I stayed in the river hotel reconnected to the restaurant. We had to stop in there for dinner bc it smelled AMAZING!
The service was great. I was seated within 5 minutes. The staff was very nice and professional. I ordered a chicken pasta dish and my girlfriend got the mussels. They were both very good.
I had wanted a salad with dinner but my waiter told me they were pretty big so I'm glad he told me that before just taking my money and then me having to box my food.
I didn't have to wait for refills.
The only weird thing was the music playing. It was really loud. And it was greenday rocker music at first.. Then changed to slow music.. Then changed to Mariah Carey. I think it was playing off of someone's iTunes on their phone because I also heard a text message beep during a song.
Not necessarily a bad thing.. Just weird.
I would come back especially if I stayed at the river hotel again.
Also, the food was around $20 a plate which is reasonable for how great the food tastes.
Good food but delivery service is poor. Â We order here often enough to know that it's not a rare occurrence. Â Whether on the phone or via their online order service, we end up having a missed item or an item made wrong. Â Delivery on a Friday or Saturday night particularly is awful.
Review Source:My wife, daughter, and I had a great time at Bella Bacino's. Â I called ahead to ask if they had room for a stroller, and they were very accommodating. Â When we got there, the hostess said "You must be the stroller people," and took us to a table prepped for us. The food was great. I had Chicago-style pizza, and my wife had some fancy chicken with truffle sauce. Â The meal took a while to get there, because the pizza had such a long cook time, but the service was great. Â Our waiter even made our drinks free since we had to wait a bit longer than he anticipated. Sometimes it's hard to eat out with a baby, but the folks at Bella Bacino's were very friendly and helpful. We look forward going there again next time we visit the windy city.
Review Source:Had a deep dish spinach pizza with mushrooms and olives. My first Chicago deep dish. Â It was decent. One slice and I was nearly full. Two slices and I was stuffed. Â Two full grown men and we ate just over half of a small pizza (2 slices each) and had to take the rest home. It's basically like a cheese pie.
Review Source:Visited this restaurant for dinner with friends and had a great experience. Â The food is very reasonable for this location. Â I loved the portabello stuffed mushroom that we shared for our appetizer and the warm pecan crusted goat cheese salad was awesome as well. Â The bread was very good too. Â I'm already planning my next chance to stop here for lunch or dinner.
Review Source:I guess a lot of people have views on where to go for fantastic Chicago deep dish pizza. Well I can't quite call myself a Chicago pizza connoisseur , but the food from this unassuming hotel restaurant is fantastic. Hands down, when I think of deep dish pizza ( and calamari too) I think of Bella Bacino's.
The restaurant isn't very large, and generally pretty low key. Can get a little loud and tight in peak times, but it is very enjoyable.
You may not get the hype and touristy pizza joint here, but you get a damn fine pie. Of course it is a nice Italian restaurant with a full menu and a decent wine selection, with a few craft beers on tap.
Just fine! Â They came through in a pinch when a group of 12 were trying to find dinner downtown on a Saturday night (yeah, that's hard). Â Their estimation of 25 minutes turned into 45 quickly, but it's hard to blame anyone for that.
We all got their deep dish pizza. Â Their special was good, but it came out cold (rather, barely warm). Â The crust was cripsy dough, and I loved it. Â A buddy's birthday was the same day, and the waiter/manager were nice enough to comp two slices of tiramisu for the table. Â
Great place in a pinch, but I learned we should've probably planned ahead for something more memorable. Â The decor was kitschy, and there were only two servers working the restaurant, poor things! Â Tipped 'em well though, they did quite the balancing act :)
Forget everything your parents told you about talking to strangers. "Thank you" to the gentleman outside of the InterContinental Hotel for recommending this place.
Honestly, we were headed to Gino's East Pizza, just like most every other tourist in Chicago. We still visited the trademark, but just to compare it to the glory of Bella Bacino's. Here's what we ate:
Classic Bruschetta: fresh tomato, fresh basil, grilled garlic rubbed Tuscan bread and extra virgin olive oil. ***This is not your average/classic bruschetta. IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND*** Every ingredient is perfect, but most of all the tomotoes. We couldn't help but ask the waiter, who informed us that they are shipped in from Italy. Please forgive me as I try to find the words to describe them - seculent, rich, sweet, tangy, juicy. I have never had before or since such a delicious tomato. It gets better...
