Buca di Beppo Italian Restaurant

Love the food thank you to Tricia for the understanding and thank you to Romeo & Tricia for the great service my daughter was so happy for everything thank you ones again 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻… a great place to celebrate anda feel special!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food was nice and atmosphere was great.
But all the portion was 3-4 people. A bit too much for 2 persons.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

I like this restarant

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Pasta A la Carbonara

It has probably been decades since we have eaten here. We made reservations for 630 on a Thursday. We ordered a bundle of Caesar salad, garlic bread and a lasagna. We also added calamari, eggplant parmesan, frutti de mare and a tiramisu. The serving size is huge, we ordered large to accommodate 7 people, we ended up taking home half of eggplant, frutti de mare and lasagna and one slice of tiramisu. It is old school Italian, heavy and a little salty. The favorite was the calamari and garlic bread. The eggplant was still a bit tough and undercooked. The lasagna had good texture but a bit too tomato sour. The frutti di mare was great in the beginning but the pasta seemed to continue to cook and got a bit mushy. Service was nice and efficient.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Take out order for party of 8, paid extra for chicken… there were a few pieces in the pasta. Then the spicy rigatoni had also a few pieces of chicken and dried out noodles.. some were pale with no sauce! This is my first time ordering since my last time when the bread slices they gave me had MOLD!!!

Terrible service, and not just because they were slow, inattentive, and overpriced.

The bad experience started the moment we entered the restaurant.
(1) We had a reservation for 8:15pm but they said we had to wait 45min and that they would text us.
(2) They never texted so we went back and they said they had called our name so we had to wait another 15min standing up. We were able to get a table at around 9:15pm.
(3) They lied about having a special menu after handing us special menu cards at our table, when we ordered they said they were out of it.
(4) They didn’t bring water to us at the table.
(5) First “italian” restaurant where they don’t give bread for appetizer.
(6) Waiter never came back to check on us. A different waiter brought us our food.
(7) We asked for to go box and they took another 15min to bring the check.
(8)They advertise regular portion as feeding 3-4 people but it was just enough for 2.
(9) overpriced and misleading advertised large portion
(10) Food is 3 star quality at a 5 star price. The sauce and chicken for their carbonara was pretty good but the noodles tastes like grocery store spaghetti

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 2

I have been to many other locations, but this one was the worst. The service is bad. We had a reservation at 630pm did not get the table intell 7pm. The waiter was rude and did not bring us the food that we order. I would not waste my time or money going to this place.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 1

Great staff, bar options and delicious food!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Waitress wasn't any real help, I had to remind her for multiple things . Pretty disappointing.

This is probably the best Italian restaurant in the San Jose area, all of their meals are delicious on a consistent basis their dishes even their salad is made with love and it shows, can't forget the fresh bread daily , their great food and manager rich with his great hospitality is what keeps me coming back, good people making great food I'll continue to order from this place on a weekly basis for many years to come, thanks again see you soon !

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Buca Trio Platter, Lasagna, Tiramisu, Chicken Carbonara, Spicy Chicken Rigatoni, Fried Calamari, Shrimp Fra Diavolo

Good atmosphere, good service. Food is good. Server took good care of us. We went for a birthday dinner. They do give birthday ice cream.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Gentleman says that we don't do chopsticks here??

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

We were a noisy group, with four grandchildren. We had a room in the back that was perfect. Our server was so good. Food was delicious and there was a lot of it. Very nice evening.

For a place that is frequented by many and has been around for years, you'd think they'd have gluten free pasta options. I called the restaurant before arriving, and asked if they had gluten free/celiac friendly pasta, and they said yes, but upon arriving at the restaurant and ordering, it turns out there are only a handful of gluten free items on the menu, none of which are pasta. The gluten free items leave much to be desired. Shouldn't be that hard to have at least one gluten free pasta option, especially for an Italian family restaurant.

We stopped by last night around 8:30 PM on Friday with our family, including two kids. The hostess initially asked us to wait for about 10 minutes, but after coming back she said the restaurant was fully booked and that the wait could be 10, 20, or even 30 minutes. The response felt dismissive, and it seemed our presence with a tired, hungry toddler may have influenced the interaction.

What stood out was that another party arriving shortly after us was greeted warmly. I have never had a similar experience at other restaurants. This didn’t sound right. I won’t go here again.