Cesare’s At The Beach

Are you kidding me!!! Absolutely fantastic. I have eaten at Italian restaurants all over the place. This was truly amazing. Server was great, made an excellent wine recommendation followed by eggplant appetizer which was great. Entrees were excellent. Took some cannoli to go. Also amazing. These guys are all business. We are going back tomorrow!

Always a wonderful dining experience! The staff is friendly and knowledgable and the food is fresh and homemade Italian food! You come hungry and leave full. Wide range of menu options and kid friendly, too. Sitting outside is a gift In itself. The owners are local and stop in often which I enjoy! Easy access for wheelchairs, too. I have no negatives about this place other than why can’t they cook for me everyday? Oh yes, and save room for dessert! Mangia!

This was a great find. Right before you leave Clearwater Beach to head over to Sand Key, in a small shopping strip is Cesare’s. This was some of the best Italian food we’ve had and coming from the Northeast, that is saying something!
Take the trolley or whatever, but make this a part of your time at Clearwater Beach. Prices were reasonable for this fresh pasta!

Outstanding! Great staff, very attractive, young and attentive. It was a great night to sit outside during sunset. When they bring the bread and pesto oil, ask for balsamic and Parmesan to add to the oil, it’s life changing! Also the lasagna is amazzzzing! We split that and didn’t get anything else and couldn’t even finish. Great place!

We enjoyed a wonderful meal. Service was fantastic and the owners grandson came by our table to check on us. He is only 8 years old and in a suit and tie

This place is off the hook amazing. I’m from San Diego and have lived in FL about 4 years, def consider myself a foodie, Caesars is by far the best Italian food I’ve had in FL

We were greeted at the door by a «smokin’ hot babe» (my male companions expression), who seated us at a nice booth. We were glad that we made our reservation for 5 PM because the place was packed by six.
The attentive waiter brought us hot Italian bread with a olive oil, garlic and basil dipping sauce that was to die for. The entrees were very expensive so we decided to share the Osso Bucco. I have never had better and that says a lot because I’ve tried it in various restaurants in Italy, on cruise ships, several places in the USA, plus I make it myself. The meat was buttery tender and the bone marrow was huge. The sauce was seasoned just right.
All in all we had a wonderful time.

Way over priced!!! Our portions were small, service was subpar, and food wasn’t any better than Olive Garden. You don’t even get a salad with your $ 30 pasta dish that may include all of 5 raviolis. Waiter acted put out when we even asked for more bread. Top it off, the wait staff was complaining about the place and the owner’s poor management?! Awkward! We won’t be back.

Ambience very nice. Tables nicely spaced. Service good to excellent. Food outstanding, although a bit pricey. Can get very busy, so make a reservation. Seafood prepared perfectly. Would not recommend outdoor seating — loud due to parking lot and busy street.

Great food and great service.
Wife had an excellent off menu chicken parm. Perfectly done and way too much to eat!
I had the grouper with asparagus. Just fantastic.
The owner stopped by are table a couple of times to check on us and talked us into a delectable tiramisu to cap off a great meal.

Great food, fantastic service (thanks Nicholas). All the marks for a fine dining experience, but located in a strip mall. Guest range from dressy to flip flops.
Highly recommend the Penne Terra e Mare! It was delicious :)

Ok I know this place is on the beach so you would automatically think it’s a tourist type place like I did, but when I read the Unilocal reviews I decided to give it a try, and I’m glade I did.
This a a place worth driving to.
We had Veal Marsala, the Veal could be cut with a fork it was that tender, the sauce was light and tasty with a lot of tasty mushrooms.
The vegetables were fresh and cooked perfectly, not mush like so many places do, and the dinners were NOT SALTY ! Which seems to be a problem in so many places.
We had chicken and egg plant that was prepared perfectly.
We had a desert recommended by our waiter that was a perfect ending to our meal.
We will be back

I know I keep giving 5 stars but they do what they do flawlessly. Each dish is a masterpiece and the service is exceptional. Wine list one of the best on the beach.

I like this place a lot. It reminds me of a small mom and pop Italian restaurant in New York City that was been relocated to the beach.
Great, high quality food with a diverse menu. Service is very attentive. Prices are quite reasonable for what you get.
Try the Tartuffo desert — it’s hard to find and very good here.

