Welcome to Ca'Dario
Northern Italian Cuisine for Santa Barbara

If you’re searching for Santa Barbara Italian restaurants, then search no more. Ca’Dario Italian restaurants conveniently offer 4 locations in Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Montecito. Opened in 1997, the first Ca’Dario was one of the few downtown Santa Barbara restaurants offering authentic Northern Italian food. Over twenty years later, even though many other Italian restaurants have opened up, Ca’Dario restaurants have consistently been among the best Italian restaurants in Santa Barbara.

Chef Dario Furlati combines authentic imported pasta, cheese, tomatoes, flour, and olive oil with fresh local ingredients in order to offer the consistency in food quality that brings customers back year after year, making Ca’Dario restaurants among the best Italian restaurants Santa Barbara has to offer. The wine list includes a good selection of Italian wines from Sicily to Tuscany. Italian beers are also served.

Italian pastificcio (fresh pasta shop) and casual counter service restaurant featuring handmade pastas, simple quality ingredients, and Italian artisanship and rituals.

Enjoy our pastas to dine in or take some fresh pasta and sauce home to cook yourself.