Breakfast Menu "ITA Italian Kitchen" Jersey City

Great mixologist... cocktails were delicious. Everyone was so friendly and attentive. Great atmosphere... food was delicious. Calamari, meatballs, and pasta were the best! Pizza is pretty good... I want to rate it high... but I'm so particular when it comes to pizza, but it's definitely worth trying. Desserts and espresso to finish it off! I will be coming back to try more things!

I had a high hopes based on the reviews of the food esp Pizza for me to skip the Newport avenue joints in grove st . Had a crispy potato and a vegan pizza. The vegan pizza had no taste at all ! Veggies, stick to Margherita. The crispy potatoes were kinda burnt . The atmosphere is good and the location is upcoming , find a right street to park as some streets around here are run down. Service is good and staff seems good too but the service staff was like listening for the sake of listening and not really interested in the customer and their feedback . At any other place they would have not charged me for the pizza after the feedback. Wine starter pizza and water + tip = 69$ ( 1 person ) A bit pricey for McKinley sq . Wish the pizza was as good as other people found it . Better luck next time - but I doubt I will return. Maybe just high expectations based on the reviews !

Wow wow wow. Words can’t describe this place!! Excellent! 10 out of 10. Great service by Lazaros, he’s amazing! Very attentive and friendly. Drinks were delicious and food was out of this world. This is a must try in Jersey City! Do yourself a favor and stop by this gem. You won’t be disappointed!!! Awesome place.

Searching for a restaurant serving delicious Italian food in Jersey City, look no further than this establishment located 682 Bergen Ave where some of my fellow Yelpers enjoyed a wonderful meal at an Elite event tonight thanks to Sara and her team. Listed as #3 on NJ top 100 places to eat, ITA Italian Kitchen honors old-world Italian roots, lifestyle, and food with a modern touch. Upon arrival, the atmosphere was warm and inviting, cozy and energized ambiance. Our 5 course family style extravaganza menu started out with insalata (farmer, kale caesar, bruschetta) followed by antipasti (meatballs, fried calamari, crisp potatoes), pasta (spaghetti alle vogole, cacio e pepe, spicy rigatoni), pizza (margarita, prosciutto Di Parma), finishing up with tiramisu. Each meal prepared with fresh ingredients, great presentation and tasted wonderful. Mark (owner) did an amazing job at making us feel welcome and his passion for what he does shines through the experience we had tonight. In the end, we left with a happy stomach while making new friends. So if you’re looking for a nice dinner with a great ambiance and fantastic service, do yourself a favor and stop by this gem as we can recommend it.

I've only ever ordered delivery from here but I've ordered a few times and been VERY impressed with the food (specifically the spicy rigatoni vodka) so I have ignored the insane prices - $26 for a tiny portion of pasta (photos attached, average size fork for reference) with no protein, $22+ for 12" pizzas etc. But this time the spicy rigatoni was mediocre (it wasn't even spicy this time), and with the price and portion size I would hope at least for consistently delicious food. Furthermore, I ordered the $15 arugula salad with a $5 side of grilled chicken and again the portion was so tiny, it might be 1/2 chicken breast (again see photo). I did leave 2 stars because while the pizza is, in my opinion, overpriced, it is delicious, and the spicy rigatoni has been phenomenal in the past.

Looking for a great wine and pizza place check out this place in jersey city. Great coal oven pizza made fresh to order. Nice selection of wines and drinks. Perfect spot to talk and get to know each other.

***3 1/2 stars*** For me at least, ITA did not meet the hype. I stopped by here for an early dinner yesterday with my chum the Shanimal around 5:30pm. I've noticed several other reviewers have mentioned that this isn't a restaurant you can really walk to - having walked here from the Liberty State Park & Ride, I can tell you that what that actually means is that you'll have to stroll past some low-income housing and a few possible chop shops. It's honestly not something I'd recommend when it's dark out (the sun was going down on my way back and there was definitely an uptick in groups of people swigging out of airport bottles of vodka on the street), but it just seemed rundown when I went through. And I noticed multiple cars blasting Daddy Yankee, which was honestly a bit of a selling point for me. Anyway. I love the vibe and interior. The Shanimal was happily drinking a beer at the bar when I came in, and I had no issue staying right there. It's weird to describe a bar as spacious, but it really is - the bar counter is super wide, with I think a marble top. Very comfortable, and I'm pretty ambivalent about eating at the bar (I do think you tend to get better service, depending on how crowded it is). One of the reasons I wanted to come was to take advantage of their March free app deal on Yelp, so we ordered the calamari (normally $16 I think). Delicious, and the highlight of the meal for me. Cooked perfectly, great seasoning, and since the Shanimal apparently has moral qualms about eating them due to a poignant documentary she watched, I got all the octopus ones. Would absolutely get that again. I was famished, fresh off a long hike earlier in the day, so I went with the Rigatoni Bolognese ($27). It was very solid, though honestly not the best I've had. The selling point for me was the meat, which was flavorful and also cooked perfectly (that seems to be an encouraging theme). I also liked the generous inclusion of the pecorino, which I think always adds a nice zip to a pasta dish. Personal palate-wise, I'm not crazy about chunkier tomato sauce, and that is DEFINITELY this; it literally has halves of baby tomatoes in there. I'm probably in the minority on that one, but I ate around a lot of the tomato chunks and focused on the meat chunks, which I feel good about in hindsight. The cocktail situation was unfortunately a little underwhelming. I was intrigued by the Love Bomb ($14), which I believe included mezcal and hibiscus. The presentation was indisputably top-notch - you can see per the attached that this is one of the best cocktail pics I've ever gotten - but I don't think the flavors paired well at all; it ended up tasting sort of like a leathery sweet tart to me. And while the egg white foam works visually, in this instance it's too overwhelming. Inevitably you end up with half of your sip being the foam with the actual cocktail ingredients fading into the background. I'm a big proponent of adding egg whites to cocktails, but it DOES have a stronger scent that you need to be super cognizant of so it doesn't become too dominant. I would definitely cut the foam situation in half, at least. The service was pretty good for the most part. We both really liked the bartender, who was very personable and clearly knew his way around the mixology table. I don't recall having to wait a particularly long time for anything we ordered (and in fact, when he realized I was very hungry, confirmed that it was okay to bring all of the food out at once). The only issue was at the end, when we paid the bill. We gave both of our credit cards, with the intention of splitting the bill, and he didn't notice the second card right underneath and just charged mine. Not a huge deal (God bless Venmo, etc.) but a little annoying/inconvenient, especially since it wasn't a $20 charge, it was about $90. Definitely not a bad experience but I can honestly think of at least two other Italian restaurants in Jersey City that I prefer over this.

Knowing how the sauces are made (and every sauce is made for each dish) makes this place amazing! Truly fantastic food!