Vela

Beautiful interior and great service! The design is stylish and modern, and the staff were very friendly and attentive. If you’re around 30, though, this might not feel like the most comfortable place for dinner — most of the guests were around 55+, so the atmosphere felt a bit more mature. The food was decent with some interesting flavor combinations. Salads were very light, and desserts seemed more like semi-prepared items. I’d love to see the taste and quality of the dishes match the amazing look of the place and the wonderful service.

Such a wonderful place. Every time we've come here the service, food, and atmosphere has been top notch. The chef, Donna, is phenomenal. Tonight's special of cod in a seafood broth with shrimp, clams, and potatoes were finger licking good! Date night, friend get-together, whatever special occasion to celebrate, go to Vela!!

Walking in I thought we hit a home run. It went downhill from there. The atmosphere was good, clean. Drinks were fine, pours good. There were about 8 people at the bar and a party around the high tops with two bartenders who took exceptionally long to ask if we wanted another drink long after our glasses were empty. We had to ask to order food because they never did, we saw a couple eating oysters but we were never told any of the specials so there was no way to order them. When we finally could order the food took rather long to come out. The portions were fine for the price but I would not recommend the gnocchi as it was over cooked to the point we almost didn’t eat it. Overall my take was the bartenders were completely inattentive, not interested in providing a high quality of service

We wandered in on NYE willing to take anything. The wonderful host explained it may be 15-20 minutes but if we were ok taking a seat at the bar, they could get us in. We were thrilled. Next we had Katie as our server and she made the rest of our night great. She was on top of our every drink and we slowly ordered till full while sharing items and she never missed a beat. We loved the eggplant polenta, branzino, and crème brûlée the best. Best drink for us was the Maggie May with fig vodka. A surprise star. Also the bread and seasoned olive oil is really really good!!! I think with a few spike trees scattered in the dining room, the noise could be lowered without losing table space.

Not bad, but no compelling reason to try this place again any time soon. Large, modern dining room and outdoor seating. Plenty of room and high ceilings. Most comfortable chairs. Bread was fresh and warm, but not abundant and not refilled; really just enough for one person. Bread is better than Paradiso, but not as good as La Voglia. The olive oil served with the bread was excellent – strong flavored, the best I’ve had at any Bucks county Italian restaurant. Burrata and heirloom tomato appetizer was pretty good, as was the Mesclun salad, though the latter maybe could have used more salt. We ordered bucatini as our pasta course. Menu says “Tomato, Guanciale, Herbs, Sheep Milk Cheese”. What we received was not what I expected from the description. It was pasta with a very rich and deliciou