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Ospi, Venice, CA

Ospi

4.8
4.8
1164 Reviews
$50 and over
Italian
Ospi is the sophomore restaurant of Jackson & Melissa Kalb, focused on Southern Italian cooking and way of life. The name derives from ospitante (“host” in Italian), with the expectation that guests will feel as comfortable at Ospi as they would at a friend’s dinner party. There will be plenty of house-made pastas as well as an expanded offering of pizzas. The beverage program crafted by Kalb features mostly Californian and Southern Italian wines and a full bar with a special negroni section. At Ospi, the pizza is inspired by the techniques of Antico Forno Roscioli which Jackson and Melissa frequented while visiting Rome. Focusing on Romana Tonda-style crusts that are cracker-thin, he is adapting a recipe that he feels will resonate with the LA diner. Jackson feels it extremely important to not take food too seriously. Take a trip to Southern Italy and be a guest in our home.

Make a reservation

2 people

7:00 PM


Booked 87 times today

Dining areas

Additional information

  • Dining style

    Casual Dining

  • Cuisines

    Italian

  • Hours of operation

    Brunch Sat, Sun 10:30 am–3:00 pm Lunch Mon–Fri 11:30 am–4:00 pm Dinner Mon–Thu 4:00 pm–9:30 pm Fri 4:00 pm–10:30 pm Sat 3:00 pm–10:30 pm Sun 3:00 pm–9:30 pm

  • Phone number

    (424) 532-7759

  • Payment options

    AMEX, Cash not accepted, Discover, MasterCard, Visa

  • Dress code

    Business Casual

  • Executive chef

    Jackson Kalb

  • Catering

    Ospi is now catering your favorite Italian food. We offer both an a la carte menu as well as a packaged event menu to simplify your next party. We can also custom cater your wedding, dinner party, and more with an Ospi Private Chef! Please fill out the form and our catering specialist will contact you shortly. (https://www.ospivenice.com/catering)

  • Private party facilities

    We have a private dining room available above our bar. The room features a large natural oak table to seat up to 18, a private TV and sound system hook up, fresh flowers, and of course great food and service! Please follow the link and fill out the form so that our reservationist can book your party. (https://www.ospivenice.com/group-dining)

  • Neighborhood

    Venice

  • Cross street

    North Venice Blvd and Pacific Ave

  • Parking details

    Parking structure across the street from the restaurant. There is also a parking lot on the corner of Pacific Ave and North Venice Blvd. Please see the attendant for more details.

  • Additional

    Banquet, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Cocktails, Corkage Fee, Counter Seating, Delivery, Full Bar, Gender Neutral Restroom, Gluten-free Options, Non-Smoking, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Private Room, Takeout, View, Weekend Brunch, Wheelchair Access, Wine

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What 1,164 people are saying

Overall ratings and reviews

Reviews can only be made by diners who have eaten at this restaurant

4.8
4.8 based on recent ratings
  • 4.8Food
  • 4.8Service
  • 4.7Ambience
  • 4.4Value

NoiseModerate

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  • Westside

    Italian

  • Westside

    Most Booked

  • Westside

    Most Booked 1000-Point Tables

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  1. CarlyS

    1 review

    5.0

    1 review

    Dined today

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    Ben our waiter was amazing!! Would go back just to have him be our waiter again. Great time and great food!
  2. RyanS

    Hungary

    2 reviews

    5.0

    2 reviews

    Dined today

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    Fantastic experience. The food and service was amazing. Our waiter Ben was very friendly and provided a brilliant service. I would highly recommend the beef tartare and butter chicken.
  3. OpenTable Diner

    Los Angeles

    1 review

    vip
    5.0

    1 review

    Dined 1 day ago

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    Wonderful experience. Great Cosmos, salad, pizza!, chicken parm, stracciacella, etc. And the bread (fett’unta) is amazing! So glad we ordered. Looking forward to returning! Also the budino was wonderful. (Big cheese and cannolis were not our faves, but many seem to love them). What was also great was the ambiance, the staff’s enthusiasm, and the other diners. You will not go wrong. And Venice is fabulous!!
  4. Gayle

    1 review

    5.0

    1 review

    Dined 1 day ago

    overall5food5service5ambience4
    Food and service is consistently good. Thank you.
  5. TIMS

