Buonanotte

Terrible. That’s all I got. I’m here right now, and instead of enjoying myself, I feel compelled to point out that this is the worst DJ in THE WORLD

DISASTER TOTAL AND UTTER DISASTER. This place is being run by idiots. Staff are idiots but management is on another level of stupid for hiring them. I was served by a blonde girl who looks like she’s about 40 but is walking around in the highest heels i’ve ever seen. Witnessed at my table how she speaks to other staff and was utterly shocked that this server has a job after the way she speaks to co-​workers, she was rude and harsh and I had to pull the busser aside to assure him it was okay that he didn’t pick up something she screamed to him about.
This is when things went south, attitude is everything at restaurants.
Food was small portions for the price, could’ve really enjoyed this place but I cannot stress the horrible service I received. Her name is available if management needs to know since I over heard someone talking to her. We got the heck out of there as soon as humanly possible after our meal.
We had the Bruschetta which was decent but very small serving. I think it came with 3 pieces. Hardly worth what you pay.
We also had the Buonanotte pizza which was recommended by our server but I think she only recommended it because it was named after the restaurant. Disgusting. Ruined truffles for me for the rest of my life.
Management, please, if you want to keep your jobs and this restaurant open, consider restaffing. Also, I think service would be better if you didn’t have your girls work in 9 inch heels, this isn’t a stripclub after all.

Excellent atmosphere, great food, amazing cocktails. The wait staff are attentive and friendly. They offer great portions for sharing and the steak is amazing.

Very nice place for a date dinner or go out with friends, I had pizza there which was very yummy, probably one of my top fav pizzas in Toronto, however the pizza was served barely warm… Too bad. Service is not the quickest but it is worth the 4 stars for the décor and coat service.

Came here for dinner and stayed afterwards for the nightclub. Their food was amazing. Their duck ravioli was amazing but a little on the heavy side. Most of the people on our table ordered the pizzas, which make you think you’re in Italy. Totally authentic Italian food. Great environment.

I’m rating this place overall a great atmosphere to dine with your significant other, family or friends.
Has all the right elements for a great evening with food that makes you just want more. The appetizers were delish and the entrees were well portioned.
Appetizers:
Poplette (meatballs)
Calamari
Margherita
Entrée:
Gnocchi
Mare Monte (fish)
Dessert:
Tiramisu
*If you’re going to choose one, then let the meatballs be the one.

We ordered the 38 ounce steak… It was not even warm… Same with the mashed potatoes. The seafood pasta and scallops were overly salty. I would not return here for meals. Combine that and they forgot an order.

NYE DINNER PARTY — spent $ 95 per person to have a meal that you’d pay less than $ 20 for.. Sure, the place is trendy, crowd was good and everything else was less than mediocre. They really tried to sell their bottle service to everyone starting at $ 695. So if you’re like me with four people we had spent $ 400 –on dinner, $ 100 bottle of wine and bottles of sparkling water and our bill was already at $ 700 plus tip. If we wanted to keep the small table we had to shell out another $ 700? Talk about taking advantage of your patrons. Once you had our dinner money, you guys pretty much said now beat it and let us make more money. Now If the food was off the charts and the service had been white glove, then I can see why there would be a premium, but this was just annoying and unacceptable.
So all in all, this will be the last visit to your place and I’ll be making sure that none of my friends and co-​workers will be dining there anytime soon!
Happy new year!

Not going to regurgitate what others have already mentioned about the service and food. Would not recommend this restaurant. Only saving grace is the attentive waitress.

This is club service food with pretty faces so if you accept it for it is — you can have a good time.

Really bad bad service across the board.
1. We made reservations for 10 people. When the first 4 people got there they made them wait for 20 minutes in the front, until the «majority arrives». At this point I already wanted to go some place else. I stayed because it was my friend’s birthday.
2. So when the majority arrived we got our table. The waitress took so long to even get our drinks it was painful. We waited there for like 20 minutes until she finally came back.
3. Finally we start placing our order for drinks and food. I was told I could not add absolutely anything to my pizza because the cook didnt like that… I could only remove items just not add any, I wasnt even offered the option to pay for it, it was all «SORRY YOU CANT ADD NOTHING». All i really wanted was some prosciutto, well ya, not allowed.
4. So with my food I ordered a beer, I got the beer bottle fairly quickly then the waitress disappeared for like 40 minutes. So we are still waiting for our food with empty beer bottles and with no one around for the second round.
5. So It took over 1 hour for our mains to arrive. It was an insane wait. The servers came with the dishes putting them in front of each one of us and im like impressed that they even know what belongs to who, except that they didnt. They didnt pair a single plate with the right person, they might have just asked instead of placing plates in front of people for no apparent reason.
6. As expected it took another hour to get our desserts.
7. After waiting for hours in the slowest service ever, we finally get our bill… OH forget about split bills, all 10 of us had to figure out who got what in the loudest and darkest setup ever.
8. All this time I felt extremely safe since i had a bouncer standing right behind my table checking out every waitress passing by.
9. Right after we paid, we were told by the «Manager» to get a bottle or else leave because our table was gonna be used for bottle service. That was just amazing, lol. Well if they didnt take 4 hours just to attend one table MAYBE we would have fucked off a lot sooner.
Anyways, please avoid

