The real thing, great pizzas and apps. Tucked away outside of Porta Pia this is local place with proper selections of Roman dishes and both Napoli and Rome pizzas. read more

My husband and I toured Italy for over 2 weeks and went to a lot of restaurants and I can easily say that this restaurant was my most favorite of all. I am not even sure where to start with the reasons why everyone should experience Bella Napoli as there are many and all excellent ones. We searched around on Yelp before going out on the town after a long day in the sun sightseeing.It was around 9pm and we weren't sure what options we would have. We wanted authentic Italian food that was highly rated and something relatively close to our hotel. What a fantastic choice this was. We were greeted and seated immediately on the sidewalk out front. The atmosphere was quiet and romantic. The waiter was the most friendly of all the waiters we came across while we were in Italy. He spoke some English and seemed interested in us as people not just as customers, asking us about where we were from etc. We started with gin and tonic which was perfect in every way and took the edge off the long hot day in the sun. The menu was extensive and everything looked so amazing that we had a hard time deciding which entree to order. We asked the waiter what he recommended and he said any of the seafood was the best option but specifically recommended the seafood spaghetti and the lobster fettuccine. We also got a white pizza with mushrooms because why not, right? Everything was so amazing and I can easily say that this was the best Italian food I have ever had. Hands down!!! I cannot wait to book another trip to Rome, just so that I can eat here again. I am afraid I will never have Italian food this good again. read more

Es war unser letzter Abend in Rom. Dieses Restaurant war 10 Minuten von unserem Hotel weg zum Laufen, und hatte sehr gute Yelp Reviews. Wir wurden nicht enttäuscht. Mein Freund, der überaus pingelig ist, hatte gegrillten Thunfisch und Scampi mit Beilage. Er sagte, das war der beste Fisch, den er je gegessen hat. Ich hatte die "Linguini con pesce spada e pomodori pachino", das auch wunderbar schmeckte. Zum Dessert hatten wir Tiramisu. Der Service war ausgezeichnet, und das tolle war, dass all die Kellner ältere Gentlemen's waren. read more

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Very good! Highly recommend when you come to Gaeta. The service was excellent as well read more

Bella Napoli - Margarita pizza and gnocchi - Italian Near Me - Rome, RM

One of the best Italian meals I have ever had in my life. We have eaten across the globe - including Italy - and this was by far the best Italian food I have had in the states. The staff was so kind, friendly and attentive. I want to bring all my friends back! Cannot wait to return- stellar meal and experience!! SO good. Thank you to Joey, Abbie and Madison. Amazing job!!!!! read more

I loved this restaurant I haven't stopped thinking about it since my first night in Rome. We walked in about 5 minutes after opening to the staff sitting down for dinner. They looked at us a little funny but seated us anyways, giving us time to look over the menu. We were overwhelmed with everything on the menu because it all sounded so good! We ordered: * bruschetta (5 out of 5 -- so delicious and so fresh with the most wonderfully toasted and still spongy bread) * antipasto di mare (7 out of 5 -- this is what I've been dreaming of since that night over a week ago - WOW) * bucatini with tomato and guanciale (4.5 out of 5 -- pasta was cooked so perfectly with great flavor from the guanciale) * spaghetti alla vongole (4 out of 5 -- my boyfriend ordered this and really, really liked the flavor) * house red wine (4 out of 5 -- nice and light, not sweet but fruity) * mixed berry panna cotta (5 out of 5 -- flavors were complimentary and bursting) * daily dessert - chocolate with ricotta and pine nuts, topped with fresh whipped cream (3.5 out of 5 -- it was good but not our favorite) Service was fantastic. The wait staff are the older men and they don't need to write anything down. Our Italian is very limited and their English isn't the best but we got by! Overall, such a wonderful first Italian meal and one I will never forget. read more

Bella Napoli - Antipasto di mare -- a MUST order! So lemony and fresh. This is what my dreams are made of. - Italian Near Me - Rome, RM

