Spruzzo's

07/13/09

How can people pay for this food?

by bluntz at Citysearch

This place has to be the most overrated restaurant ever. Having lived in Europe for such a long time I was really looking forward to moving back to LA/Malibu for the food. Because you can get some amazing food here for half the price of what you would pay in Europe. This place however has the worst food in Malibu. Stay away from the pasta, I don't know what the management thinks but there is nothing good about the food here.

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• Pros: Delivery
• Cons: Food

03/28/08

Disastrous Service and Disgusting Food

by gsabean at Citysearch

Spruzzo has a beautiful location - it's right across the beach - and beautiful staff (everyone looked straight out of a romance novel, particularly our waiter... or maybe make that "waiters", as we had about three, all hurried and unattentive, serve just myself and my fiancee). However, the scenery inside AND outside couldn't make up for the unfortunately dissimilar, disastrous food. I ordered crab cakes, my favorite, and they came so greasy and spongey, I couldn't finish. There was not even any crab meat in them! They were obviously defrosted, microwaved and served at a delicious-looking price of $8.95. In this case, you get LESS than what you pay for, folks. This place solely survives on its prime location and the fact that it's a rarity in terms of finding Italian food on the beach. So, if you're looking for a bite, trust me, there's nothing on this menu that you can't find elsewhere. Take my word for it!

• Pros: beautiful location, fire pit outdoors
• Cons: unattentive servers, microwaved food, pseudo-italian, poor value