Il Buongustaio

Luciano was a great host. Food excellent. Good wine selection. Molto bene.

FANTASTIC

Great food. Great service

The food here is undeniably fantastic — fresh and delicious. It’s worth the wait for the food to be cooked. Though the experience inside leaves a bit to be desired. The front right and back of the restaurant is very nice, but the front left tables adjacent to the kitchen are in a bit dinky of an area that looks quite a bit cheaper than the rest of the space. All the servers and hostesses are very kind, but our server seemed to disappear for 10-15 minutes at a time. At one point, both us and the table adjacent to us had to ask the hostess to grab our waitress for us, while the other tables with a different waitress did not have the same issue. I would come again for the food, definitely, and I would recommend other people try it as well! Though I would struggle to decide whether to take out or not due to the frustrating, slow service.

First time here and I came here due to the high ranked reviews. I am very familiar with home cooked real Italian food because my aunt’s husband is from Milano and they make some of the most delicious pasta & traditional dishes. So I know a thing or two about good home cooked Italian food. I had the salmon with spaghetti squash and hubby had the lemon chicken with pasta. First let start it by saying the owner is very polite and attentive. The food came out together and hot. We did love how fresh it tasted but that was it. Salmon cooked perfectly, could use more flavor as well as option was rather small. I ordered the special for the day and it did not have anything amazing out of this world and I paid double for it!!??? If I would have known I would have ordered something else even if it had pasta and would have given the pasta to hubby or daughter since I do not eat heavy carbs. My favorite item was the cannoli!! Legit!!! Also, our waitress was super nice and attentive. Keep it up guys!

Wow. Worth the hype! I did NOT feel like I was in Florence, SC! Authentic Italian food and every course was amazing.