La Bellagina Ristorante Pizzeria — Restaurant in Bellagio

Okay so, I am going to start with the atmosphere of the place. The place has a terrace with a beautiful view towards the lake. You can admire the nice snowy landscape on the top of the cliffs which provides a nice relaxing environment. The interior of the terrace was just ok, with the tent on top of our heads making a constant noise due to the wind. The chairs were of plastic cheap material, showing the signs of neglection from the owners of the restaurant. Yes the place resembled an old restaurant, but that's not an excuse to neglect something that would provide comfort to the customer.

Now towards the service and food. The service was relatively okay and fast when it came to ordering. We ordered a "risotto" seafood and a pizza with tomato sauce and garlic (which was nowhere to be found). What we didnt understand is how a pizza can come faster than a 15 minute risotto, which was the time written on the menu that would take for the dish to arrive. Risotto came, and it was just not a risotto unfortunately. It was more like an unsalted dish that had a lot of cooked oil on the bottom (probably from the pan as the colour was orange). The seafood was nice on the dish with the shrimp being as a whole on that dish, which I truly believe it should be just the inside of the shrimp without the skin, so it wouldn't make our lives very hard. The rice on the risotto was not the risotto rice such as arborio, etc, it can clearly be seen in the picture.

The pizza came after 10-15 minutes that we had finished the risotto. The pizza, as it can be seen in the photo, was topped with enormous amounts of tomato sauce, which also resembled just a concasse tomato sauce. The sauce was relatively cold, which came to our surprise, but the dough was almost excellent, with it being very crispy and thin as an Italian dough should be. I don't know if the menu has to state that the pizza has cheese, but clearly ours did not have.

Last but not least, the waiter brought us some nice (probably) fresh bread, which we thought it was such a nice gesture, but apparently we had to pay for it. Furthermore, still water is served in a plastic bottle unsealed and the customer opens it, not in a glass bottle, which you serve the customer.

Lastly, the menu is pretty funky and hard to read with all that Italian caligraphic style. One final remark is that the risotto was for 2 persons minimum, and the price stated in the English translation was 15€, but apparently instead of "p.p" in the English translation there was a small calligraphic "cad" which apparently meant "per person". So in our surprise the so called seafood risotto was 30 instead of 15€.

I wouldn't recommend visitting, when it comes to good quality of food. The risotto was tasty (of course how can someone mess up a risotto taste), even though there was no parmigianno or butter, which is justifiable as the rice was not...

FR - IT - EN - ES

FR - Qui a bien pu mettre 5 étoiles à ce "restaurant", (puisqu'il faut l'appeler ainsi) ? Les pizzas sont aussi chères qu'en France (8€-10€) alors qu'elles ne coûtent normalement qu'un peu plus de la moitié (environ 6€) dans le reste de l'Italie et il y a 3 pauvres légumes même pas coupés sur la pizza (ou autre garniture selon la pizza choisie). Même en boulangerie elles sont meilleures et beaucoup moins chères (environ 1€ la grosse tranche). C'est la première fois que je suis dégoûté par une pizza !

IT - Chi ha potuto dare 5 stelle a questo "ristorante", (se dobbiamo chiamarlo così) ? Le pizze sono così care che in Francia (8€-10€) mentre ne costano normalemente solo un po' più del mezzo (circa 6€) nel resto dell'Italia. Inoltre, ci sono soltanto 3 consunte verdure neanche tagliate sopra la pizza (o altre guarnizioni secondo la pizza che avete ordinato). Persino nei panifici sono migliore e anche molto meno care (circa 1€ il pezzone). È la prima volta che sono disgustato con una pizza !

EN - Who could even have rated this "restaurant" (if we have to call it like this) with 5 stars ? Their pizzas are as expensive as in France (8€-10€) whereas they cost only a little more than the half (around 6€) in the other parts of Italy. Moreover, there are only 3 shabby and not even sliced vegetables on the pizza (or other garnishments depending on your order). Even in bakery they are tastier and very cheaper (around 1€ per big slice). This is the first time I am disgusted by eating a pizza !

ES - Quién ha podido dar 5 estrellas a este "restaurante" (si tenemos que llamarlo así) ? Las pizzas son tantas caras como en Francia (8€-10€) mientras cuestan solo un poco más de la mitad (cerca 6€) en el resto de Italia y están solo 3 verduras raídas tampoco cortadas sobre la pizza (o otra guarnición según la pizza que compras). Incluso en panadería son mejoras y más baratas (cerca 1€ el grande trozo). Es la primera vez que estoy disgustado...

Tourists beware! This place was close to our air bnb and we tried going to here twice and were basically turned away both times. The first time was early lunch and there were multiple other people sitting outside eating. we saw open tables out front and I went to sit down and my husband went in to see if we could sit there and they told us if we wanted to eat, we had to go upstairs to their dining room. I looked around at the other people eating outside and was confused but no worries. We went upstairs and sat for about 10 minutes. There was no other people up there and no one came up to give us a menu or take our orders so we just left. Then the next day, we were walking back from town at around 4pm and decided to order a pizza to go. All the doors and windows were open and there were a couple people eating inside. We walked in and were asked what we wanted and we said a pizza to go and we were told they didn't open until 5pm. OK, no problem again. We walked down the street to another place and got a pizza. On the way back, we had to pass by this place and now all the tables outside were full of people eating and it was 4:30pm. I think they really do not want to serve tourists so if you are a tourist, stay away...