Bruno the King of Ravioli

This location has been closed for years. YEARS! People are leaving reviews for the wrong Bruno’s.

We love their Pizza Special! A few weeks ago we got 2 of their dinner special’s they were Ok… can’t complain for the price… the Ceasar salad was delicious. Returned last night to find out they no longer had a chicken dinner special… just pasta… you now have to pay extra for salad. We ordered Chicken parmesan dinner… Never Again! For $ 13…2 of us usually share the chicken… with only 1 small fillet of meat… I let my daughter have it. I was really disappointed and kind of suprised since there is so much competition in the area for this type of food. We will be returning I would rather walk an extra block pay less and get better food

A great place to go if you like to stand around and watch the staff chat with each other and ignore you. Their contempt for their jobs and you is palpable. Seems like way too many staff for a few food stations and perhaps they’d pay more attention to their customers if they didn’t have so many idle colleagues to shoot the breeze with. Management must be oblivious to the fact that a customer can go 2 blocks north to find an excellent grocery with a prepared foods and extensive sandwich, sushi and udon stations where the staff are extremely attentive and speedy. Bruno’s needs a clue.

reasons i love this place:
— tasty pre-​made chicken salad
— fresh ravioli
— thick, crispy outside/​soft inside bread
— breaded chicken cutlets
— ready to heat garlic bread
— guys behind the counter who always chat to you and call you by the name on your credit card
— if you have people coming over for dinner, and you don’t have dinner ready/don’t feel like cooking, you can just pop over here and get something easy and fast
— prices aren’t super cheap, but it’s way cheaper than going to eataly
— it always smells like good food

They’re an Italian specialty food store and sell ready to eat fare as well. I’m only writing about the groceries here… excellent. Especially when you catch them on a sale, which they do often to sell off their raviolis which are made fresh on the premises. You can score big, $ 5 for a box that normally costs $ 30. They’re famous for their raviolis. They’re prepared easy to break off, with semolina to keep them from sticking and they cook in minutes. Go and get their raviolis if nothing else.

Ravioli’s are decent, but overpriced…
The guys working at the counter are rude and incompetent…
And if you get the $ 6.95 ravioli prepared lunch, also be prepared to be charged 50 cents for grated cheese… ridiculous!
I’m boycotting them just for that!

The counter guys are still inefficient, but there is rarely a line of more than 1 person ahead of me. And where else in this neighborhood can you get your soup and salad (or some diesel ravioli) with a smile and a «have a good day, sweetheart»? I am getting sick of all the buttheads in this area, but those guys always cheer me up a little bit.

My trade is a consultant. I fly from city to city and fix what went wrong for a price that is way more than you would have every thought of to pay before stuff went wrong. (i.e. I expense like a mutha)
So here I am living and working in what I believe to be called the Murray Hill \ Gramercy area and decided to try out this place. I must confess that it is between Unilocal and MenuPages that I get all my eating recommendations. And I was missing a sandwich shop that will allow me to mix and match and try out creations and whatever.
Now the fun part is that most of my eating experience does NOT involve going there. I have one or two days reserved for that. Most of it is purely delivery. So I am thinking of creating a couple of Unilocal lists… you know like. Things to Unilocal about in Gramercy when Dead; or best delivery places to Unilocal about when working from 4pm to midnight. or the new list of messiest and more Unilocaling satisfying foods to eat with a Suit. Screw it, I decided upon the all Unilocaled out with no place to go — best deliveries places ranked in timliness and food taste.
Wow — what a tangent for an intro… God I am bored. Let us get the review. This area of town has lulled me into expecting high prices for a 1 and a half person order (expense account). Today’s order was the following
1. Pastrami and Roast Beef sandwich on Puppernickle
2. Raspberry Mousse (Avoided the Chocolate as I recently had a ‘Top Secret’ discussion — yeah my issues run like that, you know. sideways)
3. Mango Smoothie
4. Chcolate Canoli
5. Large Pellegrino Water
6. Medium Mochachino
7. Stewart’s Cream Soda
Price = $ 28. It seemed right, too right for the area — (Add 2 Stars)
Now the pictures are not complete because the idea to Unilocal about it came after two things occured.
One) Opening the Pastry box and looking at the Raspberry Mousse
Two) Taking one bite into the Canoli
(Add 1 Star)
Now, obiviously if it took the above to spark the impetus to write this then the sandwich did not overwhelm me (but to be fair it was of my own creation and they might not be of fault). The accoutrements were fresh, and I was satisfied with the bread. The meat portions were sizeable (crap my gut is bloated) and the sandwich visually looked delicious. (Add 1 Star)
The canoli tested as lovely as it looked, with the pastry holding together till the last bite where it calapsed upon itself. (Add 1 Star)
The Mango Smoothie… sad… sad… It was like frozen Mango and what tasted like Orange Juice (concentrate) blended together and stuck in a freezer. Too bad I am a Mango whore. (Subtract 2 Stars)
Do NOT mess wit da iland mon’s Mango.
Mochachino was decent without the sweetness that has seemed to define the drink in other coffee establishments. However, I am going to have issue after this review is written in making it to the end of my midnight shift.
Good news is that the Raspberry Mousse has won the award for the best thing that has happened to me all day. (Add 1 Star)
So for an inexpensive but more than decent sandwich, coffee, or pastry shop, Unilocal this place out. I think they do good work.
… Now to actually visit some of these places…