Buca di Beppo
ST PAUL, MN 55116
Phone: (651) 772-4388
Message from Buca di Beppo
Fresh Italian cooking in your neighborhood. Book your party today!
- 866-EAT-BUCA For Reservations
- Try Buca To Go
- Catering Available
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Editorial Review for Buca di Beppo – by Citysearch Staff
In Short
From the Italian language tapes in the bathroom to the three-liter bottles of Chianti on every table, the vibe here is exaggerated Italian-American kitsch. Boisterous, sprawling dining rooms are modeled after supper clubs of the '40s and '50s--servers holler, kitchen doors swing, and Sinatra rules the stereo. High-carb, red-sauced southern Italian cooking dominates the menu. And everything is big: Platters are piled impossibly high with baseball-sized meatballs balancing on mountains of spaghetti.
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User Reviews for Buca di Beppo
02/15/2008 Posted by silverfork
First of all, really think about going there on a Friday night. Very busy to the point of being overlooked even with a reservation. Yes, we checked in and waited as later arrivals got their seats before us. I guess a party or two isn't enough for their liking. We finally were seated in the bar. The booth was large enough for six (plenty of legroom). We ordered and received our appetizer rather quickly and it was delicious. We ordered two main dishes (ravioli and tortelinni). The ravioli was a bit of a wait and was warm only in the center. The tortelinni came so late we had finished the ravioli at least ten minutes before. The waitress told us since it was served so late,we would not be billed for it. Guess what? we were billed anyway for a dish that had sat under the heat lamp long enough to make the edges hard. When my wife mentioned to me rather loudly that we had been billed for it, the waitress disppeared into the crowded bar The bar had fill up to the point we had a bunch of people standing right by our table waiting for us to leave. We will never go there again. It sure wasn't worth seventy bucks!!!!!! Hope your experiences fare better
Pros: Italian atmosphere bigtime !
Cons: Poor parking, mediocre food, expensive for what you get
02/01/2008 Posted by Debster5
very hard location to find. parking limited. atmosphere and resturant decor was great. family style. took family of two adults and three kids to meet two other couples for dinner. ordered the "larges" of each course selection under the waitress' instructions for us. extremely small portions when a "large" is supposed to feed four to six people. fed the children, the husband got about appetizer portion of food, and i had whatever the kids didn't eat. the food was alright, but it was nothing to write home about. the service was good until we got the bill and ask the waitress to split it. she became very difficult to work with and she refused to split the bill up for us. then we found charges on the bill for food that we never received and had never ordered. spent a long time working with the waitress trying to get her to understand that she needed to take the charges off. we finally got the bill straightened out. our bill came to just over $150.00 for our family. we about had a coronary right then and there! charging that much money for the mediocre food we got is seriously highway robbery! especially when we had to stop at mcdonalds on the way home because everyone in the family was starving. we will definitely never go back there again nor will we ever recommend this place to anyone. we would have been so much better off by going to red lobster, ordering everyone lobster, and saving some of our hard earned money to boot!!!. this overall experience was horrendous!
Pros: atomsphere, decor
Cons: value, food, portions
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