Discover an authentic Italian dining experience that has remained unchanged for over half a century. With each dish prepared and served individually from the finest and freshest foods. Make your selection from our extensive menu of Italian and American cuisine and enjoy one of the best meals you’ve ever had.

The year was 1946. Our victorious men and women were returning home from World War II, Harry Truman was finishing his first year in the White House, and a brand, new gadget called television was just starting to appear on the American scene. It was the year Dave, Jim and Joe Lombardo decided to purchase a small café on Harrisburg Avenue, a decision that would bring a remarkable change in Lancaster’s eating habits.

For several years before that, Jim and Joe operated a well-known business delivering ice from the Lancaster Ice Company on South Prince Street. Older Lancastrians can probably remember driving down there to pick up ice to refrigerate their cabbage, apple butter and chow-chow. Because back then, Lancaster ate mostly Pennsylvania Dutch. But with the establishment of Lombardo’s Café, all that was about to change.

The Lombardo brothers offered unfamiliar dishes with strange-sounding names like spaghetti, ravioli and rigatoni. They were even one of the first to introduce Lancaster to an exotic delicacy called pizza. The rest, as they say, is history.

Today, the second generation of Lombardo’s - Paul, Mike and Dave, Jr. - continue the tradition of serving area families with the finest Italian cuisine. The menu has expanded over the years. But it’s still the same great, mouth-watering food that Lancaster first fell in love with.

More than 50 years ago