Pasta Italia Trattoria

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1621 30th Ave
Gulfport, MS 39501

Phone: (228) 863-4600

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Neighborhood: Gulfport

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02/16/2011 - A Very Upset DIner
I'd give it zero if there were an option to. We ate there for Valentine's dinner where it was a set menu, $50 per person. If the food and service were any good, I wouldn't mind paying. I eat in New Orleans regularly, and am used to spending up to $400 for a meal with wine for two people. This was not the case with Pasta Italia.

We walked in and the restaurant was about two-thirds full, but not a single server or host was in sight for about three to four minutes. We should have left then. The waitress came out with silverware in her hand as if she was in the back polishing, which I'm not sure why since the silverware was cheap and mismatched. She sat us and walked away. Five minutes later she came back with two ice waters and never offered us anything else to drink. There was no menu of what we'd be having and she offered us a choice of either a mixed grill or mixed fish for the main course, never mentioning what our other courses would consist of. She also said they only had one fish plate left. Whatever. We both got the mixed grill.

A little while later, out came some bread. Then five or so minutes later, out came one, not two, but one caprese salad. Now I have eaten this type of salad before at restaurants all across the US and never has it been served on chopped romaine. There were two slices of fresh mozzarella and two slices of tomato--no basil. We shared the pathetic salad, which was about three bites each. Then they brought out the pasta course. It was on ravioli, so thinly filled we couldn't tell if there was any filling at all. The alfredo sauce was floury and pasty and tasted of overcooked garlic. The other item was some sort of rolled pasta about the size of a third of a spring roll. Again, when the food was dropped off, there was no explanation of what it was. There was one small slice of mushroom on the plate, so I suspect it was intentional?!?!

As we waited for the main course, the scattered waitress came back and asked if we had gotten our salads yet. She was the one who served us the salad, the one salad to begin with. When we said yes, she dropped off two salads, one for each person, to the table next to us. We were wondering why we had to share one. Fifteen or so minutes later, someone returned with the entree. Of course they had taken our knives with the pasta course and never replaced them, so we had to ask for two more as our lukewarm entrees got even colder.

The entree was a 3 ounce portion of some sort of overcooked chicken in an excessively salty demi glace, a piece of veal that resembled saltimbocca since it was stuffed with cheese and proscuitto, but it was covered in picatta sauce. The veal was criminally overcooked, so much so that the cheap butter knife they gave us wouldn't cut through it. When we informed the waitress, she said, oh, it's isn't usually like that, but never offered to rectify the problem. The 12 pieces of potatoes were small cubes unevenly cut, so some of my potato chunks were still raw in the middle. The vegetable was two small pieces of asparagus wrapped in proscuitto. The other meat on the mixed grill was beef, which actually was cooked medium rare, but the sauce was bland and ran together with the other two sauces. We did not finish the veal or the chicken because they were both so tough and overcooked, they were inedible. Again, the waitress, just said, oops, sorry. Then she refilled my husband's water and spilled all over the table. Her explanation was that she is blind as a bat. Ok. Thanks for that.

She brought out our dessert and a cappuccino. We only knew what the dessert was because we overheard her explain when the table next to us ask what it was. It looked like someone had gone to a picnic and scooped three blobs of crap from a bucket onto Fiestaware. The first blob was what they called chocolate mousse. It wasn't slightly dense, yet light and airy, velvety choclaty richness that you would expect. It tasted like someone threw some choclate chips in a blender with some whipped cream. The chocolate wasn't melted and it tasted like someone threw in some cookie crumbs into the mix, which were soggy grossness when we took a bite. Horrible. The tiramisu was mediocre at best. The berries and cream tasted like someone took a #10 can of wild blueberries from Sam's club, added a bit of sugar and served it on some overwhipped whipped cream. The cappuccino was deplorable. It tasted like someone rant the cappuccino machine at a gas station on the "clean" cycle. It literally tasted like dirty dish water.

After we were thoroughly disappointed, they brought out the check. $107 for two people. I'm doing the math in my head, wondering how this can be possible for this slop. Even at very nice restaurants, entree prices range between $20-$30, so to estimate, the entree is $25, that leaves Pasta Italia $25 for the other three courses. So $8 a course and $16 for the crappy salad. Hmmm. No thanks. Ever.

When I called the owner to give him our feedback, I prefaced the conversation by saying I did not want anything free. Instead he argued with me telling me that I was wrong about the food and I was the only one who complained. How insulting and rude to top off a horrible experience on what should have been a wonderful evening. My only regret is that I was in New Orleans earlier that afternoon and was going to cancel and eat in the city. My husband and I wish now we had. I will never set foot in there again. By the way, I have lived and worked in Europe and Japan, have eaten all over Italy and have eaten at many restaurants by top chefs in the US. Pasta Italia doesn't even come close to a mediocre restaurant and the owner is kidding himself if he thinks otherwise. Don't waste your time or money.