If you are looking for an Italian Restaurant in Encino, CA then come to Buca. Our Italian Restaurant serves Authentic Family Style Italian Food. Conveniently located at Highway 101 and Venture Boulevard is Encino, CA residents’ favorite Italian restaurant, Buca di Beppo! Serving authentic Italian food for lunch and dinner every day of the week, Buca is the best place in town to enjoy all of your favorite Italian pastas, entrees, and pizzas.
Chain serving family-style Italian fare in a kitschy setting featuring red-&-white tablecloths.
Luis Vega
Fabulous day to the best place, celebrated my wife’s birthday and very satisfied with the results , all the food was really delicious. The server, Gio, was great and attended to us frequently and made sure we were ok. The place was very calm and creative with the art pieces. I can’t wait to come back. The cooks did amazing and really made sure the food was delicious, hot, and fresh. Very happy and excellent experience. Will come back. Thank you Gio and the cooks!
… moreDavid Sabedra
First time coming to this location and I was very impressed with the food, parking, service and atmosphere! All 5 stars! The rooms and decor looked amazing! This it’s a great spot for parties, and groups of all sizes!
… moreTim Laren
We had an event and service was great. The room we were in was a little tight. A few tables, limk the one I was at, had basically no room on one side between ours and another table. If someone needed to get up, everyone had to get up. They provided plenty of food and everyone left satisfied. The table was always full of food.
… moreSebastian
First time coming to this location and personally feels really lovely to go in the morning. There’s a calmness to it and delicious food to choose from. The prices would look intimidating but really worth the price for special occasions or being able to afford it. (I think it was the lunch menu that was cheaper, and you can share a meal considering the portions are enough to get full by if you continuously eat the salad first-). I got a Shrimp Fra Diavolo and my girlfriend got the Chicken Alfredo. It comes with a salad and we got both Cesar salad. Delicious, and fresh bread to get started on with olive oil and some sort of balsamic vinegar. There’s a lot to choose from and consider for lunch or dinner (that can feed a party of four, possibly!). Though the environment can make you enjoy the time sitting and eating while chatting. I would say the parking situation is tricky though if you want to avoid that, mornings work out the best. Hopefully the experience would be the same for all. It’s lovely.
I do plan to come back with my girlfriend to celebrate our anniversary.
… moreBrendeezy
Food was delicious. Came here for a birthday celebration. Ordered the Lemon chicken, chicken parmesan, chicken Alfredo pasta, and shrimp Diavolo. Let me just say the pastas were all delicious. Service was amazing. Very quick service and very friendly.
… moreno rain
Absolutely horrible smell as soon as you pull into parking lot. Smells like nasty sewer. Customer Service was not up to par. Server didn’t get the order right. The food was dry & this is the second time that I dined at this restaurant and they did not have the stiffed shells. Don’t Waste your time coming here.
… moreYorleny Moreno
Pasta is amazing! I keep coming here to try new things, and I’m never disappointed. Everything so good, service is always wonderful! Stuff cheese rigatoni, highly recommend!!
Chicken pistachio, also highly recommend
All the spicy ones are also good, just if you really can’t handle spicy, not for you.
A small will cover up to 8 people, a large will cover 15 or 17, because when ordering usually 3 dishes are ordered, and trust you get full pretty fast, so just a small portion of each will be enough on your plate.
… moreKT
This place is so yummy and a fun place to eat. It’s uniquely decorated and there’s a free parking lot with plenty of space. We went at 6pm on a Saturday and there was no wait for a table. You can make reservations to be safe. They have a full service bar.
Everything is served family style with enough to serve 2-3 and can be ordered large for bigger groups. Everything we tried was great and I’ll definitely be back again to try more menu items.
The service is fast and friendly. I love getting to walk through the kitchen!
… moreroyce chang
Visited Buca recently. Seated by the bar in a cozy, crowded space with lots of frames on the walls. Drinks took a while, and the draft beer was disappointingly watered down. Had to switch to bottled beer. Portions seemed smaller than usual – loved the chicken parmesan, but the spicy pizza had an odd flavor. The spaghetti & meatballs were decent. Requesting the check took ages, and on the way out, saw staff munching on chips in the kitchen. Overall, a bit off-putting.
… moreEd Pearson
Large party of 25 in 4-5 groups.
Restaurant is beautiful!
Food wasn’t bad, we ordered a family-style lunch.
The food was delivered in a very dish-sparing manner – It was clustered too tightly. Many people had to walk to plate their food, but everyone had good things to say about the food and portion size. Overall the meal experience was enjoyable.
The atmosphere was terrible due to a photographer spontaneously showing up and asking the group to pose. The photographer left after photographing everyone and returned with cardboard framed photos of our group. 20 photos were handed out.
Everyone was laughing and excited for the memories until he asked 20$ each photo or we needed to return them.
It felt shady because it was. It killed our vibe, all photos were returned (none were purchased). The tactic was tricky, and uninvited during our visit.
It doesn’t matter how good the food was, this behavior needs to stop. I won’t be returning to any establishment that allows a third party company to trick and tease the patrons.
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