We had a lovely dinner tonight with wood roasted clams (dunk in the butter for a treat), chicken Parmesan, and a spicy pasta dish. Service was friendly and fast. Great drinks and food, looking forward to coming back. Sea salt gelato was awesome!

Ended up eating here two nights in a row it was that good. The first night was the Sunday night special Cioppino with an excellent broth and more than enough for two people to share. That was preceded by the excellent bread service and the arugula salad, lightly dressed, but packed full of flavor. The second night we were headed back specifically for the Monday night clam linguine special, but it was sold out. Turned out to be a good thing because we ended up ordering the fish piccata, which was absolutely outstanding. Lightly floured and fried on a bed of green beans with a butter and caper sauce. A truly stand out dish. We paired that with the cavatelli with a light vodka sauce, also not to be missed... and of course the bread service for a second night in a row. Believe it or not they bring it all the way up from someplace in Los Angeles and even though it's not local, it is incredibly worth it. All in all spectacular service in a fairly new space with plenty of open seating as well as seating at the bar. Excellent cocktail selection and full bar, but the wine list is a can't miss. We liked a northern Italian red that we tried there so much that we ended up buying a case online for our daughters upcoming wedding. We can't wait to be back in town simply to visit this restaurant again. Highly highly recommend!

Little Doms is exceptional The food is sooo good Creative & unique dishes along with their crazy delicious Italian food The service is also great Obviously a lot of hard work here food & drinks are made with love It's delicious I recommend trying it

We decided to spend a short afternoon in Carpinteria and get a quick and small dinner in a place we hadn't tried before. We noticed that this restaurant wasn't far from the beach, and it had a nice selection of Italian food and seafood, so we'd figured we'd walk in and give it a shot. The restaurant was fairly quiet when we got there at 4:30 on a Saturday afternoon; we asked about a table or booth indoors and we're told that a booth was possible as long as we didn't mind leaving before 6:30, when the place would be filled due to reservations. That was fine with us, since we were looking for something small and relatively quick. The restaurant is an offshoot of a similarly named one in Silver Lake in LA, with more of an emphasis on seafood dishes in addition to Italian food. The decor and the general design gave it the vibe of a place that had been around forever a long time. It's not hard to imagine a similar restaurant being on this site 90 years ago! The server was very attentive and was very quick and efficient with our order and any requests we had. My wife had a margherita pizza with Italian sausage; I had a side order of three meatballs and a bowl of seafood gumbo, asking for the meatballs to be delivered first, The meatballs were excellent - hot and flavorful, with a rich marinara sauce. I almost wished I'd ordered a plate of spaghetti and meatballs instead! My wife's pizza was excellent as well; the dough was crisp, almost cracker-like, and the sausage and sauce were delicious. The gumbo then came out, and that was also wonderful; the soup was tasty but not overly spicy, and every spoonful was chock full of seafood. Our portions were big enough that we both had quite a bit of food to take home because we were so full, and we weren't about to leave anything behind! We had no room for dessert, but we're definitely coming back for the cold lemon pie! As a couple of reviews have mentioned, Little Dom's isn't cheap, but the food and service were excellent. One suggestion for them, though - the restaurant should consider ordering some standard pizza boxes for takeout orders and for carrying home leftover pizza. We had so much pizza left and the restaurant had such small to-go boxes that we had to fold the pizza up to get it to fit! In the grand scope of things, that's a minor quibble. In a town where restaurants with indifferent service and average food get rave reviews (*cough* The Spot *cough*), we were really pleased with our choice!