What did I eat? Lasagna, bread, pizza, tiramisu
Where from? La Pizza & La Pasta at Eataly
How much did it cost? ~$25
How was it?
I went to Eataly to celebrate a friend’s birthday. There are multiple restaurants in Eataly and fortunately, the powers to be picked the pizza/pasta restaurant instead of the vegetarian restaurant (thank God!). The wait was long though; I believe we had a good half an hour of wait even though the hostess said it’d be around 15 minutes.
We ordered a pizza (shown above), lasagne (my order), casarecce with short rib ragu and linguine with seafood. The pizza was acceptable. I’m not a fan of these “real” Italian pizzas and their thin crusts. I feel like I’m eating naan with some toppings; give me my Pizza Hut, Dominos or UNO deep dishes! My lasagna was the perfect portion; I was starving by the time the food came but I think the lasagna had just about enough to satisfy my hunger. I wasn’t stuff but nowadays, I don’t want to stuff myself either.
HH had the casarecce and I tried a bit of it. What is casarecce? Think of it as small tubes of noodles which have been cut in halves and then reattached. The ragu is very similar to the wild boar ragu at Basso56. The pasta was a tad bit hard but the server informed us ahead of time that it’ll be “al dente”; maybe casarecce should be served a bit softer.
Lastly, we shared a tiramisu which was bought from the bakery at Eataly; this was a stand-in for a birthday cake. An interesting note is that although we bought it from the bakery in the same store, apparently, you can’t have it served at one of the restaurants since it’s considered food from “outside”. Fortunately, there were seating outside the restaurants where we can sit and wait so we just opened it up and ate it. I rate it the 2nd best tiramisu in town after the one which my colleague makes.
Happy birthday “old man” and may the 49ers win the Super Bowl, as a belated birthday gift to you! And also a GT-R for me.
Rate it!
8/10 for the lasagne, 7/10 for the casarecce, 6/10 for the pizza and 8/10 for the tiramisu
Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner 
