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Bravo Cucina Italiana

Buffalo, New York, United States

Bravo Italiana is an Italian restaurant located in the Walden Galleria mall, in Cheektowaga (near Buffalo) right next to the Cheesecake Factory. The restaurant offers Italian food that is both tasty and reasonably priced. The quality of the food is slightly higher than average, but isn't quite fine dining. The restaurant offers both a large indoor seating area, and an outdoor patio.

Cost

Prices at Bravo are average. Most entrees are between $10-$20.

Dress

Casual dress is fine - we were wearing shorts and t-shirts

Parking

The mall has a very large outdoor parking lot. Self parking is available for free, and there is also paid valet parking.

Items Ordered

Bread and Dipping Oil

Bread and dipping oil

After we had made our order, the server brought over a small basket of bread and a dish with a spiced dipping oil in it. The bread had a number of herbs, and was fairly tasty. When combined with the dipping oil, it was excellent! The oil was mildly spiced, and went very well with the bread.

Chicken Parmesan Milanese

Chicken Parmesan Milanese

This was pretty good for a chicken parmesan. The chicken itself was what you would expect - it was a piece of thin chicken that was fried (like a schnitzel). The pasta itself was nothing special - it was plain white pasta, and was mostly flavorles. The red sauce that was served with the pasta was excellent - it was very flavorful, and had a creamy flavor. It went very well with the chicken and the pata.

Margherita Panini with Zuppa

Margherita Panini with Zuppa

This panini was quite disappointing. It was more like a grilled cheese sandwich with basil and grilled tomato in it than anything else. The sandwich was fairly greasy, and the cheese wasn't uniformly distributed. Oftentimes I had one bite with far too much cheese followed by another bite that didn't have enough cheese. The combination of different types of cheese was pretty good though. This was really good for a grilled cheese sandwich, but not what I expected for a panini.

The panini was ordered with a salad instead of the soup. The caesar salad was a pretty good typical caesar salad, and had a few croutons that were excellent. I thought there was a little too much dressing, although the dressing was quite good with a hint of garlic.