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| - Had a coupon for $10.00 off a purchase of $20 and thought we could go and have a nice dinner. The ambiance is always fun and gaudy there. Makes me giggle a bit. I honestly have not been to a Buca di Beppo for about 8 years so I was excited to go based on my memories of having family dinners there and loving the food. Well, I guess maybe I got spoiled with better Italian food along the way because today's meal wasn't really as good as I remember. Maybe, my palette has changed over the years? We started with fried calamari (all my boyfriend's), and mozzarella garlic bread. He said the calamari was a little chewy, not as crisp as he prefers, but he finished it all. The garlic bread is always nice there, but the bread seemed to taste a bit stale at the bottom. They always sliver fresh garlic over the bread. We shared the small eggplant parmesan with a side of spaghetti and it was ok. There were two stacked pieces of eggplant parm, breaded nicely, with a good amount of cheese. The spaghetti noodles were great, they were cooked perfectly! All in all, I guess I didn't like their marinara. It seemed too acidic to me, like they dropped some vinegar in there accidentally or something. My bf makes sunday gravy and I guess I'm spoiled by that flavor that my tastebuds changed. Buca is a nice place to get together with friends and family for family style food, but it does get expensive.
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