Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria

Went here on a Saturday night. We were seated upstairs at a counter facing a cluster of large empty wine bottles. The wait staff had to speak to our shoulders which was awkward. And we were sat on really uncomfortable stools.

Amazing food and service...such a great dining experience . can't wait to go back!

Perfect food and service

Always fantastic ! One of my favorite restaurants 👍👍👍

This restaurant just keeps getting better. The team there really loves their work and knows their customers. The Cace e Pepe is amazing and a great starter to the Branzino.

a favorite of ours since it opened--love the new menu and am happy u kept the older standbys (branzino, short ribs)

IL Buco Almentari was recommended by a friend who is a sommelier. I took a good friend who was visiting from California for dinner. Somehow we ended up being seated at the chefs counter! This was one of the best meals I’ve had since moving to nyc in 2006! The incredible care taken by ALL the staff cannot be overstated. The food was perfection as was our server Maria D! I’m taking two local friends back this Saturday for brunch. This is my new favorite.

Disappointing experience. The restaurant had run out of its signature chicken, although we might have been able to get the last order had our server not been on break when we arrived. The sausage and egg sandwich was a tiny round of mediocre meat, a small egg and a huge amount of bread. We also ordered a salad because our server failed to inform us that the sausage was accompanied by a big pile of greens. Our mushroom pasta was a modified version of what had been on the menu and was clearly an on-the-fly adaptation to another ingredient shortage. Rather than being earthy and bright, ours was blandly creamy and sweet. To be fair, the $18 salad was a pretty plate of greens and reds, although over-salted and a touch too bitter, it was tastier than anything else we had. But there was no reason to order anything else, and we certainly won’t return.

Fantastic food and cocktails! The service was great as well. Can't wait to go back.

Wonderful meal from appetizers(charred artichokes, yellow tail carpaccio), main courses (black squid ink pasta with crab amazingly flavorful and light-well worth the carbs, and trout- thick cut, great fresh taste with charred leeks were so complimentary), to the dessert- affogato. Oh- how could I have forgotten the bread basket with olive oil and rock salt!

Great service great food as always

Fantastic food with warm rustic atmosphere.

One of my favorite restaurants in manhattan. The food is so consistently outstanding !

frequent this restaurant when I am in the neighborhood. it has never missed for brunch or dinner.

Everything was above average. Although one of Pasta dishes we ordered was not properly cooked, the server took the initiative to immediately correct the situation. It was uncomfortable to have to wait, but the dish came back perfectly cooked on the second try.

always amazing. food is always perfect. love the atmosphere and everything about this place.

I had to send my meal back twice...once as it was undercooked and cold and the second as it was still undercooked (crunchy pasta). I did not bother having them make a 3rd attempt. Also, the service was incredibly slow and it was not particularly busy...like 40 minutes to get a beer that was opened at the table slow.

Great food. Fun atmosphere

As usual, the meal was outstanding. We always sit at the bar as those are the best seats. And a little less noisy that the close quarters of the table. Everything was delicious.

Sat at chef’s counter!!!!

They need to figure out how to sit people that don’t want a communal table.

Great restaurant. Service was fantastic, food was tasty. Got busier towards the end of out meal and a little louder.

This is an excellent restaurant with great service and excellent food. I come here at least once a month. And will keep coming

Upon 6:00 arrival, seating, receipt of menu, everyone manager, hostess and waitperson) acknowledged our need to make a 7:30 curtain at The Public. They brought it up, not me. We finished our appetizers by 6:30. Then we sat and sat. A few apologies during the wait. Entrees showed up at 6:55, and one pasta dish was undercooked — not al dente, but undercooked. We half ate what was presented, with one of us eating around the undercooked pasta. Waitstaff (charming btw) was very apologetic. But they (expediter?) just blew it, which was too bad, because everything else was great. Then we had to run.

Perfection.

Exceptional food and service. Every dish was a winner. Cosy family-style atmosphere.

Food was delicious and ambience was fun! Would go back again in a minute!!

The pasta is incredible, exactly what it should taste like, and the lamb regu was especially delicious. My family was also particularly impressed by the Montepulciano wine, which exists by the glass. We ordered meats, and I liked the bresaola but was disappointed by the mortadella. The vibe is kind of dark and noisy, but that's the neighborhood.

Just my opinion but this is my favorite restaurant in all of New York. The food is exceptional, the staff is crazy good and I recommend this restaurant to every single friend I have that is coming to New York. You must go.

We were sat in a corner facing a wall and right next to a door that servers were going in and out of, causing a cold draft every few minutes.

Really delicious starter ie homemade charcuterie , porchetta as main course was quite tasty but was too big a potion mainly consisting of two large slices of meat and hardly anything else 😣.
We were seated at “bar” section on 1st floor which is overlooking the a void /the ceiling of ground floor area, not very attractive. The place I extremely busy and very noisy . Staff was very friendly and helpful. All in al good but not more ...

It's a solid restaurant. I'm no official expert on Italian cuisine but Il Buco leans to the North. Attentive service. Salumi platters. Cheese platters. Perfect pastas. Inventive desserts. I'm looking forward to a return visit. Go.

Quality ingriedents and nice atmosphere for a date but too expensive.

The meal was awesome. My friend and I both felt it was the best pasta we’ve ever had. We were very glad to have made a reservation as it was crowded. We were seated in a timely manner and the staff was great!

Food was generally very good. The artichokes and the ribs were outstanding. I would have rated more highly but we were told in a condescending way when we checked in that we had to leave within 1 hr 45 minutes. Even if we had no intention of being there longer than that it hardly makes for a relaxed meal with friends.

Outstanding seroandvattention to details! Loved the food!

A wonderful trattoria that evokes the feeling of dining in Rome. Wonderful fresh ingredients and authentic Roman recipes (fried artichokes, cacio pepe). Bravo!

Inattentive bar service waiting for table; didn’t get better at the table. tight seating. Towering pile of endive salad that was meant to be shared. Gummy bucatini. Great bread. How about some reasonably priced wine? Won’t rush back.

All around excellence, from the food to the service. The wine steward guided us to a very good bottle. There were enough options for my vegetarian friend. My pasta with lamb ragu was outstanding, as was Le Boyfriend’s spaghetti Nero with crab. Looking forward to my next meal there.

Fabulous as usual