I took my girlfriend out for the rare Italian dinner… rare since neither of us is crazy about pasta. So I usually cook Italian at home, and maximize the proteins and veggies. I had heard good things about Cesare’s and decided to give it a go. We arrived a bit early, and were seated immediately. Very friendly and attentive staff here… without being bothersome. The location is ok… limited free parking, and a bit noisy from traffic if you sit outside as we did. But the view is ok… and it was nice and cool, very pleasant. Now on to the food!
Fresh HOT bread, very crusty… and almost too hot to eat! YUM! A shared Caesar salad, that was very good.
I have sung the praises of Escargot to my girlfriend several times, and usually just got a «gross», or «yuck»! Tonight she was feeling adventurous, and said «yes, please»! :) They were nicely served… six large critters each swimming in it’s own little pool of butter… very tasty! No grit either… unlike some lesser establishments I have been to. She enjoyed them, and was shocked at how yummy they were! Highly recommended!
I will often order for both of us as I often know the menus better than she does, and I love to introduce her to new food to love. For her… I ordered the Cernia Mediterranea (Grouper with Crab, Shrimp cooked in a wonderful Mediterranean type sauce with Capers and Kalamata Olives). She loved it, and said it was some of the best grouper she had ever had. I had the Veal SaltimBocca all Romana (veal with proscuitto in a nice demi-​glaze sauce) very tender and flavorful… I would definitely order it again! Both were served with roasted potatoes and some nicely steamed mixed veggies… nice portions, and very fresh. Alas… my lovely girlfriend is allergic to alchohol… and I don’t drink at all when I am driving… so I had to pass on what looked like an excellent wine selection! Next time she drives! ;)
We have not been indulging in desserts lately (a love of good food is hard on the waistline) but I was jonesing for a Crème Brule… and she wanted some Chocolate Mousse. So we got them, with some wonderful fresh coffee… black, of course. My crème brule was excellent, wonderfully sweet with a thick layer of carmelized sugar on top… Delicious… and I will savor it in memory often (and go back just for desert if necessary, lol!). She said her Mousse was very good… nicely chocolaty, and not too sweet. So all in all, a wonderful dinner! Not the least expensive place to eat… plan on around $ 50 – 55 per person if you do it like we did. but well worth it!
Afterwards we went for a nice walk on the beach (further south, since Clearwater Beach is a ZOO!) and had a wonderful sunset… all romantic and stuff! And that is all I am going to say!

Definitely worth checking out, but make a reservation, because it gets busy!
We made 8 p.m. reservations for a Friday. However, it turned out to be colder that day than we expected so we called to see if we could come earlier, since we were anxious to leave the beach. It was about 7:15 p.m. and they said although they might not be able to seat us right away it wouldn’t take long. Luckily they were able to seat us right away, but when we left there were a good number of people waiting! Even though there was a lot of times open on opentable, it is misleading, because this is a popular place!
Cesare himself was checking people in. It is a really nice touch to have the owner walking around working in the restaurant. It gives it a great family feel.
I appreciate how laid back the atmosphere is. We sat outside and the tables were pretty bare without table cloth. When you’re covered in sun screen and have sand everywhere, you appreciate not being surrounded by finery.
They bring out warm bread with pesto to start. It was good and it helps tide over ravenous beach goers like ourselves.
I looked over the menu before we came, and I’m glad I did, because there are so many options. My husband did not, so I had to wait for him to read through everything. I knew I wanted to try the pasta, because it is homemade. My husband chose one dish, but when he heard the specials he decided on the chicken parmesan. I decided on the ravioli with crabmeat and ricotta.
The dishes came in a good amount of time. I loved my ravioli. The pink sauce was amazing and I stole some of my husband’s pasta to dip in it. I could definitely tell that the ravioli was homemade. The chicken parmesan was good too. It wasn’t the best we ever had, but it was pretty good. I bet if we both stuck with just pasta dishes I would have given this place 5 stars.
If you are at Clearwater Beach you should come here. Yes it is a little off the beaten path, but that also means there is an abundance of free parking on the side streets. Definitely check this place out.

Last table there last night and still received amazing service. We had a scallop and shrimp pasta dish and the most delicious lasagna either of us had ever had. Very light for such a wonderful meat sauce.
The wine list was okay, was hoping for a good Italian white or rose, but our Napa valley wine worked!
This is a must stop in Clearwater if you want fresh seafood and pasta!

Found this gem via Groupon, and it was amazing!
Service was top notch, and food was even better! The bread was hot and came with really tasty oil and pesto for dipping. I had mussels and my husband had a salad to start. Both were delish! The mussels were a generous portion — there were options to have it with marinara sauce or garlic wine sauce. Garlic wine sauce was to die for! And dipping the bread in it was ridiculously good. Then I had fettuccine alfredo (and added 3 jumbo shrimps). The shrimps were so succulent, pasta was so fresh, and the alfredo sauce was so creamy… YUMMM! My husband had lasagne verdi, and the meat sauce and homemade pasta were perfection. We ordered a cannoli to share — it was really good but had a lot of filling… made it a tad messy to eat.
I would say this restaurant has upscale food in a casual setting. Perfect spot for a laid back date night. There were a few families dining as well… a great option for all :). There was outdoor patio seating available with heaters.
It was only a short walk from the nearby Hyatt. The plaza has lots of parking available.

By far one of my favorite restaurants I had the pleasure of dining at this vacation. OK hands down, its situation, décor, etc is not why you come here, but the traditional awesome Italian food is why. I suggest you have some kind of small appetizer and have a pasta, because any of the ones here are fantastic! As soon as I had my first bite — (actually as soon as I stepped into the restaurant for the first time the smell reminded me of good Italian food) — I was thrown back into childhood, remembering all the great Italian food I was exposed to back then.
Their antipasti, & and pasta I can swear for, I did not try any of the carne platters. Great first-​class service, with energetic young servers keeps this place in my favorites of all time.

Wow. Amazing Italian cuisine.
Didn’t know what to expect at first being in a shopping plaza… but Hello, pastis! Bueno!
Had the carpacio and buratta to start.
Dinner was a pasta, mix grille of seafood and Lamb shank. Amazing! Done tix perfection.
Atmosphere was chill. We watched the Pens Playoff game!
Can not wait to go back sometime soon.