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| - Overrated. I really tried to like Bar Buca but I found it uninspired.
The wine list was fairly limited, but what threw me off even more was the pricing and serving sizes of the by the glass options. 2.5oz serving size for $12-14? Come one. Thats not even enough wine for one small app, let alone to enjoy with a bigger plate. 5oz for $16-28? For a place that should be all about social eating and drinking, this is just awful. Not everyone wants to indulge in a $75-$100 bottle, especially if their friends don't drink wine. The rest of the drinks menu isn't much better, save some of the cocktails that my friends enjoyed.
The food was fairly good, but to be honest, not even close to being noteworthy. The bone marrow at the black hoof is 3x better, while the flavour of my stuffed foccacia was predominately salt. Its important as a component but shouldn't dominate everything else on the plate, else why even bother with fine ingredients like Italian sausage, just buy hamburger meat and mozzarella. Finally, the stuffed cheese cold plate was disjointed. The components were nicely conceived, but poorly executed. It was impossible to get a rounded bite.
Overall, the food was a disappointment and the wine list, with those awkward serving sizes, quite frankly a joke.
The main saving grace was the front of house host. He really came through to make the evening enjoyable. Charming and friendly.
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