Luca's Italian Bistro - Easton

Food is always delicious and plentiful... but there are always a minor snafu (i.e. ran out of "mixed vegetables as a side... everyone got creamed spinach)… We chuckle, and still find it is an easy place to get into and the prices are modest for the quality, flavor and quantity of food (always a follow-on lunch). Dana is a friendly server and goes with the flow... from the diners and the kitchen.

It's never a good sign when you are the only people in a restaurant. I will leave it at that.

My husband and I have visited this restaurant several times for dinner, and we’ve always enjoyed it. The food is excellent, and their specials are exceptionally delicious. We particularly love the fried ravioli, rice balls, and both calamari appetizers. The main courses are also outstanding! It’s definitely worth a visit.

We started with appetizers. I had the crab bisque, my husband had the shrimp cocktail. The bisque was quite flavorful. There were bits of crab but nothing remarkable. The shrimp in the cocktail were a very generous size. However, the shrimp were warm. Also, we had to ask for cocktail sauce. Shrimp cocktail. No cocktail sauce? It was brought out but that just struck me as odd. Bread was brought to the table, it was stone cold. It was nothing more than frozen bread, made, then put in the fridge. For dinner I had chicken piccata, my husband had stuffed shrimp. I can't complain about portion size, there was enough to feed 4 people between the 2 plates. That's ok, we like leftovers. We asked for grated cheese, it was nothing more than Kraft Parmesan. Even Olive Garden brings out fresh cheese and grates it right there. The food was good but not remarkable, nothing greatly memorable or can't wait to go back again. The other thing that had us scratching our head... the menu. We had different menus. Mine had certain things on it, my husband had other things on it. This was not a handwritten specials menu but a printed, regular menu. But they differed. Not only for items offered but price as well. My menu said chicken piccata $16.99, my husbands it said $20.00, as was the same with a few other choices. We looked carefully at the check when we got it. Will I go back? I might. Will I run back or strongly suggest someone else try it? Probably not so much.

We made a reservation for 7, only to find out they close at 7. However the hours on open table and on google show later times. The girl we were greeted by didn’t know we had a reservation as she said she was busy (when we got there there was one other couple). She did allow us to eat there but it was very uncomfortable once the music turned off and you could hear them in the kitchen talking about how late we got there. (Again didn’t know that we were making a reservation outside hours as no where but the front door has 7pm listed as a closing time. Food was ok. I don’t know that I would go back again