Pausa Bar & Cookery

223 E 4th Ave, San Mateo - 94401
662 reviews
Italian Pizza Cocktail Bar
(650) 375-0818

Creative cocktails, excellent wine list with lots of Italian varieties, delicious food. Love the charcuterie board!

This was my first time here - loved it ! And will be back

Great recommendations from servers!

Our dinner was excellent. We were entertaining family from out of town and they were happy campers. We also enjoyed the excellent service. Our waiter was very pleasant and on top of everything. Everyone was commenting on how wonderful the food was. We will bring them again!

Wonderful service! Some of the food items were too salty but the focaccia bread was really good.

Elizabeth is the best! Loved our food and libations. We’ll be back soon.

It was our first time, for a bday celebration. Overall service was outstanding esp Anna, our server. The staff is very well trained! We ordered the spring mix salad and pizza margherita which were both incredible. Also ordered the smoked burrata which we had to return as it had a strong smoky taste. Then on to seafood ravioli and octopus ragu linguini which were both great. We ended the meal with the black forest cake--save room for that, it was awesome, had it with coffee which was a little weak. I love that they make everything in house. Who does that anymore. It is a neighborhood gem, just need to tweak certain items. Would definitely return.

My wife and I tried Pausa after having dined there in the past. We were delighted with the great food and service we received. Our server Patrick was exceptional. We highly recommend going to Pausa if you haven't been there lately. We'll be back again.

Very nice Italian restaurant. Appetizers and main course were delicious and very well made/mastered, but nothing seemed to pop out as uniquely memorable from different taste than from typical Italian cuisine. Desserts were very unique, these were the highlight. Background music was a little loud with the buzz of the evening conversations around.

Excellent food, bar and service. Only drawback was very noisy inside. I had to cup my hands and shout to my wife across the table.