Bella Italia Salford Quays

Good service and food. Great place for a pre show meal if visiting the Lowry theatre. Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: £30–40 Food: 4 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 4 Recommended dishes: Lasagna

Good food and service Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: £30–40 Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5 Recommended dishes: Garlic Prawns, Dough Balls, Lasagna, Pizza Pasta

Despite being extremely busy the service was excellent, and the food was very good, just as expected . Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5

Staff are great and very friendly. Our starters were nice (mushrooms prawns). We both ordered risotto...the seafood and roasted butternut squash. Both dishes were really disappointing, it was such a shame...the rice looked like it had just been boiled in a bag...risotto usually has a creamy consistency...this was boiled rice with a few ingredients mixed in with it, definitely not a risotto...my butternut squash was boiled not roasted and the rosemary was undetectable.

Food was really poor. Worst bruschetta I’ve ever seen cherry tomatoes sliced in half on a piece of cheap garlic bread. Our mains were even worse. Runny, broken carbonara sauce that was completely tasteless. Other main tasted like a tin of tomatoes mixed with pasta. No flair, no taste, no presentation. Swapped it for a basic Margarita as I didn’t want to ruin the dinner for my girlfriend but pizza was also bad overdone and bland. No check backs, staff seemed disinterested. Nothing Italian about this place. Save yourself from disappointment and enjoy the meal somewhere else.