Tutta Bella (columbia City) - Seattle

Great crust. Friendly atmosphere. Good neighborhood pizza joint.

I shared a pizza and salad with a friend. The pizza and salad were on their special offerings. Both were excellent and full of flavor. Their dessert menu had many choices. The canniloni was excellent. Service was excellent and friendly.

TLDR: Sit at the bar if you're going for happy hour and be explicit mentioning you want the happy hour versions. Otherwise you WILL be charged full price. Very frustrating experience coming in during happy hour, ordering only things on the happy hour menu, and being charged full price at the end because i didn't sit in an arbitrary part of the restaurant. Trying to trick your customers into coming in and charging them more than advertised at the end of the bill with that flimsy excuse only leads to disgruntled customers who will not return. Food was good, service was lacking it should've been obvious to my waitress to mention this and to notice our ordering habit and mention it's only available if we sit at the bar. Now i feel like she didn't do it so I'd have a larger bill (good for the restaurant) and she a larger tip (good for her). Generally not good to try to trick customers and expect they are going to be happy enough with that experience to return again.

Excellent food and I love that you could sit outside and people watch. Unfortunately, the service was not that good. She never checked on me and I had to ask for a to go box and the check when I got someone's attention.

I LOVE this place and they just added their happy hour back into the schedule for the first time since the pandemic. Unfortunately, I didn't get a great photo of our happy hour food but the garlic knots were KILLER and the Beet salad with pistachios was beautiful. The meatballs were very tender which is not to my liking but I think other people might really like that. Also, the service is wonderful. Again, I love Tutta Bella.