Buona Gente - Long Beach

I love everything. From the owners, to the service, to the food. Super great! My fiancé and I absolutely love it! Never ever been disappointed!

Our server just was not good. She was slow to greet us, left dirty plates on the table for the entire meal, promised bread twice that never came, and forgot to bring the check when we asked. We talked to the owner, who was willing to listen, but he told us they were too busy to take up room in the oven for bread that night and didn’t even say he’d talk to the server about the other issues. The food was OK but a bit bland. We will try another place next time.

Food is fantastic and deserving of five stars but unfortunately the service was horrible. Sat for a very long time before anyone acknowledged us and then after we ordered we never received the hot bread we were promised, never even received our soup and salad. The waitress walked up about 35-40 minutes later with our main dishes when I informed her we never received any of our starters. She acted dumbfounded even though she was the one that had clearly forgotten. Brought our soup and salad out after our pasta and we never did get any bread despite asking a second time for it. My beer was gone for a very long time but she never came to our table to check in. She finally asked me if I wanted another beer when we were ready for the check. No thanks. We live on Nieto and frequent Dominicos a lot but decided to try this place tonight. Luckily the food was so tasty we will probably frequent again but the service will definitely make us second guess when deciding where we want to get Italian food on Second St. in the future.

Amazing pastrami sandwich and Arriabiata. Went for the tiramisu which was good, too, but a little soft (it was free, can't complain!

BEST italian food in town and its always open for seating?!how are people not packing this place up?! Just don't pack it up on Sunday nights because that's when we go in lol thanks to all who make this place SO DANG GOOD. Ingredients, recipes, setting, plating, all satisfactory to its fullest!