This is by far the worst Italian restaurant in Toronto, the food is good dont get me wrong but the service is incredibly bad, not to mention their loser manager. Do not go here go to Terroni if you want a way better expereince and food, because this place sucks

Came here on a Saturday night for a friend’s bday and the place was pretty busy!
Vibe here is more lounge-​ish than restaurant-​ish.
The waitress for our table was excellent and quite attentive.
I got the rhubarb lemonade and one of the pizzas with prosciutto on it… Bill ended up being just over $ 40. Food was quite good, but it was kinda annoying having to eat the pizza with a fork and knife (they don’t pre-​slice it for you). Also, the music was so loud that it was difficult to even hear the person beside you… we were screaming into each other’s ear. There were also only 3 – 4 stalls in the ladies room and waiting in line was a pain. The crowd really started to pick up around 11pm and it has a generally more mature crowd. I’m not sure I’d come back for either the food or the atmosphere…

Buonanotte is an upscale Italian restaurant by day and bar lounge by night. Located on Mercer street beside MAISON, this venue somewhat reminds me of Thompson HOtel. Great looking crowd, beautiful ambiance, décor, etc, it somehow gives off a pretentious vibe.
In terms of drinks, I had their Amaretto Sour with Egg whites, and till this day I feel Thompson hOtel makes it better. Prices for drinks are reasonable (FOR THE AREA) so be sure to pay slightly more than your average drink. The choice in music varies as the dj accommodates its patrons with different genres.
The overall experience was OKAY, however I’ve heard from many the food is neither here– nor– there. so i guess ill need to make a second visit.

We went to this restaurant yesterday, and I should have read the Unilocal reviews. I would have passed.
We arrived relatively early because we were going to see a play at the Royal Alexandria. Service was nice and friendly and for the most part prompt. The décor was warm, inviting and modern. I was really excited to try this place out.
We ordered the deep fried calamari and shrimp. While it was cooked well and breaded tastily, it did not come with any dipping sauce. I’ve never not been served dipping sauce with this dish, so it was really quite boring after the 5^th piece.
My cousin ordered the $ 30 Buonanotte pizza. For $ 30, canned, squishy mushrooms is NOT acceptable. She loves mushrooms and has to leave them on the side. She did say the dough was cooked well.
I ordered the seafood pasta. For $ 26 the portion was quite small. All my 7 mussels were out of their shells (but they still put the empty shells in the bowl? I got 1 shrimp and 3 pieces of calamari. The sauce was SUPER oily and the pasta was ridiculously undercooked. I know al dente, and this was like al dente’s frigid aunt forgotten outside after a night of partying (aka super dehydrated).
Now, I am a pretty passive aggressive person (hence, writing a review in lieu of making a fuss in the restaurant), however, I really would have liked to bring this to the chef’s attention if we weren’t in a rush to make it to the play. I needed SOMETHING to eat and was seriously contemplating the street meat at the corner of John and King St.
Anyway, will not be going back and will be telling all my friends to avoid this place. I don’t know how they will make it with food lacking this much.

Had a number of dishes here and liked them all. Their 24 month aged prosciutto is very good. had it on their Prosciutto, Rucola E Pomodorini pizza. Charcuterie board was yummy. I really enjoyed the seared scallops — large, juicy and cooked to perfection.

With everyone’s harsh reviews I prepared myself for the worst experience… I was pleasantly surprised!
Nice ambiance and décor.
Service was great. Food came out promptly with adequate timing between courses. Piping hot. Service was always friendly and they brought everything we asked for promptly. Table was consistently cleared timely. We even had a sommelier come by to help us choose our wines each time! At one point, I asked our server what kind of vegetable was in a dish to which she happily and knowledgeably recounted the ingredients, including the one in question: Jerusalem artichoke! I was impressed by her!
Food was surprisingly good!
1. Crispy calamari and shrimp to start, very fresh and light battered.
2. Meatballs were flavourful in a fresh tomato sauce.
3. We has a baked eggplant dish with cheese and tomato sauce that was delish.
4. Then a pasta dish with tomato sauce that was horribly bland! That was the only bad dish. Having 3 back to back tomato dishes wasn’t the most exciting plan as well. However the last 3 dishes were wow! BOMB DIGGITY where it mattered most!
5. Pizza with prosciutto and melted balls of delicious creamy rich cheese. And the crust was so tender and doughy yet crispy!
6. Branzini crisp grilled on a buttery bed of kale mmmm.
7. Striploin in a buttery jus with tender roast fingerling potatoes. The beef was grilled to perfection and amazingly juicy!
All in all a great experience with good music afterwards. Perhaps my great experience was an amount (according to other reviews) but I still definitely wanted to show credit where it was due!

