Bella Napoli Restaurant

Went there to celebrate my birthday with friends and family. Food was great and atmosphere was excellent. There was a live singer throughout the night. Jeff was our waiter and was very nice. At the end of our dinner, the owner came to our table to make sure all was good. Everyone was very friendly and professional. 5 stars!

How are all these people rating the food good?! The place is HORRENDOUS! They put this weird spice in all of their dishes.

Chicken Piccata wasn't even chicken piccata. It's almosted tasted as if there was mustard in it. The chicken was over cooked and rubbery, as with the chicken parm. Worst clams casino I ever had. Meatballs were disgusting (they had a weird seasoning). The pasta fagioli was weird. It almost had a buttery taste to it.

To be honest, of the $200 we spent there, $30 of it we actually liked. The garlic bread was good, the rigatoni and vodka was good, and the pesto and linguine was ok.

Other than that, hands down worst Italian place I ever ate.

A few people recommended the pizza to us. So today we ordered 2 pizza pies to go. One pizza w/ peppers & onions, it was very light on peppers & onions but big on flavor, WE LOVED IT!
We also ordered a margherita pie which was terrific too! One of the better pizzas we have tried around Union County. We will be going back again!

I took my girlfriend there the other day for lunch. We both got sandwiches and shared an antipasti platter. The foccacia tastes homemade, not sure if it actually is, but it makes the sandwiches delicious. They redid the restaurant this year, with french doors that open the dining room to sunlight and breezes, which made it a nice place to sit and eat on a beautiful day. Afterward, the waiter invited us to help ourselves to free coffee and cookies that they had put out. All in all, the meal was about $30 after tax and a ~20% tip. I definitely will be going back.

P.S. Why do these wannabe food critics go to small town restaurants and order the most bizarre thing on the menu? If you're a regular person you'll probably enjoy it there. If you're the kind of person that always sends things back, then just eat somewhere more expensive and enjoy the saliva in your food.

Went with a large group- ordered the tilapia in "Italian Barbeque Sauce." Messy but nice waiter had no clue as to what that meant- he just said- "it's your basic barbeque sauce." The tilapia was not cooked in the middle and the fish was TOUGH and almost "tendonish." I mentioned to the waiter that I would like it cooked more. He returned from kitchen and said that it is "sushi grade" tilapia ( I really like sushi and this was nothing near good sushi) and it is served like this, but that they could cook it more. So, I had them cook it more and...it was still hard and "tendonish." Fried calamari was flavorful but mushy, my friend's salmon entree was dry. We brought a birthday cake, kitchen sliced it for the 11 of us. We asked for the 12th piece--waiter said someone in the kitchen ate it. Go figure. No--go somewhere else for dinner.