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This was my second time eating pasta in Italy, and it was fantastic. I ordered the spaghetti alle vongole veraci, which is just a simple pasta with olive oil and clams. It was delicious! I can definitely tell a difference between olive oil in the USA and olive oil in Italy based on this dish. The olive oil is much brighter here! My dad ordered a pizza, and it was really good. The crust was perfectly made. The char around the edges implied it was cooked in a wood-fired oven (cannot confirm or deny). The tomato sauce was light but tasty. Yum! I would definitely recommend coming here again. Unfortunately we did not have time to return, and when we did visit, it was after midnight when they closed. The waiter spoke a bit of English, which was helpful, and English menus are available. Service was great, and timing of food was accurate. Enjoy! read more

Bella Napoli - Salad with mixed greens - Italian Near Me - Rome, RM

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Read the reviews and came for dinner on our last night in Rome. I immediately fell in love with our waiter. This was the best meal in Rome and we have been here six days. Everything was perfect. Sorry we can't transport them to Connecticut. We came at 7:30. The place was empty bit by 9:00 it was packed. Definitely a local following. read more

Bella Napoli - Italian Near Me - Rome, RM

Had a great late lunch outside. The waiter picked out an excellent wine. Food was excellent. Fresh oysters, caprese salads, spaghetti with calamari, grilled swordfish and my wife had the best carbonara of her life. read more

Delicious food that was a highlight of my trip to Rome. Ravioli with walnut sauce was one of the most unique flavors while in Rome. Pasta Pirata, made with swordfish and tomatoes, masterfully blends flavors to create a savory dish. read more

A wonderful dinner after a day of sightseeing. Service was warm and friendly. Highly recommended.

Delicious artichokes, squash blossoms and of course pizza! Service was attentive and very good prices!

Highly recommended! Absolutely fantastic place - super authentic. From delicious foods, to a great wine selection, followed by a dreamy dessert - this place was great. Went with my boyfriend and would recommend this place to anyone!!! We had two pastas and tiramisu. Great food and at a great price. Honestly it's a "Must-Go"!! read more

Nothing at this place can seem to go wrong. The staff speak English and are very helpful. This place makes great Neapolitan food - definitely get some fish and check out the antipasto bar. Don't squander their generosity and they'll be good to you. A must go. read more

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Had delicious brick oven pizza with pomodoro and mushrooms. Pesto pasta was perfectly al dente. Water served in bottles to pour into glasses. 1 liter bottled Coke available. read more

Bella Napoli - Menu cover from Bella Napoli 2 - Italian Near Me - Rome, RM

Amazing dinner and amazing service. It was our first night in Rome, and we opened for Bella Napoli based on the reviews. It didn't disappoint! We ordered the pizza, limoncello, bottle of wine, calamari.... I ate the whole pizza, drank much of the wine, lingered on the limoncello (BF loved it more than I did)...great place with great food! And on top of it, free wifi! WIN WIN in my book. read more

So delicious, Me and my wife loved it. Everything was cooked perfectly. Very authentic and traditional food. The waiters were helpful when I wasn't sure what to get. I'm sure anything you eat here delicious. read more

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The place so nice, we ate their twice. Very welcoming staff who helped us with the menu and made sure that our daughter, who has celiac (severe gluten allergy) was accommodated. Very pleasant, very real, very local. Not very fancy. read more

This place came highly recommended from the doorman of the school I was studying at in Prati. No tourist would know about this as it was saturated with purely Italians. Overall excellent meal and enjoyed everything we had here. Very fresh, and the house wine was a perfect compliment to our meal. Buon Appetito! read more

I was somewhat underwhelmed with the food here. I think mostly their portions were well off but the food was also nothing to write home about- maybe I just got the wrong things. Usually it's not a bad thing to get too much but in this case my appetizer was so filling that I hardly had room for my main. Had fried zucchini blossoms, they come with 4 and are stuffed with cheese and anchovies. These were tasty but filling- I probably should have known better but I wish they would have made it a smaller portion since I was by myself. My main dish was carbonara- and the portion was huge! I only ate about half of it. I know carbonara is on the saltier side but this dish felt over the top. There were plenty of local folks as well as tourists, perhaps I just ordered wrong. Many people seemed pleased with pizza both eating in and taking away. read more

