Forkelo ranking · Updated September 2026

Best Lasagnas in the South Bay.

20 lasagnas across the South Bay, ranked on what people say about the dish itself — never the restaurant's overall rating.

#1
8.1 Forkelo score Medium confidence

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.

#2
$24.95
8.0 Forkelo score Early ranking

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.

#3
7.8 Forkelo score Medium confidence

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.

#4
7.8 Forkelo score Medium confidence

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.

#5
7.8 Forkelo score Medium confidence

22 dish-specific mentions · 91% positive · 2 source types · menu verified September 2026

A big plate of pasta, meat and sauce that travels well for delivery and reads as simmered with care. The one critical table found it too heavy rather than badly made.

#6
7.5 Forkelo score Medium confidence

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.

#7
$33.60
7.3 Forkelo score Early ranking

12 dish-specific mentions · 75% positive · 1 source type · menu verified September 2026

Creamy and soft when it lands well, with a brown sauce diners single out as a must try. The pans describe an overcooked, thin-tasting plate that read as reheated.

#8
7.3 Forkelo score Early ranking

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.

#9
$31.00
7.2 Forkelo score Early ranking

7 dish-specific mentions · 86% positive · 1 source type · menu verified September 2026

Named and singled out above the rest of the kitchen by the diners who order it. The dissent is about size rather than cooking: small for what it costs.

#10
7.2 Forkelo score Early ranking

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.

#11
7.1 Forkelo score Medium confidence

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.

#12
6.8 Forkelo score Early ranking

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.

#13
6.7 Forkelo score Early ranking

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.

#14

Lasagna

Bella Saratoga · Saratoga

$32.00
6.6 Forkelo score Early ranking

12 dish-specific mentions · 67% positive · 1 source type · menu verified September 2026

Diners like it enough to order it before a show. The complaints cluster on temperature and texture: arriving cool, or mushy as though it had been previously frozen.

#15
6.6 Forkelo score Early ranking

19 dish-specific mentions · 68% positive · 1 source type · menu verified September 2026

The meat sauce is what regulars rate this kitchen for. The vegetable build is the one that draws most of the criticism, and others call the plate oily or over-salted.

#16
$23.30
6.5 Forkelo score Early ranking

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.

#17
6.4 Forkelo score Early ranking

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.

#18
6.2 Forkelo score Early ranking

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.

#19
5.6 Forkelo score Early ranking

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.

#20
5.5 Forkelo score Early ranking

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.

How this ranking works.

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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