PASTIFICIO ETNA — Restaurant in Montreal

Etna is a charming, low-key, humble pasta shop that specializes in home-made, high quality pastas. You can buy them fresh by the kilogram or opt for frozen options as well. They are a bit pricey but the quality is top notch! My favourite is their lunch service where they serve cooked pasta with their selected menu and they always have a special dish of the week. However, the lunch service only operates for 2 hours from 12-2 pm on Monday-Friday which makes it extremely difficult to dine there when you're working 🥲. The seating area is quite limited and it can feel quite cramped as well. This is the reason I took off one star for that however, if you're on vacation and live in the area, the lunch service is absolutely amazing...

This pasta shop mainly sells fresh handmade pasta, but it offers a cooked menu in-store during weekdays at noon, serving lunch for only 2 hours, making it quite a challenge to get😂

I ordered the meat pasta and pesto pasta. The taste is really close to that of local Italian cuisine! (The first and third items on the menu in picture four)

The portion of pasta is not too large, and the accompanying sauce doesn't have an excessive amount of cheese, avoiding greasiness. Although the dining environment isn't very fancy, the overall cleanliness and service are quite good 😌

There are red wines available in the shop, which you can order by the glass or buy a...

Petit artisant de pate fraiche. J'y suis aller pendant l'heure du midi pour le Ziti Al Pomodoro. Les pates etais fraiche et la cuisson etais impecable, la sauce manquais un peu de sel a mon gout sinon cetais tres bien. Le tout etais garnis de fromage. Le service etais tres amicable et ils ont repondue a tout mes questions. Je le conseil a tout fan de pates fraiche.

Mise a jour: J'y suis retourner pour plusieurs items.

J'ai adorer le Fiori al Pesto. La sauce etais tres fraiche. Elle a une belle texture sans etre trop huileuse. Les aromes de noix et de basilic resortent fortement. Sans aucun doute le meilleur pesto que j'ai eu la chance de manger.

J'ai aussi pris le Mafaldine au ragut 3 viandes. La sauce etais bien riche du a ce que j'assume etre le gras de la viande qui a velouter le tout. Sans doute un tres bon choix pour les amateur de protein animal.

Le point fort auquel je m'y attendais pas etais la foccacia. D'une fraicheur remarquable. Parfaitement croustillant a lexterieur avec une touche d'huile et une pincee de sel. Interieur moilleux comme une eponge. Tomate cerise etonament sucree sur le dessus. Au nez on perois la fragrence du romarin, le tout rend ca absolument absolument parfait a prendre avec un plat de pate pour pouvoir tremper la foccacia dans le restant de sauce, je le conseil.

Comme dessert une pointe de gateau au ricotta. La texture est soyeuse et cremeuse en bouche. Gout pas trop sucree sans trop goutter la ricotta non plus, excellent equilibre de saveur. Comment...