Comments on: Damiano Italian Restaurant (Boca Raton)

By: John Y

John Y — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:00:38 +0000

was in the regency center last night. saw that damiano is closed. ate there when it first opened and didn’t care for it. never paid it much attention after that. this one didn’t last long. what was it 7- months? I see that the owner is pretty nasty about his failure. amazing he doesn’t see that he only has himself to blame for the failure. not sure what’s coming to the spot. hopefully a good restaurant will come in.

By: sadman

sadman — Sun, 19 May 2013 16:54:13 +0000

Show us the check you phony.

By: WD

WD — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:44:15 +0000

Drove by last night.
Closed.
As predicted by some didnt even last 6 months.
Saw where the owner said he sold the business.
I wouldn’t bet on that.
It just failed.
Crap food always does joints in.

By: LO

LO — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:08:17 +0000

Just heard its closing.
Ate there one time and it was terrible.
Won’t be missed.

By: KLU

KLU — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:28:59 +0000

My wife and I ate there about a week or so ago and the food and service were very good.
Sorry to hear about the change in ownership or whatever is going on there.
We liked it.

By: JohnLuciano

JohnLuciano — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:15:04 +0000

Just had breakfast with Jeff Eats.
He mentioned that Damiano was either closing or was sold.
Read your e-mail and Carlo’s e-mail and you boys got it all wrong.
If some clown paid high 6 figures for this restaurant good luck to him.
I live right next door and no matter what he opens he aint got a chance.
I know the center and I know the rents and I know the people and the spot can’t handle a restaurant.
Don’t blame anyone for your failure except yourself.

By: mr big

mr big — Mon, 13 May 2013 23:16:44 +0000

Jeff just showed me your comments.
I own one of the biggest and most famous Italian restaurants in NYC.
I ate at your place several months ago and for what it’s worth it sucked.
I happen to have a Winter home in Boca so I get to check out the comings and goings of guys like you.
When you leave don’t let the door hit you in the ass, you piker.

By: JeffEats

JeffEats — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:58:13 +0000

Gerard, Carlo or whatever your name is:

Just had a chance to read your comments.

Jeff Eats has one email address.

Since Jeff Eats had no skin in the restaurant, he could really have cared less whether it made it or not.

There are 3 “old” sayings that you might like to always keep in mind:

1. “The Buck Stops Here.”
2. “If it’s too hot get out of the kitchen.”
3. “Don’t burn your bridges.”

Jeff Eats knows three things for sure—lousy food, lousy service and high rent usually guarantees that a restaurant is gonna fail…

If you think that a-little old blog-site review “took down” a restaurant, Jeff Eats got a bridge in Brooklyn he would like to sell you. Using your logic–a 3 star Sun Sentinel review should have made the joint a winner—apparently it didn’t.

Your blaming the people of Boca Raton for your failure is absurd… Look in the mirror, that guy you see, blame him. The people didn’t cook the crappy overpriced food. The people didn’t hire and train the incompetent waiters. The people didn’t hire the noisy lounge singer. The people didn’t sign the lease that was too high. You my friend- did it all to your little old-self.

When you got involved in this thing, did it ever enter your mind to question why 3 restaurants before you- in the identical spot had failed? What in the world made you think that you had the magical formula and they didn’t? What I do know, is that the rent in that spot from the day the center opened has been obscene and almost insures failure.

By the way, Carlo doesn’t sound like a guy who is “laughing all the way to the bank.”

Now you take care.

And, thanks for reading…

By: Gerard

Gerard — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:49:12 +0000

Jeff seem that you have dozen of email addresses.
All that BS that those scums wannabe write seem to came from you.
So happy that I move and left this wannabe’s rich scums, they all live in a 3 million home and they all drive Bentleys and leave the valet parker $0.75 cents. These are the scums that follow you.
Trailer park wannabees Country Club with two cents on their pockets, they try to be like East Boca.

By: AW12

AW12 — Mon, 13 May 2013 01:50:48 +0000

Jeff sure did call this one.
What were they in business 6 months?
When your food isn’t very good, your servers very amateurish, your prices high, your restauaurant is noisy and you pay $30000 a month in rent. The odds say that you will not make it.
As for sale price, who knows but I seriously doubt anyone would pay top dollar for this loser.
Good luck to the new guy.
Not sure what kind of food he has but that rent right off the bat is a huge cross to bear.
I live 10 minutes from this restaurant. I have seen a number or restaurants come and go in the exact same location. I think the primary problem with the location is that the rent is too high. I have been told by several shopkeepers in the center that the rent is about $30000 a month. That is an an absolutely absurd rent to pay. The center use to have Campagnola’s in another spot and it failed, I think the rent also killed it off.
Maybe the new guy coming in got a better rent deal.