very tasty meal here today, reasonable prices in a nice atmosphere of a typical trattoria 👍🏼

Absolutely recommended! The food was very good, the service friendly and competent. The location of the "Biergarten" on the street is a bit noisy, but nevertheless cozy.

Super tasty pasta and the pizzas are also a dream. There is also only a deduction for the ambience because the shop is unfortunately right on a main street and the owners have just hung up lamps. BUT: that doesn't detract from the food. It was super tasty, we will come back ;-)

The two of us were in Essen for a sporting event and wanted to have an Italian lunch near the main train station. We discovered Trattoria La Famiglia right on a busy main road. Since we didn't want to sit outside in the small outdoor area right on the sidewalk and street, we took a seat in the restaurant. The restaurant offers only a few seats compared to other restaurants, but this has a certain charm, which is further enhanced by the very attentive service and the furnishings with attention to detail (e.g. a real red rose in the vase on every table). The menu offers everything you would expect in an Italian restaurant (fish, pizza, pasta, starters, sweets). We chose the tortellini with ham and cream sauce with ham, tomato penne with chicken and bruschetta as a starter, a bottle of St. Pellegrino and an iced tea. We were really pleasantly and positively surprised at the prices. The starter was 6.50 euros and our main courses were 10-12 euros, and that's in today's times. The food was served fresh and warm and tasted really delicious. The quality of the food used was okay and in keeping with the price. The restaurant doesn't promise "upscale" Italian cuisine, but rather honest, tasty and good food. The sauce on the tortellini was a bit over-seasoned, but that only spoiled the overall impression. Nevertheless, we deducted a star here. There was also a deduction for the location of the outdoor spaces. In total we only paid just under 40 euros, which is a great price for the food and the feeling of being welcomed as a guest. The great service, the price-performance ratio and the great atmosphere should therefore justify a five star rating despite the small deductions in the categories mentioned. We really liked it, try it, you won't be disappointed. For us, Trattoria La Famiglia is a little insider tip, as we wouldn't have been able to find our way here from outside/the street side. We would definitely have missed something nice.

Delicious pizza and very friendly service. We felt very comfortable 🌻🙏

Delicious food. It was really a lot! And very affordable. Nice people, ready quickly, everything hot. And I could see that the kitchen is really neat and clean. Recommended.

We went here coz its the closest restaurant, its one of those restaurants that you come in once and never come back. We had a tuna salad which is bland basically had balsamic vinegar and then things thrown tad SALAD, pasta was well cooked but the flavor is not there, pizza was nice but soo „watery“, felt like just everything was thrown together and tada! PIZZA, pizza bread was good actually. Server was really nice. Ice tea is store bought icef tea anf poor into a glass.

Super tasty food, short waiting times, great service. Always worth a visit!!!

Rather inconspicuous from the outside but very friendly service and very good food.

Good italian food, reasonable prices for the area. We had pizza which was really nice with a thin crust and good ingredients.

Delicious food during the Netherlands-England match, nice owner and a nice waitress, in short, my evening couldn't have been better (Although the waitress could have given it a spin) highly recommended!

Looks very inconspicuous from the outside. But the reviews speak for themselves. The food was delicious and you didn't have to wait long for it. Service person was super nice. Portions were large, unfortunately there was no room left for a tiramisu. Gladly again. :)

Simply good and reliable. The daily offers are recommended.

Very attentive and courteous service. Family atmosphere and good vibes. The food is of a high standard, pizza is great

Delicious and plentiful prawn platter

Always happy Friendly, family atmosphere and service Were there with a larger group (approx. 15) with a pre-order. Everything went smoothly, we were able to eat together and everyone was happy with their choice.

Price/performance really great. And the food tastes excellent.

Passing through Essen, a small restaurant that doesn't look like much. But great welcome and cuisine. I recommend

We stayed overnight at the nearby Ghotel and decided to stop at this trattoria on a whim. A perfect decision!!!🤗 Service was a dream, the service was alone, super fast and always a warm smile on her face! The food (we had pasta and salad) was super tasty. The dishes were on the table in no time. Many a fast food restaurant can learn a lesson from this! If we lived in Essen, this would be our favorite restaurant. Since we often commute to the Ruhr area, we will come back. Also because of the tiramisu.😉

Eating like mommy... A great experience. THANKS

A hopeless place. I ordered gnocchi in tomato sauce with mozzarella and basil, which had nothing to do with Italian food. The tomato sauce was some kind of puree with cream, and the basil was chopped parsley and one basil leaf. I definitely do not recommend it. There were no guests except us. Instead of cleaning the lamps, the staff sat outside under an umbrella. Only the pizza with arugula and Parma ham was ok.

There were two of us there and we each had cannelloni spinaci, i.e. two tube pasta filled with spinach and gratinated with cheese. There were no table settings, so no pizza rolls or anything like that. The cheese was used very sparingly, the spinach was seasoned but overall very bland, the cream sauce simply lacked spice and cheese. The cannelloni cost 14 euros per serving, which is very sporty for such a very simple dish. Not even my companion, who usually leaves a lot left over, was full. Luckily we had a coupon from the voucher book, which made it a little more bearable. But the service was very friendly and did a good job. The price of the drinks (in our case a bottle of ST. Pellegrino 0.7l) at 5.50 euros is very fair by today's standards.

Small but nice with excellent, delicious Italian food! Very nice service! Gladly again!

Every year for the last three years there has been great (palate) delight at Trattoria La Famiglia! We come as a larger group (10-15 people) as part of our trade fair and other events. The host family is simply honest, open, friendly and accommodating. Everyone will find something on the menu and special requests are always fulfilled. Plus a good price-performance ratio. We simply feel comfortable and would love to come back! Thanks to the great team!!!

