Here is our map of open restaurants in the Mission. This changes often, so check back for updates and let us know if we are missing anyone.
La Traviata has been around almost 40 years, and it’s the Mission’s only real “red sauce” Italian place, complete with tablecloths, opera music, and celebrity photos on the walls. For now, of course, you can only get their homey fare via takeout or delivery on their website.
We ordered the lasagna – an item we’d always depended on – and the Alla Carrera, linguini with sausage, mushrooms, and tomatoes. Surprisingly, I preferred the linguini dish this evening. We had a crunchy Caesar salad on the side, along with their fresh, house-made bread rolls that accompany every dinner. Comfort food during these uncomfortable times.
La Traviata’s menu includes other old-school favorites, too, like antipasto misto, gnocchi, carbonara, veal parmigiana, cioppino, sweetbreads, chicken piccata, etc. They also offer salads, soups, and side dishes of pasta with your sauce of choice.
San Francisco may be opening up, but we still need to support our restaurants while they’re in lockdown!
La Traviata
2854 Mission St.
I have a picture of Ted & Lee Samuel dining at your restaurant. He brought my wife and I to enjoy your food years ago. Ted died in ’06, I still miss him.
I am writing a book, he is a key character, have pictures in the book of him and his
buds. I just ck’d and saw that La Traviata is still in bus…..amazing. I remember the music playing there, pictures on the wall, I think Ted’s face is up there (was).
Take care.
La Trav has been around a long time, and doing good as well as serving great food all that time. They hire all local people and train local young people in the restaurant business, including as chefs. During the Loma Prieta earthquake (1989), when hundreds of San Franciscans were housed in emergency shelters, the late, great owner of La Trav, Zev, took 20 gallon containers of hot minestrone to the shelters.
A great restaurant; try the salmon.
GeorgE, liked your comment. As a native SFer and family having had business for over 65 yrs I agree with your perceptions. I have been to La Traviata for almost 40 yrs and it’s been a hit or miss more hits but restaurants I have loved have gone, disappeared or shut up shop all due to change.
If you like the place and the food, great. If not, don’t. But don’t ever — or stop if you do — “try to keep something alive!” It’s so fake and futile! Let whatever is survive or die on its own merits or lack. Evolution. Change is the only real thing in all of creation. NOTHING ever stays the same. The entire universe, including SF, is even different now than when I started writing this moments ago…imperceptibly different, perhaps, but that’s just the limits of our cognition. Everything is always changing, not second by second, but much faster than that: CONTINUALLY. Keep old school Italian alive blah blah blah? Nope. A little rigatoni ’cause I like it today, sure thing. Over and out.
I think the link to the map is broken. It says I don’t have an access.
Will you fix?
Thanks for this – will order takeout this evening – have enjoyed many wonderful meals at this gem over the years!