Bella's Bakery Cafe - Council Bluffs

The food is pretty good. This restaurant is never my destination, I'm just coming here when I get past the buffet at the wrong time and find it closed, but it's not bad. The prices are large and the portion sizes are generous. You also have great bakery. The service can sometimes be quite slow and you need to go to use the restroom.

They took off my favorite item...The Fitness Salad. It came with chicken and a yogurt sauce. It was terrific tasting and could easily become a vegitarian or vegan dish. Now almost every item on the menu is meat and grease. Very disappointing. Other than that, it has a very nice atmosphere and the staff is very nice.

Wife and I stopped here for burgers. She ordered a cheeseburger with cole slaw and I ordered the Cali Burger with fries. The server asked how we wanted our burgers done and we both requested MEDIUM. After about 20 minutes, a different server brought our food to us. My wife got fries and we brought this to the attention of the server, who promptly brought out a dish of cole slaw. The burgers looked presentable but boy, oh boy were they WELL DONE. I’m talking well done to the point of being completely gray and dry inside and both sides outside were charred badly. About the only good thing was that the burgers and fries were hot. Someone needs to teach the cook how to make burgers to order! It’s not that hard.

Our waitresses was awesome. To bad I can't say the same about the cook. Burnt hashbrowns. And the sausage was not pork not sure what it was made of thank God the eggs and toast was good.

Poor service cold food. Used to be better all around dont know what they changed!