Santa Clara, California · Opening Soon

Cosa Fai

Ristorante Italiano & Lounge

An Italian dining room and bar built for long dinners, good cocktails and the kind of night nobody wants to end early.

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ItalianClassic Italian Cuisine
The BarClassic Italian Wine, Cocktails, and Amari
Private RoomA dining room for twenty four behind its own doors

The Idea

A neighborhood room with the volume turned up

Cosa Fai means "what are you doing", the question that starts every good evening. The answer we are building in Santa Clara: a warm, low-lit Italian room with a marble bar at its center, sage and caramel throughout, and a sound level that makes the last course take an hour.

Dinner is Italian and unfussy. Handmade pasta, fish and steak off the grill, vegetables that taste like the season. The bar keeps its own hours and its own crowd.

Tagliatelle with bolognese in a white bowl on a marble table

The Bar

Italian at the core, classic in the glass

A long marble bar sits at the center of the room, with brass, backlit bottles and greenery overhead. An Italian-led wine list poured by the glass, a shelf of amari and vermouth, negronis and spritzes built properly, and a short list of our own drinks that changes with the seasons.

Come for a full dinner or come for one drink and a plate of focaccia at the bar. Both are the point.

Wine and cocktails on the marble bar

Modern Italian dining

A current take on the Italian table: seasonal plates, a grill and a room built for a long dinner.

Private dining

A room for twenty four with its own doors, for dinners that need the door closed.

Authentic Italian

Pasta made by hand, recipes that stay close to the region they came from, nothing dressed up for its own sake.

Visit

Santa Clara, California

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Where

Santa Clara, California. The full street address goes live here as soon as we are cleared to publish it.

When

Opening soon. The date is announced to our list first, then on this page.

Reservations

Booking opens shortly before we open. Join the list and you get the first window.

Private events and buyouts

A private dining room seats twenty four behind its own doors, and there is a patio for warm evenings. Send us a note and we will follow up when the calendar opens.

Contact

Say hello

Private dinners, buyouts, press, supplier and hiring questions all come through here. We read every note and answer as soon as we can.

  • Private eventsParties up to twenty four in the private room, larger buyouts of the dining room and patio.
  • Press and partnershipsTell us what you need and when you need it by.
  • Work with usKitchen, bar and floor. Send a note with your experience.

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