Bruno's A Taste Of Italy - Billings

There closing May 25 2019 and maybe relocating some where else. Good Luck I really liked the interior and food

Not sure about a taste of Italy, but it sure as hell was a taste of Upstate New York. After visiting with my longtime high school friend, she suggested we all go to dinner and she suggested here. So it was the couples and I thought it called for sharing an antipasto. It was huge but it needed more lettuce so I ordered a dinner salad and threw it in. I got a kid ravioli, the sauce is everything it should be. Basil got a seafood lasagne. We sampled our guests dinner, but I forget what it was. All was delicious. We are suckers for cobblers and they had a rhubarb. We shared that. A beautiful restaurant. One of the highlights of the entire trip.

The staff is consistently friendly and attentive, and the restaurant itself is always clean, no matter when I visit, which is usually quite late. On one occasion, I arrived just as they were closing, and I was about to leave for fast food when the staff kindly insisted on taking my order. The food was piping hot and fresh! I’m incredibly grateful to have discovered this Italian gem in Montana. (By the way, I’ve lived in Italy and returned twice for culinary school, so it’s rare for me to give such a high rating to an Italian restaurant.)

Surprisingly slow for 7:30 on a Friday night. The hostess paid no mind to me when I walked in as it seems her texting was more important. However, a server saw me standing in front of the please wait to be seated sign and helped me end my wait. I was seated at a nice table for 4 and instead of being told or shown which seat I had to sit in she asked me where I wanted to sit. Small thing but nice, especially since I always move to the seat I want anyway. The server assigned to my table was a very delightful young lady. She got my drinks, explained the menu, shared the specials and answered my questions without issue. She stayed attentive all night, refilling my water, asking how things were, etc. She did exactly what a good server should. Even after she presented the bill she hung out and talked to me. It was nice to be made to feel as I mattered. I had the seafood lasagna. Nice flavor but it did have excessive amounts of its hollandaise sauce. The garlic bread was a tad cold and rubbery. The salad was crisp and fresh. The chocolate pudding spoon cake was good. I asked for it heated and the heat didn't make it all the way through the rather smallish slice of cake. All in all, the service was a 5, the food a 3. If you go you should enjoy a reasonable priced meal that has good flavor and great service.

This is definitely a place where your choices matter. We opted for the housemade pasta, enjoying both the linguine and spaghetti along with the homemade sauce. The fresco was delicious, and the carbonara was outstanding—just what we needed after a long day of travel. The staff was also incredibly friendly!