Say Pasta

Forget Say! Hear Would be Nice!

11 Mar 08, 14:54 Well below expectations

On the outside this fresh, clean looking pasta restaurant looks unassuming and harmless enough. Once you have readjusted your vocal chords to cope with the high levels of ambient noise, the menu seems enticing and the food fresh.

The prices were very reasonable and the service good; but there was no need for the inclusion of two free hairs with desert. The cost of which was promptly deducted from the bill, but this was much to little compensation.

In hindsight, the experience was not that great. Fortunately, for me, the company was, which inevitably softened the blow. And we happily made a quick getaway...

Say No!

10 Mar 08, 10:24 Well below expectations

It looked great from the outside; cheap, quick and easy food that through the window looked pretty faultless. I think it was the fact that I spied a huge strawberry sundae that a diner in the window was consuming that made me want to eat at this place so badly.

However as we entered and were seated next to the sundae eater I had that all too familiar feeling of 'oh no we have made a dud choice here'. The ice cream eaters were complaining about the ice cream to the waiter, babies were screaming and the air con was on so high the napkins were blowing in the wind!

So my line of thought was ' it will be fine, people next to us are just being over fussy'. The service was fairly quick and the staff were trying but they were not attentive enough - other diners around us were becoming agitated, and this is quite off putting when attempting to eat. I found myself playing a game of who is going to lose their cool with the waiter next?

All that aside, our starter of a bread board with olives was nice, tasted fresh and the the mains followed suit, nice pasta, possibly a little too creamy (bit of an over kill).By this point we were feeling pretty smug that we had managed to escape whatever it was that was annoying everyone else so much - but then came pudding!

This place is relatively famous for it's great ice cream offerings, and not having had an ice cream sundae in about 5 years I took the plunge and ordered their strawberry one and my fellow diner the chocolate.

They arrived quickly, looked and tasted great that was until I delved deeper into mine and found two giant black hairs embedded in the ice cream (I have to point out this it a nightmare situation for me that often induces a reasonable amount of gagging). I restrained this time, hailed the waitress and told her to take all puddings off the bill - they were apologetic, but not hugely bothered.

Paid the bill and got as far away from the place as possible! Never again - crazy, unorganized eatery that makes me shiver just thinking about it!