Sausage & Mushrooms Pizza (Chicago style): Again, those amazing tomatoes, sliced and smashed into a delicious sauce. The crust is nothing short of perfection, flakey but thick. The only down side to this pizza is that one slice is a complete meal. Prepare for leftovers.
Of course, the location is the shiz. Who doesn't love The Windy City.
It's a little discreet hiding out in it's building on Wacker, Bella Bacino's is your fairly average Italian joint with what I suppose would be exactly what you expect. Pizzas, pastas, a selection of antipasti. If being an Italian joint was a job, hey, it got the job done. It has the prerequisite dim lighting and candles. And in the downstairs room, you get a bit of quiet privacy while listening to late 90s, early 00s hits... nothing more romantically Italian!
But let's get to the food. Aside from the menu, there's also a pizza menu which details a "build your own" sort of deal. "Specialty" pizza (more like traditional thin Italian), thin pan pizzas, and deep dishes. The bread comes out a bit of a bland tasteless thing to chew on with a bit of a shaker of olive oil. Okay, not the best (the second bread basket was... eh, burnt).
I ordered the Caesar salad. It was certainly a decent salad, but didn't quite have the bite of a Caesar that I'd like. A bit more of a bite of Romano or anchovy would have spruced it up. I followed it up with a pesto pizza, with goat cheese and onion and pepper. The crust was crisp, and the flavor of the pizza was quite good.
Service was prompt and helpful. Water was always flowing, and I came in a rather large group, and they did a good job of handling it.
We ate here the night before the Chicago marathon and except for our waiter, the service was AWFUL. First, we had reservations (made far in advance) and they tried to seat us upstairs in the elevator shaft that had make-shift tables and was very bright. We said no and finally they seated us in the main restaurant that had plenty of seating. The manager was RUDE and actually had forgotten about us when we checked. She seemed very put out. She acted like it was brand-new information that the marathon was taking place. Seriously?
Food was ok. No deep dish pizza on the menu so that was disappointing. Pizza was ok. Bread before dinner was burned. Salads were big and ample. Always had enough water. Felt rushed. Â
Won't eat there again.
We were told to have deep dish pizza here by ur taxi cab driver the previous night. We arrived and were seated on the outside patio, it was GORGEOUS! We ordered the crispy polenta with mushroom ragu, it was the best appetizer I have ever had.
Next up we ordered the small Bacinos special deep dish pizza, we are from California and usually like thin crust but we are in Chicago so deep dish it is. It came out and it was good but I have nothing to really compare it to.
Finally we asked for chocolate chip cookies because we saw other Yelpers talk about how good they were. The waitress explained they are usually only made for banquets but she would see if they had any....she came out minutes later with a bag of cookies. The cookies were delicious and should be added to their menu.
Our service was great and the view was amazing, such a great spot!
This is only a review of management and ownership, not of food.
I have been trying to get ahold of somebody to talk to for the last THREE months. No matter how many times I leave a message, nobody returns my call. I usually get a response along the lines of, "Oh! Linda [the owner] is usually good about returning calls."
If this is any indication of how, they run the rest of their business, I would be very wary.
First experience my boyfriend and I had on our visit to Chicago, and it was suggested by a Chicago native. Not a great start to what I thought was home of the deep dish pizza!
We ordered the Spinach Supreme and Bacino's Special. Both were underwhelming.
PROS:
1. LOCATION. Beautiful spot on Wacker where you can eat and enjoy Chicago's gorgeous architecture
2. Our waitress was friendly and attentive
3. The Bacino's Special was somewhat flavorful because of the sausage. But that is the only pro about the food that I can think of
CONS:
1. Waited about 30 min. for our food
2. Everything was under seasoned
3. The dough was bland, and some parts didn't cook all the way
4. The pizza was too small for the price we paid. A small is around $15, and it's definitely small!
Only eat here if you absolutely have to. Otherwise, continue looking for other pizza spots to satisfy your cravings.
