Bella’s Short Stack

Love love love this place! My in laws are pancake aficionados, and they say these are the best cakes in the suburbs. I have no reason to disagree. The potatoes are excellent, not greasy at all and portion sizes are just right! It’s my go to place for breakfast. I’m hesitant to post this, because I don’t want other people to know how awesome it is, but it’s the right thing to do. Enjoy!

My boyfriend and I went here for the first time today and it was delicious! Cute, small, cozy little restaurant…
Servers were very nice and polite. Only had to wait about 10 minutes for a table. Ordered the filled French toast and bacon, which was delicious. My boyfriend ordered the country fried steak… so good! Service was very fast, got our food so quickly.
Definitely will be coming back to try all the other delicious items on the menu.

Just randomly stopped here cuz it looked cozy and I was starving :) the inside was cute and welcoming and the food was really great. The server was friendly.
All around excellent place! food was just really good, tasted like home.

This place was FANTASTIC! Great service and outstanding fresh food. Our waitress was great at taking our order and even suggested a better way to get what we wanted. Service was super attentive. Food was delish! Everything was cooked just the way we asked! I would definitely come back!

LOVE the servers and the food is pretty good too. They will make anything off their menu to order.

I love this place, cozy, clean and inviting. It’s very simple just like breakfast should be. All the meals fit on one side of the menu, the staff is friendly and has a homely diner feel to it.
I get the Luke’s special, chorizo, thick cut crispy bacon, scrambled eggs, pepper jack cheese and avocado. On a giant croissant roll. My opinion, it’s the perfect combination of sweet, soft, crunchy and spicy all rolled into one. Of course that’s a personal perspective. I have had the steak and eggs which is always a great choice at the right place.
I will most certainly keep going here and invite all to try this hidden gem.

Such a cute breakfast place! Love the character and feel of the place. Honestly, was not expecting it to look nice inside before I stepped in. I love the concept of how we are able to seat ourselves since it makes it more of a cozy feel. Also, service was genuine and nice. They waitresses there were sweet and attentive. They checked up on you here and there to ensure you were doing just fine. Also, a gentleman in there asked if he could take his leftover coffee to go and the servers were kind enough to offer to top it off before he left. Food was delicious. It is small portions but still good priced and I love how they offer local free range chickens to be served to you instead. Would highly recommend this place.

Almost anyplace can make an acceptable breakfast, but this isn’t just anyplace. This cute (yes, I said cute) little diner makes high marks all around. Decorated with vintage toasters the surroundings are pleasant and inviting. The service is friendly, not just efficient. I felt like a regular, even though it was my first visit. The coffee is very good, maybe even great. They don’t substitute quality with quantity. The servings are appropriately sized. They don’t just pile huge amounts of food hoping you won’t notice low quality ingredients. My skillet was delicious with fresh green peppers and onions and perfectly prepared eggs. I left comfortably full. Bella’s Short Stack is worth a visit, and another, and another…

A little disappointing. The ambiance was nice and the staff was friendly. The disappointing part was the food. The omelettes are small/​thin and taste OK. The pancakes also small and only OK. In summary, the food is nothing special.

To make this review short and sweet I would quite simply like to say that Bella is short stack is one of the many hidden gems in the Algonquin Illinois area. Their food is almost always very good and very reasonably priced. It’s a great place to go for a Saturday or Sunday morning brunch with your family. The only thing to be weary of is that space is at a premium and the place can fill up rather quickly.

Delightful! The service was great, food was delicious and prices good. We hadn’t been there for about 7 years, which was previous owners. We will be back frequently.

This place is a gem out. It seems like a small family dinner. Nice décor. The service was done right and the food was amazing. I had the Gypsy skillet and it was perfect. The veggies are fresh and everything was cooked perfectly. My family ordered the pizza burger and it’s a must try. The biscuits & gravy are a must try.
If your in this area or near by it is definitely worth the trip. This is my new favorite dinner.

