The gluten free crust at Lucia's tastes like the real deal. Best I have had by a large margin. Please open in Marin!

Food was ok, but not good enough to justify the price and the service was seriously lacking. Read the fine print "20% liveable wage added" to all checks. I'll gladly give 20% for great service, but every single question I asked the waitress did not know the answer to - all basic questions about the menu. Portions were very small - this is pasta and pizza! Will not return. read more

We came here for the first time for brunch. They've made a solid effort at adapting their strength in Neapolitan pizza to a brunch menu. We tried the American Breakfast and the Margherita. The crust was wonderfully soft. The tomato and basil on the Margherita were a little skimpy so it was closer to a cheese pizza. The toppings on the American Breakfast were also a little middle of the road. I forget the name of the cocktail we shared and it's not on their online menu; suffice it to say it was very sugary and a great brunch complement to the savory pizza. Service was very friendly and we got a table immediately. I like their mandatory 20% service fee. It effectively eliminates the unfairness of tips without making the menu prices look higher than their competitors, so I could see this model catching on. Brunch isn't really their main interest here, so I have high hopes for when I come back for dinner. read more

I was extremely disappointed about the mandatory 20% "Livable Wage" gratuity added to my check.

Delicious food and fabulous service. Looking forward to returning. Had the vegan pizza which was delicious. Nicest people working there. I want to come back and order a custom vegan pizza. Location is great. Check it out. read more

Good ambiance but bland food. I had the La Norma pizza and found it really underwhelming. It looked great but didnt taste like anything. The tomato sauce was more of a tomato puree (no salt or pepper, no hints of garlic, oregano, dill, thyme etc.) The eggplant was cooked well but was not seasoned. The cheeses on this pizza (mozzarella and ricotta) are tasteless to begin with and did not do any favors to this pizza. Overall, a very bland and flavorless pizza. I also had The Tempest and Americano cocktails; they were on the sweeter side but again there was no real flavor kick. The Tempest has ghost pepper maple syrup so I was expecting heat and spice along with a smoky sweetness; the cocktail did deliver on those flavors but it was very very very subdued. The drinks weren't impressive but they also weren't terrible. No qualms about the service; we were seated promptly and our waiter was nice. We were right by the wood fire oven so we were able to see our pizza being put together and cooked in front of us. The pizza was done in about 10 mins. (Really cute artworks in the restrooms btw!) read more

I love the Neapolitan pizza that's made with quality ingredients (flour is imported from Italy)! The staff and owners are delightful, fun, and the right amount of attentive. I have enjoyed 3 great and delicious evenings at Lucia's. I highly recommend it for a casual fun Berkeley spot with great food and service. read more

The food is great and the gluten-free pizza outstanding. However, the pricing is way too expensive for what it is. Further, I really didn't appreciate the mandatory tip of 20% added to the bill especially as it was only 2 of us! At the prices being charged, they should not be adding a mandatory tip. Also the cocktails are very, very watered down. We paid approx $70 per person including a cocktail and pizzas for each of us. Also 1 starter and 1 dessert to share. read more

Excellent Pizza and wonderful menu in general - very italian. Creative but not complicated versions of italian & Mediterranean classics. Some good 'non-full liquor bar' cocktails too. Happy to go back. read more

We tried their pesto pasta - honestly, I was surprised how small the portion was for almost 20$. So we also had to order 2 portions of meatballs and a garden salad. The salad was fresh and tasty, but the meatballs were just average. The service fee ( 20%) is included in the check automatically (given the fact that we had dinner for two, not a big gathering). The interior is nice and cosy, but my understanding is that you should order pizza there for a full experience. read more

Best pizza I've had in the Bay Area! The cannoli were also great. Everything tasted exceptionally authentic to my Italian (picky :)) taste. Very good service too. read more

I came here for dinner with a friend and I can't wait to come back. We ordered a couple awesome pizzas and the crust was perfection. We also split a tasty, seasonal salad and of course had to get some burrata to go with our wine. The quality was great and the service was awesome, go treat yourself to a yummy meal! read more

This is one of the best pizza restaurants you will ever go to. Absolutely delicious and great service, the owner is from Venice and the staff treats you like family. Everything was incredible. Definitely get the Lips of Fire and the Spudsy pizza. Amazing! read more

This is by far the best pizza in Berkeley. Nice casual ambiance and great for families. Service was great too.