The meatballs were excellent, but the service and overall experience were so far below-​par that I can’t bring myself to give this establishment more than one star.
After enjoying their experience at the sister Buonanotte in Montréal, my friends had booked a large party of 12 to come by a few weeks after the restaurant’s grand opening.
We know that things can be cumbersome when a new business is settling so we tried our best to make it easy for them, booking two months in advance and calling a few days prior to remind them we were coming.
Unfortunately, it seemed that they forgot about us and all the large tables were already taken. Management did not attempt to make the situation right, they did not apologize, they actually found a way to make matters worse: after making us wait for «just a few» (aka 45) minutes, they sat us at three separate tables.
Although the tables were not heavy and could easily be moved, they told us it was against their policy to displace the tables at that time in the evening.
We began dinner at three tables that were not adjoined and, because there was such a delay, the restaurant began turning into a nightclub while we were still eating. All the tables were moved against the walls (except ours) and people began dancing all around us. We quickly finished our food, paid and exorbitant bill and left.
The worst part? The stuck-​up, conceited and immodest demeanor as well as the stark lack of apology from the manager (and any of the staff).
I will advocate against this establishment fervently any time I hear its name uttered.

After a good time at yuk yuks, 5 of us decided to go here and have light dinner. The restaurant has modern décor and the staff made the restaurant feel upscale. I was pretty hungry, so I was afraid of how much I would end up having to pay at the end of the night. The menu items are on the pricier side for sure, but everything sounded delicious. I decided to have pasta and I wanted meat in it, so I got the Italian sausage pasta. Others had salads, pizza and an amazing looking octopus appetizer.
I’ve never had grilled octopus and was reluctant to try it. It was exactly what I imagined it to be: chewy. Everyone else enjoyed it though, so I guess I should recommend it. My pasta portion looked tiny at first, but I was sooooo full! It was delicious and I would definitely recommend that dish to others. I tried a little bit of the salad with pears (it was very refreshing) and I also tried the pizza with some sort of sliced meat on it. Whatever it was, it was really good. The dough is thin and almost felt like a fresh out of the oven pita. It was burnt in some places, but it made it feel more authentic.
Finally, the dessert. We decided to get cannolis and I think they gave us panna cotta on the house or it came with the cannolis? Either way… wow! The panna cotta was incredible! I would honestly just go back to this place for that. It was so smooth and so creamy… just thinking about it makes me want some (and I just ate!).
Our waitress was extremely nice, so the service definitely met my expectations. Before we left, the restaurant turned into a mini club. It was a bit awkward as we were not in the mood to dance, so we sat at our table for a bit, listened to the music, and then left. Overall, it was a great experience. I read some of the reviews while I was eating and was a bit surprised at how negative they were. Maybe we just got lucky? Anyway, if you want a nice pizza or pasta in an upscale environment, come here. If you want something more rustic and authentic, maybe look elsewhere. If you’re craving panna cotta, definitely try it here!

very disappointed with not only the service but the food as well.
we had the last dinner seating for a group and were told we need to preorder the apps and dessert so that we weren’t holding the table for too long… we sat down and the server told us there were no apps ready for us. so we had to order our own — this worked out well for some of us as we all didn’t want apps. the server came around and said we HAD to order apps because everyone else was– that really upset me and a few other people as we’re now wasting food.
the birthday individual was happy for the free champagne she was given but the person pouring the glasses spilt it on me and the person sitting beside me. I felt that since it was the last dinner seating everything was rushed and cold. the pasta I got was tasteless I feel I get better tasting food at a chain like scaddabush. on top of that my pasta was colder than room temp. the dessert we got wasn’t good either and we felt like they just wanted us out so they can get ready to switch over to a club. if you don’t want people enjoying their food and each other’s company than you shouldn’t have late seating dinner.
I was extremely disappointed with the service and food– I understand why they would do one bill for a group however the server still went around and took separate payments from everyone, why not just separate the bill to avoid problems of people looking at the bill to see what they owe.
I will not return here, nor will I recommend it to anyone.