La Rughetta — Restaurant in Paris

Basically, if your in the area, and nothing else looks good, it's ok pasta. Don't travel more than 5 min to eat here.

This place has a lot of 5 star reviews, but I can only imagine it's based on whats available within a few blocks.

We saw the reviews and came from Eiffel Tower district to try it out. It was not worth the trip.

The best part: The service is fantastic. The brochetta is good, but a step missing in seasoning to make it amazing.

The bad: Extremely smokey. Thee outside seating is covered, but nothing stopping the smoke from entering the restaurant. It was like everyone inside was smoking. So be prepared for that.

Some of the pasta dishes (avoid rughetta) use a cheese that tastes like rotten stinky cheese.

Atmosphere is nothing memorable.

Pastas and sauces don't taste or appear like there is professional...

We managed to get a walk-in table as a family of four. The hostess spoke French and English and gave us English menus. My son had gnocchi with pistachio pesto (very tasty), my daughter had a generously sized cheese and tomato pizza (really good), my husband had a flat iron steak with tomato, olive and caper sauce (delicious), and I had fresh spinach and cheese ravioli (great). The atmosphere was relaxed and despite its small size it didn’t feel crowded even though every table was occupied. Price was good too - €100 for two starters, 4 main dishes, a carafe of red wine and two soft drinks. Both members of staff were great with the kids and gave us a small plate of sweets with the bill....

Had an early dinner here right when it opened at 7 so wasn’t busy and service was prompt.

Started with small mozzarella and prosciutto, which was still a full plate so a good portion.

We then split the diavola pizza, spaghetti, and ravioli.

With portion sizes ended up being way too much for 2 people but still glad we ordered this much so we could try different things.

Pizza was the best option, and there seemed to be a good amount of to go orders for pizza so that might be what they are best at.

Ravioli didn’t have much flavor, or cheese filling, and came with a white sauce that didn’t add much flavor to it.

The spaghetti was MASSIVE, and had...