Lucia's is an amazing, authentic, restaurant that serves outstanding pizza that is made by experienced Italian pizza makers. I recommend to get one pizza for each person, because they are a thin and light style. The service is great and, due to the thin center, the pizza cooks amazingly fast. The puffy, signature Neapolitan crust is great and delicious. I hope you go and see if you like it (which you probably will). read more

Lucia's is my favorite Italian restaurant in Berkeley! Everytime I go there I usually get a pizza (Margherita, Lips of Fire, and Cosacca are all amazing- tastes/looks like an authentic pizza from Italy) and a pasta (trenette al pesto is so fresh and tasty). I've also tried the rosemary fries from the starters section which is very good as well. You probably couldn't go wrong with any dish on the menu. The service is excellent, I can't thank them enough! Everyone is extremely helpful and kind, and put in lots of effort to make your dining experience a great one. I wholeheartedly recommend Lucia's, definitely a must-try if you are in the Berkeley area! read more

I adore this place!!! Whatever they're doing, I hope they don't stop. My favorite Uber EATS order will always be the margarita with arugula, mushrooms, prosciutto crudo and farm egg with vegan cheese and a gluten free crust! #paleo?! The spicy oil is a must!! And the restaurant is always so gracious to add an extra side of bread or oil on request. FIVE STARS FOR LUCIAS!! And a must-eat in Berkeley/Oakland!!!! read more

Great,new addition to Berkeley's Theatre Row. Pizza's are inventive & delicious & reasonably priced. Other items are equally tasty especially the side salads which, unfortunately, in many Italian are given short shrift but not here. Not only is the food solid, but the wait staff is lively, informative, helpful & swift. . Lucia's is a great culinary beginning to our theatrical experience. R Kaiser read more

This is the best pizza I have ever had! The crust is so soft and fluffy, and the ingredients are all top-notch. I've been to Italy, and this pizza is better than any I had there. And their gluten-free pizza is so impressive! It takes exactly how pizza should taste. read more

My server was really friendly and sweet! Unfortunately I have nothing else good to say about this. I waited 40 minutes for a Margherita pizza and when it came out, it was undercooked - I'm familiar with the Neapolitan style but this is wasn't soft and chewy, it actually contained gummy, raw dough with a soupy puddle of sauce in the middle. Apparently they had a new pizza guy and I think once they realized how long I'd been waiting, they rushed to give me a pizza that wasn't even ready yet. Paul Hollywood would have refused to eat it altogether. They also add 20% to every bill, which wouldn't have bothered me if this hadn't been such a bad experience. read more

'this was hands down the best pizza I have ever had. The sauce was so very delicate and tasted like ripe tomatoes, not canned. The crust was wood fired and was delicious. Considering I "never" eat pizza, I would go back again and again. We had the Margharita with buffolo cheese. Out of this world! read more

Food was ok. I came in with my kids and husband. They added a 20% service fee without letting me know. I find this to be unprofessional. Also a 20% tip needs to come with good service. Poor taste and left me feeling irritated instead of content. Won't go again. read more

At first sight, this new joint in Berkeley is cool and fun! The service was excellent and very friendly! Since they do not yet have a hard liquor license, we ordered drinks; Negroni with Prosecco, refreshing, but a splash of Prosecco doesn't warrant the $10!!!! We ordered a few pizzas to share and two salads, also to share. Each salad was $13 and we were shocked at the size once they arrived. The salads were very ordinary and shouldn't have cost more than $6. The pizza dough was a little underdone, and the toppings sounded much more interesting than they actually were. I would have loved to come back to this place but aside from the service, the pizzas and salads do not warrant a second visit. read more

The pizza was so good (both the margherita and lips of fire)!! Also had a special appetizer with delicious fresh burrata and the cacio e pepe fritelli. The place is super cute and staff is super friendly!! read more

This should be considered a 3.5 review. 4.5 for the two, very good pizzas we had, and a 1 for the gnocchi special--awful pea sauce and gummy gnocchi--we were hard-pressed to find the advertised ricotta. And a 2.5 for the lasagna, which was over-salted. $20+ is just too much for these mediocre pasta dishes. Entrees came out cold and not because the waitstaff wasn't working hard. The restaurant was just so busy, and the kitchen may have been overburdened. Our calamari rings weren't great and tasted like calamari steak. Please be more generous with your pickled, red onions in your salad, since they gave an otherwise lackluster salad some zip. I would definitely come back for the pizzas or get them to go. read more

