Ciao Bella
$$ • Italian Restaurant
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They can customize the menu and make dishes celiac safe! Had a great experience ~ staff was knowledgeable. Will visit again soon.
Our family included two people with Celiac. We have gone to Ciao Bella several times over the last three years, most recently for Mother’s Day and Anniversary.
The food is excellent. Servers are very knowledgeable and check sauces, including miso. Never had a problem. They are also very accommodating with changes.
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August 2023: Server was knowledgeable and also double-checked on the special for me, so I got to have a fabulous saltimboca proscuitto-wrapped salmon and polenta!
Disappointing that they’re an italian restaurant and don’t offer GF pizza or pasta. Although it is nice they have a dedicated gf menu, all the options are things that are naturally gluten free.
Visiting from out of state on a work trip. I was impressed with the GF options. However, they failed me when it came to dessert. I asked about the Budino and the waitress said it could be made GF. She brings it to the table, tells me it’s GF, but then tells my co-worker that they had to remake hers because the kitchen put a topping on it that wasn’t GF so she had to ask them to remake it especially since the ice cream melted. I questioned if mine was definitely GF and she reassured me yes. Within an hour the bloat started. I was up all night with an extremely hard stomach and gas pains, which was unfortunate when I needed the sleep. Anything I took didn’t help, so it has to of been a large amount of gluten. So disappointing.
They said they were out of gluten free pasta and had like... 4 options to choose from most of which were fish. We left without ordering.
Manager and waitress we had were very knowledgeable about Celiac. They have a scratch kitchen, and are able to prepare gluten free dishes separately to ensure you have a safe meal. They do have a pretty large gluten free menu!
I was surprised that Ciao Bella had such a large gluten free menu. You can sub gluten free pasta into most of the pasta dishes. They had quite a few other entrees that were gluten free too. I had the risotto and it was excellent. They had quite a few GF dessert options. I had the budino (like molten chocolate cake) and it was amazing - worth going if you only get dessert! I’m not celiac but the server seemed very knowledgeable, asking “allergy or preference?” The only reason I can’t give it five stars is because their GF menu is a pain in the a@@ to read. It’s just a bulleted list and you have to cross reference each item to the regular menu in order to see the descriptions/ingredients of each item.
