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🤢 2/5 - Overall - 2/5.
By 👻 @Cy K., 12/11/2023 3:00 am
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Pasta Bar is kind of what you get when you reverse engineer what you think a Michelin starred restaurant should be and figure out what 45-50 year old professionals can afford to spend to feel successful in their dining habits. Nothing is simple on the menu - everything is overly sauced or naked - as if being extreme is part of the idea. Everything is wagyu fat this or truffle that - all rich - nothing quite joyous. Kitchen is like watching synchronized swimming if the participants were an all men's chorus of former pirates with a fondness for butter. Cool - but kind of scary? Why no women? Can't say. Everyone was pleasant but something is off. The music selection was downright weird and stuck in a 90s/00s hip hop, r&b mix that doesn't seem to match the setting or food. I suppose most of these observations are the result of the economics of fine dining in Los Angeles. For reasons explained below, for what ended up being an Italian Japanese fusion, I'd much prefer the low key dining experience of Orsa & Winston over the somewhat gimmicky allure of Pasta Bar. Cost - 1/5 this place used be somewhat more affordable with a $125 tasting menu - it has jumped to $225 with similarly priced wine pairing $145. This means with the included service charge and tax (applied on top of service) you're looking close to $1,000 for a couple. This hefty price tag earns an honest review. Atmosphere - 2/5. Setting is in valley mid-rise strip mall - if you know Encino you know the feel. The location is at a somewhat unmarked and unremarkable door, we had to ask the neighboring restaurant for directions and we could tell they get this question a lot. Like a few others cropping up in LA there is a waiting room bar. Strangely, though there were plenty of seats, they asked us to sit in particular bar seats next to other people. They then serve "canapes" and a welcome drink. Drink was good. My concern started to grow when the canapes were actually crudo. Is this a nomenclature issue? No -- due to some renovation issues with its sister restaurant downstairs, Sushi Bar, which had somehow relocated to the adjoining location at Pasta Bar - apparently we were destined to have the sushi restaurant bleed into the Pasta Bar menu for the rest of the night. I asked if I could order a cocktail - but we were told it was time to go to the kitchen - we had a schedule to keep. You're invited back to the kitchen for the rest of your night. It's a cool open kitchen concept with may 12 seats, with maybe 8 people also hustling and bustling preparing dishes, baking bread, serving wine etc. The problem began when they sat us at the far end. The AC register was aimed squarely at that seat blowing frigid air at the patrons head. When my wife - originally assigned the seat raised the issue, we were told to just switch seats. After 2 minutes I couldn't be comfortable and asked if they can close that particular vent. A very friendly server came out with a step ladder to do so but was shooed away by the chef. Instead they turned off the AC temporarily - opting to instead have the seat alternate between hot and cold - I had to keep alternating wearing my jacket multiple times. Honestly I was left feeling that this was such a known issue, it was odd that they felt the need to seat someone there to get the extra tasting in their books without correcting it. Service - I'd give it a 3/5. The somm was good - but the wine pairing was so-so. Interesting grape varietals, but for $145 wine pairing it mostly consists of $18-35 bottles of wine at what felt like quarter pours as opposed to the one-third pours we were told. So you're talking about fifty bucks a glass of pretty affordable wine - very heavy on whites. Added a point because they accommodated us the day of to have an earlier time so we could get back to our kids. Food - 2/5 ok this is weird - a Pasta Bar in name only? There were pasta dishes - I don't want to suggest there were not - but probably best not to let the name inform your expectations. We're talking single ravioli, four pieces of garganelli, etc. It's hard to judge food objectively - there were dishes I really liked and others that felt strange - like almost too salty to eat - or entirely covered in sauce to drown out the underlying ingredients. It's difficult to really rate this - but my wife and I had different opinions on each dish. Should food at this price point and acclaim really be polarizing though? We did agree that the bite of "wagyu" did not taste like the A5 available in LA. Bread was killer - they recommended we wait to eat half with the dishes but over a 2 hour meal you can see how this is just terrible advice. My mouth still hurts from the abrasions of dead bread toward the end. In conclusion - maybe we went on an off Saturday night or maybe our expectations were too high. But everything, even our negative experience all seemed so intentional. Who was breaking up with who here?
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