My cousin and I ate at Lucia's after a concert at UC Berkeley. Maybe I haven't dined out in a while, and we did order a $50 bottle of wine (my cousin's choice), but when I saw the bill at $160 for two I was dumbfound. If it had been a stellar meal, it would have been different. But it wasn't. We first got some anti-pasta, which arrived with a flourish, containing various preserved pork concoctions, and a little helping of pickled onion. I liked the onion, The meats were ok, but a bit short on quantity. What really surprised us was that instead of bread there was just about four tiny very thin toasted slices of bread - about the size of half dollars. We asked for some real bread and the request was acknowledged, but it never came. At some point the waitress told us that the bread had just been put in the oven... I guess I'm not sure why a pizza place doesn't have some bread on the counter, go figure. We asked about the specials, and I selected the sweet potato gnocchi. My cousin selected a seafood pizza. I was assured by the waitress that the gnocchi was a new addition fo the menu and it was really good. Well, it wasn't. It just took one bite to realize it completely lacked any flavor except for the slight sweetness of the sweet potato. I asked for salt immediately, and it was rather slow in coming. When a dish of hot pepper flakes arrived for my cousin's pizza, I immediately doused the gnocchi with that as well. It was much improved by that, but still disappointing that the chef didn't seem to think a main dish required a bit more flavor than a limp noodle (not that the gnocchi pasta was limp, but it lacked any taste other than al dente). The seafood pizza, which I tried, was a very thin crust with some cheese, shrimp, and calamari. The kitchen was out of the clams that they had initially said would be part of the mix. OK, It tasted OK to me, but one slice was enough. Nothing to write home about. The wine was good, at least, but at $50 it had better be. The service was friendly and adequate, but the prices and food left me rather dissatisfied. To her credit the waitress noticed me douse the gnocchi with salt and red pepper. I explained why, and she said she'd pass it on to the chef. The only thing I can consider is that the restaurant considered the gnocchi to be more of a divertissement than a main course. In which case it should be described as a bland side instead of a special. As for the restaurant itself... it's quite small, with tiny tables, which are not particularly clean (I have thing about wooden restaurant tables with a layer of grime on them you can scrape off with a fingernail). A simple wipe with a towel isn't enough, folks. The good news is I didn't get sick. I haven't checked on my cousin since. LOL. My cousin seemed satisfied with the seafood pizza. But after one bite of the gnocchi he didn't seem too interested in more. I thought the seafood pizza was ok, but for the price rather undersized with a paucity of toppings. But I guess the lite approach is considered all the rage. Me, I'd have been OK with one of the many nearby Chinese restaurants, where one can get delicious eats for a fraction of the cost of Lucia's. Hell, I'd have eaten at Bongo Burger if it was open on a Sunday night. Perhaps if I had tried some other pizza there I'd have been more satisfied. But I doubt I'll ever go back unless someone else foots the bill. And maybe not even then. read more

Everything that I have had here is made from scratch and is absolutely delicious. The menu is very gluten-free friendly but you will not suffer. Rather the pizza tastes like it has gluten and you are not on some special diet. Yum! read more

Exceeded expectations from apps to dessert to the latte I had at the end of the meal. We ordered the burrata to start followed by a prosciutto pizza and the bolognese. We had cannoli for dessert plus coffee and wine. The presentation was beautiful for all the dishes. They have a wood fired oven so the pizza was crispy on the outside but still lovely and soft on the inside. The flavor combinations we're outstanding for all the dishes -- for example there was a bit of mint olive oil on the pizza that gave it a light, fresh burst to balance the arugula and prosciutto. Will definitely come back. read more

So happy to find authentic Italian pizza in Berkeley! Much cheaper than a ticket to Italy! read more

Lucia’s Berkeley - Pizza Near Me - Berkeley, California

$67 for 3 of us - all we got was 2 small pizzas & small bowl of pasta, no drinks. The crust was soggy, the sauce like watery paint, and barely any toppings. The Lips of Fire pizza was not spicy at all. The only thing positive to say about this place is the staff was very nice. read more

Just when you thought you had tried all the delicious pizza out there, here comes Lucia taking flavorful Neapolitan pizza to a whole nother level. They sought out the best ingredients and set up a chic and charming ambience, it will win you over and make this your new favorite spot. read more

Perfect each and every time. Service, food, fun - exactly what you want. Have had no choice but to make it a weekly tradition. And the gluten free pizza (can't believe I'm posting re gluten free anything) - seriously better than most pizza I've had, and I've been a daily consumer in NYC for the last 30 years. read more

