Baffi's Restaurant — Restaurant in Florida

We arrived 2 mos ago from New York Decided to try Baffi”s pizza.We ordered their Margarita pie. Upon arriving in restaurant and picking up pie box it was COLD!!!!I figured at Home to heat up and enjoy..However we ordered extra sauce less cheese received the complete opposite and upon heating crust was not even edible…We believe there food is not made to order, and it turns out it looks like a Regular Pie not a Marguerite style. You just heard from my boyfriend. I’m from New York and I’m Italian. We ordered a margarita pie with extra sauce and not much mozzarella. When he returned with the pie, it looked like a regular pizza with extra mozzarella with a couple of pieces of tomato with more mozzarella on top of each slice of tomato. I heated up the pizza for a couple of minutes because when he came with the pie, it was cold. We only live 10 minutes away. After heating it the crust was so hard it was inedible. I called and asked for the manager. She kept repeating and reading from the menu. I asked her if this was an Italian restaurant and she replied that she was from Napoli. Pizza from Naples does not taste like this. This pie was pre-made. All they did was add a couple of pieces of tomato with a piece of mozzarella of each. What a disappointment. They should be ashamed to call themselves an Italian restaurant. Also you need to know that my boyfriend found hair in two different slices of his pizza. I’m so embarrassed to believe that people would pose as Italians. They...

Baffi's meets all of the criteria for an outstanding Italian restaurant. The menu is large, with all of the favorite Southern Italian specialties. Welcome is enthusiastic from host owner Jacqueline. Her husband Camillo is the chef and co-owner. So basically, diners join Jacqueline and Camillo for meals in their "home" in a small storefront restaurant in a strip mall just South of 18th Street in Boca Raton on State Road 7, Route 441.

At our recent visit, my wife and I shared a half bottle of excellent Portuguese red wine that Jacqueline recommended. We split as a starter a generous order of excellent meatballs in red sauce. My wife selected as her main a superb order of lobster ravioli with shrimp and calamari. I loved my lasagna, which was perfectly layered pasta with meat sauce and cheese. For me, lasagna is the ultimate test of a local Italian restaurant. Usually lasagna is cooked in such a way that the distinctive pasta and meat sauce layers become a mishmash. I am almost always disappointed in the lasagna I order in local Italian restaurants. However, Camillo's lasagna was perfect. The pasta was perfectly al dente, and the meat sauce and cheese all worked together superbly. I cannot remember ever enjoying an order of lasagna more than at Baffi's.

Service is perfectly attentive and the check is modest for a superb Italian meal. We look forward to...

I have eaten at this restaurant on the recommendation of a golf buddy, coincidentally was able to eat there with no issues and the prepared meals were good no complaints, we were satisfied. Pricing was a little stiff however. Now here is the issue, I could never figure out when they are open or closed. Tried to eat there with guests or by myself at least 5 times when after arriving found them closed without any explanation nor an a clue as to their interactions. Calculated that they are closed 40% of the time of normal restaurant business hours. This restaurant could be a hubby or someone’s cruel joke at the expense of diners. I do not feel this is acceptable no matter how good the chef is. Some of the best restaurants around the world have a limited opening time, posted prominently and adhered to. My advice to diners stay away from this place, until they manage the place responsibly and seriously, or you are family and know what they will do next. It seems the chef gets up in the morning and decides to go cook, or shop to cook. Many items on the menue are not available when you ask for it. I concluded they have no game plan, nor do they know what they are doing. A restaurant is a service business and belongs in the hospitality industry. Many other quality reliable restaurants are available...