Buca di Beppo Italian Restaurant

I can’t say enough about this restaurant. Our waiter Nick was AWESOME! As a first-time diner and self-proclaimed food snob, this was 10/10, tender lasagna noodles, delicious sauce, PORTIONS ARE HUGE, delightful Caesar salad, garlic bread was cook perfectly. The atmosphere, pictures, staff, overall, just a wonderful experience.

Always an excellent experience at Buca! My wife and I adore this restaurant, we made reservations for Valentine's night and we were extremely pleased! We come here often, but this was the first time in years that we had the chance to get out by ourselves (no children tonight). The staff at Buca actually recognized us, and that we did not have our kids, lol! Our waitress this evening again was Alexis, who was happy to see us again and her service was perfect as always, plus we got to chat with the floor manager, again, who is an absolute gentleman and also remembered my wife and I from previous visits. We can never say enough good things about the staff, even the cooks bus the tables when necessary and they're always courteous. The food was exquisite, we got the Valentine's bundle which

Ugh. Ordered a family size of the chicken parmesan ($50) which has been a family favorite. This order is not at all what we’ve had in the past. We’ve ordered this same dish at least 10 times. The chicken tastes like a frozen cutlet and it was so thin and dry. The breading is different. I knew it as soon as we opened the foil container. It didn’t look that rich gold/orange color. It is tan and looks like something out of a box from the grocery. The sauce was not generous and even it tastes a bit different. So disappointing. Sadly, it’s off our take out list.

Arrived for a dine in dinner on a Friday evening. Had a party of 8 with no reservations. We were accommodated and got seated within 10 minutes. Placed order for drinks. Waters, soda and tea came quickly. My old fashioned took a solid 25 minutes to show up. Our food took even longer, almost 50 minutes to be exact. Interesting portion size, it's family style so the orders are large. Got spaghetti. The noodles were a bit dry. Sauce was good, a bit sweet with thick chunks of tomatoes. Restaurant decor is Interesting, same as the location in Indianapolis. Restaurant was clean. Plenty of parking.

We ordered the shrimp linguine. It was definitely not as advertised. We were expecting little shrimps (so everyone could have a spoonful or so) but it came it had seven jumbo shrimp (which were really good) but we were sharing so everyone got 2 shrimp... However the atmosphere was great. We had a big party and we had our own space and could hear each other. speak.