My daughter and I found this place by accident. We walked in and the place was packed with locals. The staff was mostly older gentlemen and they were very welcoming. Our server spoke very little English, but we managed to figure out their Italian menu. We had this seafood appetizer with salmon, anchovies and calamari which was not a typical seafood platter from the US, but oh so delicious. The ingredients were fresh and simply amazing. It paired well with our Pinot noir. The artichoke salad was also fresh. My daughter hated artichoke growing up, but she loved it. I had the spaghetti frutti di mare and my daughter had the grilled seafood. Everything we ordered was amazing and we managed to finish everything with a bottle of Pinot. We ended up having a great conversation with a German couple next to us all night and they shared us the house wine. The best part of this experience was the staff didn't ask us to leave even when they were getting ready to close. I highly recommend this place. I've travelled in so many countries and this is one restaurant I would always remember. The total bill was waaaaay less than we expected. Thank you for the best meal and memorable dining experience. read more

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We found this place through Yelp. The reviews in Italian were all positive, so we decided to give it a try. In short - go here. This place has awesome atmosphere, is located in a locals-only neighborhood (I even had a fully Roman experience, having driven there and had to find a space to park in the most cramped of streets!). The pizzas are excellent, the desserts are top notch, everyone was very nice to us, despite our spotty spoken Italian. We loved it. read more

This was our first stop settling into our stay in Rome. The kindest service and the most delicious pizzas are here! We had an amazing experience while eating here and would recommend it again and again. Thank you for making me and my friends feel at home. read more

Service is slow but friendly. They want you to enjoy your food and don't mind you sitting at the table for a bit. We were there at 8 and by 9 the place was full. Overall, great food, reasonable prices for the area and welcoming atmosphere. The waiters were exceptionally friendly even if our Italian wasn't up to par. Overall, great find in an area that tends to be full of either overpriced or hit or miss food read more

We found this restaurant the last night of our trip which was a shame because it was EXCELLENT! The pasta and pizza were both great. The staff was friendly and accommodating. We came around 8pm and it was dead. We left around 9:30 and it was slammed. I would nightly recommend this restaurant. read more

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Delicious pasta and the Fiori Di Zucca Fritti was to die for! And the service was fantastic! I love this place.

Very nice and accommodating staff-seems to be a family friendly and family owned restaurant. Very quick food service and great food. Offers a wide selection of pastas, pizzas, fish dishes, meat dishes, and more. The lemon sorbet was delicious and presented in a hallowed out frozen lemon-adorable! Only 4 stars because-while the food was very good, it was nothing unbelievable, just very well made Italian food in a less crowded Italian street. However, that said, I would recommend. read more

Bella Napoli - Lemon sorbet inside of a hallowed out frozen lemon - Italian Near Me - Rome, RM

Incredible dinner and a very enjoyable evening. The restaurant has very fresh food, a lot of variety in option, phenomenal service and very reasonable prices. Our servers were very kind and funny and the food was authentic italian cuisine, none of that tourist trap garbage you sometimes find in Rome. You could tell it was a local's favourite by the fact that we were the only non-italian speakers in the place. Thank you so much for a wonderful meal and an amazing first night in Rome, we will recommend you to all our friends visiting the city! read more

The food here is amazing! I ordered the fettuccine with lobster and oh my goodness. Soooo good. Picture provided. Also, their tiramisu is the best we had in Italy. None of the others we had through out our 2 week Italy trip compared. Wish I could take the whole restaurant back to the U.S. read more

Bella Napoli - Italian Near Me - Rome, RM

I have never given a Yelp review but in this instance am glad others have. Fabulous experience and great food ... we will be back !Special thanks to our waiter Valerio. Service and food both excellent! read more

We went to this restaurant 3 times during this vacation. This is a local restaurant. All three times we were the only ones not speaking Italian. The food is excellent and reasonably priced. The quality of the food was far better than any of the places we went to (including some fancy places). Would love to come back again soon. Also kid friendly. read more

