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| - Considering that this was my birthday weekend, that it had been three years since I had been to Pasta Too, that my initial review was sparse, and that it has gotten some negative reviews in those three years, I felt I had to return to see if I had simply been imagining things or just have atrocious taste as some are wont to infer.
Well, banish me from Yelp forever for having unreliable opinions because I liked Pasta Too even more than I did approximately 36 months ago.
Yes, I was hungry. I had an endoscopy earlier that day. Did that color my perception?
One could call the dining room "cramped" or communal. I'm not bothered by someone eating right next to me. How much elbow room does one want? The dining room is rather spacious, by the way.
Nobody "yelled" at anyone as we dined Friday evening, the service was far from rude, we had no trouble getting seated, parking was facile, and...that sauce still owns 'em all.
I mean, did you guys actually come here or are you telling fibs because it's in "unhip" Bethel Park and because I FTR'ed it? C'mon children. I'm kidding, relax.
The sauce was what I most wanted to try again...on something. Now I had planned on getting gnocchi until our awesome server had to go and tell me that they had Lobster Mac 'N Cheese on the menu that night. Since I'd never had it before, well, do I even have to state what I ordered?
Beneath a layer of bread crumbs laid the macaroni at the zenith of al dente in a lake of cheese sauce, swimming with a loving helping of sweet, consummately cooked lobster claws. I can see why this take on comfort food has become such a hot trend and am on board with it.
Yet...I continued to long for that sauce, so I asked politely for a cup of it on the side so as to dip pieces of our complimentary bread into...just to see if it held up to my last experience. As soon as the red, red, bloody, rosen red gravy touched my tongue, I knew that the detractors were gravely wrong...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsDYkRYghxA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPIWfT-m9GQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9nWCfcnzsw
How anyone could call this sauce saccarhine makes me wonder all the more whether or not people truly sampled some of it. Surely there's a touch of sugar to the proceedings taking into account the fruit from which the sauce is based, but more than anything I found it to be deeply savorous, luxurious, and embracively spiced. It is a sauce that is almost too rich, too flavorful to have with anything but some bread to soak it up with. Once again, I proved to myself that Pasta Too's sauce is a culinary opiate. I don't know what else is in it, and I want its ingredients to remain a beautiful mystery.
My salad was possessive of a rather pungent, potent house Italian dressing that, like the sauce, ranks among the very best I've ever had. The Italian Wedding Soup: Masterful in every way. All of its components worked brilliantly.
Kay had one of their other specials of the evening, a superhuman portion of linguini with shrimp, and yes the portions are hefty. Those who eat like birds needn't come to Pasta Too.
For dessert, we both came close to scaling the Tower of Chocolate, the restaurant's signature confection, but once Renee brought out the vast arsenal of decadence (they have way more desserts than are listed on their menu. even the tray they present to you in person doesn't hold them all), I fixated on the ivory-iced Chocolate Raspberry Chamboard cake. I don't know if this was made in-house, but I can tell you that it was airy and not richly sweet, belying its thoroughly indulgent appearance. One supernally good cake, Kay and I took turns on it, slowly, relishing our post-dinner reward.
Which restaurant did you guys go to again? Hell which restaurant did I go to? Was the Pasta Too we visited on a parallel Earth?
Am I on a parallel Earth? *looks around*
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