Excellent food, wonderful waitstaff, super friendly owner and just a fun place to eat! I highly recommend that you visit here and be sure to order to HUGE Brownie Sundae for dessert. You will need to share it with many friends and family!!
It was one of the top ten favorite restaurants of mine it was great
The food was amazingly delicious!! The service was top notch!! I loved it....definitely will be back!!
Had a great time food was good enjoyed the smashed meatball yum yum
Wonderful experience with Special Olympics folks. Your Carol is the best. Had the room all ready for us. :)
Everything inch of the walls is covered with photographs of prominent Italians and Italo-Americans. The food is exquisite, and the waitstaff are exemplary! Clean bathrooms and cozy atmosphere. Full bar. In February 2022 Larry Sharpe held a very successful fundraiser at this location
The ambiance of the restaurant was cosy and the waitress was very friendly. Good food for families because the dishes are in very large portions. Got the salmon entre, brussel sprouts and tiramisu.
1st time there. Very Pleased and Excellent Experience. Was Recommended by few of our peeps. Was more then they expressed.
The Staff, Good and Atmosphere Is Tops.
Prices seem awe high. But the portion and quality are WELL worth it.
Highly Recommend.
Pretty straightforward food. Good Italian-American quality, not fine dining. The portions are meant to be shared with a party of 4 or more. I was a party of 2 so 1 entree, side, and salad was enough. Lots of kitschy pictures hanging and sculpture which is always fun to look at. Lots of tasteful lewdness too in a macho way. Staff is always attentive and there is a window view into the kitchen as well.
Delicious Italian eats, just be aware that it is served family style. Servings are for 3 or 5 depending on order. Great place if you come hungry and want some leftovers. Only thing I wish is they had a variety dish that serves 3 or 5. We were a party of 4 with four different tastes so some had to compromise (which we do at home not when dining out). If they had a sample platter I didn't see it nor did anyone offer it so that is my only issue with the place. The atmosphere was nice too. Lots of pictures around to take in and converse about while you are waiting for your meal. The service was courteous.
Garrick: Just Another Self-Appointed Critic
+4
2 Points for Take Out - 2 Extra points for dining in
We’ve eaten at Buca di Beppo many times, so we know they have good food. What we learned with our latest experience is not all of their dishes are good options for take-out. Lasagna works well for take-out, but breaded dishes, not so much so.
If my review was based solely on this meal, I would give them 2 stars. My 4-star rating is based on all dining experiences I’ve had with the restaurant.
For Easter dinner, we ordered a special for six. Our selections included salad, chicken parmesan, fettuccini alfredo, and cannoli. The pasta and dessert were great. The pasta had just enough sauce and was cooked well. Surprisingly, the cannoli travelled well as the shells were still crisp and included a side of chocolate sauce to drizzle over the tops. The salad and chicken parmesan were disappointing.
The Roma tomatoes were barely pink and lacked any flavor. The dressing seemed a bit off as if the ratio of oil to vinegar was wrong. I thought it was missing croutons but in reviewing their online menu, I saw the mixed green salad does not come with them; they might have helped elevate the salad considering the tomatoes they had that day.
Their chicken parmesan does not travel well. They use an airtight container which traps in moisture making it more of a mush than a crust.
It can be frustrating when restaurants remove items from their menus, but I clearly understand why: they do so rather than sell a dish that does not meet their own standards which helps ensure customer satisfaction.
TO THE RESTAURANT: If you can’t source quality product (tomatoes), don’t use it. Instead, offer an explanation and substitution. If you can’t deliver a dish to someone’s home that matches the restaurant’s quality, don’t offer it; offer only the dishes you know travel well. You figured out how to deliver crispy cannoli’s…try to figure out how to deliver a crispy crusted parmesan. On the upside, I’m impressed that you read and respond to customer reviews.
We’ll eat at Buca’s again and we’ll even order take out again. We won’t, however, order crusted dished for take-out and we might have to ask what their tomatoes are like before we get another salad.
The service wasn’t great. We were sort of forgotten after they seated us. The food was wonderful, especially the Shrimp Fra Diavolo. We ended up not getting our garlic bread until the end of the meal. They comped us the bread but then double charged on an alcoholic beverage. We will be back just for the Shrimp dish. We hadn’t been here in 19 years!
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