GF pizza was really great, but overall impression from service is bad and non-welcoming. 20% mandatory tip also killed our desire to come back here. I usually leave decent tips (often 30%), but I hate to be forced to leave the certain amount of tips. I really wanted to come back here but because of this mandatory charge, I won't. Hey, owner, I also believe you should pay your server livable wage, not your customers, but the customers can tip them on top of that, but not compensate your poor compensation. read more

You know how they say if the service is bad you tell 10 people.....yeah. I wish I could tell 100. I don't know what our waitress was on but she was out to lunch. Rude, added extra charges to our bill and only told us after we had ordered. Top it off bland pizza. What a horrible experience. It's sad too, since I had planned on coming here for a while since it's down the block but I will not return. read more

Not sure how this restaurant gets high ratings but we ordered the frisee, walnut, pear and Gorgonzola salad. We got a handful of wilted frisée, NO PEARS, NO WALNUTS and no Gorgonzola. The pizza we ordered was so soggy, gross and not cooked. We called to express our complaints to the manager he proceeded to argue and say how it was "our fault" it was this way! Anyway we ended up throwing it away and ordering from Bobby G's! This place is all around horrible. We would never leave a bad review of any place, but the fact the manager argued instead of trying to fix it is inexcusable. $50 for a handful of wilted lettuce and a slimy horrible pizza! Not OK! read more

There may not be an expansive menu, but what is served is excellent. Great calamari with a subtle dipping sauce as well as delicate fried pepper slices! Both the Bolognese and pasta vongole were spot on and the sauce to pasta ratio was well balanced. We tried both the chocolate mousse- dense chocolate heaven- and my favorite, the tiramisu - the best I've ever had. Did I mention the coctails. Again, not expansive but those offered all had a special twist. Try the Gran Torino mule! I can only wish there was a restaurant like this in Fremont! read more

Delicious! So excited that a new, quality, gourmet pizza place is finally open in downtown Berkeley. Great location, amazing and really high quality ingredients, fast service, fun and relaxed atmosphere. The pizza really is superb - not too heavy - and you can tell that they really spent a lot of time and put a lot of thought into selecting only the best ingredients. Can't recommend it highly enough! read more

We were early for our reservation before going to Berkeley Rep so sat at the bar where we were able to watch the pizza-making and the amazing pizza oven process! So we had to have a pizza! The service was attentive and personal but not intrusive. The menu is interesting -- we shared fritto misto (yum), the baratta (with beets -- inventive and excellent) and a prosciutto and arugula pizza. Good choices of wine by the glass (before theater, must be cautious). We will definitely be back -- so many other choices to try. read more

Our family tried Lucia's for the first time on Saturday night and all four of us (including our two kids) loved it! Loved the look of the place (especially the funny pizza cartoons all over the bathroom walls), the drink selection was great, and the service fantastic! We all liked the pizzas were order. I got the vegan mozzarella and is was the best I've had (no weird consistency or flavor). The roasted cauliflower/brussel sprouts were delirious and dessert was quickly enjoyed. Will most definitely return! read more

Went here for my boyfriend's birthday. (Disclaimer: this happened several months ago, so some details might be misremembered, but that being said, the bad taste from the experience has lingered.) We were intrigued by the pink neon sign and the busy crowd, so I made a reservation, hoping that the vibes would make for a nice birthday dinner. But honestly, would not do that again. Maybe this place is ok for a normal meal, but even that seems kind of ridiculous considering how expensive it is relative to everything else around Berkeley. We arrived early for our reservation but still had to wait a long time for it. The hostess/waitress (who maybe was a manager?) seemed terribly stressed and unhappy, which made it a weird vibe. The service in general was slow to check in on us, with some awkward periods where we were straining to get attention. At one point, we ordered dessert, and actually it came twice (though the second was sent back), and in addition it was also super slow to get the check. These series of mistakes led to a confrontation between the waitstaff which was weird to witness. And on top of that they automatically charged 20% for service??? Which really pissed me off, but at that point I was just so over it and disappointed that we had not chosen the right place for a dinner I was hoping would be special. The food *was* tasty and I liked the pizza dough a lot, but the experience was terribly lacking. I can't get over the fact that the reservation process was so bad, and looking at other reviews it seems like many other people had the same issues. There are a lot of other places in Berkeley that offer a more caring experience with comparable or cheaper prices... so yeah. :/ read more