Pasta Cucina

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this restaurant. We come every time we are in town and enjoy it more each time. Fresh bread and butter to start is always a delight. We shared a Cesar salad, and my husband enjoyed chicken fettuccine Alfredo (his favorite) while I devoured a calamari appetizer (my favorite). I forgot that bread, salad, and all those yummy calamari leggies fill me up, so I ordered the balsamic chicken pizza. Delicious. My boys finished off the pizza, and my husband enjoyed his pasta for breakfast. Highly recommended!

New Year’s Eve we enjoyed warm inviting atmosphere, friendly staff and the cocktails at the bar before dinner were served up by an attentive bartender. We were seated at a high top and I was facing the kitchen. After getting my penne with Italian sausage and meatballs, a lot of overcooked pasta and very little meat, I watched the cook whose skillet he was tossing food in, burst into flames. He proceeded to blow the flames out!!! With his mouth!!! 3 times!!! He then plated the food and it went out to a customer. I lost my appetite. I will never return.

I will just start by saying I'm highly disappointed and sad! My husband and I decided to give the Italian restaurant inside the sunset station called Pasta Cucina a try, we were super excited because we had heard a lot of great things about the food and the restaurant itself. what an extreme disappointment. I could have made better scratch pasta and sauce from home! I had the pasta with shrimp, muscles, clams and calamari. The (4) shrimp🍤 in my dish were overcooked along with the calamari, it was as hard as a rock! The sauce was about 3 tablespoons full and lacked any flavor. My husband's dish was the same and mostly just pasta with some kind of water broth?? When my husband and I first arrived at the restaurant, we decided to sit at the bar for a bit more liveliness, camaraderie and some friendly conversation. we received nothing of the sort. We were more less treated like we were homeless and looking for a hand out....? The bartender (Robert) was extremely dry and distant and seemed agitated that we even sat there. He never introduced himself or even said welcome in.... We tried to talk to him several times, but no response. The question from him when we sat down was "what to drink"? Very direct and impersonable. He made us feel very uncomfortable and unwelcome. The food honestly was not worth the money charged and we won't go back. I find it so disappointing and sad that this is what our society accepts as fine dining and will pay for it, What a let down🥺 PLEASE, PLEASE don't waste your money, your time or your taste buds. The steak 🥩 house (Sonoma Cellar) is tenfold better and definitely a fine dining experience, they are very warm and welcoming!! Majorly disappointed! 😔😔😔😔