Stella Italia Cardiff — Restaurant in Great Britain

What a gem of a place! A fusion of 2 of my favourite cuisines! Went on a Wednesday early evening. Service was impeccable, food was glorious! Cannot recommend it enough! And as an added bonus you can order from the restaurant next door which is a Indian mexican fusion restaurant.

For starters we ordered chilli paneer tacos, veg and paneer rolls, brie bites, garlic dough balls and cheese naan bites. All were delicious and moreish. Kids has a garlic bread with cheese which was a pizza in itself and a margherita which was lovely and soft.

For our mains we ordered a chilli paneer pizza, paneer makhni calzone and a saag paneer pasta. The pizza's were one of the best I've had in a while. Dough was toasted at the bottom yet soft and fluffy on the top. Personally the saag paneer wasn't for me (I don't like cooked spinach) That chilli paneer pizza was a revelation! It's must try dish!!!!

For deserts we got 2 ice creams in a waffle cone for the kids, a warm croissant with gelato and tiramisu. All were lovely, although we were all full from the mains! Would have been nice to a few Indian/Italian fusion deserts (ras malai gelato, gulab jamun or jalebi cheesecake, masala chai tiramisu or cannolis) Will highly recommend you go here and I for sure will...

My mum has been craving a white sauce pasta for so long, and looking at the halal sticker, we walked in not knowing that we’d be finding our favourite restaurant. We weren’t sure what to order, but the staff was so helpful , so kind, and non-judgmental about it. They suggested some options, and we kind of ordered a indo pak italian fusion pasta. We wanted chicken, mushrooms, and some vegetables in there, so they altered the penne mushroom & truffle according to our taste, if that makes any sense 😂, and we were scared about how it would turn out, but the first bite we took, it was just amazing, just perfect. I fell in love with the taste coming from someone who doesn’t like creamy pastas. We didn’t have the appetite to try anything else, but we sure will be coming back. Our experience was great here and I would definitely recommend it to everyone who’s hesitant to try this. The staff is so welcoming, friendly, and helpful. Funny enough, we kind of overpaid, and one of their staff members chased us down the street to return our money, owned up to any mistakes made, and I really appreciate their honesty and the effort and love they put into serving...

The food was excellent, we went there with our daughter and they accomodate every needs. Service on point.

We came back after the first lovely experience and unfortunately we will not return. We ordered the “parmigiana” pizza and as specified in the menu comes with burrata (we love burrata and that is the only reason why we got the pizza). Once the pizza arrived we noticed the burrata missing, once we reposted the burrata missing we have been told that they didn’t have any burrata left, we ate the pizza because we didn’t want to waste the food but we didn’t appreciate the fact that they just brought the food without advertising the missing ingredient. The server was really nice about it but the fact that we haven’t not been told before ordering has really put us down. Such a shame.

I’d like to add that the discount wasn’t offered by your staff, when revived the bill we got charged full price. I had to tell the server that I wasn’t willing to pay full price and ONLY then we had offered the discount, hands why I dropped the review to two stars. Ambience deserves 5 stars as I think the decor looks good but it’s not enough to justify the...