Pastaio 新店 — Restaurant in New Taipei

Great deco, the atmosphere is relaxing. They even played Billie Eilish’s songs. The pasta was ok, but the handmade part was attractive. The beef in the spicy beef was tough and chewy. The soy pork one was good. The only downside was we waited 40 minutes for our pasta, and I can hear the chef (who’s standing at the pass) calling out orders, he did not call ours. There were only eight tables dinning at the same time, all tables received their foods but us. We called the waitress and she went to check their till. We have a strong suspicion that our orders were not placed. They had a small discussion and within 3 minutes we got one of our orders, the other one took a while to arrive. Not sure if there’s an error in the system? Maybe the tickets went separately (for different sections?) and the chef didn’t notice we didn’t order any appetiser? They did give up two complimentary coffees for...

I brought my mom to this location after eating at the original store back in 2020. Unfortunately the quality control is lacking; we ordered two pastas and a calamari appetizer and were disappointed with all three. The fried calamari was not crispy and very oily. The pasta was too soft and the texture was off. I ordered the pesto and it was very oily and hard to finish. I remember being very impressed when I first ate at the original location but that was 3 years ago, the quality control needs to...

We have been to this restaurant several times and the staff has been incredibly friendly and delivered wonderful service. The food is very consistent and is among the best pasta in Xindian. Some of my personal favorite dishes are the Caesar salad, calamari, Serrano ham/melon dish, vodka sauce gnocchetti, chorizo orchichietti(?) and for dessert the basque cheesecake and tiramisu. Compliments to the...