Exclusive | NYC restaurant out of seating serves customers in apartment next door

Now this is home cooking! Upper East Side Italian restaurant Caffe Buon Gusto has been quietly seating customers in an apartment next door when their dining room is full, cramming them into its two bedrooms, living room and even hallway — stunning the unsuspecting.“I had zero idea.They have a main dining room, that’s where I assumed we’d be, but when we got there, it was a different story,” said Dylan Rozell, who was dyspeptic at the prospect of eating in a “bare bedroom” when he visited the East 77th Street joint on Valentine’s Day last year with three friends.“We kept going further back and we go through the kitchen, they bring us down really narrow stairs, then up another set of stairs and next thing you know, I’m in a walk-up building and they open a door to an apartment,” the Staten Island native who lives in FiDi told The Post.Rozell chowed down on his gnocchi with vodka sauce topped with burrata — which he said was “freaking delicious” — in one of the two bedrooms of the apartment.“Isn’t that crazy? There were two tables in our room, and the room was small, giving classic New York City bedroom vibes,” he explained.“And it was silent in there.

Not even an ounce of music.”Other diners occupied other spots in the four-room abode.“There was one table filled in the living room and then one in the second bedroom,” he continued.When Rozell ventured to the bathroom, he was in for yet another surprise.“There were beer cases stuffed in the bathtub.

I was very confused,” he confessed.Other patrons pointed out the “strange” seating situation in their reviews on OpenTable, where the restaurant boasts a 4.3 out of 5 rating for its ambience.“We were seated in a back space that looked like an apartment.The ambiance in that room was particularly strange and quiet as we were eating in the hallway of an apartment,” noted a customer who dined there on March 8.Caffe Buon Gusto — “Good Taste” in Italian — opened i...