I went to Bella Bacino's last night! I would have given in 3 stars-they had 2 local beer options and everything you'd imagine at an Italian joint. Nothing especially memorable, but solid. But unfortunately they got my order wrong! I wanted the broccoli deep dish and I got spinach. I hate cooked spinach. I let the waiter know, he realized it was the kitchen's fault, but also realized it would take awhile to get me the right pizza. I said it was fine and just picked around the spinach (aka had the crust). We got the bill, and... The spinach pizza was on the bill! Poor form. Not impressed. Too bad, because the crust was good! I bet I would have loved the pizza I actually ordered. Not the best introduction to Chicago deep dish :(
Review Source:We went here twice while in town for a couple 3 days, mostly 'cause it's in the hotel we stayed at. First stop we made after checking in, needed a quick lunch bite. Had a couple of the pressed panini's which were done very well, salmon and grilled veggies. The veggie mix was not what you would get in some places like say 50% onions, some carrot slices...here it was a nice, crunchy mix of zuchinni, squash, eggplant, peppers, some melty cheeeese, nice, crusty bread. The salmon one was a-ok too, maybe a bit more of the pinkie fishy woulda coulda. But both hit the spot on the dot, and the side salads was good greens moist and groovy good too.
We didn't try the pizzas but based on what I saw wouldn't mind a buncha big or tight bites. Pasta dishes seemed to have other diners smiling the smile as well.
We were leaving and had a few moments before our ride to the airport. I was starvin' and decided on the aforementioned panini yet again...and, threw in the Polenta with Mushroom Ragu. Get this, and smile. Get this, and feel warm and fuzzy, with some tongue tingles to mingle. Ask for some bread and spread this on it and grin down to your chin. It's a toothsome treat, the combo of sauce, 'shrooms and polenta done right. The panini was even better this time, too!
Yeah, the place is a bit beat-down. So's the hotel it's in...but it's an historic building in a fantastic location. It's not all glossed out, but hey, there are plenty of places that have the look and no substance. Also, both our servers were very good, service was prompt, I was actually surprised how quick things went when I said I hadn't eaten all day and was about to catch a ride out of town...well done, all around.
This cozy little restaurant is really wonderful. I am on a conference here, do not want anything big or too expensive . Hyatt concierge recommend this place.  I must said this is really great . My waiter Francisco is really nice, friendly and wonderful .  I just want something simple: like penne with broccoli with garlic and oil  and add mozzarella cheese.  It is NOT on the menu, but he made it happen. The food is sooooo group! Penne al Dante ... Just perfectly right!  Can you imagine , francisco takes his time to make the order , willing to talk to the chef!  Of course, the chef is great, willing to make the dish! Thank you guys!
Review Source:This is some of the best pizza anywhere ever. But I have to admit that I was really turned off by the 'look' of this place. I just don't get image they are going for and when I saw it from outside I almost didn't go in - but Yelp reviews persuaded me!
Service was pleasant but just a little slow.
Bella Bacino's...this place is absolutely brutal. I ended up here by accident with some coworkers on a recent trip to the windy city. In a town like Chicago the bar for great food is going to be set exceedingly high. The woman who booked the reservations was sent there by the Hyatt's concierge, which is always a bad sign and I'm fairly certain this is the only way this place gets customers...subterfuge.
When we first arrived I tried to remain open minded even as I passed table after table of disappointed diners. We were seated and a warm loaf of tomato basil flavored bread was quickly delivered to our table. It was the best part of the meal and had it not been there I would have run out of the place for my own safety.
Appetizers:
Fried calamari served with cocktail sauce- soggy and gross.
Sausage and cheese plate- tolerable, but mediocre at best.
Prosciutto Flat Bread- dry and difficult to eat as the crust would disintegrate and leave you with hanging dried pork coming out of your mouth.
Minestrone- I don't think abomination is strong enough of a word.
Dinner:
I'll spare this section as no one at our table enjoyed their entree.
Dessert:
Skipped it.
For the food you have access to in Chicago this place just shouldn't exist. I beg you to explore other options and remember if you're thinking this place there are a handful of other joints that are in the same general area and a million times better. Overall experience: D-
The waitstaff was attentive and quick to address issues, but that's not why I go out to eat.
I am very underwhelmed with the catering services from this Bella Bacinos location. Â Last week I placed a large order for delivery at a work related function. Â I spoke with two different employees to get the order placed and confirm the 10% delivery fee would go to the driver. Â
Anyway, when it was already passed the time the food was to be delivered the driver called a different person in my office to say they could not locate the address. Â They were misdirected by this person to head to our office. Â I had the chance to quickly correct this by calling the driver to clear up the issue.
The short of it is, I ordered early the morning of to get food delivered between 4:30-4:45 and it arrived at 6pm! They did not use the correct contact phone number and did not get the address down correctly. Â The worst part of this is the delivery location was max 3 blocks away AND I didn't even get a response from management when I emailed them to explain the service I was given.
