La Storia

Chris server made our visit very enjoyable. We would come back just to be with him! The sausage pasta rocks!!!! Lasagna was good, had better before but food is of high quality! We will return! Love the outdoor backyard patio!!!!

Absolutely delightful. Great outdoor ambience. Attentive and friendly service. Delicious food that is expertly presented.

Beautiful restaurant, very intimate, wonderful service, delicious and unique menu of food.

I definitely recommend eating at La Storia. The host was very gracious as soon as I walked in. He helped me find the perfect place to sit while I waited for the rest of my party to show up. The ambiance of the outdoor dining area was great. The lighting was great, and the noise level was very quiet. The drinks are very good & strong and worth the price. I had the veal & pork meatballs as an appetizer, and they were AMAZING! I had the ravioli de ricotta as my main course, and it was delicious. The portions were just the right amount. I will definitely go back to dine here in the near future.

Sadly very underwhelmed. The food was just ok, the waitress didn’t seem to know the menu and it took forever to pay the bill

Delicious food and such a beautiful service also the restaurant is unique! One of my favorite pasta in Chicago

Great service and fantastic cocktails. The dirty martini with Gorgonzola stuffed olives tasted fresh and had a great bite from the cheese. Highly recommend the burrata as it was soft and creamy. Pasta with bolognese tasted homemade and with big clumps of meat

Had reservation for outdoor seating and only one table remained upon arrival. Host gave that table to another couple in front of us waiting to check in who did not have a reservation
Upon being eventually seated, our server did not engage us for over 20 minutes and it was 35 min before receiving a cocktail. Service continued to be poor with little attention to our table, unopened bottle of wine sat on our table for extended period of time. Requests for water refills never acknowledged
While quality of service was very poor, the food and value for the $ we’re good.
We just moved to the Gold Coast area and were hopeful to find this to be a place at which we would dine frequently, but were very disappointed

Great experience, awesome service. We had a little birthday celebration. Our server made sure our birthday girl had everything she needs! Food was awesome! Octopus nice and tender, mushroom risotto cooked perfectly. Scalops were amazing also, maybe little too salty for my test, but fresh and cooked great! We will come back!

Spectacular food, great wine, solicitous service, beautiful outdoor dining.

Teri YAKI was amazing. It would be nice if the waitress could ask if patrons needed change to tip the drag queen

Always a favorite- consistently good food. Love the homemade pastas! Doing a good just with social distancing inside, bottled water, etc

Fabulous food and wine while we sat on back patio. Calamari, Gnocchi and Scallops were some of what we enjoyed. Beautiful night and will definitely go back!

Very nice restaurant, but the experience felt rushed. I guess this was due to our later reservation. A lot of people were still hanging about when we left. I would definitely go earlier next time.

The cutest outdoor patio that made me feel like we were in Italy!

Amazing original Italian restaurant! Just great

Everything was outstanding in this restaurant,from the service to the food ! Best gnocchi pesto and arancini in Chicago!

Amazing Experience at La Storia. Both patios are heated and perfectly social distanced. The food is delicious and the wine list very well curated. Will definitely visit as often as possible.

For a restaurant with such an inviting Instagram account, I was very disappointed. Ambiance was nice for an anniversary dinner but service was not good. Waited 10 min for waitress after we were seated (not a busy night at all) and we saw her only for order taking and bringing check. She was nice enough but Other staff brought food,etc and said nothing to us. Very impersonal.
Plus the patio has some huge chunks of concrete missing. My chair leg went in a hole and I almost tipped over. Someone is going to take a fall.
I will say the host was very friendly and understanding (we were late because streets all closed off due to Mexican Independence car parade). He was probably the highlight of the night.
We were really looking forward to finally trying LaStoria but not sure we would go back. Maybe for the atmosphere we will give it another shot. Perhaps it was just an off night. I’d say everyone should try it.

Limited menu

We wanted to love this restaurant! We have only been dining outside, and read about their lovely patio. It was a chilly night, and we noted the heaters on the patio- although they looked to be in very poor condition- bent and broken. They were actually an eye sore! Regardless of the chill, they were never turned on, nor was the offer ever made. We sat for long periods with no check-in from our server. We wanted to order wine once our dinner arrived, but unfortunately the server never checked back. In his defense, I do think he was the only server for all of the outdoor dining, in the front and back. We had to flag down an attendant just to get some Parmesan for our pasta. The attendants were actually very helpful and attentive. Unfortunately, of our pasta entrees was simply not edible. It tasted like soap or some sort of cleaner! We are guessing that some leftover soap must have been in the preparation pot? Thankfully, it was removed from the bill. Regardless, it was a very disappointing evening overall. It was our anniversary, which we noted on the reservation, but unfortunately it was never acknowledged. I am sorry to say we will not be returning!

Overall everything was lovely. I didn’t care for my dish so my husband and I shared his dish.

Wonderful backyard patio and great food. Wine was a bit over priced and service was slow not attentive. Will definitely revisit and hope for better service.

We waited fir our salad one hour, it seems like they forgot us. The salad was average. The pasta was very good. We decided not to order dessert as we had waited fir a while for our salad.

Server was excellent. Food superb Outdoor space is wonderful

The calamari was great. The pesto gnocchi was ok. The roasted vegetables were great. Nice service and ambiance.

Backyard patio superb

Beautiful patio, nice service and delicious food! I’ll be back next week! Everything was really amazing!!

The food was great! Service was okay. It was very hot in the restaurant thinking it would be cooler than outside but not so. Very uncomfortable.

Service wasn’t great

The food was outstanding and the ambiance was wonderful. Staff was extremely accommodating. Can't wait to go back.

Really pretty patio

Outstanding meal !

Amazing show and ambiance! Food delicious , great service!! I’ll be back!!

Love this place! Such great service food and atmosphere

We had a nice time dining in their front area outside. I thought the food was just okay, but it was a fun ambience for a Friday night and to people watch

The staff were great and we felt that they did a fine job keeping the experience of a nice restaurant with the limitations of COVID dining. In particular, the grilled octopus appetizer was our favorite dish.

Food was ok, not bad but could have easily found a place with much better value. Service was bad. Asked for parmesan three times came in a tiny cup (Why?) instead of grated.... asked for black pepper came in a tiny cup again not fresh.. ambiance was nice. Gave it a try, fine, but wont be going back.

Our server was very inattentive and sometimes rude when she came to the table. We waited about 15 minutes from the time we sat down to when we were greeted and to get our drink order. Other than the poor service we greatly enjoyed the food and atmosphere of the outdoor patio.

Dinner was great, but after an hour and a half they told us our table time limit was up (never did they mention this when booking or sitting down). Rushed us through and out which was not a great experience.