Bella Ravioli

Super fresh and delicious! I had the pumpkin ravioli and it was very good. Would come back and recommend to anyone!

Pretty great ravioli! I wasn’t crazy about the Gorgonzola variety, but I’m not crazy about Gorgonzola in general. The plain cheese is nice and the meat is really good. We use our own sauce so I can’t comment on that. Bonus– supporting a local business!

Growing up in an Italian home nothing compares to fresh homemade pasta. However, Bella comes close.
The family that runs the places is amazing and nice. They are such outgoing and friendly people. They will help answer any questions you might have regarding the Ravioli or other pasta they have in the shop.
I highly recommend the Lobster Rav. It was filled with lobster meat and cheese and was and is amazing. All the pasta is made in the shop and most days you can see them being made.
Another recommendation is the mushroom and ricotta. They are also amazing.
Heads up they only take cash or check…

These guys make the absolute best raviolis in the area. the cheese and the lobster are the go to for my family. check them out.

What do you do if you are sick of pizza? Go get ravioli!
We had the spinach and ricotta and mushroom raviolis and there were delicious!
All handmade and melt in your mouth savory and fresh.
They only take cash or check btw.

Everything they make & sell is spectacular! From Ravioli to spaghetti to stuffed shells and manicotti! This is where Italians go to buy pasta…

The ravioli were great. I’d be happy to stop by the next time I’m in Medford – or am in need of a really easy but homemade dinner option. The woman who runs the place is very freindly, too.

Love the people, love the food, love the prices. I really can’t say anything wrong about this place except I live far now and have to drive longer to get here. But then again, after each bite of my fresh cheese raviolis — the verdict is always the same– it is so worth driving 20 – 30 minutes for!

Fresh Ravioli, and they are delicious.
Great family business, wonderful folks. Love this place!

Best Ravioli I have ever had !!! Thanks !!! Bring cash. No credit allowed !!!

GREAT pasta. It really is incredible. My only gripe is their sauce is bland. Solution? Chat up the owner and ask him to make a spicey batch for you. Parking is diificult as it’s always busy in that part of town. CASH ONLY

This shop is run by really nice people, and they have a wide variety of fresh pastas. They even make 2 kinds of gnocchi: potato and ricotta, which is tough to find fresh outside of a restaurant. And lobster ravioli! Something for every pasta lover.
A warning: It’s cash or check only, and on a busy street with few ATMs, so come prepared. You can also order ahead if you need a large quantity of a specific kind of pasta and they will set it aside for you, which is nice.

Are you looking for ravioli that’s pretty tasty and reasonably priced, and this location is convenient to you and/​or you have a car that makes it so? No need to read further, I endorse this establishment.
Looking for the best ravioli in the Boston area? Read on for my thoughts.
This location is a bit (alright, a fair bit) off my beaten path, but when it comes to ravioli for the holidays, I resolved to tour the options in the entire Boston area and find the winner. For comparison, my family has for generations bought ravioli in the San Francisco area from Molinari Deli, the meat variety, which is always fresh and tender. I tried the Pumpkin, Mushroom, and Meat varieties, all of which were frozen. I gather from the reviews that they perhaps have some ravioli which are not frozen, but they didn’t mention that while I was at the store, and I didn’t see any. I was surprised actually to be handed bags of frozen ravioli because I’ve always bought it fresh. I guess it was my fault not to have asked if there was a fresh option. I took all three home and cooked them that evening, and since I was doing the tour de comparison, I had several other varieties from other locations also in the testing queue, all of which were fresh. My ultimate conclusion is that while the fillings didn’t suffer from being frozen, the noodle texture did seem noticeably more firm and just… frozeny. Not that the ravioli were inedible – far from it, and I’m giving them four stars – but I was searching for five star ravioli. The pumpkin was very intensely pumpkin. Think pumpkin pie, and choose your sauce carefully. The mushroom was laid back and seemed like a perfect vehicle for most any sauce, but wasn’t bold enough to really bring something extra to the table. It was mainly just a very adaptable sauce conveyance. The meat ravioli was extremely intense, very strong tasting, and brought perhaps too much flavor to the dish. It overpowered a very hearty bolognese. The meat ravioli from Molinari that I’m used to has a sizeable cheese component as well, so perhaps I’m just used to the more mellow flavor. Another minor annoyance? The ravioli are too big to eat one in a single bite, but again, probably spoiled by my previous ravioli history. It’s annoying to have the space you need to cut up ravioli without cutting any ravioli beneath it – that means one large plate dedicated to a layer of ravioli that do not overlap. Pet peeve, but most of the ravioli in Boston seem to be large this way.
Anyway, in the end, I settled on a fresh ravioli variety from another retailer, but I still recommend this place if it is located conveniently to you or if you’re not on some crazy holiday search for perfection embodied in a pasta.

