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Review of Bella Italia (Shaftesbury Aven...

Visited in a Groupon voucher. The staff were very ...

Visited in a Groupon voucher. The staff were very friendly but there were 2 people covering the entire lower level, one at the bar and one at the higher level at pre theatre dinner time. That's a lot of tables for this number of staff. Service was very slow and we always had to try to get our waiter's attention. Luckily I booked dinner 2 hours prior to show and we left just in time.
The special menu for Groupon users was ok-ish. Starter selection was a bit poor. We tried the meat balls, the fried cheese and the bruschetta. I can only vouch for the cheese.
I chose the grilled chicken and found it to be super dry. The chicken in mushroom sauce comes on a plate that seems rather inappropriate for it, lasagna looked good.
We had the shared dessert, which sounded amazing in the menu, but was rather disappointing too.