Restaurante La Casa della pasta Jávea — Restaurant in Xàbia / Jávea

Went to this restaurant based on it's high rating. What a mistake... First and foremost, this restaurant is profiling itself as a authentic Italian restaurant - they even have Italian flags outside of the entrance. Now, if you actually go that far - as a chef / restaurant owner, you have to realize you set a certain level. Italian food is great when it's good, but if you have any doubts about the fact that you can make italian food you might want to keep a lower profile.

Anyway back to my score. The restaurant itself has a beautiful setting, really nice (and big!) garden with a lot of plants/trees and lovely decorated. The restaurant was packed when we came, which made me believe that this must be a popular - and therefore very good italian restaurant. To my surprise, it was far from that. Which must mean, most of the customers they have - really have no clue about how italian food should taste like.

We ordered 4 different pasta dishes, I had the sea food linguini, my wife had a mozarella guanciale, and then our company ordered a carbonara and mozzarella basil pasta.

The sea food linguini tasted nothing more than salt, pasta was not al dente and didn't even taste like home made pasta nor italian "good" pasta. When they came with the Carbonara i immediately saw that they had no idea what they were doing in the kitchen. It was white and runny, so I would guess it was cream based. A real carbonara is yellow! Since it only has egg yolks, pecorino, and the water from the pasta - which should create an "emulsion". If it's runny there's no emulsion, and you're using the wrong ingredients. I'm guessing the chef in the kitchen doesn't even know what an emulsion is. Which is nothing more than just sad. The mozzarella pastas where quite tasteless and really nothing special.

To top it all, we order a tiramisu as a dessert. It had literally NO taste of amaretto, nor coffee, and it seemed to be based on whipped cream! if you'd serve this to an Italian he'd throw it away on an instant. You make a tiramisu from mascarpone and egg yolks, and it's supposed to have distinct taste of amaretto and coffee. This was the worst tiramisu i've had in my life (and trust me, i've had many!).

To sum it up; It's an insult to call this a real italian restaurant and show off with italian flags when the chefs have no conception what so ever, of how to make real...

My family and I had dinner here yesterday. We chose this restaurant because my sister has Celiac disease and I am gluten sensitive, and we saw that they have a gluten free menu on their website. The starters were nice; the vitello tonnato, provolone al forno and ensalada Siciliana tasted good.

Then the rest ordered their house made ravioli and canneloni and those looked amazing (and tasted very good aswell from what I heard from everyone).

My sister and I ordered a pasta with gluten free pasta. We thought they would swap linguine for gluten free linguine; spaghetti for gluten free spaghetti etc. Instead, we both got gluten free penne. The gluten free penne itself really wasn’t nice (TIP: the gluten free pasta from the brand Rummo is amazing). But besides that, we both chose a delicate sauce. I feel like as an Italian restaurant you should know that there are different kinds of pasta for a reason. Penne is meant for strong and thick sauces, not delicate sauces with just olive oil or butter. My sister chose the pasta al tartufo (butter based), which honestly tasted like a big plate of plain, cooked penne. It just doesn’t combine well and really tasted like nothing. I chose the pasta allo scoglio (seafood), which is usually served with spaghetti or linguine and is olive oil based. Again, penne does not work.. Furthermore, this sauce was EXTREMELY salty (and I like to use a lot of salt).

My sister and I did not finish our plates and when we told them that the gluten free pasta’s were not good, they offered to take them of the bill. So that was a nice gesture.

We also ordered dessert, but one dessert somehow never came which was also a bit strange. It was also on the bill, but then they removed it.

Over all I think the food is probably really great if you can eat everything. But for my sister and I it was unfortunately really dissapointing. Especially since our experience in Spain has been really amazing so far with gluten...

Unfortunately a disappointing experience… I had come across Casa della pasta via Instagram ‘maps’ and saw some photos of pasta beings served in a cheese wheel which is a big weakness of mine. Seeing the place was rated a big 4.6 stars on google, I was convinced. We ordered a Salad with Ricotta, olives and pistachio cream (which I have to say was good) and the famous Spaghetti al Parmigiano! I was counting the minutes until they would come with the cheese wheel to serve us fresh cheesy pasta on our plate but we were utterly disappointed when they just put two ready pasta plates on our table…. I thought it was a mistake but the waiter informed us they no longer roll out the cheese wheel and do it in the kitchen instead… it was so disappointing because it was also the most expensive pasta option on the menu so you expect it to be an experience! To make it worse the pasta was filled with ‘cheap’ vegetables and celery that has a way to strong taste and therefore just completely overmastered the ‘cheese and trufle’ taste. It was so disappointing that we didn’t even want to order a dessert anymore and left as soon as we could. Perhaps we ordered bad but I felt this dish was one of their star dishes…. I definitely recommend the restaurant to leave out the horrible vegetables. Simplicity is the best when it comes to good pasta. The place itself and their patio is...