    Los Angeles

    16 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    16 reviews

    Dined 1 day ago

    overall5food5service5ambience3
    The food was absolutely fantastic. The indoor restaurant was very loud.
  6. Alexis

    Los Angeles

    14 reviews

    4.0

    14 reviews

    Dined 2 days ago

    overall4food5service4ambience4
    Solid Italian food on the westside. Everything we ordered was tasty, but the standouts were: cauliflower, kale salad, cannelloni, and spicy rigatoni. Went for a bday and it was a very fun environment!
  7. OpenTable Diner

    Los Angeles

    2 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    2 reviews

    Dined 2 days ago

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    Must try place, love the pizza, kale salad and the rigatoni.
  8. alwayseatout1

    Los Angeles

    15 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    15 reviews

    Dined 5 days ago

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    Absolutely excellent on every level. Good, service, ambiance, reservations etc. They even moved our table upon request with zero hassle. That was awesome.
  9. OpenTable Diner

    Seattle

    4 reviews

    vip
    3.0

    4 reviews

    Dined 5 days ago

    overall3food4service4ambience3
    Very noisy—should offer gelato or ice cream for dessert
  10. OpenTable Diner

    Los Angeles

    1 review

    5.0

    1 review

    Dined 6 days ago

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    Probably some of the best pizza I’ve had, we got the capio e Pepe and it was fire. The beef cheek was also fire and the tartare was fire just know it comes with a big old bread over all 9.2/10 we went on a weeknight and sat outside, that is the move
  11. OpenTable Diner

    London

    2 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    2 reviews

    Dined 7 days ago

    overall5food5service4ambience4
    The food was amazing. We had a pasta dish and a pizza and both were delicious. The restaurant has a cool vibe and is ideal for a pizza and cocktails with friends.
  12. Laurence

    Los Angeles

    18 reviews

    3.0

    18 reviews

    Dined on May 28, 2023

    overall3food2service5ambience3
    SPACE: Cute but a bit disconnected. Seems to have a bit of an identity crisis weather to be a pizzeria or formal dining spot FOOD: Food is okay. The pizza crust was a bit rubbery and hard to bite. You had to tear it with your teeth most of the time. We had 2 pies and both were the same. SERVICE: Bartender was outstanding! He was hospitable, knowledgeable, and just an all around nice guy.
  13. Sonia

    Philadelphia

    2 reviews

    5.0

    2 reviews

    Dined on May 28, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    It was amazing! We're from NJ and every time we come into LA, OSPI is our first stop. Food is excellent, atmosphere is fun and service is wonderful.
  14. OpenTable Diner

    1 review

    5.0

    1 review

    Dined on May 28, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    Great service, excellent food, and nice ambiance. I celebrated my birthday and had a last minute guest join our group, the hosts were very accommodating in getting a table to fit all of us. Additionally, the service was perfect, our server was very thorough in going over the menu and made sure we were taken care of the whole evening. Thanks to your team for making it a memorable night!
  15. BrianS

    New Mexico

    37 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    37 reviews

    Dined on May 27, 2023

    overall5food5service4ambience5
    Great food right off of the Venice Beach boardwalk. Nice wine great meatballs and spaghetti. Got to have a cannoli for desert
  16. OpenTable Diner

    Los Angeles

    1 review

    5.0

    1 review

    Dined on May 27, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    Our waitress was literally the sweetest human ever
  17. Tracy

    Chicago

    16 reviews

    5.0

    16 reviews

    Dined on May 27, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience4
    Our server, Kenneth, was outstanding! He truly made the experience so lovely. Food was just amazing. This was my second time visiting and I’ll be back for sure!
  18. CynthiaH

    Los Angeles

    2 reviews

    4.0

    2 reviews

    Dined on May 27, 2023

    overall4food4service5ambience5
    The service and ambience was great as well as the service. The food was good, but the pasta was overly spicy and a little heavy on the oil. The appetizers and dessert was very good. Overall, I enjoyed the experience.
  19. FOODKING

    Los Angeles

    14 reviews

    5.0

    14 reviews

    Dined on May 26, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    opsi was awesome! great food and drinks, the table outside was perfect - the roofing overhead kept us shaded enough but still allowed the nice breeze to come through; the service was great! i can't say enough good things!
  20. Rockies

    Los Angeles

    54 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    54 reviews

    Dined on May 22, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    Food was delicious and we had great service! Highly recommend.
  21. OpenTable Diner

