Ciao Bella

Excellent place! The pizza was very good and Fabio is a great guy. The restaurant is cozy and the food came very soon. Also the price is very good and they have a good selection of dishes. I will definitively come back.

Small Italian on Portland street. We were welcomed by a nice waiter and given a choice of seats however the ones we chose we weren’t allowed to sit at so we had to go for some others! It’s small inside and attempts unsuccessfully to be an authentic Italian. We ordered a starter of garlic dip with bread and it arrived in under 60 seconds after watching it being made by the waiter. I would be being kind to say it was average. A dollop of grainy garlic Mayo dip with 4 small bits of heavy thick bread and a handful of olives. We then ordered mains and my pasta donato was really good, lots of it, very tasty with lots of chicken and mushrooms. They got my girlfriends order badly wrong and as it was a pizza they took it away and then 2 mins later a newly undercooked version of the one she ordered arrived. It was covered in water and clealry undercooked. The waiters were nice enough but because I had already finished my main there was no point asking for another. To sum up the waiters and service is nice but hopeless (having none native speaking English staff always creates problems), prices are average for Italian so given the choice of Italians in Manchester, for the same price you can go to San Carlos which is far better. The interior is average and the quality of food is average to poor. There are better Italians around so go to one of them!