d'anna's cafe italiano

worth the trip!. drove down on sat. night from richmond to enjoy a fabulous meal. thefoodis scrumptious, service a delight and wonderful environment. the seafood pasta was excellent, the spicy sausage delicious & their attention to having one patron with a garlic allergy - amazing. we'll be back!

my wife and i love this place! we had out first date here in bellingham years ago, and to this day it is still one of our favorite places to go. the only reason i don't give it a 5.0 is the last few times our service has been borderline awful. most of the people there you recognize everytime you go in but the last 2 times we have had an unfamiliar face which is expected . but we just left minutes ago and it is the first time i have ever left a restraunt without tipping my waiter atleast something! the funny thing is i don't feel bad about it, every other single person that helped us was so wonderful and the one waiter we had said less then 5 words " okay, okay, anything else, sure" .. we were there for over an hour. he ignored us for atleast 20 minutes as we patiently waited to ask for the check and boxes to go - best leftovers ever - and my wife asked another waiter who boxed ourfoodand brought us our check within literally 2 minutes. other then tonight i would say hands down i recommend this place to anyone wanting to try a new place to eat, or go back to enjoy your favorites

we found this little treasure this weekend and it was such a wonderful find. i can't believe we had never been there. we will be back again and again. thefoodis delicious. pasta is homemade everything is great down to the kids food. the bread they serve is to die for!!!

arguably one of the best italian restaurants in bellingham. the ambiance is stimulating, the staff friendly, knowledgable and efficient but its thefoodthat really shines! be ready for rich, complex flavors that will knock your socks off. this place is just plain delicious.

consistently awesome. :). we love d'anna's! we go here for every special event. it is on the higher price end, so it's a special event thing, but thefoodis just amazing.

the gnocchi is my favorite, delicious and it just melts in your mouth. mmmm :) big portions, good wine selection, rich delicious italian food, and the bread they serve with the salad is great.

it is a little loud in here usually, as it's a small space and very busy, but thefoodhere takes center stage, not atmosphere. i can't say enough good things about d'anna's, it's the ultimate pasta comfort fest. :)

love this place! it's best of you get there earlier in the evening or at lunch, but even is you have to wait forever thefoodis totally worth it! i'm a cheapskate and think this place is pricey but i always come back when i can. their pastas are wonderful and so are all the sauces. they make lots of seasonal dishes and the atmosphere is nice. definitely wouldn't bring my kid here. this is more of a date place/ classy get together that kids don't seem to mix well with.

sign in for service.foodis good, but i have a hard time feeling ok with having to sign in to get a table? i don't appreciate getting my name crossed off the list after waiting for 20 min. not sure if i'll go back?

best italianfoodin town. thefoodis consistently great !! been there at least 30 x's and never had a bad meal !! only drawback is the service is sometimes slow but it hasn't stopped us from coming back.

to be totally fair we've only been there once. however, the service was incredibly slow and i attentive, thefoodwas not great, and the atmosphere is incredibly loud. there are other italian restraints in bellingham that we enjoy much more than d'anna's.

one of the first things you see is the kitchen. the chefs work in the bar and you get to see your meal getting prepared well within visible sight. probably makes the chefs go that extra mile too, since they know they're being watched by the people eating their food. if watching them cook wasnt enough, eating thefoodreally proves the passion in creating their home-style, authentic cuisine.

a very good place to eat.

we've been to d'anna's several times, but not for a while, so it was time to visit again. they have quite an extensive menu, a lot of which looked very appealing to me, so i took a while to decide. my wonderful wife independently decided on her entrée, and it turned out to be the same one that i had picked out! pretty amazing considering the size of the menu. so, i picked something else. with one exception, everything we ordered was excellent. she started with a small serving of minestrone soup. warning- what they call small is not. it was a full size soup serving, and it was very good. i had the spicy scampi appetizer, which had a very complex tomato based sauce but wasn't quite spicy enough for me. that was easily remedied with the red pepper flakes provided on table. her entrée was the aglio e olio, which has garlic, walnuts, white wine and olive oil served with house made spaghetti. she added the optional anchovies, and liked the dish a lot. i had bruscellone (flank steak with garlic, parsley, bread crumbs, hard-boiled eggs, walnuts and cheese). it must have been braised for hours, because it was very tender and tasty. unfortunately, my side dish of pasta, which had a very nice fresh-tasting tomato sauce, was way overcooked. i didn't eat it, but i did tell the waitress at the end of the meal. she immediately offered to have a side of pasta cooked up for us to take home. we accepted, and between my wife's leftovers and the extra side of pasta (cooked perfectly, by the way) we now have most of tomorrow's dinner. it's hard to forgive an italian restaurant for overcooking pasta, but i've been here enough that i can overlook this one misstep. i do slightly prefer giuseppe's for my italianfoodfix, but d'anna's is a very good place to eat.

-----04 jan, 2010-----
tasty italian food.

d'anna's is a nice place. good food, reasonably priced. we've had the bruscellone, the puttanesca, the butternut squash ravioli, and several other dishes. they were all very good. the menu is very extensive, so extensive that we could never eat our way through the whole thing, but i wouldn't mind trying!

highly recommend. d'anna's is the best italian restaurant in bellingham and surrounding area. thefoodis excellent and service is outstanding. they make you feel very welcome and the price is right too.

outstanding. best italianfoodi've ever tried. highly recommended. the seared ahi tuna was excellent and i can't wait to go back!

bistro flavor & attitude/ fine dining prices. thefoodhere is amazing, great italian food- rich in flavors. the moment you walk in the door you are overcome with scent-sations of garlic happiness.... however it is not cheap- which is confusing because its absolutely horrid "wine tumblers", boring interiors, and mediocre service will have you thinking otherwise.

thefoodwas excellent, the waitstaff friendlly and helpfull in deciding. i would love to return the next time i pass through bellingham; if i were an eight year old boy, and the chicken d'anna was was a catholic preist, and the table.....