This restaurant has tremendous potential, but it is no place to be on a Saturday night. It was packed (bravo for beating the recession!), but Bella Gioia has to be one of the noisiest restaurants in Portland. There was not one piece of sound-absorbing fabric. Getting past the noise (and noise usually doesn't bother us), the wood-fired pizzas were delicious (the selection was rather basic) with a nice and thin crust, but toppings on some of the pizzas were scarce (at Pearl District prices).
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