Bella Italia Restaurant

Nice variety of sauces on the side.

Last night I visited Bella Italia and enjoyed a wonderful dinner. Their menu is extensive and for my entree I chose their manicotti. It is stuffed with ricotta and spinach and served with a generous topping of cream sauce.

I also selected their insalata della casa (house salad) which was light and tasty and perfectly seasoned with their own homemade oil and lemon dressing. The salad was embellished with nice wedges of mozzarella crowned with a slice of ham.

I asked Chef Jose for a wine suggestion and he picked Monteverro di Vermentino, a delicious white from the vineyards of Tuscany. It was a perfect match.

If you are looking for authentic Italian cuisine then you can not find better Italian fare than what is made fresh and served daily at Bella Italia.

Visit Bella Italia and you'll be transported to Italy where the food is fresh and the atmosphere warm and friendly as you are welcomed by Chef Jose and his family.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Skip. Tired. They can’t even make spaghetti sauce. Watery and chicken parm was frozen chicken - rubbery.

Hate to leave a review like this but when a place changes $21 for spaghetti and the sauce was like watered down ketchup. Don’t want people to spend their good hard earned money here thinking they were getting honest Italian food.

PS: I did tell the staff so I am not hiding behind this review.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Pretty okay place. Dining area feels artificial with cold lighting and a view of a parking lot, plus the ambient music comes with generic advertisements, which detracted from the experience. Our waitress was polite and kind to us, seating us immediately. The food was okay and made my stomach happy.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 5

Very good authentic Italian food, chef is from Sicily!! Good service 10/10 food. Reminds me of my time being stationed in Italy.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Very good but not amazing; pricey but not excessively so.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 5

The food was fantastic service was great. The place was fantastic

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Good food great service. We were a party of 6 and we were all very pleased.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

I didn't know this place was here until a friend recommended it. Large portions great food I'm going to need another hole in my belt Moral of the story tell a friend

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Definitely mediocre Italian food at best. The prices do not reflect the food quality. Way overpriced and cheap food quality. The menu says the pasta is homemade. I beg to differ. You can definitely have a better experience elsewhere

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 3

We dined here tonight. Upon walking in we were immediately greeted with the pungent stench of a gas leak, although I felt it was akin to the stench of a dirty street in San Francisco. The staff was pleasant, but not memorable or warm. I had the manicotti and the cream of asparagus soup, my husband the artichoke ravioli and pasta fagioli. My soup was a somewhat warm bechamel sauce with cut up asparagus in it, and the asparagus was the temperature of molten lava. I'm pretty sure the asparagus was cooked separately and used to heat the plain white sauce. My husband's soup was the same temperature as my asparagus pieces, but at least his soup was heated in the volcano altogether. I'm also certain that the cream sauce used in my soup was also used to dress his ravioli, which he felt was nothing more than cheese ravioli in a white sauce. The manicotti, on the other hand, was obviously heated on the surface of the sun. I tried carefully to eat it, but every bite was similar to placing a hot coal on my tongue. And when it may have finally been cooled enough to take a bite, I found it to be about the same as what I'd get from a chain restaurant, if not worse. It was definitely cooked too hot because it became rock hard on the bottom as it cooled. When they boxed up the last few bites (which I had declined), we commented to ourselves that we were surprised the plastic box didn't melt as it was still piping hot. And the prices are way out of line! A can of soda for $5?! A glass of wine at $15, but the entire bottle (about 3.5 glasses on average) is $70?! Talk about a rip off! A subpar experience at "fine dining" prices.

Edit: my husband corrected me on the price of the wine. It wasn't $70, it was $80. High priced robbery!

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 3

Upon walking in, the restaurant fills your senses with the aroma of a dank and dirty Roman alleyway. The ambiance is really tied together with the Mexican music playing softly on the overhead speakers. White tableclothes catch your eye in an attempt to justify the prices you are about to pay.

The service was, well, just fine I suppose. The staff was friendly enough and food came out at a manageable speed.

The food was good, edible, but definitely nothing special. I got the artichoke raviolis. I saw the artichoke in them, but they tasted like basic cheese raviolis, really no extra flavor...$25 per plate for Olive Garden quality at best...maybe the price is justified to cover the cost of the parmesan...not fresh, just powdered cheese they seemed to take out of the tub and put in a fancy cheese bowl and sprinkle on your food with a spoon if requested.

The soups we ordered both seemed to come from a can...apparently a really fancy can charging nearly $10 for a bowl.

It really wasn't terrible, but definitely not a fine dining italian restaurant and not worth the price. Save your money and go to Olive Garden or go to one of the nice italian restaraunts in town to get what you are paying for.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 4

Legitimately great Italian dishes. Nice, clean, no-frills atmosphere. Highly recommended.

Dietary restrictions: They have good gluten-free options.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great ravioli and all the sauces are fantastic!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Food Meat Ravioli, Boar Pappardelle, Mushroom Risotto, Veal Piccata, Bruschetta Toscana

This was sooo disappointing. My vealPiccata was awful and the serving size was insulting. There were two very small, very chewy pieces of veil that had a film on them. $36. The sides were green beans which was a qtr serving and instead of linguini with lemon caper sauce it was served with a toddler portion of curly noodles and marinara. The caprese salad was a pitiful 4 slices of unripe tomato, mozzarella, no basil, and a touch of green sauce, for $11.My husband’s chicken parmesan was bland and disappointing.Service was great and wait staff was sweet.Food horrifically overpriced and quality was garbage. Do not waste your money.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 4