My wife and I decided to celebrate our 6 year wedding anniversary by going out to Pastina. My father gave us a $50 gift card because we had mentioned we wanted to try the place out. I made reservation around 6pm for a 7:15 check in no issues. We walk in and were greeted right away. We sat down and almost instantly were greeted by our waiter who was very knowledgeable about the restaurant's menu as well as very polite and friendly. We got waters as we browsed the menu. I stuck with water as a healthy drink my wife opted to enjoy a strawberry and basil margarita. She enjoyed it and said it was VERY strong. She does not drink much now a days so she was tipsy by the end lol. We decided to order two APPS I chose the Rhode island calamari in a very tasty sweet/hot sauce topped with a drizzle of wasabi mayo. My wife decided on the caprase salad. While we waited for our APPS we were served nice homemade bread and a AMAZING marinara dipping sauce. The dipping sauce honestly was the first amazing taste of the night we both raved about it. Our apps came and we both smashed them while having good conversation and I might add a meal with out our kids which does not come often. We placed our entrée orders. We went with a chicken parm and homemade linguini pasta for my wife and I was tied up on 4 different dishes two being a ravioli dish one being chicken picata and the other being the restaurant's butchers cut nightly special. Again our waiter being really friendly helped me narrow down my choice to two different entrees and I went with the butchers cut which was a braised short rib on top on creamy polenta with some roasted veggies as well as some natural auju. Our bill came to roughly $73 which is not cheap how ever I feel we got good quality food and even great portions. This place will only be for special occasions as we aren't high rollers. We had a GC as stated earlier so we decided to get the app's if we did not have that we would of just got the entrée. The inside is beautiful. Oh one last thing there was a lady walking around with a bottle of homemade red wine. I guess the cheese maker for the restaurant makes it so she was offering tastings was a nice little surprise even though I don't really like wine.