Osteria La Buca

Osteria la Buca is located at 5202 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA. This business specializes in Pizza and has 2 review(s) with a star rating of 5.0.

The pasta is hand-made from scratch. This restaurant has a huge wine selection, from every single part of Northern Italy. The restaurant decor gives off a rustically romantic old Italian traditional feel and is lit up at night with candles on every table and the ambiance upstairs is sparked with a warm and cozy little fireplace.

High end -- yet affordable -- rustic Italian restaurant on the southern outskirts of Hollywood known for house-made pastas, Neapolitan pizzas and traditional takes on proteins.

Yesterday, longtime Osteria La Buca GM Stephen Sakulsky and friend/musician John Moezzi announced to La Buca staff that the pair have purchased the staple neighborhood Italian restaurant from previous owner/friend Graham Snyder. They celebrated with the above pictured mariachi band.

DOWNTOWN— A reminder that Faith & Flower, the new American restaurant from Coastal Luxury Management, revealed lunch yesterday. Some eats off the dinner menu will be sold during lunch, plus sandwiches and raw bar items. [EaterWire]

NYC— In addition to landing new owners, more news by way of Osteria La Buca. Previous chef Wes Whitsell recently decamped to work at an undisclosed Manhattan...

Devotees "dream about the carbonara" and other "comfort food" "made with love" at this "charming" Hollywood Italian that's "affordable" too; despite some ownership changes over the years, it's frequently "crowded" with a "nice, neighborhood" feel and fittingly affable service.

The pasta is hand-made from scratch. This restaurant has a huge wine selection, from every single part of Northern Italy. The restaurant decor gives off a rustically romantic old Italian traditional feel and is lit up at night with candles on every table and the ambiance upstairs is sparked with a warm and cozy little fireplace.

Melrose osteria serves old-world rustic Italian fare with a new-world lodge decor.