N° 01 / League City South Shore Harbour
Cucina Italiana · Est. on the Harbour

A long table,
slow sauce,
South Shore.

Pomodoro's is a neighbourhood Italian kitchen on South Shore Harbour, League City — hand-rolled pasta, wood-fired mains, and a cellar built for long evenings on Clear Lake.

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Wood-fired Italian mains and hand-rolled pasta plated at Pomodoro's Cucina Italiana on South Shore Harbour Open tonight · 5:00 PM
The Kitchen · N° 02

Four things we
refuse to rush.

Every plate that leaves this kitchen passes through one of four stations. None of them are fast. All of them are why you came.

01 — Dough

Hand-rolled daily, before the sun is up.

Tagliatelle, pappardelle, orecchiette — eggs from a farm in Santa Fe, semolina from a mill we've used since day one. Rolled by hand, cut by hand, on the slab you can see from table six.

Pasta · 6am — 11am
02 — Fire

Texas oak, lit at four, never extinguished.

Our wood-fired oven runs on post oak from a supplier in Conroe. It runs hot, it runs low, and it gives the bistecca and the branzino the char you can't fake on a gas line.

Wood fire · 4pm — close
03 — Sauce

Sunday gravy, started Saturday night.

San Marzano tomatoes, a knob of bone-in pork, six hours of patience. The recipe is Nonna's, written on an index card taped above the pass. We've never changed a word of it.

Slow sauce · 8 hours
04 — Cellar

Italian bottles, Texan shelves.

A cellar that leans Piedmont and Tuscany, with a quiet shelf of Texas viognier and a few grower-proseccos that don't make it onto the list. Ask Marco — he'll pour you something not on the menu.

Wine · 140+ labels
05 — Table

A long table is the whole point.

We seat 64 inside, 28 on the harbour patio. Big groups welcome. Anniversaries, rehearsal dinners, the Tuesday nobody feels like cooking — all of it is the right occasion.

Dining · 92 seats
Chef plating fresh pasta at the open kitchen pass inside Pomodoro's Cucina Italiana The pass · League City
Our Story · N° 03

Born in Bologna.
Raised on Clear Lake.

Pomodoro's began the way most Italian restaurants worth their salt begin — with a family argument about whose mother made the better ragù. Marco Vianello lost that argument, married the woman who won it, and in 2014 the two of them opened a thirty-seat room on South Shore Harbour with one pasta machine and a hand-painted sign.

A decade on, the sign is the same. So is the ragù. What's grown is the room, the cellar, and the long table of regulars who showed up on week one and never really left. We're still a family kitchen — Elena runs the floor, Marco runs the pass, and their daughter Sofia runs dessert on weekends. If you ask nicely, she'll tell you about the tiramisu.

Marco & Elena Vianello
Owners · since 2014
Specialties · N° 05

Five things
worth the drive.

League City locals know the short cut to South Shore Harbour. These are the dishes that bring people back from Kemah, from Seabrook, from across the bridge on a Tuesday night.

N° 01 Hand-cut tagliatelle dressed in slow-cooked beef and pork ragù, plated with Parmigiano-Reggiano

Tagliatelle al Ragù

The dish that started the argument. Six-hour ragù, hand-cut pasta, the recipe taped above the pass.

N° 02 Wood-fired whole branzino with charred lemon and salsa verde on a ceramic plate

Branzino al Forno

Whole sea bass, oak-fired, salsa verde, charred lemon. The reason the oven never goes out.

N° 03 Burrata with heirloom tomatoes and basil oil, served with grilled focaccia

Burrata Pugliese

Cream-filled burrata, peak-season tomatoes, basil oil pressed in-house, grilled focaccia.

N° 04 Tiramisù with mascarpone, espresso-soaked savoiardi and a dusting of cocoa

Tiramisù della Casa

Sofia's recipe. Mascarpone, espresso, savoiardi, a whisper of Marsala. Don't skip it.

N° 05 Negroni cocktail with smoked ice and orange peel on a marble bar top

Negroni del Harbour

Gin, Campari, sweet vermouth, smoked ice. Built for the patio as the sun drops over Clear Lake.

Visit · N° 06

Pull up a chair.

We're on South Shore Harbour, a short drive from League City, Kemah, and Seabrook. Reservations recommended for dinner — weekends book out a week ahead. Walk-ins are always welcome at the bar.

Where South Shore HarbourLeague City, Texas 77573
Hours Tue — Sun, 5:00 PMSunday lunch from 11:00 AM · Closed Monday
Reserve By phone or formParties of 6+ require a reservation
Private Events & buy-outsRehearsal dinners, anniversaries, corporate
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