Villa Bella

Homemade everything! Had a wonderful meal and excellent service from Joel. After a long day of packing up my Mom's house i really needed a relaxing, warm meal. This was just what I needed. Warm, homemade, complimentary bread with pesto dipping sauce, nice mixed green salad with homemade blue cheese and creamy Italian (I couldn't choose!) 😄 and large portion of pasta Primavera with a tomato cream sauce. Huge portion for a second meal! Everything was nicely prepared, very timely and great portions. The ambiance is such that you could dress up or be more casual. Nice, long established, family owned business. You can't go wrong with Villa Bella 🫶

Always love this restaurant! My fav Italian place near me by far! Food is always so good and the free bread is perfection! Service is awesome! Also love the atmosphere, it’s so homey and cute! All around a great restaurant

The pizza was absolutely delicious, and the salads were also excellent. The service was consistently friendly and attentive, and the atmosphere created a strong sense of being in a true, authentic Italian restaurant.

Absolutely loved this place. Great food and drink. House Chianti was very good. Service was exceptional!

We’ve been here a few times and never had any issues. We placed a $45 to go order and after a few bites of my fettuccine Alfredo, (which was pretty bland) I found a hair. Also, my daughter’s ravioli tasted undercooked. Not sure if the food was off because we ordered late.

We accidentally came across this place trying to get to Jimmy John’s and thank goodness we did! We wanted to beat traffic but it started snowing so thought let’s just get pizza. It was amazing! Being Italian it can be daunting eating at Italian restaurants but the pizzas were great and the sauce will tell! What a great place.

Whether is to eat there or to go! Is delicious pizza, I went for the Villa Bella and the Crne pizzas and it was great choices, the staff is super attentive and the wait time was less than originally given!

There’s no need for the free bread they give you to be so good, but I would come back just for that bread. The pizza was impeccable too. We also tried their carbonara and it was a solid entree, not particularly standout.

literally the best place to get italian food!!! the service was so nice all the staff were very friendly and the place was so well decorated. i ordered the pasta al pesto with chicken and the basil was so fresh!! why go anywhere else

Extremely nice restaurant. This is family and date worthy. The staff here fully understand what good service is. That's not the case at nearby restaurants, and the reason I go here. Comfortable seats, with plenty of room. Parking lot can be unique, yet so is a lot of NOVA. The spaghetti and its sauce wow! Their chicken parmigiana is tasty too. These are my usuals, but recently liked their pizza very much. Best guess is people who enjoy Italian food, will be quite content here. Will be back soon, and an easy going place. That alone is another reason to go here. You don't feel the gigantic stadium vibe.

My first visit to this restaurant. We had a large group but the service was efficient and friendly. The food was delicious. My spaghetti carbonara was very tasty and it was all I could do not to eat my weight in garlic knots. The salmon was flaky and tender. Half the group had to go boxes because of the portions. They have a nice separate room for groups. We loved the old school Italian decor. Excellent choice, I recommend.

What a pleasant surprise! We happened to be in the Burke area and saw that this place had great Google reviews. I can see why! The complimentary bread that they give you is amazing. We went through two baskets of it (couldn't help it!) Always a spaghetti fan, I tried the spaghetti and meatballs and it was excellent. It had a great sauce and the portion was more than enough. We also tried the chicken parm sub and it was awesome! The salad that came with the sub was top notch as well. The service was fast and friendly and the overall value was outstanding. We will definitely be coming back! If you happen to be in the area, give it a try!

We have been coming to Villa Bella for years but in the last year or so the service here has gone downhill. We recently came here and for the third time in a row we had an order come out incorrectly. Instead of working to correct the problem, the manager is sent over only to ask if we would like to place another order for the item we originally ordered. I do not intend to pay for another meal when my original meal was brought out incorrectly! The managers are rude and do not value the customer. I do not intend to bring my family here again if this is how they do business and treat their customers.

This is the best pizza in the area! My family eats here once a week, on average. All of the food is excellent. It looks like a tiny place from the outside, but it is nice restaurant with courteous staff. I see families here all the time. Worth the drive! Paul

Pretty generous portions on the food. The service for a Friday night was good and our food came out fast, especially since they were also hosting a wedding party. The calamari was delicious on the sampler platter. The calzones are huge and the dipping marinara sauce was tasty. They support our local lake Braddock high school so we try and support them. The Ambiance was fine a little crowded but to be expected for the time and day of the week. Got seated immediately with no reservations. The only reason it was not five stars was that the Alfredo sauce wasn't as creamy and cheesy as some of the other chain Italian favorites.

