Pastai Restaurant — Restaurant in New York

Unfortunately, I did not have a good experience here the other night. The atmosphere is very cute and cozy, I loved the ambiance but the food let me down. As soon as we sit, we are given the restaurant week menu which was $60 a person which is fine. But we did not want to order off this menu. There was no alternative menu but the waiter told us we could order things individually and not do the price fixe. That was fine and all until there were no prices to be found for anything. And it was hard to ask for anything because the waiter was very busy and we felt too awkward leaving as we were there for 15+ minutes at this point and my boyfriend already ordered a drink, which was never brought to him and he canceled it altogether, and we got bread.

So we just order anyway. Burrata appetizer was good but very small. It was the size of my palm. I ordered some crusted chicken dish and it was extremely disappointing. For $25, it was a glorified salad. Just a thin, bland piece of chicken cutlet covered in arugula. It wasn't absolutely terrible but I was definitely disappointed. My sister's dish, some pasta with steak pieces, was very delicious and the bread was fabulous too. I would come back because it is such a cute place and their regular menu online looks a lot more appealing than their restaurant week menu but I unfortunately did not have a good experience this...

This restaurant is super quaint and cute. We came to celebrate my boyfriend's birthday with his family. Ordered three appetizers and a salad. Both bruschettas were fabulous- very tasty and perfect seasoning. Brussel sprouts- we asked for no bacon since we are vegetarian and they didn't add any other seasoning to it so it was very bland. Normally if we ask for a dish vegetarian at any other restaurant, they will season it and it will taste great. not the case here. Anyways, other dishes were great so let it slide. For the main course, we ordered three pastas and two paninis. All of the pastas had no taste, it appeared they didn't season or put salt/pepper in the dishes. There was no spice, and the pasta was very al dente- basically almost raw. One of the paninis (avocado, sunny side up eggs and tomato) was open faced, which was not indicated on the menu. If I was told it was, I wouldn't have ordered it. The bread was very had to cut and very messy to eat overall. First I asked for the eggs to be scrambled, but they came sunny side up. I told the waiter, and he literally took the eggs off and put scrambled back on top. We told them about our issues and the food not tasting good at all, and they didn't compensate us at all. Considering we came for a special meal out, we were disappointed. I would only recommend coming for the drinks and...

The "specials" on the menu seem to be a way to discard old expired stuff from the kitchen in this place. I had a mussels, prawns tagliatelle where the moment the dish was brought to the table, one could make out the diner quality of the food on the plate. The mussels smelly and disgusting, the prawns were just overcooked hard boiled mass sprinkled over the unremarkable pasta. I had to leave the full dish on the plate while wondering, "Do these guys see that the customer left the whole dish intact on the plate and do they wonder if they served garbage out or just trash the dish and wait to capture the next gullible new yorker trying to find a okay looking place in Chelsea to throw their next special on?". My wife ordered the Ravioli and it was unevenly cooked, doughy on the sides and insipid to say the least. If this was a place charging 10$ for a pasta, I would understand and give them a pass. This place charges you 20$ upwards for an entree. So if you are looking for lightening up your pocket and getting a below average experience walk in. Should have guessed from the supermarket white sliced bread served with olive oil that the incoming meal wasn't going to be anything worth writing about. But...