Buca di Beppo Italian Restaurant

Should i begin by saying this place needs a hostess! Yes is 8:30pm and there wasn’t a hostess some tall guy in a dress shirt gave me the menu, i did asked for it because i was placing a to go order, ok after few mins of going thru the menu i was ready to place my
hostess nor the the guy that welcomed me at first ok i finally saw a server and said to me and to another costumers to go to the bar if we wanted to order to go. we get to the bar and the bartender or server (since she was wearing same color shirt as the rest) asked first for ID’s my self & and the other guests asked why and said in order to seat at bar section need to show ID first however we could seat at the tables right next to the bar, the other couple decided to seat at table but change their mind and walked away (am sure just like me weren’t happy about the warmth welcome, finally I decided to seat at the table and order. i explained out to her that i had already waited 5mins seating for someone to help me but she seem like didn’t care. Food was great, i hope on a future visit to see a more friendly staff and feel more comfortable with my visit.

Had an amazing experience especially our server Jewell. The food was perfect as was the entire experience.

Every patron obviously had a different experience than us, because we had a good time! Our server Brittney was very attentive and nice! The food came out one right after the other. We made reservations online and when we got there we were seated immediately.
The mixed green salad didn’t «wow» me for $ 13 (small size). I wouldn’t order that again.
The garlic bread and cheese bread was good. We ordered the «make your own pasta» –price was decent for a large. Overall satisfied!

One star because this place legitimately sucks. I waited 20 min to be seated, then another 20 just to get drink order taken. Drinks came about 10 min after. Flagged down passing busser to send someone for food order and the bartender comes to take it… I was seated in a booth with no other tables in the section. Okey dokey. Food took literally 45 min to arrive. I was fuming & took everything to go. I hate this place. Never coming back.

What I’m talking about is down home, I’m flashing back to the 70’s and how close the Burroughs of NY made ya feel like a family. Everyone comes to dinner kinda place.
I have been to different BDB’s throughout the country and everyone offers home to some really good eats. Generous portions and so large you’ll get stuffed in no time.
The first time I went to this location was just before the holiday and close to closing I assumed (about 10 – 10:15). I brought my slave after a day of chaotic running around,
The place was almost empty with the exception 3 men all talking Italian in the booth two over from us. Italian standards were playing and our waiter «Ken».
He had a very distinctive Bronx slang and was the perfect touch a restaurant like this demands.
Polite, patient and knowledgable he knew exactly what we needed and wanting for dinner. He made us feel instantly like we were family treated us likewise.
The food and wines were very palatable with the exception of the house wine (so pay the extra $ 5 and get something better).
The second time was with a large group of about 10 and lemme tell you the service, food, drinks, jokes and laughter so delicious the we didn’t wanna leave after 3 hours with absolutely no pressure to go we were exhausted and ended with momentos of pictures the I do have on our wall at home.
So if your feeling hungry and want to feel the love of friends and family the go to Buca Di Beppo and don’t forget to ask for Ken for that true authentic feeling of Mama’s home cooking.

If you have LOTS of time on your hands then come on and give them a try. But waiting for over an hour now just for the main dish to get here is a bit ridiculous to me. Waitress seems easily distracted, especially since she confused our order. The bread was super cold. Not sure if that’s the norm. But it took a good 35 min just for us to finally receive that! I don’t think we will ever come back here again.

Friendly staff, fast service and good food (taste and portion), for very correct prices. A good place to try out of the Strip.

Our family made a reservation and drove an hour to be here. They claimed the systems were down and stood waiting for an hour and a half. As many tables were empty and people who came after were seated before us. Tried to pass the time at the bar which computers were working fine. and we’re ignored for another hour. After finally being seated after numerous statements saying our party was next received horrible service and we’re hardly acknowledged. If it weren’t for the time we already invested we would have left and burned the place down… throughout all of this we still continued to be polite and tip well. This was the worst experienced I’ve had in so long!

We’ve been here for three hours. I’d love to tell you about the food but we haven’t received it yet. We didn’t have a reservation so we had to wait for 90 minutes before getting a boot h in the bar. Our waitress is the only bartender in the entire restaurant so she’s too busy for us. Now we’ve been waiting for 90 minutes for our entrees. The restaurant is now closed.

What is Christmas Eve and we come to this restaurant kind of as a family tradition. Well we’ve been here two hoursover an hour and have yet to see our dinner? Its busy but not that busy. I had to get up and get hot peppers oil and vinegar myself. The restaurant should be able to accommodate its patrons. This is really kind of ridiculous and I doubt we’ll be back.

We called in to order food for Christmas Eve. They said that the food will be ready in a couple hours. Mind you we called at 6 and we went to pick is up by 830. We get to the place to pick up our order to find out that our order wasn’t put in to their system. Note that we have our family counting on us for our Christmas Eve dinner. When we tried to explain that we had up in the order a couple hrs ahead, the girl who was helping us (Daniella) just told us «we know, but this is reality, what can you do about it). It blew my mind on the level of unprofessionalism of this place. I’ve been coming to Buca di Beppo for years and I can tell you they just lost a customer.