My son and I have breakfast before school once a week. We’ve done this for years. Decided to slide on over to Bella’s. No Turning back. Italian Benedict… unique and excellent. Denver Omelet… filling and perfected. We’ll be back for sure. See you on Tuesdays.

A cute little place in downtown Algonquin. The place is small and only holds made 30 people at the most, so get there early. The stuffed french toast I had was ok, but a little bland. Also the portions were fairly small. Staff kept on top of refills of our drinks though.

Decent little restaurant for breakfast. I am out for breakfast 2 – 3 times a week and was looking for a new spot. The food was good but I found the portions too small.
Cons– We ordered an omelet and a skillet, both were good but smaller portions than most local breakfast restaurants We visit.
Pros– Good food, Nice diner atmosphere with what appears to be family operated staff (very friendly).

Friendly staff and cute décor, the usual basic grease filled breakfast you could pickup elsewhere. Their decoration and collection of toasters was pretty neat.

Looking for a cute traditional diner, this was a great spot for breakfast on our way from the airport back up to Wisconsin. Service was friendly and very prompt, water and coffee always full and helpful with whatever you need. Menu had lots of good choices ranging from eggs Benedict and skillets to crepes and frittatas.

We LOVE this place. Cute little downtown and fun old toaster decorations.
The staff really makes the place — especially Sal who clears the dishes and ensures your coffee is always topped off. A real family place. I went for the Señorita omellet with hash browns extra crispy. Be sure to ask for the homemade pico!

Imagine driving a couple hours due to the craptastic snow to get to a hotel for New Years Eve. Then the taxi service that you reserved to get to your friend’s place fell through, so you bribe the hotel to have their shuttle service to take you just a couple miles outside their 5 mile radius. You have to listen to the guy complain the entire way, but you finally arrive to your smiling friends to ring in the New Year!
At 4 AM your taxi service fails again! Luckily, you have fantabulous friends who are sober and drop you at your hotel on their way home! You have a late check out of 2PM… You make it out of there by 1:30 and you’re exhausted! There is nothing open on New Years Day except fast food places, but you don’t pass any on your way! Then you randomly see this diner! It’s 15 minutes until they close at 2PM and they’re totally fine with you coming in and messing up their totally clean floors and grill for breakfast to feed your New Year’s empty belly! Yea, that was how we met Bella!
Needless to say, we were already happy to get in outta the snow! Our server was so sweet and she sang as she worked! We were the only ones in the place, so we were in and out in about 30 minutes! Fine with us cuz we were starving!
The boy had the Hungry Man’s (or some other similarly named meal). He had a couple of eggs, bacon, hash browns, and toast. He’s a growing boy and there wasn’t one thing on his plate that he didn’t love! I think his favorite was the hash browns!
I ordered the country fried steak special. It came with a couple of eggs, hash browns, and biscuits. What a special! The breading on the steak was light and well seasoned. It’s not often you get that perfect steak with a good breading! I loved it! I would say it’s the best I’ve ever had! And I judge places on their gravy… This gravy was tops! The hash browns were the perfect blend of some crispy and soft potatoes. Everything was so good I wanted to devour it all! Instead I took some home for another great meal!

Nom Nom Nom!!!
This place was delicious! My boyfriend and I woke up and we were feeling lazy and decided to go to Bella’s Short Stack for a late Sunday Breakfast (it was a lazy Sunday… we had to sleep in first!). There was a bit of a wait when we arrived, but since it was just us two they were able to sneak us into seats that just opened at the bar (do you even call it that in a breakfast place?!). It was a nice change of pace.
This place had super friendly and attentive service. It was also super clean. I loved the retro décor with the vintage toasters.
I ordered one of the daily specials… a bacon and avocado omelet… and here is the awesome part since it is Autumn you could get pumpkin pancakes instead of regular ones. These was amazing. I am salivating thinking about how delicious they were! There was way too much food to eat, but I ate until my belly could not fit one more bite. I think we found our new favorite breakfast place!