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.

You can find a great restaurant called Ristorante Paradiso's on 110th Avenue downtown near the public library and the square. Lunch and dinner is served and they also have a large room to accommodate around seventy guests. In another area they have a dining room for 10 or 15 guests that is private. Andiamo's prides itself on having an exquisite atmosphere with good wine and food at a price most people can afford. The atmosphere is contemporary and the kitchen is open to the dining area. There is parking right outside the door.

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.

They offer fresh fish and you just have to find out what is available that day. They have a variety of chicken dishes including piccata, parmigiana, and Marsala for about nineteen dollars. They also make the same dishes with veal. They offer Fillet Mignon and lamb at current market prices. Their pasta section of the menu is amazing. A specialty of the restaurant is Pear and Gorgonzola ravioli in a walnut Gorgonzola sauce for twenty dollars. Other pastas are spaghetti, tortellini, fettuccine, cannelloni, and lasagna. They also serve vegetarian pastas with ricotta, mushrooms, gnocchi, and more in a variety of sauces from tomato to Alfredo or mushroom sauce. There is a seafood pasta section of the menu and a variety of risottos as well. Prices are very reasonable for the great Italian cuisine this restaurant provides.

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 starts with a variety of appetizers including prosciutto with cheese and olives, or a traditional and tasty bruschetta. You can get calamari here but it is different as it is served with peas in a sauce made of tomatoes. Salads are many as well including a regular romaine salad that is topped off with tomatoes and mushrooms. You will pay anywhere between 7 to 16 dollars for an appetizer.

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.

Bellevue has a few pizza restaurants and other smaller and chain type Italian Restaurants besides the two above. Firenzi and Andiamo�???, ?s are the restaurants that people go to for great Italian food and have very good reviews from customers. There you will feel like you are visiting Italy right in the middle of Bellevue.

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