Bella Napoli Pizzeria & Restaurant

10/31/2026

🎃 Happy Halloween from all of us at Bella Napoli! 👻

We’re open from 11am-10pm tonight!!

Whether you’re out picking up dinner from us or another restaurant, waiting on a delivery, or simply heading home tonight, please slow down and stay alert.

Our streets will be filled with little ghosts, goblins, and families making memories. A few extra seconds of patience behind the wheel can make all the difference.

No pizza, delivery, or dinner is more important than someone’s safety.

Let’s look out for one another and make sure everyone gets home safely.

Have a fun, safe, and Happy Halloween! 🎃🍕❤️

— Your Bella Napoli Family

10/26/2026

TWO COMPETITIONS. TWO SILVER MEDALS! 🥈🍕🔥

A huge congratulations to our Pizzaiolo Tim Holmes for an incredible weekend at the Galbani Cup during the Pizza Tomorrow Summit in Orlando, Florida!

🥈 2nd Place – On the Menu Pizza: “Dolce Far Niente”

🥈 2nd Place – Pan Pizza: “Blue Ridge Summer”

Over the past 4–5 years, I’ve had the privilege of watching Tim grow, not just as a pizzaiolo, but as a person. Seeing him continue to learn, ask questions, understand the craft, and approach every challenge with a positive attitude has been incredibly rewarding.

As the owner of Bella Napoli Pizzeria & Restaurant, We couldn’t be prouder to see Tim bring home two silver medals for our team!

Keep learning, stay humble, and never lose that positive attitude. The growth is just as important as the medals.

Proud of you, Tim! Proud of Team Bella Napoli! 🇮🇹🍕🏆

Impact over influence. Always.

10/12/2026

🇮🇹🇺🇸 Happy Columbus Day!

They say Columbus sailed across the ocean looking for a new world. As an Italian, I’d like to think he was just looking for better pizza! 🍕😂

Today, we celebrate our Italian-American heritage, the courage to chase opportunity, and the generations of immigrants who crossed oceans with little more than determination, hard work, and a dream of building a better life.

Our ancestors didn’t just bring their traditions to America. They brought their passion, craftsmanship, family values, and a work ethic that helped shape this great country.

Never forget where you came from, appreciate the opportunities you have, and always be proud of your roots.

Buon Columbus Day! 🇮🇹🇺🇸

Salute to our heritage and the American dream! 🍷

10/05/2026

👀 Something BIG is happening at Bella Napoli today…

We’ve been working behind the scenes on something we’re extremely excited about, and today it’s officially coming together. 🔥🍕

But we’re not showing you just yet. 😏

Tomorrow is the BIG REVEAL.

Any guesses what we’ve been up to? 👇

Stay tuned… Bella Napoli is leveling up. 🇮🇹🔥
Marra Forni Pizza University & Culinary Arts Center US Pizza Team

10/03/2026

🚨 SERVICE UPDATE 🚨

Our Toast POS system is currently experiencing a major nationwide service outage, and Toast is actively working to resolve the issue.

Unfortunately, until the system is restored, we are unable to accept any additional orders, including online orders.

We apologize for the inconvenience and truly appreciate your patience and understanding. 🙏🏼

We hope to be back up and running shortly and will update everyone as soon as service is restored.

Thank you,
Bella Napoli Pizzeria & Restaurant 🍕🇮🇹

09/26/2026

Negativity has never built a damn thing.

It won’t make you better.
It won’t make your business stronger.
It won’t improve your relationships, your craft, or your life.

What it WILL do is bring you down, drain the people around you, and slowly grow your own personal peanut gallery—a crowd full of people who are great at talking, criticizing and complaining, but rarely doing.

Be careful what you feed.

Feed negativity, and it multiplies.
Feed growth, gratitude, hard work and good people—and watch what happens.

I’d rather sit at a small table with people trying to become 1% better every day than have a packed room full of people explaining why everyone else is doing it wrong.

Impact over influence. Progress over noise.

The peanut gallery can keep the cheap seats. 😎

09/23/2026

📰🍕 DID YOU SEE YESTERDAY’S FRONT PAGE?!

What an incredible moment for the entire Bella Napoli Pizzeria & Restaurant family!

Yesterday, our own Vitangelo “Vito” Recchia was featured on the front cover of the Charlotte Sun, celebrating his recent trip to Sweden where he brought home 1st Place in Teglia at the Pizza Champion Cup Championships International. 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇸🇪🏆

But this recognition represents so much more than one competition or one trophy.

Bella Napoli has been part of this community since 2003, and none of these moments happen without the people who have supported us along the way.

To our incredible staff — thank you for holding down the fort, believing in what we do, and representing Bella Napoli every single day.

To our customers and community — thank you for every dinner, every pizza, every celebration, every recommendation, every encouraging message, and every year you continue to choose our family and our restaurant.

To Vito’s family — Theresa, Benny and James — thank you for supporting the countless hours, travel, competitions, teaching, testing and dedication that happen behind the scenes.

And a huge THANK YOU to the Charlotte Sun for sharing Vito’s story and putting this accomplishment on the front page. Seeing Bella Napoli and our hometown represented like this is something we’ll never take for granted.

The trophy came home from Sweden, but the support that made the journey possible has always been right here in Charlotte County. ❤️

From our entire Bella Napoli family:

THANK YOU.

We’re proud. We’re grateful. And we’re just getting started. 🍕🏆

One percent better every day. Impact over influence.

— The Bella Napoli Family ❤️
US Pizza Team

PORT CHARLOTTE — Vito Recchia, owner/pizzaiolo of Port Charlotte’s 23-year-old Bella Napoli Pizzeria & Restaurant, took a stowaway along on a recent trans-Atlantic flight.