I stand corrected. When I’m wrong, I’m wrong. For the record, it doesn’t happen often, but when it does, I usually admit it. I have to say I was completely wrong about Buca di Beppo.
I’m thankful that I’m a person of second chances. If I wasn’t the person I am, I would miss out on some of the finer things this world has to offer. One of those things being, one of my new favorite Italian Spots.
I decided to give this place another chance. My friend and I arrived at 5pm, just like last time. As we entered, the hostess was standing at the podium and she had the nerve to be smiling. It’s been a long time since I’ve been anywhere where someone greeted me with a smile. Oh but she did! She was also very perky and attentive too. I like that! Make me feel like you’re happy to see me lol.
We were seated promptly, and once the hostess walked away, the server, Ken, came right over. He was pretty cool. He took our drink orders and brought them back fast, along with the «free» bread and the oil and vinegar mixture that I remember ol so well, from our last visit. He then asked if we were ready to order. We were in fact ready, so we proceed to do so.
We started with the mozzarella garlic bread and Baked Rigatoni. It sounded like a beautiful combination. To be honest, I were skeptical. I was just hoping whatever we ordered, tasted better than the Fettuccine, from last time. I also was going to get into a fight with the cooks if I paid $ 10.99 for a cheesy-​garlicky brick, and I didn’t want to go to jail over food. Joking!
We reluctantly started on the «free» bread. Surprisingly, it was soft and tasted nothing like the boot they served us last time. It was actually good.
Meanwhile, Ken, came back with a salad for the table next to us. Being greedy, I called him over and inquired about it. He gave me a few details and ran to get the menu, so that I can look at all of them. He brought the menu back and pointed out and described EVERY SINGLE SALAD. Ken showed me more attention than my last date did.
So we decided to order the $ 14 Caesar salad. I don’t know if Ken had anything to do with that or the fact that we were extremely hungry. Either way, he put it in and came back with it after about 6 or 7 minutes, a little after he dropped off our Garlic bread.
Speaking of Garlic bread, I’ll probably never have any bread that will be as good as it was. It came with about 15, perfectly cooked, pieces. It had the perfect crunch around the edges and the softest and moistest cheese in the middle. Can someone say worth every darn penny! It was just delicious.
We almost forgot all about the salad that was sitting there all scrumptious looking. We scooped out some of it and it was really good too. It was well worth the money.
Around that time, Lorenzo, the manager came around. He’s a really nice guy. We chatted about my experience and I was honest with him about everything. He subsequently, apologized about the last visit. I could tell that he was really passionate about his job. I was delighted to let him know that EVERYTHING we had just tasted was perfect.
Lorenzo asked what entrée we ordered. I told him it was the Rigatoni. He told me that the Rigatoni is really good but his favorite is the Quadro el Forno, which was $ 20. It actually sound really good. Being me, I wanted to make sure that we experienced all of the best recipes that they had to offer. We ordered that one as well.
Ken brought out both entrées fast. I have to tell you, they both looked delicious. We looked like we had enough food to feed a clan of pregnant women. We took a couple scoop of both. My friend and I both just looked at each other. The food was nothing like we’ve had in a long time. It was just impeccable.
We liked everything about the Quadro el Forno dish. The cheese was perfect, all of the pasta was cooked to perfection and the sauce had the perfect spice. It was excellent.
We enjoyed the Baked Rigatoni too, but the pasta seemed to have been cooked al dente. I like soft pasta, myself, but my friend thought it was perfect.
We ate maybe ¹⁄₃ of both pastas and then Ken brought a «To Go» container, and we packed the rest. I have to say, for the record, we ate it for the next 2 days. It was just as good heated.
Lastly, Lorenzo came back around and made sure everything was ok, which everything was awesome. He recommended, along with Ken, that we try a dessert. We were damn near stuffed to complicity, but we did want something sweet plus everything looked so good.
We ordered the Colossal Brownie Sundae. Our face dropped when we saw that thing come out. It was bigger than any dessert I’ve ever seen. It had to be for a whole family. We maybe ate a fourth of it a packed it up. It was magnificent though. The brownie was warm and soft and ice cream just complimented the cake to the fullest extent. It lasted 3 days, after that day.
In all, the experience was 100 times better that the first visit and the food was 200 times better. We’ll definitely go back, maybe even today!

Hadn’t been here in a while, but every time I do make it in, it’s always a pleasure. We lucked out and got here pretty much right when it opened on a Thursday. Had the place to ourselves, had a super nice waitress (from France I should note) chicken parm was the bomb, meatballs were excellent and the spaghetti with marinara was awesome.

Unfortunately… totally unimpressed! It is very expensive for what you get. The huge bowl of pasta were painfully spicy.
It was hard to find the shrimp that was hidden in it. The mashed potatoes came out cold in a hot dish.
I would not return.
The servers were very nice and attentive.

As i’m writing this review, I am currently sitting in the bar area which people seem to hate based on previous reviews. I can see why. I’ve been here for an hour and have only received my appetizer. Waiting on the rest of my food is making me sleepy. Our server is nowhere to be found and this place is dead. Not a very pleasant experience so far. And ps, my water has been empty this entire time.

