La Bella

La Bella is a small Italian sit-in restaurant on Market Street in central Cleethorpes, sitting on the busy parade that also carries Magic Flame, The Kebab House and the Eastern Delights curry house. It is firmly a sit-down room rather than a counter takeaway — table service, a working pizza oven and a pasta station — and has been a Cleethorpes nostalgia mainstay long enough that the Grimsby Telegraph ran a comeback-tour review piece on it.

The board is the familiar Italian-trattoria template: pizza platters loaded with cheese, lovingly made pasta dishes, calzones across the standard combinations, garlic breads and an Italian-led starter card. It is no-nonsense, hearty Italian food rather than refined northern-Italian cooking — the kind of restaurant the locals book on a Friday night because the room is warm, the prices fair and the pizzas honestly large.

Reviewers consistently call out the generous portions, the friendly room and the value across both the pizza meal-deals and the pasta plates. Delivery and takeaway run alongside the sit-in trade for households who want the same La Bella food at home; the Uber Eats and aggregator listings sit at a steady local-favourite rating.