I walked in here after eating across the street. I don’t understand why someone would get frozen fresh pasta at a fresh pasta store so I looked at only what was fresh, got the large ravioli, penne, spaghetti, and some sauce. Raviolis were so good, I wish I got more of them. I went back last week and they were closed for vacation FUK!

The store name is beautiful. The staff is helpful and friendly. The store is close to my home. The ravioli are okay, but not exceptional. Their sauces — better not. I’ll go to Bella for ravioli if I don’t want to drive to Russo’s in Watertown.
I especially like their mushroom ravioli which are great for Alfredo sauce. Lazy me, I didn’t feel like making sauce and bought a container of Alfredo sauce from Bella, which was a real disappointment. It was watery and tasteless and leftovers went into the trash.
Conclusion — Great local option, but I wouldn’t get out of my way to go there.

Thanks to Unilocal for turning me on to this store. It is convenient and nice to have a fresh pasta dinner when you don’t feel like cooking. Prices are competitive, they have gnocchi as well as ravioli. Tried the frozen mushroom ravioli which was delicious on its own, and the cheese, which was fresh and needed a sauce because on its own it was a little bland.
They were helpful and patient with my decision-​making, and nicely told me how to cook it and how to freeze any unused portions, even though they probably answer those same questions dozens of times every day.
There is an atm in the convenience store across the street, which you need because this is a cash-​only business.
I would definitely go back to try the gnocci, pumpkin and eggplant ravioli, and tortellini.

The best raviolis you will ever have the pleasure of eating and the sweetest lady in the world is the owner. You need to try Bella Ravioli! Bön Appetito!

There are two fresh pasta stores within walking distance of my apartment (in the Davis Square area). Bella is one, the other is, well, we all know what the other is.
This is a small, unassuming shop in Medford’s North End/​Italian ghetto. They sell a variety of pastas. Some frozen, some not. You may be put off by how all their raviolis are frozen. Don’t be. This way their centers don’t get soggy, unlike those from a pasta shop that shall not be named. Their pumpkin ravioli are good (though I wish they were more liquidy). Their eggplant ravioli are awesome. Gnocchi are great (but then again, I’m a complete gnocchi whore). Prices are very competitive, way better than the North End (where they often disguise their high prices by pricing by the half pound, instead of by the pound) and I think better than the shop that shall not be named.
Note that I no longer know how much anything costs at the shop that shall not be named — I don’t think I’ve set foot in there since I found Bella Ravioli.
The family that runs the store is great and is always very helpful. Go here. And then go to Arthur’s down the street and get some mango mousse. Nom nom nom.

These are some of the best fresh made raviolis that I have ever had! Often times I come in and they are making the spinach raviolis fresh. I recommend picking up a box of whatever is fresh and then perhaps a bag of Gnocchi and some smaller frozen lobster Ravs. The service is extremely friendly in this family run business. Make sure you ask plenty of questions so you find out when they are making the next fresh items and they will also give you tips on preparation. Next time you are making sauce from scratch, before settling for some stop &shop brand, come here and pick up some Ravioli awesomeness! They are worth traveling to!

Fresh ravioli made daily. What more needs to be said?
How about that this is a local family owned business. The owner and his wife have been behind the counter every time I’ve been in and always take the time to chat with me. After my first visit I felt like I’d known them my entire life. Not sure what sauce goes with pumpkin ravioli? Just ask and you will get a quick sauce recipe that pairs perfectly.
Parking is no problem, but getting out of the space kind of sucks especially during rush hour. The owner of the store actually came out and stopped traffic for me one day so that I could leave. Need to work on my agressive Mass driving skills.
I haven’t tried any of the sauces that they sell at the store but the ravioli, tortellini, gnocchi and linguini are all great.
It’s important to note that they are CASH ONLY. They were nice enough to not get pissy when I had to run down to the ATM during one ill prepared shopping trip.