Best Chicken Parm in California — Top 11 Ranked

Best Chicken Parm in California

This is the top 11 from the 5 California areas we track (Los Angeles, CA; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA; Sacramento, CA), each searched to a 10-mile radius, plus every restaurant within 10 miles of them that we've scored in the last 30 days. Every restaurant here has reviewers mentioning the chicken parm by name. It is not a full survey of the state: if your town is missing, search it and it gets the same ranking.

  1. Palermo Italian Restaurant — San Jose
    Parm Score 78 · Chicken parm comes up in 2 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. 4.5 on Google across 1,596 reviews.
  2. Fortuna Ristorante Italiano — San Diego
    Parm Score 74 · Chicken parm comes up in 1 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. 4.9 on Google across 400 reviews.
  3. The Godfather — San Diego
    Parm Score 74 · Chicken parm comes up in 1 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. 4.6 on Google across 1,452 reviews.
  4. Sampino's Towne Foods — Sacramento
    Parm Score 73 · Chicken parm comes up in 1 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. 4.7 on Google across 506 reviews.
  5. OBO' Italian Table & Bar — Sacramento
    Parm Score 73 · Chicken parm comes up in 1 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. 4.5 on Google across 1,934 reviews.
  6. Sodini's Trattoria — San Francisco
    Parm Score 73 · Chicken parm comes up in 1 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. 4.5 on Google across 982 reviews.
  7. Il Fornaio Sacramento — Sacramento
    Parm Score 72 · Chicken parm comes up in 1 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. 4.4 on Google across 1,698 reviews.
  8. Ippolito's Trattoria — Sacramento
    Parm Score 71 · Chicken parm comes up in 1 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. 4.5 on Google across 557 reviews.
  9. Il Fornaio Santa Clara — Santa Clara
    Parm Score 70 · Chicken parm comes up in 1 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. 4.2 on Google across 2,300 reviews.
  10. Giardino — Lemon Grove
    Parm Score 58 · Chicken parm comes up in 1 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. 4.5 on Google across 1,446 reviews.
  11. Angelo's - Italian Restaurant — San Jose
    Parm Score 56 · Chicken parm comes up in 1 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. 4.5 on Google across 430 reviews.

Rankings use Parm Score (Google rating, review volume, and parm mentions). Ratings and review counts from Google Maps. How Parm Score works.

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