Douglas Wirnowski

Review of Buca Di Beppo – San Jose

SAD dinner tonight...last time we will eat here. F...

SAD dinner tonight...last time we will eat here. From the inattentive waitress (and no, she wasn t busy at 6:05p on a Tuesday - only two other tables were in her area during our early dinner) to utterly disappointing dishes.

We ordered two small dishes - each said it would serve three people - and a side of green beans. Well, the green beans were delivered alone, and 15minutes before our meal. Uh, really? Ok, we will snack on green beans while we wait... and wait... the bean portion was pretty small, and didn t look very appetizing (several yellowish beans and none of the ends had been trimmed...)

Finally, our two main courses were delivered: 1) chicken and prosciutto (we looked, and looked... and think we found a piece - that was SO small...and almost no cheese was inside) and 2) their Made in Italy special PAPPARDELLE SUGO that was pretty tasty, but sadly there was no more than a single scoop of sauce on 1.5lbs of pasta...and almost no sausage at all (lots of carrot chunks though...) The entire meal was simply lacking.

Two adults and two teenagers, with three dishes that should have served 6+, and barely a cup of plain noodles/no sauce left over. A sad experience at what used to be a great place for a family meal...

UPDATE: it was nice that Buca mgmt reached out and shared they will be looking into what happened the night we were there; hard to know what they'll find, but it is nice to see mgmt watching these forums/reviews ...