We have received two gift cards to this restaurant and have tried twice. Disappointing. Charming interior but tables too tight. Service is generally slow. The food is fair. I had the chicken special last night and it was tough. Too hard to eat really. My wife had a seafood risotto special. Not that great. No dinner salads come with the meals. Unusual for an Italian restaurant especially when entrees are often $25. There are better Italian restaurants locally such as Giordanos in Kings Park. We see no need to return here.

Unfortunately I cannot rate the food because the owner/manager was so rude we left before being seated. He made me feel like an idiot because we did not make a reservation and we were putting him out because the kitchen staff was behind. He publicly criticized the host for seating people when tables were open even though the waiting area was packed. I was looking forward to trying this place and celebrating our anniversary here, but we couldn't stand to support them when they made us feel so horribly on our special day.

Decided to try this place tonight (9/22/24). The food was delicious, drinks great. Service was good. Not the most amazing service, but decent. Ambiance was good. I'll definitely be back!

I NEVER review places, in fact, this is my first one, but I felt this experience warranted one... They must've been out of salt in the back, I had to salt my fettuccine 3 times. And it had a weird eggy flavor. My daughter's pesto pasta was equally as bland. Super disappointing especially at that price point. Garlic knots and bread served as appetizer were yummy. Service was sub par at best. Server rarely checked on us. Manager never stopped by our table. Granted, it was a busy Friday night, but I've worked enough years in the service industry to know this was past the point of just a busy night rush. Ambiance is the only thing that saved this place. Sadly, not enough to ever go back to dine in. We have had their pizza to go once and it was not bad.

I've had two pizzas from here since it's a in the neighborhood. Both were carry out, I've never stayed to eat at the restaurant, but the restaurants certainly looks pretty The first time was cheese and pepperoni and.. largely forgettable. not bad but I felt it had way too much salt. That's the one thing that really stuck with me. The second pizza, just now, had pepperoni and italian sausage. Perhaps the last pizza was not their best, but this one was quite a surprise! The pizza is.. wet, that is quite a bit of sauces, and juices. Bold taste of sauce. Italian sausage is good but I don't think it should be a "gourmet" topping and thus a higher price. There's a hint of spicy pepper but can't be sure if that's the sausage, or the pepperoni. The last thing I noticed was oddly surprising: the crust is good! Fresh, thin, with a bit of air in the dough, instead of the dense and chewy crust that I remembered last time. It's just fresher this time. I'm always comparing pizza to my favorite (so far) which is Kings NY Pizza, but Kings has its own issues with delivering to Burke. Villa Bella is not as good as Kings, but.. in a pinch, when I don't feel like waiting, and want something fresh, now? Villa Bella will do.

Excellent food, whether it's pasta or pizza! The only thing we wish the owners would change is serving large pizzas for dine in (only serve medium) and extending the lunch take out menu for dinner like the hot subs that they have (which are excellent).

Nice Italian Restaurant. Pretty decor and relatively quiet. I especially like the Pomodoro pasta sauce. Prices are a bit lower than some other Italian places in the Burke area.

Food is excellent. Despite having a giant table next to us, we received our food quickly. I got the Alfredo Salmon which I would love to get every time. The portions are amazing. My husband got the meat tortellini. He said it was good but he wanted to try something else when we come back. It's for an older crowd based on the clientele I saw there that night but I will be back for the Salmon Alfredo 10/10

Mediocre food. I had 6 cheese ravioli which cost about $13, 2 meatballs and 1 sausage which was $5.99. The ravioli was okay, sauce was okay as well. Meatballs were dense with little to no taste, golf ball like and the sausage was extremely dense, with no taste whatsoever I ordered these items because the sausage and peppers i was going to order was $21.95, yikes! Very expensive place for so so food. I'm guessing based on the dense makeup of the sausage and meatballs they are commercially made and purchased frozen from a restaurant supplier like US Foods, etc. I cannot recommend this establishment its overpriced Mediocre food in a decent environment indoors.