Nice little pizza & pasta restaurant. Â Good downtown location and clean and nicely decorated with a full bar up front. Â
We ordered the nut crusted goat cheese salad, which was fresh and delicious. Â Lingonberry dressing was light and not too overpowering. Â Large salad was enough for two as an appitizer. Â Then, one deep dish and one thin crust pizza. Â Staff was willing to make a special request pizza without batting an eye and the deep dish was truly incredible. Â The crust was flaky and true to the Chicago style deep dish you'd expect. Â Thin crust pizza was almost cracker like and good, but I feel the deep dish was far superior. Â Staff was pleasant and attentive. Â I would definitely recommend tBella Bacinos if your looking for a pizza fix.
Good, casual location for deep dish pizza, in the style of Giordano's. Â Their pasta dishes tend to be hit and miss, so I tend to stick to salads and pizza. Â
BIG ALSO: Â they do take home half-baked pizzas that when prepared correctly, end up being pretty incredible. Â Follow their directions to bake the pizza the rest of the way but rather than applying red sauce to the top during baking, just brush the top with olive oil, adding parmesan and herbs of your choice. Â Then, after serving up a hot slice, ladle some sauce on top. Â The crust won't have that soggy layer of dough that you get from Giordano's; rather you get this flaky, buttery awesomeness that seriously needs to be experienced.
I had dinner here last week while staying at Club Quarters. Â The restaurant is located on the ground floor of the hotel, on East Wacker close to the intersection with Michigan Avenue.
Service was good, as was the food. Â I started with a sausage & cheese plate as an appetizer. Â For my main course, I got the Rigatoni with Italian Sausage, which was very tasty. Â They have a full bar, which is nice, and they have a decent selection of wines by the glass as well. Â I would suggest eating in the restaurant itself, though, as the decor of the rooms at Club Quarters is somewhat dreary and would probably cloud an otherwise tasty Italian meal.
The food and service is HORRIBLE. I was visiting Chicago from New York City for business and I happen to be stopping by since my hotel was nearby.
First of all, the service by the waiter is HORRIBLE. It took a while for them to take my order and glass of water, and utencils were not even ready when I seated. They brought utencils a few minutes AFTER they brought me a dish. And for some reason they did not offer me a bread prior having the main dish when other tables were served.
Second, the dish that I ordered, Frutti di Mare (Linguini pasta with Mussels, Calamari, Scallops) was HALF COLD. As I was completing the dish, mussels at the botton of the place was HALF COLD. H-A-L-F C-O-L-D. Other ingredients were well cooked and the sause was fairly good, but the MUSSELS were HALF COOKED.I complained to the waiter about this and the message that I got from the chef was just simple apology through the waiter, not from the chef himself. Also, the waiter asked me if I wanted the check WHILE I was still eating, not even asking me for dessert menu. Apparently the restaurant taught waiters/waitress to make sure to collect guests' money ASAP instead of providing excellent services.
Oh, FYI-, the Frutti di Mare is misspelled on the menu. I suggest updating the menu and double checking on the spellings.
To be honest, If this happens in NYC, this restaurant will seriously go out of business in less than 6 months (if they're lucky).
I will never visit this place again.
I used to love this place but my recent experience here was not so great. First the service was awful (besides the water guy, he was on his game). It took 25 minutes to get our drinks! The guy blamed the ticket machine being clogged at the bar but you would think he would've checked on it after 5 minutes.
Anyway, the bread was good, but he forgot to bring us the olive oil (another wait). I ordered the 5 meat pasta which I love and is my regular dish. It was good as usual but the service was a major put off.
Also, we sat inside and there is a huge hole in the ceiling covered in plastic and tape. Pretty tacky. And my last gripe was how dirty the booth was that I was sitting in, food crumbs all over and they didn't even clean it up.
Still love their food, but they need to make some changes/updates.
I came here the first time on the recommendation of my boyfriend's family members who are Chicago natives. Â They highly recommended the thin crust style pizza at this place. Â Of course we didn't listen and ended up ordering deep dish which I can't really remember so I won't review that experience here.
I visited again this time around with some co-workers and again did not have the thin crust pizza, but had an absolutely delightful goat cheese salad. Â I followed that with the mushroom rigatoni that had a tomato based sauce, which I also thought was excellent.
