The Pasta Market — Restaurant in Sunnyvale

Solid 5 stars and we cannot believe took us years to notice this gem of a restaurant so close to our home. We are family of six who are quite picky eaters of Italian food. Now we noticed this place we find ourselves dining in or getting take-away at least once a week.

One word: value! Second word: tasty! Their portion sizes on many entrees are so generous as to feed two adults, plus their complimentary salad (with many entrees) is unusually large for a side salad

Highly recommended: Fettuccine Veneziana: if you find the cream sauce too heavy, try our trick to sub in angel hair pasta and Pomodori sauce, which turns this into a light Italian pasta dish you would find (priced a third higher) at a restaurant like Maggiano's. Nearly similar taste to seafood pasta dishes we've had along Cinque Terre ( Italian Riviera coast). Or also very good: salmon over angle hair with the Pomodori sauce.

Lasagna: fantastic ! Side of two meatballs: only $3 - are you kidding? Some of the best meatballs ever to meet my taste buds Minestrone soup: fantastic ! Chicken piccata: our daughter loves their version of this dish. Tiramisu: very good

NOTE: we haven't had a chance to try many items on their menu so if not listed above don't assume item is not good.

Skip it: Linguine de Mare: you will like this only if you are OK with a sauce that is heavy tomato base that's lacking seafood flavor. It does not compare well to Maggiano's (admittedly higher priced...

We’ve been here before and have returned multiple times since because the food is really good. This last time we visited though stood out because of a particularly considerate act by one of the female employees on duty. My wife and I had just been brought our food and were preparing to eat when a man entered the restaurant to pick up a to-go order. This man was loudly talking to someone on speakerphone, and I think most of us know how loud the person on the other end of the call can sound on speakerphone too. . . Until this time, my wife and I had been the only customers in the restaurant. To my surprise, we overheard the young female employee politely ask that the man on the phone switch off speakerphone or take the conversation outside until his order was ready for pickup because she had customers who were dining. That blew my mind that a restaurant worker, nowadays, would be so considerate to their customers and do what she did to try to ensure a nice dining experience for them. I was beyond pleasantly impressed and I commend her for her actions. This is a great example of what service should be about in the dining industry, whether it’s a fine dining establishment or casual dining like this. Thank you for being so professional and considerate in this world of ever-increasing disregard for good old...

My goodness, what an unpleasant experience the manager extended to us before we even ordered. We walked through the front door being held open by someone who was having what appeared to be a difficult conversation with someone standing just behind the door. When the door holder then walked in, my family was taking up the limited space between the counter and the wall to the restaurant as we reviewed the menu. As I motioned for me daughter to step forward, since she hadn’t seen the woman coming behind her, the woman rocked back on her heels, audibly sighed and rolled her eyes so hard they almost went back into her head. I brushed it off as a disgruntled customer having a bad day, until she went behind the counter! I assumed then that she was the manager or owner since she was the only one not wearing a uniform. During the course of ordering, I asked the rep at cash register about the ingredients in a salad. He wasn’t sure of all the ingredients so took a step back to ask the woman who barked the answer to him without even turning around to engage with him or with me, the customer at the counter. If my kids hadn’t been so hungry I would have left - what a terrible way to treat employees and customers. I’ll never...