Super place to eat with locals!! Pizza was so good!! They are very big, with us not understanding our server we thought they would be small, therefore we ordered way to much food! The caprese pizza... OMG so so fresh!!! The house wine was fantastic as well! They had an interesting buffet which we notice most of the locals were eating. Loved the fact it wasn't touristy!!! Staff was good! read more

My trip in Rome has consisted of an eager excitement to find a great Italian meal. This place did not disappoint! In our previous dinner experiences in Rome we could have gotten the food at any wanna be Italian restaurant, Bella Napoli was not another one of those. This restaurant was off the beaten path, there was wonderful outside seating on the side walk and all you could hear was the chatter of local Italians, no tourists there! The food was delicious; I got the pasta with lobster which was a succulent meal that you could tell had fresh ingredients and home made pasta! The pizza had a perfect thin crust and was also to die for, not to mention this place had GREAT prices!! I bought a bottle of Merlot I had gotten the previous dinner and enjoyed, but theirs was 10 euros less than the other and just as good if not better! To top this place off they had the nicest waiter I've ever met! He was helpful and understood most of our English! I would recommend this place to any person wanting a TRUE Italian restaurant where the locals dine! Ya feel me? read more

Bella Napoli - a great restaurant with delicious food, and at least one thing to stay away from on the menu. Let me explain. We ordered the spaghetti Vongole (mussels in garlic and oil) and the pizza Diavola together with a very reasonably priced liter of house white (EUR 8) and 0.75l of water (EUR 3). Both, the spaghetti and the pizza were absolutely fantastic! While the pizza was just the right size to be a main course, the spaghetti portion was a decent size for a first course, but may not be enough as a stand alone meal. Nevertheless, you should definitely try both, as the flavors were super delicious! After my meal of mussel-spaghetti I decided to give the mellanzane (eggplant w Parmesan) a try for my main course. The dish came out a bit late (maybe 12 mins between my order and it actually being brought out) and was good, however it could simply not compete with the extremely delicious spaghetti. After drinking most of our wine (good price, but don't expect a fancy wine with great body, just some good booze to sip which your meal) we ordered desert. Tiramisu and Tartuffe negro. The tiramisu was excellent and very flavorful, but the clear let-down of the night was my Tartuffo which came in it's "original" plastic cup from a brand name ice cream company. For EUR 4 (and an Italian restaurant with otherwise great food) I would have definitely expected something better. Given the flavors of our other dishes though, we will most certainly come back to this place to try some more dishes (the restaurant is said to be known for their fish as well) I'd reccomend this place for authentic, reasonably priced food (table cloth etc is a EUR 3 charge on the bill, but there's no "service charge" on top like in other places and they accept credit cards) - just stay away from the "Tartuffo negro". read more

Don't hesitate to dine here, excellent food. Service was slow, but very friendly. Asked multiple times for olive oil for the bread but never came. They charge for water as well. But because prices were reasonable and the food was great, all these are minor points. read more

Authentic Roman (Neapolitan?) neighbourhood restaurant. Friendly service. Good quality food. Recommend carbonara and bucatini. Pizzas also good. If non Italian and feeling adventurous small entree dishes. Nice to sit outside on a summers evening. read more

This is definitely a five star for me. Awesome dishes at great prices, with waitors being supernice but not in your face in any way. Beautiful, calm neighborhood soothing your head after a day within 2 kilometers of the vatican. read more

Late night pizza is what we were looking for when we walked in, it helps that it's open late. The staff was pleasant. The place is large and seats a lot of people and restaurant as well as bathrooms are clean. The food wasn't as flavorful as I would hope. We ordered two pizzas and it looks like the just threw the ingredients on there, cheese kept coming off quite easily. Overall the taste and quality just wasn't there. read more

Great little neighborhood restaurant. Very friendly staff and fast service!

We had a quality meal here for a reasonable price. Service was good. Can't really say much more about it as all of the pizza and pasta places tend to form a big blur and don't stand out much from one another. read more