Overall, this place had a good selection of food to satisfy our diverse group and it was reasonably priced especially considering the location. Â Also, we had great service, our waiter was helpful (but not overbearing) and even accommodated member of our party who wanted to order off the menu. Â There is also outside seating but we decided to heed to heat advisory and eat inside.
I made a quick trip to Chicago (for the first time, ever) in order to find an apartment before I start grad school in August. Bella Bacinos was right below the hotel we were staying at, so we went in for dinner the night we arrived.
The meal and service was amazing! We had the small stuffed spinach supreme pizza (one of their specialties) and a side salad. We had a great waiter, Marc, who was incredibly nice and informative (not only about the food at the restaurant; but also about everything dealing with Chicago) who recommended the spinach pizza to us, since we were looking for a good vegetarian friendly pizza, and it was perfect!
The food here is reasonably priced...our pizza was about $18...and we had plenty left over to enjoy the next day. For two people, the small is all you really need; anything bigger for two and you'll have A LOT of extra pizza! All in all, our service was spectacular and food was great.
I'd definitely recommend checking out Bella Bacino's if you're downtown...sure to enjoy, with outdoor seating as a plus for nice cool days.
I was really disappointed with my experience at Bella Bacino's. The good news is that the location is great and located by the Chicago Waterfront. They have an outside patio which was nice for enjoying the day and people watching. This is why I gave it two stars.
I had dinner there on July 4th weekend and it was fairly busy. The staff was frazzled and as we walked in, a customer was complaining to the manager about poor service. We waited anyway and were seated in about 30 minutes. We ordered the polenta with mushroom ragu appetizer which was hard on the outside and very uncooked on the inside. We were also given plastic forks and knives because the kitchen staff was backed up. It amazes me that for a restaurant that charges $17 - $25 an entrée, they could not wash two sets of silverware. I also ordered the "fish in crazy water" entrée.  The fish and shrimp in the tomato sauce was tasty but the mussels were not fresh. Easting an entire order of the mussels would have surely made someone sick.
To top it off, the manager was sitting at a table nearby entertaining friends while her staff was struggling to keep up. AMAZING! This place is overpriced and overrated.
My boyfriend and I landed in Chicago last week and were starving but didn't have too much time before we had to get changed and meet friends out. We wanted some deep dish, but the closest place was a good twenty minute walk and we didn't have time. So, we found this little Bella Bacino's at the bottom of our hotel-how convenient!
We sat down on the patio overlooking the city, but didn't really get noticed for a good 20 minutes. Once I finally said something, our waiter could not have been better. We got our wine and Bacino's House Salad (nothing exciting) and ate that while we waited for our Stuffed Cheese Pizza with Pepperoni.
It was delicious! I am sure some natives are thinking to themselves thats not the place to go for a Chi-Town Original Deep Dish, but we don't know any better and really enjoyed it. We got a small and couldn't even finish it-we were stuffed, but very happily stuffed:)
We were looking for good pizza in the heart of Chicago and Bella Bacino was recommended to us. Â It was a Friday night and the place was hoppin'. Â Service was still relatively good despite the capacity crowd in that they took our order promptly and delivered the food quickly.
We started with the black mussels, which were absolutely delicious. Â The sauce, for which they provided a crusty bread, was really tasty. Â I would highly recommend the dish. Â Four of us shared it, as we knew a big, deep-dish pizza was on the way.
We had the pizza half and half: spinach vs. sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms, green peppers, and black olives. Â It was a very good pizza and the crust was particularly tasty.
I would have given an overall higher rating, but the wait staff was pretty much 'slap it down and run'. Â But as I said, they were busy if you consider that an excuse. Â The food was extremely good.
More great experiences here. We ordered a half-pepperoni spinach pie and ended up getting meat on the whole thing. It's the first time they've messed up the half-meat thing, and it picked off with no problem. But that + some spotty service have me knocking this place down to a still-darn-good 4 stars. Still the best pizza around, but not 100% stellar service.
At $8, their Ginger & Maryanne is a tasty but small rum cocktail in a rocks glass, and the Shooter McGavin was a refreshing long island ice tea with more ounceage for the same price. Good selection of beers at about $5 a glass.
My deep dish meter might be somewhat out of calibration, considering I no longer live in Chicagoland, and there's absolutely no edible deep dish pie anywhere in the DMV that I've yet uncovered. Â So on one of my rare trips back home to visit family, it's usually high on my list of priorities to find me some -real- pizza and beer to satisfy my needs.
