Bella Rosa Cafe

Reviews

• Emily M.

  star star star star star_border 14 June 2026

  A favourite spot of ours for an extended family catch up. We've bean here for breakfast, brunch, and dinner on multiple occasions and keep coming back.
  
  Service is excellent here, someone always coming around to see how you are and cracking a joke with you also. When ordering garlic bread for the table the waiter put an extra piece of garlic bread in each of our two baskets so we would have a piece each (8 instead of 6) - how generous.
  
  The portion sizes are also very generous! The main meat meals come with lots of options of sauces and also sides- chips and salad, chips and verges, or spaghetti. There is an extensive pizza and pasta range also for an Italian restaurant.  A note as other reviews have mentioned is that is a BYO restaurant, there is a bottle shop nearby if needed.
  
  Definitely a recommendation for a casual night out with family or friends and definitely a spot I will be coming back to again.

• Jenn R.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 13 June 2026

  I wanted to like this place because it's nice and close and I used to frequently visit it when it was on the Vic Park strip and enjoyed it. But the Fathers' Day lunch visit was quite disappointing. To start with, the layout is awkward and we were waiting in the doorway while people lined up to pay for an inordinately long time (more on that later) and wait staff pushed in and out past us.
  
  Seated, a bottle of water was placed on the table which the menu advised would be $4.50. We hadn't ordered it. The staff were friendly, and the food was adequate so the meal was enjoyed and the celebration successful. But when we came to pay, we saw why it took so long. They run through the scraps of waiter order sheets and add it up. You are then given a total to pay, no itemized bill.
  
  Going over it later, I'm pretty sure we were overcharged by at least $10 but potentially up to $35 (no menus online to check). And even if we weren't, $53 a head for the meal we got was not good value for money.
  
  Meal sizes were good, food was nice enough, free parking nearby and a good bottle shop for BYO - but I don't think I'd bother coming back here.

• Grey D.

  star star star star star_border 2 June 2026

  Its been a great week for dining out and this Little dated Gem was another treat
  Staff very friendly, we where made to feel like family.
  Only 4 of us on this little dining attack all of us where very pleased with the assortment of meals, My meal was a little light on but very tasty, we have properly had 20 meals here, we just keep coming back, the table service was extremely good and worth the 40 km trip to dine.

• Bronwyn G.

  star star star star star_border 2 June 2026

  Love this little place.
  
  Great food and the staff are extra friendly, price isn't to bad seeing it is an Italian restaurant.
  
  They have just recently expanded..... Must be a good thing. Would definitely recommend if you are ever near by.

• Grum G.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 23 May 2026

  So bad that I'm putting NO effort into writing this review.
  
  Here are a few dot points:
  
  Sticky tables.
  
  Sat next to the toilets where you could smell the rancid odour emanating from inside.
  
  Young waitress seemed unable to carry two plates and managed to spill half the sauce on the floor. Didn't apologise. Puddle of sauce wasn't cleaned up. Spill happened at the start of the meal and was still there when we left.
  
  Ordered a $30 steak medium rare. Got a pathetic excuse for meat served next to dry chips and a limp salad drowned in some horrid salad dressing that was reminiscent to Heinz italian salad dressing.
  
  The meat was seared on the outside (burnt in some parts) and bloody on the inside.
  
  The seared side was comparable to eating rubber.
  
  I got a filthy look and rude back-chatter from the cashier who didn't like my answer to her usual "how was your meal" question. If you ask someone that, don't treat your customers like scum when they answer 'it was the worst meal I've ever had'.
  
  We had to continually move when people needed to get to the toilet.
  
  Loud. Oh so very loud.
  
  Uncomfortable seats.
  
  Café Bella Rosa is simply one of those tired, old, uninspired restaurants that bogans mistake for five star dining.
  
  I would much rather gargle concrete than eat here again.