Susan Willshee

Review of Bella Italia (Shaftesbury Aven...

I went into this restaurant at lunchtime to reserv...

I went into this restaurant at lunchtime to reserve a table for the evening. The waitress took my name and said it was OK however when we arrived they said we had not booked. Luckily they had a table available.
There were not many vegetarian choices on the gluten free menu but at least they did have both gluten and dairy free menus available. I was disappointed with my gluten free pizza which was dry and boring. I only ate half however they kindly offered to pack the rest in a takeaway box.
I was also disappointed with my desert. In theory it was a banana toffee sundae, in reality it was some ice cream with toffee sauce and whipped cream topped with super sweet honeycomb.
Hubby was disappointed with his starter of bruschetta with tomatoes as the 'bruschetta' was actually a flat bread.
Having said all that, although the restaurant was very busy the staff were friendly and the service was good and speedy.
My choice of options is always limited due to being both vegetarian and coeliac but other diners seemed to be happy with their choices and the French fries looked gorgeous. It was a shame these weren't on the free from menu.