First the food was great The staff couldn't do enough for us I can recommend to eat here
Bella Italia is one of the more insidious chain restaurants in the city; silently cropping up on every corner like an upmarket Starbucks. This is the second of their vicious trifecta, the first being on St. Mary's Street and the third living within the Brewery Quarter.
This one is also the worse off of the three. Whilst Bella on St. Mary's Street can at least avoid the street sounds now that that area has been pedestrianised, and Bella in the Brewery Quarter is situated within a cluster of other restaurants so the noise from outside is not so intrusive, Bella in the Red Dragon Centre has to suffer the hoots and whistles of the 15 year olds attending the cinema, or the bowling alley next door.
That kind of thing has a tendency to ruin the ambience.
Otherwise, the food is standard 3663 fare. Haven't quite had the epiphany I had once at St. Mary's Street, but it's passable. All in all, as good a-place as any to end up if you're doing the dinner-and-a-movie thing, you American swine.
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Now I don't usually like the idea of eating in a multiplex, however I make an exception for this Bella Italia as nearly everything else about it is great.
First off I'd recommend eating inside the restaurant, which on the décor front seems to be going for the quaint Italian tavernna look, which it pulls off rather well. It becomes quite easy to forget that you're actually in a multiplex (especially when they start lighting candles everywhere.
The food is of course Italian (with a name like Bella Italia, you're hardly going to expect Indian are you?), and though the pasta and pizza are all good there is a salmon dish, that I've completely forgotten the name of, but which is covered in the most amazing sauce.
One slightly negative thing that I have noticed, is that the staff whilst friendly can often take quite a while with the bill (you'd think that being next door to a cinema they'd realise that many of their patrons probably have films to go to). Aside from that little niggle, a good place to eat, and if you're planning on seeing a film just make sure you leave plenty of time.
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