Wow! I am so unhappy about Buono's. We came here several times a month for the past 15 years (we live quite far away) and loved the pizza and sandwiches. It was not fancy, but the pizza was excellent and true New York style. Nowhere else in the valley could I get pizza the way I knew that it should be made.
I read that Buono's was sold recently and visited twice before reading about the sale. The restaurant had been spruced up, the staff was different and the food terrible. We had a disgusting Chicken Parmigiana hero. Awful. The next visit we decided to stick to the plain cheese pizza. I had previously said that if I could have one last meal before going on the electric chair it would be Buono's Pizza. I would now rather throw this pizza onto the electric chair! It is AWFUL!!! Thick bready crust covered in too much cheap cheese with terrible sauce. We didn't even finish our slices. The tasteless garlic knots were brought out still frozen in the middle. Yuck! I will never go back again. So terrible. If anyone knows Jimmy and finds out if he reopens somewhere, please post here. Stay away!!! If I could give no stars, I would, but just because it was epic and is now so mediocre.