Italian Restaurants Bellevue; A Sampling Of Italian Cuisine In The City

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Bellevue is a great city to visit and you can get many different cuisines at the restaurants there. Italian Restaurants Bellevue range from elegant to the little pizza places. Most of them offer great food in the Italian traditional cuisine or Italian American cuisine.

Ristorante Paradiso’s is located on 110th Avenue in the downtown area near the Bellevue Library and just north of the square. The serve both lunch and dinner and also provide room for large groups and food for up to seventy people. There is also an extra private dining area that will accommodate 10 to 15 people. Andiamo’s insists on providing an elegant comfortable atmosphere where great wine and food is served at a reasonable price. The style of the restaurant is contemporary and it features an exhibition kitchen where you can watch servers and chefs work. You do not have to park on the street because there is on site parking.

The menu is very extensive. Appetizers are many and they all sound very good. There is the regular antipasto salad or try some bruchetta or the smoked salmon. There is traditional calamari served with a marinara sauce or try the Caprese salad, a peasant dish of sliced tomatoes, fresh mozzarella and basil. Soups are made every day from what can be procured from the market and a bowl will cost you around 7. 50 and a cup 6 dollars. The Anidiamo salad is a restaurant favorite and is made up of greens, grilled eggplant, roasted red pepper and Gorgonzola served with a dressing of vinaigrette and costs about 7 dollars.

Fish is available and depends on what is fresh at the market. The menu has a chicken section offering chicken parmigiana, chicken Marsala, and chicken Piccata all for around 19 dollars each. These dishes are all made with veal as well. There is a lamb dish and fillet Mignon that costs market cost of the day. The pasta section of the menu is magnificent. A signature dish of the restaurant is a Pear and Gorgonzola ravioli that is served with a Gorgonzola walnut sauce and costs around 20 dollars. There are many other pastas on the menu. There are vegetarian dishes that pair pasta with ricotta and mushrooms with different types of sauces from red to white. There is a multitude of pastas made with seafood and many different types of risotto. The prices might be a little more expensive than some restaurants but the cuisine is impeccable and it is worth the little bit of extra money you may spend.

Firenze Ristorante has been in business since 1992 and the restaurant looks like it came right out of Italy. The floors are terracotta and the walls stucco while the tables are lit by candlelight. The owner is very friendly and the staff greets you as if they have known you for years, and they have known many of the guests for years.

The menu offers many Italian appetizers like Prosciutto with cheese and olives. Bruschetta with olive oil, tomatoes and basil is offered as well. They have a dish made with squid and peas that is served with tomato sauce. Traditional pasta and bean soup or Pasta Fagioli is served here as well. There are many salads from which to choose including the traditional tomato, fresh mozzarella, with basil to a Romaine salad topped with tomatoes and mushrooms. Appetizers will cost anywhere from 7 to 16 dollars.

You can get any type of pasta in any kind of sauce known to man for up to 25 dollars. They have chicken that is stuffed with different cheeses and ham and served in a cream or a wine sauce. They also have the veal or chicken piccata or Marsala but they also serve both as a pizzaiola. You can choose from an exotic quail or lamb or pick sausage or seafood entrees. Top the dinner off with a luscious dessert. You will find Firenzi’s on the square in Bellevue and they will welcome you for either dinner or lunch.

There are also some smaller regional Italian restaurants and a chain variety in Bellevue. These two are ones that have very good customer reviews and the best food available in town. You can get a little slice of Italy right in Bellevue Washington.

Learn more about Italian Restaurants Bellevue. Stop by Luigi DeMarco’s site where you can find out all about gourmet Italian food and what it can do for you.