This is my favorite Italian restaurant! Any pasta that you order is delicious and yummy. The atmosphere and interior are incredible too. Looks like you're somewhere in an Italian village. I visit this place at least once a month to taste quality food.

I go there on a regular basis - mostly takeout. About 25 times in the last year. The management (Laura) is friendly and the plates are delicious. I especially like the cannelloni with pink sauce.

I struggled with giving this restaurant a 2 or 3 and figured it was a 2.5 and rounded up to 3. There were a lot of great things about this place but more negatives than I'd like. First of all we chose this place because it sounded awesome and checked the boxes of everything we were looking for--pasta, pizza, kid-friendly and kid menus. I thought that the restaurant was super charming as soon as we walked in. The skeleton at the bar with a wine glass was cool, as was some kids clothes hung on a fake laundry line next to the wall murals of an idyllic Italian neighborhood. While waiting for the host, my daughter was waiting next to me and the host turned around and walked right into her, slamming her head on leg. He barely acknowledged her or the situation. "I said loudly are you ok? That must have hurt!" He finally looked at her and said what to me sounded like an insincere apology. Luckily she was more surprised than actually hurt. We had also told the host we had 3 kids and 2 adults and he only gave us 2 kids menus so I had to get up and ask for a 3rd. So we were kind of already off to a shaky start. I thought the kids menu was great with so many fun options--butterfly pizza, heart pizza, ravioli, spaghetti, baked ziti, chicken fingers or fettuccine Alfredo. Also they do free kids meals on Tuesday nights, which is awesome! When I asked the waitress if they came with kids drinks she said she was pretty sure they did and I asked what the options were--regular milk, chocolate milk and juice. We chose juice, a kids spaghetti and kids cheese ravioli. I chose the Gamberi wrap and fries. After 15 mins of waiting, a small bread basket shows up with only 3 garlic bread rolls and 1 bread roll for the 5 of us which I thought odd. When the main meal came came, one of my daughters was given a plate of fancy ravioli and it turned out it wasn't the kids one so they had to take it back to the kitchen. The rest of the food arrived and I was worried my daughter would need to wait a long time since they got her order wrong, but luckily it wasn't long at all. The food was terrific, but I had to get up to ask for Parmesan cheese (strange that wasn't brought automatically for this being an Italian place). I also had to get up to ask for ketchup and was ignored. Had to ask a 2nd time and they finally brought some out. None of us got any waters. Service was interesting for the first 3/4 of the meal as I had to continuously get up from the table and walk over to find our waitress. She checked in more towards the end when we were finishing our meal, maybe eager to get us out of there as the 3 kids were being, well, kids! The worst when I got the check and see I was charged for 4 kids drinks. After the kids drank their first ones I asked for refills, and wasn't told it was extra. I didn't even know the first ones weren't included in the kids meals. When I asked to clarify I was told that the waitress told me that they were not included when I ordered, but if that was the case, I clearly would not have ordered them. I was so burnt out from the kids and the long meal that we just needed to get out of there so I just paid it begrudgingly.

Excellent food and friendly service. We do not come to Villa Bella often enough, but every time we do I am reminded about how wonderful it is. Just a comfortable place with great overall service.

I was really excited to go here with my friend for a nice dinner. The food looked delicious online! My friend and I came in and it's a very cute restaurant vibe. Were seated immediately even though the restaurant was busy (not full but a normal dinner service); great right? Well we sat at our table and we sat for 20 minutes and no one had come up to us, and 2 other tables had been seated around us and already had some orders in. We flagged the host down as he sat another table and told him. He apologized and went to another member of the staff and pointed to us. Another 5 minutes later and nothing. We finally had enough because we knew we'd be here awhile even if someone came to us immediately after 25 minutes. We went up to the host and returned our menus and told him. He was nice and apologetic but we were frustrated and ended up leaving. Really disappointing because my friend and I were really looking forward to dinner. But after a almost 30 minute wait at our table with no service, there wasn't a lot they could do to redeem our night.

Very disappointed with the food. The bread they served us at the beginning was stale. The sangria I ordered was sour and watered down. The margarita pizza was very bland as if they forgot to season the tomato sauce. It is not worth going out to eat in this economy when you are serving terrible food. It's such a shame because it's a really cute place with nice staff. If you want good Italian food go to either Ciao in Centreville or Trattoria Villagio in Clifton. Do not waste your money here.

