Caffe Biu Bella
“I'm guessing Agora bought out Piu Bellos and built their no good Greek restaurant with horrible service there.”
“I would highly recommend the pizza, which is hand made right where you can see and cooked in the brick pizza oven.”
“We had a great time catching up with a friend, no crowds and poor attitude servers like in Agora, nice relaxing natural shade, open window seats, and views of MacDonald Park – I didn't want to leave.”
Caffe Biu Bella
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
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107-02 Queens Boulevard is the graveyard of restaurants. The location isn't that bad, really, on the service lane of the boulevard of death, across from McDonald Park. Rising from the ashes of previous restaurants Positano and Piu Bello is now…Biu Bello.
On Super Bowl Sunday, before feasting on homemade fried chicken (yes, I do occasionally refrain from eating out and cook), we stopped by for a quick lunch after inspecting the sign that described a $9.50 special.
Soup or salad, an entree and a side for only $9.50? Let's try, what's the worst that could happen, keeling over in instant abdominal pain?
I started with chicken soup and instead of a small cup I was given a hearty sized bowl with decent cuts of the bird, noodles, carrots and small potatoes. The jewish penicillin was just what the lunch doctor ordered.
Knowing that I'd be eating fried food later, I ordered a chicken caesar salad for my entree. (No sides with the salad, which does make sense)
Once again, a pleasant surprise as the dressing wasn't too strong nor was the salad drowning in it. Just enough flavor to dress up the lettuce and make it edible.
A few months ago I also had breakfast here and was again pleased by the price/portion ratio.
Our waitress was friendly and extra points for having a TV showing displaying videos from the 80's: I forgot how ridiculously bad "Hello" by Lionel Richie really is.
I don't know y this place is rated low but I had a good brunch here! To start off, first they served fresh (not store bought) orange juice in champagne glasses which I totally loved. Then they served coffee with warm milk which I really thought was a small detail which most of the diners miss. The waitress was quick n polite and she got our food as soon as we finished our juices. BTW you can also choose to have a fruit salad instead of a juice.
Moving on we had a healthy omelette ( egg whites with peppers n onions) with hand cut fries and brown bread toast. Their hand cut fries are the best, yes the best fries I have had in a long time. They were crisp and nicely seasoned which I loved the most.
And the hit of cinnamon in the french toast was also something that popped my cherries. In total, I got more more from this place than I had expected!
I ordered an individual pizza to go. What came in the box looked and tasted like one of those frozen pizzas that's always on sale at Key Food–and I'm not talking about those surprisingly yummy deep-dish DiGiorno's either.
Honestly, when I first went into this cafe I thought it was Piu Bella, a cafe that the hubby, my parents and I have gone to a million times in our years as Queens residents. We thought that Piu Bella just relocated down the block. Their menu was almost identical to Piu Bella's but when I checked in on Yelp, I saw it wasn't Piu Bella but Biu Bella. Oh well, C'est la vie.
The service was good, the waitress was helpful and patient. The gelato was tasty (like Piu Bella's) and crepes were very good – we got the plain crepe with fruit and gelato and the nutella crepe (it had strawberries and bananas). Piu Bella had the same kind of crepes. The cappuccinos were delicious (reminiscent of Piu Bella). They only thing Piu Bella had that Biu Bella didn't was an enormous assortment of cakes displayed in a showcase and artisanal lollypops. They had their cakes in a display unit normally used in diners. The selection was pretty small. C'est la vie.
When we left, I noticed that Biu Bella used the same font as Piu Bella on it's sign. The way "Biu" was printed blocked out the bottom part of the "B" so it looked like Piu….
Hmmm, very strange….