1of five · Restaurants · Echo Park
Donna's
Italian American · $$
Red sauce taken as seriously as the room: fusilli alla vodka under chili oil, pinwheel lasagna bolognese in cast iron, garlic bread built to share. Sixty-four seats, gold curtains and teal floral wallpaper, a strip-mall trattoria redrawn in technicolor. Booked solid most nights.
Reservations recommendedBooks on Resy weeks out; the ten-seat bar top is walk-in and waitlist only. Six guests is the largest party the room can take.
Good for
BirthdaysLoud, lively and good at a celebration.
Date nightLow light and a red-sauce classic.
Small groupsTables book up to six.
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