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| - While I AM a snob when it comes to chain restaurants - generally HATE them - and am a champion of the locally owned business, I actually enjoy eating at Buca Di Beppo at Station Square. I haven't an ounce of shame about this. Eating here is FUN.
The decor is Italian-American kitsch on crack - every nook, cranny, and square inch of wall space is filled with some fabulously tacky knickknack, souvenir, gilt reproduction of Michelangelo's David, vintage family photo, or 8 x 10 glossy of Gina Lollobrigida and Connie Francis. And, honestly, any restaurant that has a table with a rotating head of the pope as its centerpiece can serve me a TV dinner in a tin tray and I'll be THRILLED.
The food is better than that, though. It's not the best Italian food in town, or even the second or third best, but it's good enough. Entrees are served family style, so you have to share, and that's part of the fun too.
It's super-crowded on the weekends, but if you can get a group together some week night, I promise it'll be good times. Service is s-l-o-w, so get comfortable and have another glass of wine.
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