Cafe Bella

Love this place! Family owned and delicious. Everything is fresh and I heard the owner hand makes the pasta every morning! I have not been disappointed with anything I’ve ordered. The rolls are my favorite!

This place was phenomenal! We were a little nervous as we were supposed to go to Nonna Tata but they were temporarily closed — we will be coming here from now on.
The ingredients are fresh from the local farmers market so everything is very rich in flavor. I had the weekly special, Chicken Barese, which was delicious. The prices are amazing, my husband got the baked pasta trio (Meat Lasagna, Cannelloni & Manicotti) for only $ 7.95 and the lasagna in that was perfect.
You have to get the Calamari appetizer, the batter was perfectly light and crispy. YUM! Loved that it was a very relaxed, casual place. It is BYOB so you can bring in your own Beer and Wine which made our visit that much better!

The restaurant was understaffed and the service was rushed. The calamari isn’t very good at all. The main course was good, but seemed generic.

Good food at a reasonable price. BYOB with no corkage fee. Family friendly and easy, fast service. Recommend. Located in the Albertson’s shopping center facing South onto Trail Lake.

I absolutely love this place. I may be a bit biased, as this was the first ever Italian place I went to, but this place really is great.
I love the casual and relaxed environment. The staff is always so very kind and attentive, and I love how involved the manager is here. She’s so nice and really seems to really care about her patrons and employees.
Let’s not forget the best part — the food. I am in love with just about everything here. Of late, I’ve been stuck on the Parmesan Cremora, but I also like the Francese and Baked Ziti. Even their basic spaghetti is amazing. I haven’t had anything with veal or seafood in it, but I do know that anything they have with chicken in it is magic. And have you had their fresh baked rolls? They make them in-​house, which makes them all that much better. Don’t even get me started on their luscious desserts.
I’ve only stopped in twice for lunch, but they do have a good and affordable lunch menu. Plus, it’s rather slow during lunch.
Basically, if you’re looking for decent quality Italian for an affordable price, this is the place to stop by.
The one issue I have is the smaller seating area, but that’s not really the fault of the establishment. However, if you’re a larger party coming in on a busy night, you might have to wait for seating.
But other than that, this place is great!

My rankings are as follows:
Food: 4 stars, good not great
Service: 2 stars, hostess was lazy, waiter was fine
Atmosphere: 4 stars, decorated well but not spectacular
The veal roll was tender but a bit oily tasting. I was impressed with the sauce, it was creamy and well balanced. The spaghetti was cooked slightly over al dente but only slightly. The fresh baked bread was still warm from the oven and wonderful. The waiter was very kind and attentive and very Texan which I found funny because Bella is very clearly an Italian mom and pop shop. The hostess on the other hand was almost opposite. I’m not sure what she was doing when we arrived but she neither greeted us nor seated us. We actually had to ask her if we were supposed to grab menus and seat ourselves because there was no other indication we should. Heads up, this place seems to be BYOB; bring your wine if you want some with dinner.

Café Bella is a great little restaurant when you’re looking for some decent Italian food at a great price. First of all, it’s one of the only Italian BYOB restaurants in Fort Worth that I know of, so it already makes it towards to top of my list.
The inside is a quaint little old school Italian joint with murals on the wall, tiled floors and mis-​matched chairs.
The entire staff is super friendly from start to finish, and the food is pretty good!
If you’re looking for a laid back environment to hang out and drink wine, whilst sampling Americanized Italian food look no further.

Great lunch. Chicken Parmesan, spaghetti, salad, under seven bucks. Nice and quiet.

Had previously been here before a few times. Definitely agree that the owner is not too friendly.
On this night, the area of the restaurant we were seated had a faint smell of sewage. Not too pleasant but decided to stick around. Towards the end of the meal, my dad discovered a roach in his tea! Disgusted, we flagged the waiter down and showed him our «find». He took the drink away and promptly brought another tea. Needless to say, this did not get touched.
Food is mediocre at best. Do not recommend and will not be coming back.

