Amanda Curtis

Review of Joey Buona's Italian Bistro

A group of about 9 other people and I went to this...

A group of about 9 other people and I went to this restaurant before a night of bar hopping, and ended up having to skip all of our bar hopping because we were there for literally 4 hours. We ordered the family style pizza dinner. I felt this should have been easy, since instead of 10 separate dishes, we had two appetizers, two salads, two pizzas, and two desserts for the table. We would sit without any water or wine refills for over half an hour at a time. One person in our party had opted out of the family style dinner, and had asked that her food come out when our pizza did. She got her pasta a full hour before we got our pizza. After waiting 2 1/2 hours, it turned out they had messed up our pizza order. We were given the "mistake" pizza, and the correct pizza came out relatively quickly after that. Our waitress spent more time at the bar trying to get refills for us then anything else. After overhearing our table complaining about the service, the manager finally left bottles at our table. The food was really good, and the calamari appetizer was amazing, but I won't be going back. Even with a large group, it should not have taken 4 hours to eat dinner, and it completely messed up our plans for the evening.