    Tampa

    3 reviews

    2.0

    3 reviews

    Dined on May 21, 2023

    overall2food3service3ambience4
    I think the food is too overpriced, when we order the pasta it took like 40 minutes to arrive to our table, the pizza that we ordered came first but it was super cold when the pasta arrived, the pasta was super spicy (we asked to lower the level of spicyness and apparently it didn’t happened) we were overcharged for items and the waitress never explained that some of the items (that they are not in the menu) are charged, we pay 130 dollars for a pasta a pizza and the fried polvorone with a drink, and the food was 3/5, I paid half the price in other places before waaay much better. I don’t recommend this place to go TBH
  22. lmcdowell

    Jackson Hole

    44 reviews

    vip
    4.0

    44 reviews

    Dined on May 21, 2023

    overall4food4service4ambience4
    Very popular beach located restaurant. The service was prompt and professional. The kale salad was tasty.
  23. OpenTable Diner

    1 review

    5.0

    1 review

    Dined on May 21, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    Amazing. Great food, service, hip and happening. Just love this place. Love the menu and selection. Never fails each time I eat here. The chef is super talented and adds a great spin on every single dish....can't wait to come back.
  24. OpenTable Diner

    Los Angeles

    2 reviews

    5.0

    2 reviews

    Dined on May 21, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    Always amazing! Definitely recommend
  25. Bucky

    Washington DC

    4 reviews

    vip
    4.0

    4 reviews

    Dined on May 20, 2023

    overall4food4service4ambience3
    Food was really good, but it was very noisy (on a Friday night). Probably not a good place for an older crowd that doesn't hear very well anymore. They might want to put some noise dampeners on the ceiling.
  26. Leizel

    San Diego

    2 reviews

    5.0

    2 reviews

    Dined on May 20, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    Delicious food!
  27. karend

    San Diego

    2 reviews

    4.0

    2 reviews

    Dined on May 15, 2023

    overall4food4service4ambience5
    Food was fantastic-everything! Meatballs, pasta AND pizza. Service, ambience all great!
  28. ScottB

    Los Angeles

    32 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    32 reviews

    Dined on May 15, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience4
    Great food as usual and service was terrific too! Look forward to returning again soon.
  29. OpenTable Diner

    Los Angeles

    3 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    3 reviews

    Dined on May 15, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    We came here for Mothers Day & everything was on point! I recommended the Japanese eggplant and meatballs for starters.
  30. JillC

    Los Angeles

    3 reviews

    5.0

    3 reviews

    Dined on May 14, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    We enjoyed everything, service , food & cocktails.
  31. GoodNotGreat

    New York Area

    34 reviews

    vip
    2.0

    34 reviews

    Dined on May 14, 2023

    overall2food4service1ambience2
    We had a reservation for 3 people at 1pm. At 1:17 they tried to seat us a table for 2 with 3 chairs. Unacceptable. We refused. They said the next table for 4 wasn’t ready for another 45 minutes. Unacceptable. They refused to acknowledge that they didn’t honor my reservation. We sat at the bar and ate. They bought us dessert, which was a nice gesture. But still, they messed up our Mother’s Day plans and tried to make me feel unreasonable for wanting a proper table. Never going back.
  32. OpenTable Diner

    Los Angeles

    24 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    24 reviews

    Dined on May 14, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience4
    Everything here is really tasty but the back room gets really really loud but overall great time.
  33. RobertM

    1 review

    5.0

    1 review

    Dined on May 14, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    Ospi always exceeds expectations. Every item is phenomenal and the service is always attentive.
  34. SoCalVegan

    Hawaii

    2 reviews

    5.0

    2 reviews

    Dined on May 13, 2023

    overall5food4service5ambience4
    Excellent food and service. Location very close to beach with ample public parking.
  35. OpenTable Diner

    Los Angeles

    1 review

    vip
    5.0

    1 review

    Dined on May 10, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    Love ospi! Been there many times .The food is soo good. The ambience is great. Drinks were on point. The only thing is the noise level, the buildings acoustics are not great so hard to hear.
  36. rensocal

    Los Angeles

    20 reviews

    vip
    5.0

    20 reviews

    Dined on May 10, 2023

    overall5food5service5ambience5
    Fun time for a special occasion - casual but top service and food. The staff was attentive and helpful. The food sublime. We ate indoors but they have a nice outdoor option. We will definitely go back.
  37. OpenTable Diner

