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| - This concept is the wet dream of almost every girl I've ever known. A restaurant based around mac n cheese and pasta. (Plus they serve wine & beer.)
It's solid gold for a simple dinner date with a picky eater.
Basically the idea is that there are numerous varieties of pastas including several alternative diet choices such as farro, wheat and gluten free pastas, and in a variety of styles from linguine and angel hair to bow tie and wagon wheel.
You choose your pasta type then you choose from 8-10 different sauces, then you can add items to it such as meats, veggies, or cheese.
Then there's the Mac choices. They have several types of "gourmet" mac n cheese. My favorite is the pepper jack mac which is macaroni topped with monterey jack, pepper jack, and asiago cheeses and jalapenos.
The macs run from $6.95-$7.95 then I add Sausage ($1.50) and fresh tomatoes (.50c) and fresh spinach (.50c).
My date ordered the fettuccine noodles with alfredo sauce ($7) then added a double order of shrimp ($1.75 x 2)....yea...so everybody else has said it so I'll say it too. An order of shrimp is 2 shrimp! They are by no means small, but if feel like 3 would be a little more substantial.
The portions for both the pastas and the mac's are filling for me and I have a big appetite. She could only finish half the pasta.
Our total was roughly $23 without drinks.
So the main problem here being that the 2 of us can go to olive garden and get something comparable to the above mentioned and also get salad and breadsticks for the same price, and feel just as satisfied, OR during lunch I can go to Maggiano's and get pasta, but lunch portion and it will be far better and as filling for less.
I like the inside, but it basically screams "I'm a yuppy!" and "Please Franchise Me!" There's more hot soccer mom's ignoring their kids than an episode of The Real Housewives.
Although I have to say both myself and my date loved the 3 large Peter Lik prints on the wall, and the deck is a nice little break in the spring and fall because there is almost nowhere in the Southwest to dine outside.
The Good:
If you have kids they will probably love it and they can find something to eat no matter what kind of insane diet you have them on.
Nice deck and dining area.
The Quality of the ingredients
The staff is very helpful and polite, and you can tell they truly want to answer any questions you have.
The not so Good:
Price
They are a perfect 7 for 7 on screwing up my order.(But to be fare I am throwing them a bit of a curve.)
Portions of add ons could be a little more. you have to add several items to get any additional substance.
If you don't have kids you still might end up sitting by a party of the little cheese covered lunatics.
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