Enter Bacino's. Â I think the last time I had Chicago style pizza was at another location of Bacino's in Lincoln Park. Â It just so happened to be almost exactly one year ago when I was in town for training for my former employer. Â I fell in love with it then (which isn't unusual when I'm offered great conversation and free samples of beer by a business owner) so it seemed appropriate to bring the boy (who had never had -real- pizza before) to a Bacino's to try it out.
Reservations were easy to make, although they ended up being unnecessary on New Year's Day. Â Even rolling in just before 1900, we were one of three or four tables seated upstairs. Â The joint filled up during the time we were there, but emptied back out again. Â Plus, there's a decent sized space downstairs (also, where the restrooms are located)... I presume they're used for private parties or when it's extremely packed. Â I especially appreciated the amazingly cool back wall made of various winery crates - I only recognized a handful that I'd seen in Napa, but it was definitely an extra special touch.
The menu options include a variety of Italian dishes in addition to both thin and stuffed pizza, but I'm not sure why one would bother with any of them given the availability of deep dish. Â Or maybe that's just me being a glutton. Â Regardless, we went with a stuffed spinach special, and another stuffed with Italian sausage, mushrooms, and pesto. Â Note that pesto is not actually an ingredient offered on the menu for stuffed pizzas, but our server was nice enough to ask about it, and the cooks were nice enough to make an attempt at putting it in the filling at our request.
In the interim, while we waited the thirty or so minutes for our pies of deliciousness to cook up, we caught up, had a couple of Rogue Dead Guy Ales (another discovery and love-at-first-guzzle I made during my last Bacino's visit). Â Boy is the wait worth it! Â Two medium stuffed pizzas among five boys and we -still- ended up with a whole three-quarters of a pie left over. Â While the stuffed spinach was amazingly delicious and spinach-y, the clear winner was the Italian sausage with mushrooms and pesto. Â I'm not sure why pesto isn't listed as a regular ingredient, but it is absolutely -amazing- cooked into a deep dish pizza. Â I kind of almost wished they used more. Â Yum!
Again, being a relatively slow evening, we weren't rushed out after finishing (well, more like surrendering to...) our meal. Â Getting a twenty broken for change was readily accommodated by our genial server, and we got to hang out, tell stories, and laugh the New Year's Day evening away. Â Good times with good people, good drinks, and damn good grub (who can argue against -real- pizza?). Â This is what Chicagoland means to me.
I wanted to try Chicago's famous deep dish pizza and a local suggested I check this place out. Â They have a bambino size that's perfect for 1 if you are hungry, but be prepared to feel full all afternoon if you eat it for lunch.
It was suggested that I call in my order before getting there, since each deep dish pizza takes 30-40 minutes to bake, so I did. Â I ordered mine with canadian bacon, mushrooms and pineapple. Â It was perfectly stuffed with just the right amount of cheese and topped with the right amount of sauce although I would have liked to find more mushrooms, but that's me being picky.
I ate the whole thing because I had been walking around Millennium Park and was hungry.  Afterwards I had to walk all along Michigan Ave to  walk it off, but so worth it!
Hope there will be another opportunity for me to head to Chicago again and experience the food coma that is deep dish Bella Bacino's!
First, here are some facts to give you the full picture:
-- Tried them at Taste of Chicago. And loved it.
-- I don't traditionally like Deep Dish cheezy Chicago Pizza (i know i know)
-- My best friend used to be a fan of the original in Naperville growing up
-- So both of us decided to give the one in the Loop a try after work last week.
Here's our experience:
-- We had no reservation. The wait-staff was rude, wouldn't tell us how long the wait would be, and we could see lots of open tables!
-- We still decided to wait and finally got a table. Our server seemed over-worked and about to fall down and faint. She was never around when we needed something.
-- However, soon enough, there were very long lines waiting for a table.
In summary, I would go here again, on a less busy night, WITH A RESERVATION, and order the stuffed spinach with "Less Cheese"!
Recommended for vegetarians? Yeah!
If you can't stomach another meal at the Corner Bakery next door, Bella Bacino's actually serves a great breakfast menu.
The belgian waffle is spot-on and the summer fruit bowl was perfectly ripe, filled with blueberries and raspberries. Coffee could be better, but the orange juice was fresh and satisfying. Lots of egg and meat options, too, with much less of a crowd than other Michigan Ave/downtown hotel spots. Family friendly, too, it seemed.