Neapolitan pies & housemade pasta served with cocktails in polished, contemporary surrounds. Based on 905 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.3 stars. Price $$
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ Delivery
Address:
121 Iowa Ave, Iowa City, IA 52240
Phone: (319) 337-2010
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Hours
| Sunday | 10 AM–9 PM |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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Closed |
| Tuesday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Wednesday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Thursday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Friday | 11 AM–10 PM |
| Saturday | 10 AM–10 PM |
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Reservations: resy.com
Reviews
Greg Johnson
Basta has been a favorite for many years. Delicious food. Fast friendly service. Plenty of seating options inside and outside. Great for groups. The Beet Salad seems to always be super fresh. Nice appetizers. A place you’ll want to return to.
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Ketan Deshpande Minnesota (Ketan Deshpande MN)
Located right next to the University, this restaurant offers indoor and outdoor seating. We enjoyed a late lunch/early dinner. Pasta and pizza were great. We were able to sit down right away however may require some waiting time once students are back in class.
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Jennifer Corbelli
We dined on a very busy graduation weekend. While we did have reservations it was still a bit of a wait. Jake, took it upon himself to make sure we were taken care of. He was phenomenal and made our special evening a wonderful experience! Thanks, Jake!!
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Kelsie
Our waitress was AMAZING! I wish I would have caught her name, but she had glasses and wore braids tied back. I came in with a party of 9 and she was more than attentive to everything we needed! She described things on the menu in detail to us and just had an awesome attitude overall! Not to mention the food was delicious!! I will definitely be coming back.
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Christopher Junk
Love the atmosphere of this place. The vegan options are pretty flavorless, really feel they could do better on that front. Pretty decent wine options, and I think it’s a great place to go for a date or for the nicer perceived atmosphere. Sometimes I think the pizzas get about 30 seconds too much in the oven and taste overwhelmingly bitter due to the burnt flower on the surface. Definitely recommend this place.
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Zifei Zheng
the most RACIST restaurant I have ever been to.
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Violet LaMarche
If you are looking for dinner places, you have found the one!!! The waitress was SO nice and the pasta dish was literally the best thing I have ever eaten. Drove 2 hrs for a bday dinner and I can’t describe how fast i would do it again!!!
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Julia Morrison
Lovely place for lunch or dinner and the menu is amazing — gotta love the pizza!
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Carla Harrigan
Beautiful building and great food. Friendly staff. The calamari was excellent and pizza delicious. Only problem was that our appetizers came at the same time as our main course. It was a loud and busy Friday night. The coat rack is flimsy and as I was sitting on a bench waiting for a table, it suddenly fell over on me because it was overloaded with coats. Very unexpected to be sure, but it was poorly placed in a high traffic area. That being said, I’d still go back because the food and wine was wonderful. I would recommend going at a less busy time of day to relax and enjoy your time there.
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Dirk Tannhäuser
We had one salad, the bolognese (with oricchiette instead spaghetti) and the meatball spaghetti. The handmade Pasta was delicious and cooked to the point. Sauce was was very tasteful too. Buns were also handmade, still warm and fluffy. Next time we will try the pizza.
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