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Address: 101 Plaza Pl # 500, Northlake, TX 76226
Phone: (940) 271-0405
Website: http://www.bellaitalianorthlake.com/
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We heard the pizza is made in house so we’ll try that for takeout next time. There is outdoor seating so nice dining in October.
The only thing even remotely negative that I could say, is that the door does not close well. The door tends to linger open when people come in and out. It’s a very small location, so that cold air blows in and freezes people sitting at the tables. That is nothing to stay away for, though. We will definitely be back.
First the good… It’s a newer restaurant, so it’s clean, nicely decorated, with a bar area, and some outdoor seating. We had a glass each of the house Merlot and house Chardonnay, both surprisingly good.
We sat inside, and eventually, after waiting 15 minutes, we flagged someone down and asked who was our waiter, and could they please send them our way. The waiter that attended us was excellent. He was courteous, professional, honest, and had good suggestions. Our salads arrived, we had both ordered Italian dressing on the side. One came with it on the salad. And the dressing was their own House Italian, not the traditional dressing we had expected… and it was awful! A cross between ketchup and Marinara, with some additional vinegar. Avoid this like the plague. The salad dressing was replaced by Cesar’s dressing, which while purchased was at least edible.
Then came the stuffed mushroom starter. The mushrooms were tiny! So there wasn’t much to stuff. They were basically button mushrooms, with a breadcrumb filling, sitting in a LAKE of white garlic sauce, on a big plate, and so looked even smaller and sad. Every stuffed mushroom I’ve ever had was at least four times the lixe of these little things. We would have preferred two large stuffed mushrooms rather than five tiny ones. And they were bland. My wife had a cup of the Minestrone soup, which was “passable” if a bit watery and lacking body.
Main courses were next, I had the Lobster ravioli, my wife had the Frutti de Mare. Again with the LAKE of sauce drowning the ravioli… And honestly I couldn’t taste the lobster. The ravioli had a store bought blandness, certainly not fresh made, with a thin layer of purée lobster (I think), and were flat. The seafood was good with a generous amount of shrimp, mussels, clams, and a little scallop. The sauce is supposed to be spicy, it wasn’t, but it wasn’t bad. We finished with tiramisu, which while store bought was good.
You know, when we go out, we expect that the professionals in the kitchen would far exceed what we could do at home, this wasn’t the case here. We could buy better products (notice I didn’t say ingredients), cook and present them better ourselves; so why go there?
For people that don’t really know how good Italian food is supposed to be, I guess it would be okay. But if you love real Italian food, fresh, made in house, with subtle flavors, not drowning in sauce from a big plastic container, then this isn’t the place for you… Or us. To me, this is a middling restaurant with nothing to recommend it, or make it outstanding. So we are still in search of a great little local Italian restaurant. Do you know if one? Please tell us!