PASTA E BASTA Italian restaurant — Restaurant in Rayong Province

Fantastic dishes by a chef who makes it all himself by hand. Not easy to do.

We really enjoyed the food, but the atmosphere was kinda uncomfortable with all the rules and signage everywhere. I was hesitant to even try to come because of the experience of others. I believe that it would be 5 star if the Chef / owner eased up a bit or put his rules out there more gracefully. Not on the menu board and every single placemat, front entrance, and then also have that the first thing outta the servers mouth. Very unwelcoming imho.

I get that customers can be difficult, but it’s completely overkill to handle it this way. We even moved a birthday party to another place because we just were scared it was going to be a bad experience. And we were right. Great food but not enjoyable atmosphere. Especially with the strong smell of cigarettes.

We are glad we came two days later just to try the food. It was great, but I can see now why so many people would prefer a takeaway option.

Also no wine ??? Seriously at an Italian restaurant on a early Friday night with no wine and minimal drinks to order.

Chef you’re so close to having a perfect family restaurant, but you’re shooting yourself in the foot with all the rules, personal smoking and no drinks.

I really hope you see this as constructive criticism and not an intentional attempt to insult. Your food is far too good and you probably work far too hard to have these petty...

Would I go and eat hier again? No I would not. This Italian restaurant prides itself to be making a lot of their products themselves, like sausages, bacon etc. which is true. However everything is really fatty as you can see in the pictures, which is not a problem, however there is hardly any taste on sausage, only the ham could deliver the great Italian taste we all love. My squid ink noodle were soaked in Olive oil and more or less tasteless, however the prawns in it were good. Pizza was also OK. However I was always missing the taste of Italy you know from Europe and of course Italy. Maybe the food is more optimized for the local Tbais, but coming from Europe and being in Italy many times before, it was really disappointing. The red wine is worth mentioning, becauae it was actually good, but they only had one kind of red wine to choose from, or should I say not to choose from. Overall not a good experience and I would not recommend...

Edit to my review.

Came today and I'm sorry to say the food quality dropped drastically. The pasta was tasteless and the Italian sausage looked and tasted bad. The dry aged ham on the pizza was so salty, we could not eat it. The Caprece salad we ordered never came. Dear owner, please take care of this so I can come and enjoy again in the future.

I gave a 5 star, but I do have some negative comments. First the good. The food is good and not expensive. All homemade and you can feel it. The pasta dishes are HUGE and thats a problem and they DO NOT LET YOU TAKE LEFTOVERS HOME. I'm sorry, but that's the basic on restaurant service. My mom told me not to waste food, but you force me to throw away great food WHICH I PAID FOR. They make it a point by putting signs all over the place that they don't allow it. Come on, if it's the money, I'll be happy to pay extra 50 baht, but let me take my food back...