    Toronto

    18 reviews

    vip
    4.0

    18 reviews

    Dined on May 8, 2023

    overall4food5service5ambience5
    Maria was an incredible host to us - very attentive, friendly and knowledgeable. The rest of the staff was also on top of their game and made us feel very welcome. The food portions for Dine LA were great and we even had leftovers.
  38. DebbieDao

    Los Angeles

    19 reviews

    vip
    4.0

    19 reviews

    Dined on May 8, 2023

    overall4food3service3ambience3
    Everything was good. The only disappointment was that the chicken from this caesar salad was over cooked and dry. Service was very friendly.
  39. Kilted1

    Los Angeles

    59 reviews

    vip
    3.0

    59 reviews

    Dined on May 7, 2023

    overall3food4service3ambience3
    Late Sunday lunch for us with a 230 reservation. Still very busy when we arrived and lots of activity around us. First time we were there, it was really quiet, but quite loud this time. Took a while for a server to approach the table, around 8 minutes, maybe, so long that even my wife was looking for a server to connect with. Full disclosure, they adjusted off the mimosa's we had because of the delay, so they recognized the miss...which was very unexpected and appreciated. Food was good...we split the fried provolone, always delicious, and had the breakfast pizza and the breakfast carbonara, which neither of us had before, not our favs.
  40. Burt

    Los Angeles

    20 reviews

    vip
    1.0

    20 reviews

    Dined on May 7, 2023

    overall1food1service4ambience3
    Besides the fact that we’d already enjoyed the restaurant multiple times and live around the corner this was undoubtedly the worst meal that we’ve had ever since we started going there to be honest with you on top of it we found a black hair in our salad and on top of that the food all tasted pretty much marginal

Safety precautions

  • Cleaning & sanitizing

    • Surfaces sanitized between seatings
    • Digital, disposable or sanitized menu provided
    • Sealed or wrapped utensils used
    • Common areas deep-cleaned daily
    • Sanitizer or wipes provided for customers
    • Contactless payment available
  • Screening

    • Sick staff prohibited in the workplace

FAQs

You can order delivery directly from Ospi using the Order Online button. Ospi also offers delivery in partnership with Postmates and Uber Eats. Ospi also offers takeout which you can order by calling the restaurant at (424) 532-7759.

Ospi is rated 4.8 stars by 1164 OpenTable diners.

Yes, you can generally book this restaurant by choosing the date, time and party size on OpenTable.

Make a reservation

2 people

7:00 PM


Booked 87 times today
Google Map for Ospi

2025 Pacific Ave, Venice, CA 90291

Dining areas

Additional information

  • Cross street

    North Venice Blvd and Pacific Ave

  • Neighborhood

    Venice

  • Hours of operation

    Brunch Sat, Sun 10:30 am–3:00 pm Lunch Mon–Fri 11:30 am–4:00 pm Dinner Mon–Thu 4:00 pm–9:30 pm Fri 4:00 pm–10:30 pm Sat 3:00 pm–10:30 pm Sun 3:00 pm–9:30 pm

  • Cuisines

    Italian

  • Dining style

    Casual Dining

  • Dress code

    Business Casual

  • Parking details

    Parking structure across the street from the restaurant. There is also a parking lot on the corner of Pacific Ave and North Venice Blvd. Please see the attendant for more details.

  • Payment options

    AMEX, Cash not accepted, Discover, MasterCard, Visa

  • Executive chef

    Jackson Kalb

  • Additional

    Banquet, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Cocktails, Corkage Fee, Counter Seating, Delivery, Full Bar, Gender Neutral Restroom, Gluten-free Options, Non-Smoking, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Private Room, Takeout, View, Weekend Brunch, Wheelchair Access, Wine

  • Phone number

    (424) 532-7759

  • Catering

    Ospi is now catering your favorite Italian food. We offer both an a la carte menu as well as a packaged event menu to simplify your next party. We can also custom cater your wedding, dinner party, and more with an Ospi Private Chef! Please fill out the form and our catering specialist will contact you shortly. (https://www.ospivenice.com/catering)

  • Private party facilities

    We have a private dining room available above our bar. The room features a large natural oak table to seat up to 18, a private TV and sound system hook up, fresh flowers, and of course great food and service! Please follow the link and fill out the form so that our reservationist can book your party. (https://www.ospivenice.com/group-dining)

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