For many years, this has been a consistent and excellent choice for family dinners and also to invite friends and out-of-owners. The service is always good, and the food is fresh and homemade. No can sauces here!

I'm not sure if it was just an off day or if there's been a change in how they make pizza, but the bread was doughy and bready rather then the thin, crisp pizza I remember from Villa Bella. The sauce was great but that was the only part still good. I compared the undercarriage of of my pizza to some older reviews and there were major differences - no black spots, not as dark / golden brown, etc. Also no air bubbles. Overall, very disappointed

Cheese Pizza Very noice indeed. Seeing if this changes the photo on the OneBite app.

Such a cute spot! The inside has a lot of cute little decoration pieces that is hard to find in many restaurants around town. Will say its quite pricey but the quality is good and the portions are very filling. Would definiteky recommend the margarita pizza and calzones since it was great comfort food! Also - service here is so great! Our waitress was super on top of refilling our water, making food recommendations, and everything!

Yesterday 01/17/24, was the first time I came to this restaurant. I loved the decoration inside. It made me feel homey even though I am not Italian but I am learning the language so I could see some of the Italian culture in this restaurant. The staff was very kind and friendly. The food was really good too. I would recommend this restaurant 100%. I would suggest the restaurant play Italian music in the background it will make it even more warm and it will make yiu feel you are actually in Italy!

One of our local go to diners. The menu and service are great. One of the best Italian places in the area.

I had the Veal Frascati, which was very good. The garlic knots were good, I usually like them a bit more wet, but they were good, otherwise. Service was excellent. Others in my party had the Chicken Parmigan, Chicken Marsalla, and pizza, all of which looked very good, and I was told were very good. Lots to choose from on the menu and a nice wine list. I would definitely go back.

Pizza is fine. Our service was lacking, but we witnessed better servers so it depends on who you get. The restaurant was not busy but we rarely saw our server. The pizza was good but the linguine with garlic sauce was awful. The sauce was slimy and I was expecting just a garlic and oil type sauce. There was barely any garlic visible and it was more like a lemon slime. I ate one bite and stopped. The server asked if I wanted a box and I said no, that it wasn't good enough to eat. Server said okay and took it away. Didn't ask what was wrong g etc. For a $20+ dish, and no one checked why it wasn't eaten or what was wrong. We will stick to just pizza but there are better locations for pizza.

We wanted to love this place, as it's right down the road from our new house and we're a Friday night pizza take-out family. Alas, it was not to be. We ordered a large pizza with a few toppings, a baked ziti, and 3 cannolis. The price for that was nearly $70! I was hoping the food would have gold dust on it for that price, but no. The pizza was good, I will give them that. You don't find much brick oven pizza in the 'burbs. But the ziti was very average and the cannoli shells were greasy, and not fully filled. Perhaps the experience in-person would be different, but it only traveled about 2 minutes, so I'm not convinced. Besides the price, the portions were extremely small. The large pizza is 14 inch, where others will consider a 16 inch a large. We'd been hoping to share the ziti, but it was a child's portion. I might try the pizza again, but probably not any time soon. TL;DR - very expensive, average food, not worth it.

Truly awful. I ordered the gnocchi trio without pesto, leaving bolognese and Alfredo sauces. Smashing a dry meatball into marinara sauce makes not a bolognese. The sauce was painfully acidic and wasn't even given a pinch of salt. Like at all. The Alfredo was greasy and gloopy and had the most off-putting aftertaste. I ordered pretty close to closing time, and I understand wanting to go home, however, this was the laziest slop of ladles and ladles of awful sauces.

Love this local spot. Good is great. Especially love the Salad Di Fungi with salmon. All their pastas are delicious and their Tiramisu is awesome.

We ordered a pizza to go. I really liked the taste of the toppings and the sauce, but (and this is a big but) it wasn't cooked all the way! They literally gave us a half cooked pizza. I just thought it was falling apart because we had it in the oven keeping warm, but now I wonder how uncooked it actually was when we got it. Who gives uncooked pizza!? This is the top rated place in the area?? Come on Burke.

Tgey have good food, with large portions. We always take a meal jome from our order. The staff is pleasant and helpful. Booths are cpmfortable

Food is amazing. The chicken parm is the best I've ever had. 100% recommend getting that. The ambiance of the restaurant is cozy and an overall good feeling.