My husband and I made reservations for October 17, 2015 for a leisurely evening out. Upon arrival we were seated in «the bar.» One generally thinks this would be for adults only but not here. Within a few minutes, a party was seated next to us with 4 adults, two kids around 8 or 10 yrs old and one toddler. The toddler screamed the entire meal; one of the older kids yelled every word he spoke and the other kid was quiet. During the meal, at least three other tables were seated near them and all asked to be moved to another room because this table was so disruptive. It took forever to get every single item within every single course and was left to sit and listen to this catastrophe in between. The bartender was our «server» and when she had time, she would go check on our meal.
Now to the meal. The food was in the category of barely edible. What we didn’t eat, we took home and the next day, just threw it away. It was horrible. We spent a little over $ 100 for a shared appetizer, a shared plain pasta dish, an order of bread, 2 glasses of wine and a dessert. By the time it was over we just wanted out. We will never go back to this dump again.

I wondered why I hadn’t been to this place before… then we had a $ 50 gift card, so we went there, and now I know why. While the service was amazing, the food was eh and expensive.
No doubt that I am an Italian snob. Yes, living in Italy spoiled me and I decide whether a place is a good Italian place based upon its ability to provide amazing gnocchi. This place is not Italian. It is better to define it as Italian-​American. Large portions.
There is a charge for bread. A charge for pasta. A charge for vegetable. I sent the green beans back because they tasted like someone poured lemon juice on them. I didn’t think it was possible to mess up green beans, but yes, they made it happen.
It was really expensive for eh Italian food. I can make better at home. I will stick to the authentic places in town and there is plenty. Maybe this is the place for a large group meal for kids going to prom, not for two adults.

Haven’t been here since I graduated 4 years ago! Great family place! Big portions, Great for sharing! We had the Mozzarella Caprese, Linguine Frutti de Marre and for desert we had the Chicilate chip Cannoli! Overall, it was good! Felt good to be back in a place that feels like home away from home! Service was a little slow but hey fogetaboutit!

YUCK
Meatballs were like rocks
No Mas
Never had a good meal at any of their kid friendly birthday places

We were excited to be in town; my wife’s brother was getting married. The rehearsal dinner was held at Buca di Beppo. I was prepared to enjoy a delicious, Italian dinner. I tried to pace myself, knowing that there were probably going to be many courses.
Throughout the night, two servers were on the ball and granted all of our requests. They were friendly and helpful (especially considering there were many kids in our group, including mine).
I was a fan of the very first course, a delicious caprese salad. It’s so simple, yet so elegant. I love that it represents the colors of the Italian flag. Yes, I’m corny like that.
The second and third courses were salads that I wasn’t particularly interested in. They were good, but not really my thing.
The fourth course was fried calamari, and it was delicious. The marinara that accompanied it was stellar, and I of course squeezed fresh lemon over the top. I was already thinking about trying to save room for the entire meal. I knew that they were going to go all-​out (after all, you only get married once [in theory]).
The next course was a spicy chicken pasta. The pasta sauce was good, as well as the chicken (although some people thought it was too spicy). I liked it.
Course number six was a shrimp pasta. It was quite good. There was a lot of savory shrimp inside, and the sauce was tasty.
Everyone began rubbing their tummies, feeling full, and anticipating dessert. That’s when the groom-​to-​be stood up and announced, «I hope you all saved room for the main course.» A lot of us laughed, but he wasn’t kidding! Oh man, I ate too much already. But bring it on, they’re only getting married once, right?
Out comes huge family style plates of chicken parmesan (I’ve lost track of the course numbers by now). I dove right in to discover it was well-​breaded, seasoned, and delicious. I was really feeling full at this point when the chicken with capers arrived. It was moist, tender, and had a flavorful sauce.
Next, some succulent, well buttered broccoli arrived. I made myself eat some (we need our veggies).
Everyone was doing their best to continue eating when enormous trays of meatballs in marinara sauce made their appearance. Needless to say, no one left hungry.
At last, we had made it to dessert (most of us barely being able to move). Huge trays of cheesecake surfaced, as did tiramisu. It’s safe to say we all gained a few pounds that night. Overall, it was a large, enjoyable meal. Congrats to the bride and groom!

Die Pizza ist gut und nicht so fettig, dick, amerikanisch. Die small Portionen reichen locker für 2 Personen und sind geschmacklich gut.

Hier wird Qualität über die Menge definiert. Riesige Portionen, die sehr satt aber nicht wirklich zufrieden machen. Nicht wirklich schlecht, aber halt auch das typische Mittelmass und amerikanische Austauschbarkeit. Abgesehen davon: Sehr, sehr typisch amerikanisch, auch wenn das Lokal versucht sämtliche Italieneische Klischees zu bedienen. Manchmal mischen sich zwar spanische Sätze in die Dekorationen an der Wand, aber ist ja alles Europa.
Am Nachbartisch eine ganze Hochzeitsgesellschaft. Las Vegas.