Bella Italia

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The Watermill,
Newnham Road,
Cambridge,
CB3 9EY

(01223) 367507

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Reviewer JHP13
02/05/2012

This is a rather grandiose establishment, elaborately decorated and themed as an ex-water mill; the makeover will strike some visitors as painfully overdone. The menus do not inspire confidence, either, since it's really all snack food dressed up with fancy descriptions, hardly anything that looks like genuine Italian cooking outside standard routine dishes. But two pleasant surprises: first, the food is genuinely quite good, fresh and well-prepared, with generous portions, flavoured and herbed appropriately, all of out party enjoyed what they ate; and second, the service was friendly and helpful and quite prompt, welcoming and with good attitudes. Prices were quite reasonable, too, all of which goes to show that appearances can be deceptive!
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Reviewer lynnlawson
05/09/2010
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Mrs L. Lawson? - ? - 2010-09-05
As a member of a large group of girls out to celebrate a 'hen night' I was very disappointed in the service and particularly in the attitude of our greek waiter. Wanting to simplify the order we decided to have main courses only and waited 90 minutes for this to be served during which time a recount of orders was primitively taken! The food was greasy, bland and poor value for money.Some people wanted to pay and leave earlier than others but were not permitted to do so because they wanted to pay by credit card!! Card payments were only taken when all the cash for the bill was presented and counted by one of the party - quite a sobering task when you're out to enjoy yourself. Needless to say we will not be returning for a repeat inept performance!!
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Reviewer Anonymous
16/12/2008
came here with me mam at weekend and it were nice but nothing special, wasnt overly impressed.
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