Cafe Pasta
Italian Restaurant in Covent Garden
Cafe Pasta is a small chain of restaurants that serve a wide variety of Italian cuisine which are complimented by a choice of fine wines. The interior is a pleasant mixture of warm Mediterranean colours and stripped wood. All their food is cooked to order. They can cater for private parties of up to 20 people.
Visited Cafe Pasta (Garrick Street) on Saturday, early evening, 16/08/08.
The downstairs seating was well lit for a room with little natural light, and takes you away from the hustle-bustle of the streets above.
Ordered Baked Mushrooms and Pan Fried King Prawns for a starter.
Mushrooms were delicious, served with the right amounts of Goats Cheese and Pine nuts. King Prawns were very well cooked, and plentiful - two things many restaurants can get wrong.
For main courses, we opted for the pizzas, which looked great from what we had seen on other tables, although many of the pasta dishes also looked very good to the eye.
We were served with two perfectly cooked pizzas (one Chargrilled Chicken, one Carne).
Both had massive amounts of toppings, and were a nice change to the usual pizzas served in Italian chain resaurants. They were served roughly shaped, and were cooked beautifully.
Enjoyed a Butterscotch Ice Cream for desert, which was lovely, and also had a fantastic Esspresso.
Ordered a Pino Blush wine, which was nice, but probably the only thing overpriced on the menu at £16.
Overall, for $50, dinner was superb, and I'd definately recommend paying a visit - it fitted in for us as a pre-theatre meal, and food was speedily delivered.
