Pastai - New York

Absolutely lovely, chewy, fresh egg pasta. my sauce was perfectly balanced, delicate. It was not overly meaty or overly creamy. I reccomend the Reginette, so curly with sauce licking the sides. However, there was a strong blemish on an otherwise wonderful meal. The arancini, a dish found in Italian restaurants at all price ranges around entire country, was severely lacking in salt. It was incredibly average, and didn?t even feel cheesy! I was hoping for some funky fromclassic sheep?s milk cheese, obviously pecorino cheese but maybe something else?! I?ve had dozens of better arancini. Sorry for getting held up on the arancini but arancini is incredibly important to me. obviously the appetizer was a smallportion of my eating experience but I found it to occupy a lot of my brain waves in the coming days.

I had the paccheri alla genovese per the recommendation of the waiter. the pasta tasted homemade and had great texture. the sauce was flavorful and most importantly balanced. in my opinion there was too little meat and slightly too much onion. still a great dish though and will come back to try other things! update: came back and tried their lasagna. their tomato sauce was amazing. the meat was a braised beef that was flavorful and had a great texture. all of the cheeseswere delicious. most importantly, as stated in my last review, their dishes have a great balance of flavor?the ratio of the ingredients is perfect and nothing is overpowering.

Unfortunately, I did not have a good experience here the other night. The atmosphere is very cute and cozy, I loved the ambiance but the food let me down. As soon as we sit, we are given the restaurant week menu which was $60 a person which is fine. But we did not want to order off this menu. There was no alternative menu but the waiter told us we could order things individually and not do the price fixe. That was fine and all until there were no prices to be found foranything. And it was hard to ask for anything because the waiter was very busy and we felt too awkward leaving as we were there for 15+ minutes at this point and my boyfriend already ordered a drink, which was never brought to him and hecanceled it altogether, and we got bread. So we just order anyway. Burrata appetizer was good but very small. It was the size of my palm. I ordered some crusted chicken dish and it was extremely disappointing. For $25, it was a glorifiedsalad. Just a thin, bland piece of chicken cutlet covered in arugula. It wasn't absolutely terrible but I was definitely disappointed. My sister's dish, some pasta with steak pieces, was very delicious and the bread was fabulous too. Iwould come back because it is such a cute place and their regular menu online looks a lot more appealing than their restaurant week menu but I unfortunately did not have a good experience this time around.

This place is a diamond in the rough! I had the Reginette al Ragu, and substituted tagliatelle pastaIt was delicious.

I wanted so much to like this place since my friend likes it as her neighborhood pasta place (it's literally around the corner from her) and it looked super