Perhaps the wost dining experience I have had in NYC. We ordered a $30 bottle of wine; the waiter mistakenly brought a much more expensive bottle that we drank without realizing until the check showed up - when we asked for a correction to what we had ordered the manager started shouting at us as if it was our fault. Train your servers properly and you won't have that problem - don't blame your customers!\r
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Food on the menu is reasonably priced ($12 - $15 for pasta entrees) and actually was pretty good, but the off-menu special (fish) that I ordered wound up being $30, which is totally out of whack with (a) the price point of the rest of the menu, and (b) the fish that was ordered (whitefish, not super-exotic Ahi or something like that). I should have asked about the price of my entree, but really, looking at other reviews I note a theme here - poor service that tries to drive the check up by presenting expensive off-menu items. \r
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Ironically the food wasn't all that bad, but in NYC there is no reason to tolerate bad food OR bad service, both of which are important when you eat out - and despite a decent kitchen, Buona Sera has bad service in abundance. Stay away!
Cons: VERY poor service, dishonest management
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