Di Bella Restaurant Athlone

Yes on Google maps very good recommendations so we went and not disappointed at all our pizzas where delicious wine was lovely and yes of course tiramisu 🫶 delicious a lovely evening 😋

This restaurant is located in a quiet village where the service is super friendly and attentive.
As a foreigner, I felt welcome and comfortable with the peaceful atmosphere.
My partner ordered the Mafioso pizza (€14.50) and I ordered the Quattro Stagioni pizza, both of which were delicious.

Our meal at DiBella was the last one of our two-week trip to Ireland, and by far the worst experience we had.

We were disappointed for several reasons:

- The dining room on the ground floor is really soulless. It feels more like a school cafeteria than a restaurant, and the tables are packed so closely together.

- The gentleman (owner? manager?) was very cold and unfriendly. Fortunately, the young waitress was much more pleasant and made up for it.

- No complimentary tap water was available, unlike everywhere else we ate in Ireland. Instead, we had to pay €4.50 for a small plastic bottle of water.

- A 10% service charge was automatically added to the bill, whereas in every other restaurant we visited, tips were left at the customer's discretion. In this case, the service clearly didn't deserve an extra 10%. On top of that, I later noticed that the gentleman had accidentally transposed two digits when entering the amount into the payment terminal (fortunately, the overcharge wasn't significant).

- And the final blow came later that day. While we were on our flight home, our daughter started vomiting. She was sick four times during the 90-minute flight, then another eight or nine times that evening, along with diarrhoea. As soon as we got home, we took her to the emergency department, where the doctor confirmed that she was suffering from food poisoning. Our daughter was the only one who ate something different from the rest of us.

Overall, it was a very disappointing and upsetting experience. On the positive side, the pizzas were good.

We certainly cannot recommend this restaurant.