Cafe Pro Bono

2437 Birch St, Palo Alto - 94306
411 reviews
Italian
(650) 326-1626

Enjoyed our experience, and are grateful tables are not too close together.

Great meal with our two young children. The Caprese salad was excellent as was the veal marsala.

Great food, excellent service, treat you like family. Love the place.

Prices up, menu very limited, actual food order tasty, tho salad drowned in dressing, very uneven waiter situation. Given wrong bill, then credit cards not returned with corrected bill…. Disappointed. We had used take out successfully several times during COVID and really enjoyed the dinners, now prices steep.

Tasty food. Our orders were switched. I got and bit into my companion’s panini.

Very good service

Warm, friendly and inviting ambiance. Delicious food and delightful servers. Relaxed and refined. Feels Continental.

This lovely restaurant, with its first-class service, excellent wine list and amazing menu (including daily specials) is a neighborhood gem. With a new parking lot very close by, it is no longer difficult to find a space. It has, for very good reason, survived through thick and thin over decades.

Three family birthdays

We ate outdoors, which was too noisy for us. The sound seemed to bounce off the concrete patio/sidewalk, overhanging ceiling from the building, and corregated metal used as patio wall and extension to the ceiling overhang. My son had to wear earplugs and we could hear words from someone three tables away from us. The service was good, if not particularly attentive or friendly. The food was very good (filet mignon, duck, and salmon), except for the desserts of panna cotta and ice cream with warm berry sauce, which weren't to our taste. The food was not very good for a low carb diet because the vegetable side was small and three sides of vegetables with the duck still were not very filling. Overall, we enjoyed our dinner and might come again when we are more comfortable with dining indoors.