Bella Pasta Restaurant

2500 Ridgeway Ave, Rochester - 14626
235 reviews
Italian
(585) 340-6100

They were out of tripes, and it was the main reason I visited this place, so a little disappointed.Side salad comes with a little too much canned olives and not enough tomatoes. Dressing and blue cheese crumbles were both good and lettuce was fresh.Bread was good.Order eggplant-parm from app menu and tasted great.Tried Sicilly's special, pasta was good, however water seperated from either pasta or the sauce made meat a little soggy on the plate.A lot of food for the price.Wait staff were great and attentive.Good value for the price based on the amount of the food.

Restaurant was overflowing at lunch and service suffered slightly.I had the antipasto for an appetizer and chicken French as my main course.The drinks were stiff, salad and main course were fantastic. It was by far the best Italian meal I have had in a long time.

Went here Sunday for brunch. The food was delicious. The atmosphere was even better.Randy and his family run and fantastic restaurant.Thank you for having us. We will be back!Bill

What a wonderful experience at Bella Pasta. The staff was so professional and accommodating and catered to all of our needs. The food was delicious and great choices to choose from. We had a group of about 80 and everyone was very happy with everything provided! We will definitely book future gatherings. Thank you !

Food was fantastic. I had the 5 cheese ravioli french and my wife had the chicken french Florentine. The 5 cheese is one of my new favorite meals that I never knew existed.

I'm very disappointed with the treatment at your restaurant, Bella Pasta. As a frequent customer, I was shocked at how rude and condescending the staff and manager/owner was. After 10 minutes trying to get through they answered and put me on hold for 13 minutes before disconnecting me. Finally was able to place order and my meal was missing when we got home, we call and someone goes back. They snap, "we're busy" it will be 20 minutes. A little while later they insist the meal was put in. Now we spent a lot of money , you seriously think we came back for a free meal. The owner pulls our guy aside and shows him a container of food and said you got this right? He replied "we may have that meal but the point is we're missing a meal". He even offered to pay for it as this was my birthday dinner we were missing. He took his card out and the owner said he'd charge half price then he waved his hand and said get outta here, we wouldn't have to pay. They had counted 8 containers correctly except the 8th container was a side of pasta and not my meal. Now my husbands meal and mine were similar. We said we were missing his instead of mine. But this ruined a nice party and delayed us eating waiting for our guy to come back. Agatina's and Papa Joe's will be our go to places from now on.

We won't be back.Our waitress Donna was nice, but when I voiced concerns about my chicken ( as I have had a hard time eating lately and I was uncomfortable)She said it's fine, I eat it all the time and walked away shaking her head. I heard her and the kitchen staff laughing about my concerns and what I said. I stopped eating, we paid our bill and left. You never know what's someone is going through, and to laugh at someone's expense is rude and unprofessional. Also, a lot of the food comes frozen or pre-made. Really nothing remarkable at all about the rest of the food that our table ordered.

Our meal tonight was horrible start to finish. We had 5:30 reservations and didn’t get seated until 6:00, when people who had 6:00 reservations were getting seated before us. When we sat down, we ordered calamari. It came out soggy, and not crisp at all. It was probably the worst calamari I’ve ever had. We ordered pasta with vodka sauce, and scallop scampi. The vodka sauce was absolutely horrendous. It was as thick as you’d expect home made Mac and cheese sauce to be and it didn’t taste at all like vodka sauce should. The scallop scampi was overwhelmingly garlicky, and the scallops were only seared on one side. The side they were seated on, were coated in bread crumbs(?) and then plated with the breadcrumbs down on the pasta so they were also soggy. Maybe we caught them on a night with a horrible chef. But we will not be returning.

Our first time dining at Bella Pasta and we are fans. I ordered Maryland crab cakes for my starter. Fresh made today, very moist and well seasoned. Nice sauce for dipping. A little zing to it, not overpowering. My wife had the side salad. For our entrees, the wife ordered lasagna, I had the seafood saute. Shrimp, scallops whole and chopped clams in a white wine garlic sauce served over linguine. Pasta was cooked nicely, very flavorful. The seafood was cooked perfectly, well seasoned, the sauce was reduced beautifully. The wife's lasagna was very tasty, nice fluffy ricotta filling, a beautiful dish. Over all, our Valentine's dinner was a success. We can't wait to visit again. Our sever was great, and very helpful.

Great food, great staff, never had a bad experience here. Nice place to take the family. Definitely going back