La Bella Calabria Reviews Summary

Category: Italian restaurant

Address: 100 Parkside Dr, Houghton Regis, Dunstable LU5 5RA, United Kingdom

Phone: +441582863322

Rating: 4.7
based on 186 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "The food is out of this world! Fresh, tasty and big portions we had to take the rest home!"
  • "Service was impeccable, drinks served quickly and lovely and cold, food served quickly as well!"
  • "The food was absolutely amazing, thanks to the very good food."
  • "Delicious food very friendly staff affordable and great atmosphere."
  • "The food and service was good, however the wait for the food and drinks was not worth it."
  • "The food was presented poorly !I ordered some pasta dishes and they looked like the chef just slapped spaghetti on our plates!"
  • "The food, although full of flavour, was a little over fried."
  • "The food was under expectations, tastes not fresh."

Cons:

  • "The Pizza Dough was Thick Which Wasn't Cooked Properly or Probably Cooked on High Head."
  • "One of My Associates Had a Carbonara Pasta and He Was Not Really Happy."
  • "The food was not fresh and and the spaghetti carbonara was very fat and the cheese on the pizza tasted stale."
  • "The pizza was very very salty, spaghetti too fatty and chicken Calabrese so far by the original recipe."
  • "The food was lovely, good portion sizes, and very tasty. If you need longer arms for reading the menu definitely remember your glasses."
  • "The food was standard and not what I expected. Pasta dish just tasted of olive oil and needed seasoning at the table."
  • "The food was lovely, good portion sizes, and very tasty. If you need longer arms for reading the menu definitely remember your glasses."
  • "The food was standard and not what I expected. Pasta dish just tasted of olive oil and needed seasoning at the table."

Service

Pros:

  • "The staff are so welcoming, helpful and friendly!"
  • "Service was impeccable, drinks served quickly and lovely and cold, food served quickly as well!"
  • "The staff was friendly and helpful."
  • "Staff very friendly will definitely revisit and already recommended to friends."
  • "The service was excellent and the environment was great, just the right balance, busy enough that there was chatter and background noise, but not too crowded."
  • "Service was prompt and with a smile."
  • "Very good. Very tasty food. Great service."
  • "The staff were professional, yet friendly, with nothing being too much trouble."

Cons:

  • "The Staff Speaking to Each Other in Romanian Regularly While Taking Our Order Which I Found as Disrespectful."
  • "There was a Moment That Our Pints of Moretti were Sat on The Bar for Our 10 Minutes & The Staff Mainly Consisting of Girls Stood Next to The Kitchen Talking."
  • "Service was a little too slow but I've had worse."
  • "Our evening was spoilt by screaming children right until we left at 11pm which was a shame."
  • "The waitress kept asking what we wanted to order and after only around ten minutes of being seated asked if we wanted to give her a time when we will be ready to order so we ordered at that point."
  • "Ambience not brilliant, tables we felt were too close together, people kept bumping into our table."
  • "Awful service waited 25mins for a drink over an hour for food which was just passable to eat no flavour in the pan fried duck expensive for what it was."
  • "Lasagna was meant to come with skin on chips according to the website but once home after collecting all I had was a tiny piece of Lasagna for nearly £12."

Ambience

Pros:

  • "Beautiful place, we will definitely be back!"
  • "Cozy nice place for dinner. Very good selection of main dishes on top of usual Italian cuisine."
  • "A totally revamped place. Lovely layout and staff were great."
  • "Lovely staff, they made my pizza a heart shape and offered everyone at the table Parmesan."
  • "The restaurant presented initially as an authentic Italian eatery."
  • "A large modern Italian restaurant with high ceilings and well spaced tables."
  • "Very good. Very tasty food. Great service. We were having dinner with two friends and two children who were fully occupied with drawing and colouring art provided by the restaurant."
  • "This place was 100% brilliant, I would highly recommend loads of people to come here!"

Cons:

  • "Every Owner Likes To Run His Business His Way. The Staff Speaking to Each Other in Romanian Regularly While Taking Our Order."
  • "My Very First Vibe When I Sat Down Wasn't that I Was In an Italian Restaurant."
  • "The place has a lovely atmosphere. You will not be disappointed. A must for Italian and food lovers."
  • "The place is clean and well lit and a lot more open plan than previously, with the potential to do a lot more covers."
  • "It sounded more like a school canteen there was so much noise.The tables were too close together and the serving staff had to squeeze their way through."
  • "Has a feeling more as a cafe than a restaurant, but they have got the subdued lighting right unlike so many other restaurants around the area."
  • "The atmosphere is so family friendly while also being perfect for a party of adults."
  • "Nice and welcoming place, and good food tbh, me and my fiance Martina are from Italy so is nice to have a place like this near us."

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