Bella Regina
Bella Regina is a family-owned pizza restaurant with a family feel and open floor plan with red-checkered tablecloths. The pizza is hand-tossed and served up in unique styles with daily specials. Among the specials are Bella's Flying Pig, a pizza with chicken breast, bacon, green olives and black olives and the sausage, roasted peppers and onion pizza on Saturdays. The menu also has interesting Italian dishes like wild mushroom ravioli, shrimp scampi ravioli and lobster ravioli.
Bella Regina
1508 Asheville Hwy.
Hendersonville, NC 28792
(828) 693-4300
Mona Lisa Restaurant
Mona Lisa Restaurant is a newly renovated Italian restaurant in Hendersonville. The layout is made up of two dining areas and a small bar. A casual atmosphere belies a gourmet menu of specialty pizzas and Italian dishes. There are a few pizzas of note, including potato pizza with olive oil and herbs; seafood pizza with snapper, shrimps and scallops and rhe Four Seasons Pizza, which has two toppings per quarter. On the pasta side is Maccheroni alla chitarra, an eggplant dish. All of the pasta and bread are made in-house.
Mona Lisa Restaurant
785 North Church Street
Hendersonville, NC 28792-3616
(828) 696-7858
Two Guys Pizza and Ribs
Two Guys Pizza and Ribs is not your ordinary Italian place, since it also serves barbecue and burgers, but it doesn't stray too far from its pizzeria roots. Two guys serves several gourmet pizzas for customers at the laid-back spot, which has booths and tables inside and outside. Among the top house special pizzas are shrimp scampi alfredo, a "White" pizza with mozzarella cheese as well as goat cheese pizza.
Two Guys Pizza and Ribs
746 6th Ave. West
Hendersonville, NC 28739-4114
(828) 693-6755
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