Restaurants in Borehamwood

Had a great meal last night, thanks.

I was a big fan of Buca when living in the US, but Buca in the UK does not measure up (or Buca standards have slipped worldwide as I haven't been to a US Buca in years). The portion sizes are not as legendary as reported. The large baked pasta trio platter is actually 3 small dishes, which could be conceivably eaten by one (hungry) person. The fresh tomatoes on the Bruschetta were not ripe. Bad tomatoes are a sin in Italian cooking. Finally, the cannoli (dessert) should have contained a ricotta cheese based sweet filling (often containing candied fruit or chocolate chips but we could have forgiven leaving those out). Instead, it was filled with plain whipped cream. What?!? And the cannoli shells were not filled -- the whipped cream was sprayed from an aerosol can around the opening of the shells, leaving the middle of the shells filled with delicious (not) AIR! Not a nice surprise ending. Some of what you pay for at Buca is the service and the atmosphere: The service was OK, but the atmosphere did not reproduce what you find in US Buca restaurants and was missing interesting and unique touches such as walking through the kitchen to get to the dining room.