NYC restaurant out of seating serves customers in apartment next door

Now this is location cooking!

Upper East Side Italian edifice Caffe Buon Gusto has been softly seating customers successful an flat adjacent doorway erstwhile their eating room is full, cramming them into its 2 bedrooms, surviving room and moreover hallway — stunning nan unsuspecting.

“I had zero idea. They person a main eating room, that’s wherever I assumed we’d be, but erstwhile we sewage there, it was a different story,” said Dylan Rozell, who was dyspeptic astatine nan imaginable of eating successful a “bare bedroom” erstwhile he visited nan East 77th Street associated connected Valentine’s Day past twelvemonth pinch 3 friends.

“We kept going further backmost and we spell done nan kitchen, they bring america down really constrictive stairs, past up different group of stairs and adjacent point you know, I’m successful a walk-up building and they unfastened a doorway to an apartment,” nan Staten Island autochthonal who lives successful FiDi told The Post.

Rozell chowed down connected his gnocchi pinch vodka condiment topped pinch burrata — which he said was “freaking delicious” — successful 1 of nan 2 bedrooms of nan apartment.

“Isn’t that crazy? There were 2 tables successful our room, and nan room was small, giving classical New York City chamber vibes,” he explained.

“And it was silent successful there. Not moreover an ounce of music.”

Other diners occupied different spots successful nan four-room abode.

“There was 1 array filled successful nan surviving room and past 1 successful nan 2nd bedroom,” he continued.

When Rozell ventured to nan bathroom, he was successful for yet different surprise.

“There were brew cases stuffed successful nan bathtub. I was very confused,” he confessed.

Other patrons pointed retired nan “strange” seating business successful their reviews on OpenTable, wherever nan edifice boasts a 4.3 retired of 5 standing for its ambience.

“We were seated successful a backmost abstraction that looked for illustration an apartment. The ambiance successful that room was peculiarly unusual and quiet arsenic we were eating successful nan hallway of an apartment,” noted a customer who dined location connected March 8.

Caffe Buon Gusto — “Good Taste” successful Italian — opened successful 1988, and is housed connected nan first level of a six-story walk-up.

To nan correct of nan edifice is nan entranceway to nan residential building, wherever apartment No. 1 has been rented by nan restaurant’s owner, Nando Ghorchian since 2021, according to spot records.

Gabrielle Gorman, who lived successful nan flat-turned eating room for 2 years until 2019 pinch a roommate, recovered retired nan edifice took complete her pad aft she saw a TikTok video successful March which did not sanction nan location, which was first identified by East Side Feed.

“I was like, ‘OMG, that was my aged bedroom!'” Gorman told The Post. “I was perfectly shocked that I utilized to unrecorded successful that apartment.”

The flat is conveniently located adjacent nan restaurant’s kitchen, accessible done nan building’s broadside door.

“That doorway was ever unfastened and you could spot into their kitchen,” she remembered.

Gorman said she was amazed that nan edifice — whose priciest pasta is simply a $42.95 linguine pinch lobster, shrimp, calamari and scallops — would ammunition retired other mixed for nan pad.

“I conscionable deliberation it’s fascinating that they could spend that flat too,” she said. “By nan clip we moved out, nan rent was up to $3,200. When I first moved in, it was $2,900.”

The building is owned by Taormina Holding Corporation, based connected East 74th Street, who said: “There are nary violations regarding nan apartment. Furthermore, nan agency has not received immoderate complaints from nan different tenants regarding nan tenancy.”

In 1992, Ghorchian debuted a 2nd Caffe Buon Gusto location successful Brooklyn Heights. In 2023, he opened a 3rd successful Hoboken. He had another location successful Riverdale, which has since closed.

He did not return requests for remark by The Post and unit astatine nan edifice declined to comment.

Shari Logan, adjunct property secretary for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene told The Post: “New York City and New York State health regulations prohibit home-based restaurants,” noting that homes cannot beryllium utilized arsenic eating areas.