09/15/2026

🚨 DID YOU HEAR THE NEWS?! 🇺🇸🇸🇪🏆🍕

The cat’s officially out of the bag…

BELLA NAPOLI IS BRINGING HOME THE GOLD FROM SWEDEN! 🥇

From Port Charlotte, Florida, to Gothenburg, Sweden, Bella Napoli owner and pizzaiolo Vitangelo “Vito” Recchia stepped onto the international stage at the International Nordic Pizza Champion Cup — and walked away with 1ST PLACE in Gourmet Pan Pizza!

🔥 The winning pizza: “TEGLIA WITH MAGIC.” 🔥

Vito created this Roman-style teglia specifically for Sweden, combining his technique and years of work with flavors inspired by Scandinavia.

Potato cream. Crème fraîche. Butter-poached langoustines. Chanterelles. Lingonberry gastrique. Smoked sea salt.

When competition day arrived, everything came together.

Just perfect on all accounts.

But this win is bigger than one pizza and one trophy.

It represents the countless hours of testing, failures, adjustments, education and sacrifice that happen when nobody is watching.

Most importantly, it represents Vito’s family -his wife Theresa and their boys, Benny and James - who make the sacrifices behind the scenes every time he travels, teaches, competes and continues chasing the next level.

It represents the entire Bella Napoli staff, who hold down the fort back home.

It represents our customers, Port Charlotte and Southwest Florida, who have supported Bella Napoli and this journey year after year.

Bella Napoli has called Port Charlotte home since 2003.

Now, a neighborhood pizzeria from Southwest Florida has stood on top of an international podium in Sweden. 🇸🇪🏆

Sweden knows the name now.
Southwest Florida knew it first.

🥇 1ST PLACE — SWEDEN 2026
🍕 TEGLIA WITH MAGIC
🇺🇸 BELLA NAPOLI — PORT CHARLOTTE, FLORIDA

Impact over influence.
One percent better every day.

And this time…

that one percent brought home GOLD. 🏆

Congratulations, Vito — and congratulations to Theresa, Benny, James, the Bella Napoli team, and the entire Bella Napoli family. 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇸🇪🍕

09/11/2026

September 11, 2001 — September 11, 2026 🇺🇸

Twenty-five years.

For those of us old enough to remember that morning, September 11th isn’t simply a date in a history book.

We remember where we were.

We remember who we were with.
We remember watching the television in disbelief.
We remember the smoke. The towers. The Pentagon. Flight 93.
We remember realizing that the world we woke up in that morning would never be the same again.

But we should also remember what happened after.

We watched firefighters, police officers, paramedics and ordinary Americans run toward danger while everyone else was trying to escape it.

We watched strangers help strangers.

We watched communities come together.

And for a moment, the things that normally divided us seemed incredibly small compared to the thing that united us:

We were Americans.

Today, 25 years later, an entire generation has grown up knowing September 11th only through photographs, videos, classrooms and the stories we tell them.

That makes our responsibility even greater.

We have to tell them what happened.

We have to tell them about the 2,977 lives taken that day.

But we also have to tell them about the courage, sacrifice, compassion and unity that followed.

September 11th changed our country forever. It changed families forever. It sent men and women into wars, brought first responders into unimaginable circumstances, and left wounds that continue long after the cameras disappeared.

So today isn’t about politics.

It’s about people.

The people we lost.
The families who never got their loved ones back.
The first responders who ran toward the unimaginable.
The men and women who served our country afterward.
And everyone who still carries the physical and emotional scars of that day.

Twenty-five years have passed.

Remember the day.
Remember the lives.
Remember the heroes.
Remember how this country came together.

And make damn sure the generations who weren’t there understand why we promised:

WE WILL NEVER FORGET. 🇺🇸

September 11, 2001.

09/02/2026

12 YEARS. ONE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY. ❤️🇮🇹

Twelve years ago today, I signed the dotted line.

I remember the nerves. I remember the anxiety. And I remember knowing that what we were taking on was bigger than simply owning a restaurant.

Because Bella Napoli was never ours to create from scratch.

Someone else had the vision and courage to create Bella Napoli in 2003, and from that original creation came the opportunity for us to take the torch, respect what was built, and write the next chapter.

Bella Napoli was already great. It was already a staple of this community. It already had loyal guests, history and a name people trusted.

Our responsibility was never to erase that history. It was to build on it.

And build we did.

Over the last 12 years, Bella Napoli has grown and evolved into what you see today — an expanded restaurant, a full and extensive bar, an ever-evolving food and pizza program, statewide recognition as Best of Florida, and, most importantly, a restaurant that continues to be part of the fabric of this community.

We’ve experienced incredible highs, difficult days, long nights, mistakes, lessons, awards, growth and plenty of moments when we simply had to put our heads down and keep going.

But none of it happens without people.

To every staff member, past and present, who has put on a Bella Napoli shirt and helped us get here — thank you. Your hard work, loyalty and commitment are part of this story.

To our community and every guest who has supported us, recommended us, challenged us, celebrated with us, brought your families through our doors and continued coming back year after year — thank you for trusting us.

That trust has allowed us to take someone else’s original dream and continue building it into the Bella Napoli of today.

From its beginning in 2003, to us taking the reins 12 years ago, to everything Bella Napoli has become today — every chapter matters.

We are simply the current caretakers of a story that continues to be written.

So here’s to 23 years of Bella Napoli.
Here’s to 12 years of our journey.
And here’s to the next 12. 🥂🇮🇹❤️

We’re still learning. Still evolving. Still pushing. Still trying to become one percent better every single day — without ever forgetting where we came from.

Congratulations to everyone who has been part of Bella Napoli. This milestone belongs to all of us.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.

Vito & Theresa
Bella Napoli Pizzeria & Restaurant

Impact over influence. Always.