Forkelo ranking · Updated September 2026
15 lasagnas across San Jose, ranked on what people say about the dish itself — never the restaurant's overall rating.
26 dish-specific mentions · 88% positive · 3 source types · menu verified September 2026
Sausage, herb and ricotta layers that regulars call velvety and generous, and the one plate they reorder. Nothing in the set argues the other side, so read the praise as untested.
Vito's Trattoria · San Jose
15 dish-specific mentions · 93% positive · 1 source type · menu verified September 2026
Travellers and regulars call it some of the best they have tasted and clearly homemade. The lone pan describes meatloaf between two pasta sheets with minimal cheese.
Angelo's Italian Restaurant · San Jose
29 dish-specific mentions · 93% positive · 2 source types · menu verified September 2026
A neighbourhood order that customers of forty years still drive in for, arriving very cheesy and hot with garlic bread. One takeaway went out with rancid ricotta.
Paesano Ristorante Italiano · San Jose
19 dish-specific mentions · 89% positive · 2 source types · menu verified September 2026
Sausage and fennel seed lead the first bite and it arrives piping hot; it is what couples come back for. The sharpest critic describes a half-melted mozzarella top.
Antipasto's By De Rose · San Jose
15 dish-specific mentions · 80% positive · 3 source types · menu verified September 2026
A hot-case square that diners call genuinely Italian and full of cheese, and worth the counter queue. One came looking for great meat lasagna and found it slapped together.
Maggiano's Little Italy · San Jose
22 dish-specific mentions · 82% positive · 1 source type · menu verified September 2026
A dependable order that tables rarely regret. Returning diners say the recipe now tastes saltier than they remember and that the price has climbed hard for the same plate.
Bertucellis La Villa Gourmet · Willow Glen
22 dish-specific mentions · 95% positive · 1 source type · menu verified September 2026
A counter portion, not a restaurant plate, and repeatedly called the best lasagna nearby for the money. The one complaint is a cold centre after reheating at home.
33 dish-specific mentions · 79% positive · 2 source types · menu verified September 2026
Regulars of forty years name it first, and the bread, salad and ice cream make the price read well. The pans call it bland, barely warm or on a par with institutional food.
The Pasta Market · San Jose
9 dish-specific mentions · 67% positive · 1 source type · menu verified September 2026
Comes out of the oven piping hot and made to order for the diners who like it. It also draws the harshest writing in this set, from tinned-tasting to worse than frozen.
Tony & Alba's Pizza and Pasta · San Jose
9 dish-specific mentions · 78% positive · 2 source types · menu verified September 2026
Regulars call this the place for homemade lasagna and some of the best they have eaten. One diner found the plate had no meat to speak of and called it disgusting.
Tomato Thyme · San Jose
15 dish-specific mentions · 73% positive · 1 source type · menu verified September 2026
Two builds, and the eggplant one is layered lasagna rather than eggplant parm. Both land hot and fresh for some; the eggplant draws repeat complaints of chewy, undercooked eggplant.
Il Fornaio San Jose · San Jose
14 dish-specific mentions · 57% positive · 1 source type · menu verified September 2026
Splits diners more sharply than its siblings. Some call it the best anywhere; others report a mushy, meat-heavy plate, and one waiter talked a diner out of ordering it.
Al Castello Ristorante Italiano · San Jose
8 dish-specific mentions · 50% positive · 2 source types · menu verified September 2026
One diner calls it the best in the county. Others report a plate that tasted microwaved with the sauce separating, and a vegetariana that ran greasy when cut.
Palermo Italian Restaurant · San Jose
9 dish-specific mentions · 67% positive · 1 source type · menu verified September 2026
House-made pasta that diners call silky, arriving fast and generously portioned. The dissent is severe: cooked to mush, with no sign the layers ever baked together.
La Pizza & La Pasta (Eataly Silicon Valley) · Valley Fair
25 dish-specific mentions · 48% positive · 1 source type · menu verified September 2026
Ragu, bechamel and Grana Padano, well done and delicious when it arrives hot. Temperature is the recurring failure, and a mushroom-led version drew the worst notices in the set.
Every score is built from evidence about the specific dish: how often locals recommend it, how strongly, how recently, and whether independent sources agree. A restaurant's overall star rating is never converted into a dish score.
Quality and confidence are reported separately. A dish two people loved can score high, but it is marked early ranking until more evidence backs it up. The whole calculation — every constant, and three dishes worked through line by line — is written out on the methodology page.
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