The Restaurant Of The Year
When you enter il Buco…you sense immediately, that you’ve left New York, that you’re in a countryside albergo, that the hearth is burning somewhere to heat a rural barn. Except that there are beautiful antiques on the walls. Except that crazed New Yorkers are making a bar scene, waiting for tables, generally displaying joy that they’re inside the door. For…without any press at all to speak of…il Buco has become the ultimate cult restaurant in NY today...

[I] had two glorious dinners [at il Buco], probably the most vivid and satisfying meals that I’ve had anywhere in the world this year. Please heed me on this one. I’m shouting as loudly as I can: this is the year of il Buco. This, my friends, is not only “the restaurant of the year”…for many, it will be "the discovery of the decade."