The shop is really cute, the man with the white shirt and the lady who work in service were very friendly. Unfortunately, though The pizza was a complete disaster, it was so wobbly in the middle that it fell off on its own. We ate them anyway because we were so hungry and had come from a long trip, and the store was just before closing time, so we didn't say anything. Normally a pizza has to be slightly crispy, but unfortunately it was as if the base of the pizza hadn't been baked.

Chic little restaurant with a medium-sized menu, fast service, super tasty food.

Large portion for reasonable money. The flavor is great!

Everything perfect. Big compliments to the kitchen.

Solid pizzeria in a pretty, small shop with very friendly service. Good parking situation. However, the prices listed here on Google are no longer correct; we didn't find the price-performance ratio to be entirely consistent

A very charming restaurant with very good food and outstanding service. We will come back!

Good food and friendly people. Definitely try the tiramisu. The carbonara is absolutely yummy yet surprisingly light.

Very tasty, great service and very cozy!

The pasta with tomato sauce didn't taste like anything. Barilla ready sauce has a more intense flavor than this. The pizza is similar to frozen food. The service was great but unfortunately it's no use if the kitchen can't cook.

The woman wanted pizza. So, to Trattoria La Famiglia! You can't go wrong there. Family-run business, cheap and the pizza reminded me of Uncle Pino's in Caserta. Interaction between thin soil and the right amount of oil. Top pizza, top service & top prices

Really great Valentine's Day dinner. The wine was wonderful and the service was great. We had the seafood and prawn special of the day and the spinach and ricotta ravioli. The portions were huge and really good value. Would recommend it 100%!

The trattoria is a small, cozy restaurant. The service is pleasantly quick and very friendly. The pizza and especially the panna cotta are among the best I've had recently. The prices are very fair considering the quality offered.

I have been here for lunch after a business trip. Small nice place with cozy atmosphere. I had a pizza which was tasty and waitresses was kind with nice smile.

Super friendly service, food VERY DELICIOUS, we would love to come back!

Very very good pizza. Staff friendly and short waiting times for drinks and food

A small but very nice restaurant. Super nice staff and the food is really top. Price/performance completely okay. However, you should call in advance if you would like to appear with several people. Clear recommendation!

Everything very tasty and fresh

1A a real insider tip!!! Great food, really Italian, simple, at great prices! Will definitely go there more often!

Very tasty pizza Frutti di mare and the beer is also delicious. Nice service, even though it was packed. Tuesday evening and got the last table. All in all, very nice Italian and highly recommended!

Very hospitable.food was great We felt welcome here. Chef talked to us, food was great

I ate there again on a business trip and was not disappointed. The quality and the family friendliness were perfect again. It is understandable that the prices have increased slightly due to the VAT increase, but not at the expense of quality and quantity. Was once again extremely satisfied and will spend a lovely evening there again on one of my future business trips.

Nice nice Italian. Food was great.

The food was delicious 😋, but we still got a table without a reservation. Would love to come back.

Small trattoria, modern atmosphere and fantastic food. The tagliatelle with salmon was to die for.

Well-visited location; delicious food, friendly and attentive service. Too bad that the limoncello was only given to regular customers as a thank you after payment. Just ask next time 😀🙃 Unfortunately, the prices on the menus on the site are no longer up to date, so just add a few euros, while, according to Google, the owner recently updated the website. 😞

Es war ein fantastischer Abend mit der allerbesten Pizza

Service und Freundlichkeit ist 0 Sterne.. 21 uhr eine Tisch reserviert, aber keine freier Platz, und noch dazu voll unfreundlich und arrogant... Es geht ganix in Gastronomie

Schönes, kleines Lokal. Das Essen war sehr lecker, zu fairem Preis. Dazu ein sehr netter Service.

Kleine Pizzeria mit großen Pizzen. Der Durchmesser war normal, aber der Geschmack hervorragend. Die Pizza aus mutterns Hand- so wurde es zumindest gesagt. Gerne wieder!

Tisch reserviert und wurden rausgeschmissen und angeblich nicht angerufen

Excelente serviço, ambiente familiar e comida com ingredientes frescos.

Reserviert für 21 Uhr. Kein Platz gewesen wurde diskutiert und wurden rausgeworfen

Schönes, kleines ital. Restaurant. Große, leckere Portionen. Nettes Personal

Es fing mit einem tollen Ambiente an, ging über zu einer super Vorspeise und endete mit einem sagenhaften Hauptgang. Da kann unser Italiener im Ort einpacken. Super Empfehlung👍

Super gutes Essen sehr nettes Personal und nicht zu lange Wartezeiten

Immer wieder lecker. Immer wieder angenehm

Echt een aanrader! Het is een knus restaurant, met een super vriendelijke eigenaar. Je wordt vriendelijk bediend. Er is ruim keuze in eten voor een lage prijs. Het eten zelf smaakt super goed (althans de pasta en bruschetta die wij hadden) en de porties zijn groot. Wij zouden hier zeker teruggekomen en het iedereen aanraden

Wonderful impression of Germany to me and my colleagues. Interior was super clean and pretty, delicious!! We attended MEDICA and didn’t speak German but Sarah was so lovely, kind and patient with us. I'm glad I walked in here. Highly recommended!

Der Name ist Programm. Familiäres italienisches kleines Restaurant. Sehr leckeres Essen. Bietet sich auch für die Mittagspause an. Im Sommer kleiner Außenbereich.