Buca di Beppo Italian Restaurant

Extremely overpriced frozen cafeteria food. These prices are obscene. You can see this restaurant preys on drunks and tourists, hoping you won't notice how awful the food is. They know most people won't leave the property to go eat off the strip. Pizza was tiny for 27 dollars. The gimmick family style is a joke and totally limits options if you want to try different dishes. The quality of the food was the biggest joke. Pizza was bland and one note, zero flavor on top just the flavor of flour on the tasteless crust so it didn't stick to anything. Marinara was an absolute insult to anyone with tastebuds. It was sweet like ketchup and cheap jarred sauce. Tomatoes are supposed to be tart, not sweet. School cafeteria level of cooking went into this. And the plate was totally off on the sauce/pasta ratio. Majority of noodles had zero sauce. The only positive was our server who was very attentive, professional, and polite. I know the lazy kitchen with no passion for their job is to blame for our terrible experience. Take some pride in your work and make good food. It is not hard. Italian food is so simple to make well and with depth of flavor. Train your cooks or fire them. Get a job you can and WANT to put pride in. Don't make people waste their hard earned money on your poorly made, low effort food. You want $45 for some BASIC chicken parm? Then show some damn effort. I had never eaten at a Buca until today and I hope this chain goes bankrupt soon. Many are already closing around the country. I feel bad for good employees at this location but either your cooks suck or your recipes suck. Better yet you need a real cook in there to show them how to do basic things like make sauce, add salt to things, or how to plate a spaghetti marinara. Edit- I forgot to add THEY USE ALFREDO AND JUST CALL IT CARBONARA. That is the level of fake, lazy, low effort italian Buca di Beppo is. This is not the fault of the staff here but shows the root problems with this chain start far before this location's awful effort.
Apr 7th, 2024

Apr 4th, 2024

Food was okay. Big portions. Jackie the server isn't very friendly.
Apr 4th, 2024

Apr 3rd, 2024

Food was absolutely amazing, you have to try the chicken carbonara and the meatballs. Will come again. Service was fast and efficient
Apr 3rd, 2024