Cucina Fra Diavolo - Juno Ridge

No menu just buffet for lunch and dinner…What a joke. i should have listened to the review on the other site… advertised 200 items, i could count them on 2 sets of hands. NO carving station.,dried out chicken, dried out veal, plenty of tasteless pasta in “a RAGU” type sause. Gabriel, the cook keep coming out of the kitchen with glasses of water pouring it on the food so it wouldn’t look so dried out. Although a buffet I could’t even eat my first helping. I thought I would make up on the desserts but the fruit was soft and spoiled, cake was stale. The ice cream that wasn’t on the buffet was served but tasted like ice milk with chunks of ice in it. The only thing that was acceptable was the “diet coke” and at $2.50 a glass why not.(I ordered it without ice and it came out cold! Rude Staff…….Final assessment, If it sounds to good to be true……..DO NOT EVEN TRY THIS PLACE. These are the opinions of my party of 4 adults and the table of two next to us that we never met before couldn’t stop complaining!!

A friend and I have been coming to eat here for breakfast for a few months, now, including many times when we were the only people in the restaurant. Today, my friend missed the “Please wait to be seated” sign and we started to walk in. A simple mistake, no harm done! Except the waitress came over, loudly saying “Can’t you read?!? I have to seat you!” “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I didn’t see the sign,” my friend replied, perfectly reasonably, considering her overreaction. After a few minutes of waiting, the same waitress came over to seat us, with a chip on her shoulder. As she sat us down and threw the menus on the table, she AGAIN gave us an attitude as she said “You wouldn’t just walk into someone’s HOUSE would you?!” to which my friend simply replied “As a matter of fact, I do….” At that, the owner came out and threw me and my friend out of the restaurant for “harassing his waitress” saying “there are plenty of places to eat, you don’t have to be here.” As a neighboring table said as we walked out, “that waitress was a [jerk]!” But the owner got one thing absolutely right: There ARE plenty of places to eat, with comparable food and a MUCH more competent and polite waitstaff/owner, so don’t waste your time with this place, no matter how decent the food is.

We have been coming to Cucina since they opened a few years back. The service has always been polite and courteous. The portions are large and food is fresh and delicious. We come in for breakfast most days of the week, cause you cannot get such a good deal anywhere! 3 eggs, with potatoes or tomatoes, with bagel, cream cheese and coffee under $4! The omelets are great too,, and waffles – are 2 in the portion – who can eat so much! Lunch prices are great too, for $8.75 you get all you can eat soup and salad we usually get chicken or shrimp parmigiana (cooked to order) with pasta, and beverage and dessert is included! most days we take leftovers home. For dinner I either get the lamb chops, they are the lolly pop chops, 4 in a portion, and for $14.95 or salmon piccatta – includes a soup or skald, and vegetables, and beverage and dessert. We have brought many friends there, and have been recommending the restaurant to all our neighbors, all have been very happy and have been back multiple times. I guarantee – this place has the best prices for the value – and always fresh!!! Our friends had their wedding anniversary there, and the party was beautiful. The restaurant has a private section for groups.

I’m a job coach and I called the manager in reference to an online job post with an honest question to help them find employees, hoping he might be gracious and professional enough to make an exception to the “no, phone calls please” clause. Instead, he used foul and abusive language and insulted me over the phone. I will never refer any clients there, nor will I ever eat there. And I do not recommend anyone support this business. If the manager cannot treat callers in a professional and respectful manner, then the business is not worth my time.