Bella Via Restaurant
“I also love their Grilled Baby Calamari with walnut sauce and Capellini Mare E Monti , yummmy!”
“Best pizza I have ever had sausage and broccoli rabe to die for there Italian dishes are delicious hands down best Italian restaurant in NYC”
“Entrees were spinach pasta with peas, pancetta, spinach gnocchi with olives & spaghetti carbonara with pancetta (great for kids!)”
Bella Via Restaurant
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Absolute best pizza in NY!
I recommend the white ham pizza. YUM!!!
The grilled octopus, fried calamari and mussels are good, too.
The owner is a nice man. Very friendly and hospitable.
A place you cannot miss in LIC
Bella Via is a solid family-run Italian restaurant in LIC.
Perfect for those chilly winter afternoons when you are craving a crispy margherita pie.
And for those you who live the Northeast, which are Vitamin D deprived, the floor to ceiling windows lets in sweet sunshine and warmth.
The company was so fun!
We laughed, sat, made inside jokes and ate for two hours.
The margherita pie had a crispy thin crust, basil and fresh mozzarella. Plenty of prosciutto and browned button mushrooms.
Delicious.
We also ordered Schiacciata con robiola e olio di tartufo, which was thin crunchy calzone stuffed with creamy robiola cheese, broccoli rabe and topped with truffle oil.
Very good but too creamy and filling for me. I could only eat 1.5 slices.
I prefer more meat than creamy buttery cheese.
More prosciutto please!
And that chocolate souffle was more like a chocolate lava cake.
A Very chocolately creamy cake.
Good times.
Definitely will be back.
Waiters and waitresses here need to step up their game. On the other hand, the busboy is a total sweetheart. Our waitress finally stopped by our table to take our order after we sat down for 5-10 minutes (with no water) AND asked the busboy if he could take our order. She also walked away with our small plates that were set on the table and for a good minute I thought we weren't going to receive a complimentary bread basket. The busboy then appears with our bread but we had no plates! He immediately went to get us some. He was there for us again when we asked for cheese. The waitress dropped off our fettuccine plate but never offered us cheese or pepper. We did, however, receive a nice metal stand for our upcoming small pizza pie, which hovered above our fettuccine dish. The table isn't that large and the pizza wasn't ready until we were more than halfway through with the fettuccine. The stand was a complete and unnecessary nuisance for the time being. When our pizza did arrive, we had to rearrange the table ourselves so we could eat. Even then, I was cutting my pizza (yeah i like to eat my pizza like a classy lady) at an angle. The worst part was, they didn't even notice our empty fettuccine plate that occupied the center of our table for the rest of our meal. This happened last year as well when I came here with my family (see previous review from 8/2014) and I had to stack the plates for them YET they STILL didn't take them away until the end of the meal. It's been an entire YEAR and service has NOT improved. They also did not clear our empty plates until we were finished with all our food! What poor service. Our two waitresses also had cold, unwelcoming facial expressions whenever they walked by or dropped off our food. Learn to smile!
In summary:
Service 1/5 (would have been 0 if it wasn't for the busboy)
Food 4/5
Decor 5/5
Despite the consistent quality of their food, I'm sad to say that I will NOT be coming back here. Their service is severely lacking.
Pretty accessible when the 7 train is working. If not the G train can get you. There is outside seating and inside seating. I personally like to be indoors.
Pizza is delicious and worth it. They do thin sliced pizza and wow, just wow. It comes on this elevated tray which makes you feel like royalty. Its the way grandma pies are made.
If you don't feel making the trip and live close by order. The delivery is always under 40mins and the pizza is fresh. The woman who picks up the phone is friendly. But you may never know this because no one calls to order anymore…hello eat24.
This place has a different type of red tomato sauce for seafood pasta. Whatever that is, it's excellent. I like the black linguini from here. They also carry own chili flakes that could come from the backyard, how cool is that. It's like they can read my mind that I'm a spice queen. Hubby and I came here for dinner. We ordered a squid salad, which I highly recommended, baked clam, black linguini with seafood and pappardelle with seafood. When you order squid salad maybe you can ask for a dressing on the side or little dressing. The dressing is a little too much, I think. Try baked clam from here, another well prepared dish. I'd like to try their pizza next time because I noticed a few tables ordering pizzas. It looks like they're the master of pizzas. I preferred hubby's linguini better than pappardelle. The red sauce has a touch of a sweet taste in it, could be coming from the squid? Whatever that is, the sauce is very good the next day and good for bread dipping. The staff seemed like they knew what they're doing. They served well with pretty much step by step process. They didn't let us wait that long to get to the next dish. Bravo! I enjoyed this restaurant and would definitely return.
I came here on a date because we could not get into blend on the water. This place was on a corner and had a great italian feel to it. We sat 30 mins before closing and we still felt welcomed. However, we did not receive any bread and the table next to us did which was a bust. Our waiter was very nice other than that mishap. We ordered the marghetra pie because it was the only thing on the menu i was familiar with. I ordered it with chicken and sausage. It was a great pie and i took home leftovers which i enjoyed. The restaurant was a little quiet was good maybe because it was close to closing time. Would i recommend it? Yes i would but just make sure they give you bread!
We had an excellent Brunch at Bella Via Restaurant. There's nothing like a Coal Oven to make real pizza.
We had a Margherita Pizza with Prosciutto and Mushrooms. Perfectly made pizza as good as I've had in the famous Brooklyn Margherita.
We had the Schiacciata Con Robiola which was something I've never had. It's a crunchy calzone stuffed with a creamy and flaky slightly bitter cheese. We ordered it with Broccoli Rabe and the contrast in taste was very delicate. Unlike any run of the mill Italian food I've had.
Great place for Brunch near LIC.
Bella Via is a solid 4, if not a 4.5.
My hubby and I visited Bella Via tonight for dinner. We were looking to try something new in our neighborhood and fancied Italian food. We were very pleasantly surprised, don't let the appearance fool you.
We shared a pasta dish and a large pizza. We saw a couple next to us sharing a pizza and assumed that was the large size- nope, they had ordered the small. So when our pizza came out it was HUGE! The pizza was pretty good, the base was slightly burnt for my taste, but it was to my husbands liking. The pasta dish (spinach pasta with ragu sauce and mushrooms) was so good, it was delicious. The clear winner for us- 5/5!
We didn't think much to the complimentary bread. We were given olive oil & balsamic vinegar, but no side plates to poor it out onto to dip, nor were we given butter.
As our pizza was so big we were too full to eat dessert but if they are as good as the pasta then I have no doubt they would be amazing. We plan to return to try the dessert.
Other reviews state they had bad service, but we didn't experience that, our server (middle aged female) was really nice.