Cucina Bene Pizza — Restaurant in New York

I came here on a Friday with my girlfriend to see a live performance and get a drink. What I actually got was ripped off and headache from frustration. We arrived about an hour early before the performance (scheduled for 8). We paid 20 dollars each for the cover charge just to have a bar seat, and ours was closest to the band and actually facing them. The other seats faced toward the bar and away from the band, and if you weren't early enough to snag a bar seat you were probably crammed standing behind me as they pack people in like sardines into this place. Even though my seat was probably the best spot for the view, I had other people constantly hitting me and my seat as they entered the dining area (which was 35 dollars). The idiots haven't realized that setting up a divider right by the coat check in and bar creates a traffic jam. The layout sucks, plain and simple. All it took was 1 look at the prices to make me not want to waste money on drinks. 9 bucks for a bud light is a joke. 12 for a martini isn't absurd for a New York bar, but I saw the waitresses bringing them to other customers and It looked like a small cup loaded with ice, which I could chug down in 2 gulps. No thanks I rather buy a pizza pie. Again, It pains me to say we got a good spot because it was actually terrible. The seats make you feel like your butt is hanging off the whole time and they are awkwardly high up so you can't...

I just went in to get a basic house salad with grilled chicken. After waiting for 5 minutes I received a small pizza box with the instructions "be careful". I did my best to keep the box at perfect level to the horizon as I walked 3 blocks back to my office. After stepping off the curb my entire leg was soaked with salad dressing. Hopefully eating it would be a better experience than my embarrassment for having crap pants for the rest of the day.

So much for having ruined not only my pants (I hope the stains come out) but my appetite. The salad was floating in salad dressing F.L.O.A.T.I.N.G. Don't discount the amount that was already on my pants and all over wall street. The pizza box, the included napkins and utensils, now my cubical is a greasy mess.

You might be saying oh you had a bad day. Why yes reader I had a bad day and just to state for the record the salad was gross and the chicken had no taste and barely looked grilled.

The office vending machine is looking good to me now...

Well... it WAS one of my favorite pizza places in the Financial District because of their prices and quality. BUT now I’m not sure I’ll be returning.

Today, a regular day in 2018, one of the employees yelled at their non-English speaking delivery boy. It was no regular ol’ scolding, I’m talking across-the-restaurant LOUD! And then the man looks me in the eye, a paying customer, BEFORE CONTINUING TO HUMILIATE THE DELIVERY BOY. For something as minor as putting some soup in the right bag....

I’m honestly disappointed. They all seem so nice, especially the female employee. But I personally don’t support businesses that treat their...