The food has been delicious. There is something for everybody on the menu, and there is a nice, well equipped bar to hang out, too. My favorite times at Popolo involved hanging out on the couch with a glass of champagne in front of the fire place in the old hotel lobby - some cool evening, or enjoying the unique view from the back deck where the train track, emerging from below the building, crosses the canal - on a warm summer night.

Yummy ravioli and my wife had the palenta that was delicious. Our friend's steak took a while. The waittress was really nice and comped the drinks because of the wait.

We love Popolo and have returned again and again! Their menu is very creative and as another reviewer said, the food is big on taste. We often have several appetizers, soup and salad and a nice bottle of Prosecco. I hope that they add gluten free pasta and pizza to the menu. It can get noisy due to the acoustics, but if you get there early it isn't a problem. The brunch menu is also wonderful.

It's nice to see a thought through, modern but simple, Italian restaurant locally. I have only been there for lunch but their salads and entrees I've found to be well prepared and presented. The decor screams minimalist, it's straightforward but not lazy. Having gelato on the desert menu is a welcome and nostalgic shifting of gears. The portion sizes are small but big on flavor. It seems there are a fair amount of negative reviews on here, which I was surprised by at first but when I take into account that cheap restaurants which pile on large portion sizes of greasy are the norm around here, I suppose it's not too surprising. This restaurant belongs in the city, not Bellows Falls.

Popolo was not a great place at all. 35$ for a mediocre, at best, hamburger. 2$ for a coke, and then an additional 2$ for every refill. Maybe it's a Northern thing, I come from Texas, so if you're from the South I would not advise this place. The room I sat in had no fans, ac, and the staff only cracked the windows so I had to sit in a hot room with no air flow. The smell in the place was terrible as a result of the lack of air flow, one person orders something smelly, everyone smells it. For what you pay, it's definitely not worth it. Terrible food for what you pay for. I would never come here again, and I regret the whole experience. If you're looking for a place to eat in Bellows Falls, try Fat Frank's. Not this sad over-priced excuse for a restaurant.