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Article: After All These Years, Il Buco Still Packs Them In.(Arts&Entertainment)(Review)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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Byline: Moira Hodgson
Il Buco is like one of those country trattorias where the host does the cooking with products he's grown in his own backyard. But in this restaurant's backyard, instead of olive groves, vineyards and a few chickens, you'd find shops stocked with hardware, kitchen equipment and hundreds of different kinds of light bulbs.
For although the inside of Il Buco may look like an old farmhouse on the outskirts of a hill town in Umbria, it's on a dark and desolate block between the Bowery and Lafayette Street. You walk into a dining room where rough, well-worn wooden tables of various sizes sport large sprays of flowers in enameled tin jugs ...