PIZZA SUCKS! I've ordered 4 times, asked for it WELL DONE after the first time because it's FLOPPY every time SINCE, they're never understood what WELL DONE/CRISPY means! I've given them chance after chance after chance! I came home and put the pizza in my oven on broil! Not kidding order a cheese pizza or add a topping hold your slice up and it'll be FLOPPPPPPYYY FLOPPPP FLOPPP!!! NASTY!!!!!! I'm done done done with this place! Never never ever ever again! DOMINOS IS BETTER!

Ordered take out pizza - Quattro Formaggi. Crust, cheese, cook-time --perfect. Looking forward to trying more of the menu.

The food was delicious and the staff friendly! We love the atmosphere. Thanks for a great evening.

I've been to Villa Bella Italian Restaurant a few times and I'd have to say that they're very consistent. Being a transplant from NY, I'm a harsh critic when it comes to my pizza. This is one of the few places in the Burke area that I'll order pizza from. If you're looking for a cozy, relatively quiet place, this is your spot. Lastly, each time I've gone, the service has been amazing. Whether you're on a date night, or by yourself, this place is worth the stop!

BLUF: still a decent restaurant, but I think they've slipped a star This restaurant used to be the go-to place for my family. We hadn't been there in quite a while so decided to go back. Overall I think they try, but I think their standards have slipped. Are wider new nearly nothing at all about the restaurant or the menu. It was clear he was trying, but he had been sent out there to work without being properly trained. As a bare minimum they should know something about the dishes that are being served there. I also waited about 15 minutes to get my water refilled. It may be safe to attribute some of this to the overall our time restaurants are having hiring help these days. But even with that, again, there should be at least some minimum level of knowledge about the menu. The food has definitely gotten pricier, which again be covid and inflation related. But if you're going to raise your prices in response to inflation, at least keep the meals the same. It seems to me the portions that we got were smaller than we've gotten in the past.

Their calzones are huge! I like the ricotta one. Ordered to go. The staff is friendly.

Outstanding family style Italian restaurant. I always enjoy good food, the specials are always worth checking out and the wine list has variety and good value. The ambiance is very family friendly with absence of community. The service is always good, though sometimes it can get busy during peak times. Definitely a local favorite!

Grabbed a pizza from here a few weeks back. It wasn't bad, but it was expansive. For the price, I expected something amazing. I'm not even sure it's a step above Papa John's... Domino's is definitely better. Mangino's is really the best we've found around here. However, I didn't try their other items on the menu. Maybe I ordered the wrong thing at the Italian restaurant. Perhaps I should have just bought some $20 pasta..

Food is okay to good. Service is fine. Ambience is a bit sad; dim and not lively. Not a regular spot for us but in a pinch is okay. Many other great Italian restaurants in the area.

This was our third time to this great establishment. Fresh ingredients. Heart portions. Expertly made. This time I had the Spaghetti Carbonara. Plenty of bacon in the sauce. Pasta was done just right. Only one complaint. My wife ordered the chicken parmigiana panini. It was a bit on the dry side. It needed more sauce. Most everyone on the party was satisfied with their lunch. We would definitely dine here again.

My wife and I don't dine out often so we were delighted to have a cheerful and professional waitress, Aldana, serve us. Our food was delicious and comforting. Service was a bit slow due to an very large table adjacent to us but Aldana "pushed through" (her words) and our dining experience was a pleasure. We were treated to a dessert on the house which was a welcome surprise. We look forward to visiting again.

We live right across the street, and we are here every few weeks! For birthdays for lunch with our one year old or for celebrating special occasions Villabella is always an enjoyable visit. The service is fantastic and the food is always very good. Their salads I delicious and the pizza is outstanding especially for a Friday night. Very lucky to have them in our neighborhood!

We ordered a Villa Bella Pizza, Garlic Knots, a Caesar Salad and a heart shaped kids pizza. All of the food was decidedly mediocre to straight up disappointing. The Garlic Knots were hard as a rock. The Villa Bella Pizza was gross. The prosciutto tasted like leather. The Caesar salad and kids pizza were decent. Everything was overpriced. We will not be returning. I took one taste of the garlic knot and pizza and I stopped eating dinner after that. The food was a major turnoff. I wanted so much to like the food and support a local business, but come on.