Michael's on Naples
Italian restaurant · Long Beach
5620 2nd St, Long Beach, CA 90803
Highlights
Upscale Italian with rooftop dining, house-made pastas, and wine
Upscale Italian with rooftop dining, house-made pastas, and wine
"If you’re looking to impress somebody or finally wear that dress you bought for a wedding and never used, head to Michael’s. This Long Beach staple located on the mostly-residential Naples Island has been around for years, but is still the standard for special occasion dining in the area. Are they doing anything particularly different with their food? No. But sometimes it’s just nice to sit on an open-air rooftop patio, drink martinis, eat a whole branzino, and pretend you own one of those yachts down on the water. RESERVE A TABLE WITH RESERVE A TABLE" - Brant Cox
"Three-course prix fixe dinner with optional wine pairing $55 per person, $95 with the wine pairing A very decent deal for a multi-course Italian dinner with a $40 wine pairing" - sylvio martins, garrett snyder
"I described Michael’s on Naples in Long Beach as offering an elegant $65-per-person dinner featuring dishes such as cavatelli, porchetta, and panna cotta." - Matthew Kang
"To avoid one of those tortuous drives post-meal, I stayed overnight in Long Beach to explore the menu at Michael’s on Naples, a 16-year-old restaurant a few blocks from busy Belmont Shore. The ground-floor dining room is classic and elegant while the top floor has a retractable roof for gazing at the stars; Chef Eric Samaniego’s eight years of working with local farmers and ethical ranchers shows especially in his tortelloni, which is executed beautifully with forest mushrooms, browned butter, crispy sage, and Fontina cheese. Naples-born general manager Massimo Aronne has decades of experience pairing wines and always shares the story behind each maker, making it the perfect type of restaurant to keep wine courses flowing while sharing and chatting about each dish." - Eater Staff
"Long Beach Italian restaurant Michael’s on Naples is consistently one of the best places in Long Beach, offering mozzarella, tortellini, milk-braised pork shoulder, and chestnut fritters as lengthy options for the $65 per person dineLA dinners." - Matthew Kang
