Margarita, pizza had tomato slices!!! And it was delicious five stars all around service was great. Food was great atmosphere was amazing would definitely come back for those who don’t know margarita for those who don’t know margarita pizza is supposed to have slices of tomato on it.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jaden Cotton
Great food, amazing atmosphere, and excellent service. The restaurant is under new ownership where you can tell they are still settling in but as before mentioned they are doing great! Great local Italian.
A local favorite spot. Everything is always delish! Love this sweet little spot in the best little town ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Mike Pacheco
Margherita pizza had tomato slices on top, and veggie lasagna was artichoke mush.Honestly the red sauce just wasn’t good and the pizza could have been a frozen pizza
Cody Jennings
Used to be one of our favorite restaurants unfortunately the food is not what it used to be. Go
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 2
Freya Moonchild
Joined friends for a birthday gathering and I’m soo glad I did! I had seen a couple of bad reviews recently here and had not tried them out as a result. I don’t know what they’re talking about! Imran and the team were awesome and I can’t wait to head back soon for some amazing pizza.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bleu Bayou Pizza
L Dl
Our favorite place for lunch or dinner was recommended by a Palmer Lake resident. Very cute restaurant in a really special little mountain town. Outstanding, friendly service - especially the owner / chef, Imran, a new friend. Everything we've had here has been really good, but we almost always get Imran's specials for dinner. Can't get enough of the bread and balsamic they bring before meals. Reasonably priced, too. We live in the south Denver metro area but come here often, when we're near or often, just for a nice scenic drive and special treat. We tell our friends about this great place. It's starting to get crowded, so do make reservations if you can and check their hours, which change seasonally (Palmer Divide winter weather...).Vegetarian options: Great Italian vegetarian options, even some vegan and gluten free. Also, for pescatarians, ask about seafood specials at dinner - owner / chef Imran is especially good with fish, which has always been perfectly prepared when we've been there.Parking: Parking isn't a problem around Palmer Lake, but you can park right outside here.
Our favorite place for lunch or dinner was recommended by a Palmer Lake resident. Very cute restaurant in a really special little mountain town. Outstanding, friendly service - especially the owner / chef, Imran, a new friend. Everything we've had here has been really good, but we almost always get Imran's specials for dinner. Can't get enough of the bread and balsamic they bring before meals. Reasonably priced, too. We live in the south Denver metro area but come here often, when we're near or often, just for a nice scenic drive and special treat. We tell our friends about this great place. It's starting to get crowded, so do make reservations if you can and check their hours, which change seasonally (Palmer Divide winter weather...).
Ted Muelhaupt
This used to be a local favorite, and we gave the new owners three tries. Food quality stayed good, but service got progressively slower. We bailed tonight when the meal didn’t arrive 1:15 after seating, with no estimate of serve time. Server was snippy: “I can’t do anything about it!”. Next table of 6 was seated, served, and left while we waited. I love to support local businesses, but we had a hungry 5-year old with us. Won’t be back.
Ate here while visiting family over the holidays. While the servers were kind and welcoming we waited for over an hour and a half for bland food thar was served cold. We had been enjoying a few drinks while waiting and had asked if we could receive them complementary due to the long wait and poor quality of food. We were informed that management would not allow that and were offered nothing in return for our terrible experience. We will not be back and will make sure our family who lives locally knows to avoid this place until there is a change in management.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 2
Ted M.
This used to be a local favorite, and we gave the new owners three tries. Food quality stayed good, but service got progressively slower. We bailed tonight when the meal didn't arrive 1:15 after seating, with no estimate of serve time. Server was snippy: "I can't do anything about it!". Next table of 6 was seated, served, and left while we waited. I love to support local businesses, but we had a hungry 5-year old with us. Won't be back.
Desiree Rodriguez
First customers in served nearly 2 hours later. Panini given last. Excuse from manager was they had $500 worth of take-out before opened. Are they not use to doing $500 worth before? Either way, the service from servers needs improvement. If it was the manager/owner that spoke to us with excuse—- terrible. You apologize sincerely and remedy in some way. Two of us from Monument and 5 of us visiting from Texas trying to celebrate a birthday tonight. By far the worst experience, and the food was not anything special but slapped together. But, we wanted to support local. We should have went to Biaggi’s. Only positive was quaint spot.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Elephani Rock IPA Monument
L S.
Didn't have GF pizza dough. Food took over an hour to come out even though the restaurant was only half full. Meals were served one at a time and a couple of the dishes were not edible.
The Happy P.
Went there tonight HORRIBLE service. The two waitresses never checked up on us after we had ordered. They were not friendly, it almost seemed like they just hated their job. I ordered a small entree. It took around 30 minutes to finally come out... You're not busy, does it really take that long? The food was ok. Will I be back? Absolutely not.