We visited Café Bella for the very first time on Thursday evening. The weather was nice so we sat on the patio. I’m not very familiar with getting around Ft, Worth but it was easy to find the café. It looks like an older building, not fancy at all, but that doesn’t really matter much since it’s about the food.
Our server was very pleasant and attentive which I always like. For an appetizer we had the Mussels Marinara $ 6.95 and it was spectacular. The sauce was so flavorful. They serve a basket of garlic rolls. They were pretty good but I think they are too big. The food is so hearty they could go smaller with the bread I think.
I tried the Capellini de Bella in pink sauce $ 8.95. I loved it. My date had the Chicken Portabella $ 10.95 and my son had the Chicken Romano $ 10.95 and every one of us really enjoyed our meal. For dessert we had cheesecake $ 3.95.
Are you noticing how reasonable these prices are for really good Italian food?
I need about 3 more trips in the near future because I want to try the Lobster Ravioli Foresta, the Shrimp Fra Diablo and the Red Grilled Salmon Piccata.
I recommend Café Bella, I really think that if you try this place that you’ll be pleased.

I’ve always been a Bella’s customer. Great food, nice patio, BYOB. However, tonight was very sub-​par. When I tried to share a pasta dish and salad with a friend (with several people at the table) the waiter insisted we both order our own entrée as it is «the mangers request». That is bullshit. Instead of ordering an appetizer portion salad and pasta, we had to order a large salad to count as one of our entrees, in addition to the pasta for the other. Ridiculous. Totally disappointed. Customer service is NOT on fleek.

Great Italian establishment. Excellent Chicken Parm and the service is incredible. TCU friendly and the BYOB makes this high-​in restaurant affordable for all parties. Great place for birthdays, a night out with a significant other, and any other occasion. Bella’s has never let me down.

If you’re looking for a top-​of-​the-​line cuisine served by non-​corporate bullshit this is the place I actually used to work for the original owner, who now is partnered up with one of my very first coworkers whom started as a waitress and worked her way up to half owner of this restaurant and proud we are of her ! you should all go to Bella’s and have a bite, take a bottle of wine, and enjoy yourselves, take your lady, and have a great time!

Good place. Great service. BYOW and they provide glasses and corkscrew. The bread was great and the calamari too. Had the Veal Barese and it was a little too salty.

I’m a fan of this place. Okay… okay…it’s not in the BEST part of town but I never felt it was unsafe. The food is good and for the price, it’s great. I thought the bread and bread dip was exceptional. The fact that you can bring in wine is a real bonus. I like this place a lot… and will definitely be going back.

Delicious food! Salt was perfect and I usually add salt, but the veal piccata was great!

Great food, good service, and I even like their byob. The only thing that kept me from giving them five stars is their restriction against smoking on their patio.

One of my favorite date places in Fort Worth. Affordable, excellent food, and it’s BYOB. what else could you want?

This place is great!
A group of my girlfriends and I went here for my bachelorette party dinner because it is BYOB, and we wanted to save money on alcohol before going out later that night.
Café Bella provides you with glasses for wine or whatever you bring, and they just charge a $ 1 corking fee per person that drinks.
All of the food that we had was great. They serve simple Italian food — nothing fancy, but still tasty — so it was perfect for a few of the picky eaters in our crowd.
The staff was very friendly, attentive and incredibly tolerant of our large somewhat intoxicated crowd.

What is the big deal? Just because it’s BYOB?
Gf and I went on a weekday night because we wanted some Italian food. After looking up on Unilocal,we decided to give Café Bella a try based on all the 4 – 5 star reviews. The place is in a run down scary strip mall. The parking lot was dark and right next to the place is a dollar store so it felt like we were gonna get robbed. Anyway…
We were able to get a table right away. We ordered a calamari appetizer and we both ordered the penne vodka pasta (mixture of red and white sauce). The pasta was bad and the calamari was even worse!!! The calamari at Blue sushi and Cheesecake Factory and Maggiano’s tasted SOOOO much better, miles ahead. It was bland, like zero salt and the crust was too thick so it wasn’t fried right and was falling off the squid. The squid itself was overcooked and rubbery. Probably from over-​breading too! Felt like I was eating a crusty bland eraser.
The pasta was not as bad but I’ve def had better jarred sauce. Again, it was bland zero salt bland. I had to add my own salt. Maybe that’s what they do? The penne was also overcooked so it was too soft. Definitely not al-​dente.
The only great thing I tasted that night was the olive oil that came as a dip for the garlic roll. But that probably came from a bottle. Garlic roll was okay.
We would definitely not return, and would not recommend this place to anyone. This place is not romantic, it’s cramped, it’s not delicious, it’s not cheap. I don’t know why people drool over it, if you want to BYOB, just eat at home!