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| - My husband and I decided to finally check out PastaBar on Saturday night. We wanted to love this place, but in the end left feeling very underwhelmed by the food. The space is really cool with just enough art and pictures on the wall to give it character, but not too much where it's really busy. At 8 pm on a Saturday night half the bar was full and almost all of the tables inside were occupied. Service was incredibly friendly and attentive, so definitely no complaints there. Also pricing is quite reasonable, so it's not a place that is going to break the bank. We had an appetizer, two entrees, dessert, 2 glasses of wine, and a beer, and our bill came to $68 pre-tip.
Now on to the food...we started with the fried buffalo mozzarella. How could a fried ball of fresh mozzarella go bad you are asking?? It was cold! Cold! I like cold mozzarella, don't get me wrong, but when you tell me something is going to be fried, I am expecting gooey hot mozzarella. Needless to say, we were bummed. For entrees, my husband had the Fettuccini Tagliatta and I had the Fettuccini e Finocchio. I liked my dish more than my husband liked his, but neither were home runs in our book. I love pesto and could eat it by the spoonful, but there was something about the pesto on my pasta that just wasn't quite doing it 100% for me. I will say though that the pasta was fresh fresh and cooked well. For dessert we had the dark chocolate with almonds - typically I don't eat dessert and I definitely don't eat chocolate very often, but for some reason it sounded really good on Saturday night. It was a simple dessert and was just enough food to satisfy a sweet craving without leaving you stuffed or feeling gross for indulging in dessert.
None of the food we ate was horrible but it just didn't blow us away and leave us wanting to go back in the near future.
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