Barbuzzo

Lovely Mediterranean-inspired restaurant in the heart of Center City. Friendly and attentive service and an imaginative, tasty menu featuring excellent pizzas and pastas make Barbuzzo an excellent option in the downtown core.

This cool vibe place is friendly, and well staffed with an open style kitchen. Creative menu with ingredients applied tactfully with an appropriate touch. Smaller plates are perfect portions and served at an enjoyable pace. Def worth stopping in.

The food was good, let's start by saying that. All the food was well prepared and had pretty good flavor. Whipped ricotta was great. The sangria, however, was disappointing. Weak. Not flavorful. The portions were small. I get fine dining portion standards. But this wasn't fine dining. I have no problem paying good money for good food but it has to meet the cost:value ratio and overall I didn't feel the experience did that. Let me explain. They serve you "family style" (which I have no idea what that means because this food was not served family style.) What they mean is they'll send one person their food 10 minutes before the rest of the table gets their food. So I sat there uncomfortable, half waiting for the rest of the table to be served while my food got cold. So I slowly ate my half portion of a meal. Then, as they ate, I sat uncomfortably watching them eat. And after some portion of the appetizer and my entree, I was still hungry.

I'm not typically a dessert person, but I must highly recommend the salted caramel budino – you can't go wrong with it! A must-order for sure.

Great Great spot, worth the wait & definitely holds par to the hype. Only downside is that it can feel a little claustrophobic when you're setting in your table but that's part of the philly charm.

Unbelievable food*****

We really enjoyed our meal. Staff were great! We sat at the chefs table.