As always...Bella Panini is THE BEST Italian restaurant. Always supporting small town business that do it right! We drive 45 min for Bella Panini! ❤️
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Balsamic Dipping Sauce, Tuscan Chicken
Margarita, pizza had tomato slices!!! And it was delicious five stars all around service was great. Food was great atmosphere was amazing would definitely come back for those who don’t know margarita for those who don’t know margarita pizza is supposed to have slices of tomato on it.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great food, amazing atmosphere, and excellent service. The restaurant is under new ownership where you can tell they are still settling in but as before mentioned they are doing great! Great local Italian.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tuscan Chicken, Scilian Style Beef Cannelloni
A local favorite spot. Everything is always delish! Love this sweet little spot in the best little town ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Margherita pizza had tomato slices on top, and veggie lasagna was artichoke mush.Honestly the red sauce just wasn’t good and the pizza could have been a frozen pizza
Used to be one of our favorite restaurants unfortunately the food is not what it used to be. Go
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 2
Joined friends for a birthday gathering and I’m soo glad I did! I had seen a couple of bad reviews recently here and had not tried them out as a result. I don’t know what they’re talking about! Imran and the team were awesome and I can’t wait to head back soon for some amazing pizza.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bleu Bayou Pizza
Our favorite place for lunch or dinner was recommended by a Palmer Lake resident. Very cute restaurant in a really special little mountain town. Outstanding, friendly service - especially the owner / chef, Imran, a new friend. Everything we've had here has been really good, but we almost always get Imran's specials for dinner. Can't get enough of the bread and balsamic they bring before meals. Reasonably priced, too. We live in the south Denver metro area but come here often, when we're near or often, just for a nice scenic drive and special treat. We tell our friends about this great place. It's starting to get crowded, so do make reservations if you can and check their hours, which change seasonally (Palmer Divide winter weather...).Vegetarian options: Great Italian vegetarian options, even some vegan and gluten free. Also, for pescatarians, ask about seafood specials at dinner - owner / chef Imran is especially good with fish, which has always been perfectly prepared when we've been there.Parking: Parking isn't a problem around Palmer Lake, but you can park right outside here.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Balsamic Dipping Sauce, Pecan Pie, Bella Salad
Our favorite place for lunch or dinner was recommended by a Palmer Lake resident. Very cute restaurant in a really special little mountain town. Outstanding, friendly service - especially the owner / chef, Imran, a new friend. Everything we've had here has been really good, but we almost always get Imran's specials for dinner. Can't get enough of the bread and balsamic they bring before meals. Reasonably priced, too. We live in the south Denver metro area but come here often, when we're near or often, just for a nice scenic drive and special treat. We tell our friends about this great place. It's starting to get crowded, so do make reservations if you can and check their hours, which change seasonally (Palmer Divide winter weather...).
This used to be a local favorite, and we gave the new owners three tries. Food quality stayed good, but service got progressively slower. We bailed tonight when the meal didn’t arrive 1:15 after seating, with no estimate of serve time. Server was snippy: “I can’t do anything about it!”. Next table of 6 was seated, served, and left while we waited. I love to support local businesses, but we had a hungry 5-year old with us. Won’t be back.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
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Ate here while visiting family over the holidays. While the servers were kind and welcoming we waited for over an hour and a half for bland food thar was served cold. We had been enjoying a few drinks while waiting and had asked if we could receive them complementary due to the long wait and poor quality of food. We were informed that management would not allow that and were offered nothing in return for our terrible experience. We will not be back and will make sure our family who lives locally knows to avoid this place until there is a change in management.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 2
This used to be a local favorite, and we gave the new owners three tries. Food quality stayed good, but service got progressively slower. We bailed tonight when the meal didn't arrive 1:15 after seating, with no estimate of serve time. Server was snippy: "I can't do anything about it!". Next table of 6 was seated, served, and left while we waited. I love to support local businesses, but we had a hungry 5-year old with us. Won't be back.
First customers in served nearly 2 hours later. Panini given last. Excuse from manager was they had $500 worth of take-out before opened. Are they not use to doing $500 worth before? Either way, the service from servers needs improvement. If it was the manager/owner that spoke to us with excuse—- terrible. You apologize sincerely and remedy in some way. Two of us from Monument and 5 of us visiting from Texas trying to celebrate a birthday tonight. By far the worst experience, and the food was not anything special but slapped together. But, we wanted to support local. We should have went to Biaggi’s. Only positive was quaint spot.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Elephani Rock IPA Monument
Didn't have GF pizza dough. Food took over an hour to come out even though the restaurant was only half full. Meals were served one at a time and a couple of the dishes were not edible.
Went there tonight HORRIBLE service. The two waitresses never checked up on us after we had ordered. They were not friendly, it almost seemed like they just hated their job. I ordered a small entree. It took around 30 minutes to finally come out... You're not busy, does it really take that long? The food was ok. Will I be back? Absolutely not.