La Bella Italia, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Italian Restaurant Details

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Great people! Great place! I highly recommend chocolate panettone!

Food:

Went here for our anniversary dinner. The staff was friendly and the food was delicious!

Food:

Having been to Italy several times this is the most authentic Italian food I've had in the states.

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We just moved back to the Beach after living in Sicily for the past three years.

Pros:
Wait staff was polite and continued to check on us keeping the glasses filled with water.

The pear and Gorgonzola was good but the sauce was not. It would be much better in a cream sauce with some walnuts in it.

The house wine was good (but very expensive for 1/2 liter).

The gnocchi was decent.

The bread and Gelato was good.

Cons:

Friday night at 6 o'clock in the evening. The place was literally deserted. This was an indicator.

The prices were out of this world expensive. Around 20$ for pasta dishes... The empty dining might be a direct result of the prices alone. If a person wanted to eat a traditional Italian meal with and appetizer, pasta and a meat, the price would be over 60$ a person not counting drinks. Point is. If you cut the pasta dish price in half and it attracts a few more customers, then overall, your daily $$ intake might be more.

Wife had a traditional Sicilian pasta with eggplant and tomato. She said the sauce was off. It came with fresh ricotta cheese on top vs. aged and shredded ricotta. She made the cardinal sin of putting salt in the dish and that did not help.

Food:

Pizza was good but the rest of the food was horrible. It was clear that the food was not made fresh or cooked well. The chicken was frozen, the lasagna was soggy, and the sauce on the spaghetti looked like it came from a can and was very watery. We went during the end of lunch so there were only two other tables that already had their food. We expected service to be fast, but what a mistake. It took over forty-five minutes to get our food and we were the only ones there. To top it off our server was not the best. The price was cheap, but we got what we paid for. I would only recommend the pizza for take out, but nothing else.