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Pasta Bowl Italian Mix in St. Peters, Missouri accidentally found us this weekend. You see we made it up to St. Louis on Saturday for a another full weekend of playing hockey and we had about an hour until we needed to met up with the rest of the team at the rink. We were a bit hungry in the car so we drove down Mid Rivers Mall Drive on the look for some good eats. And there we saw it, on the horizon, Red Robin. That is some good eats, so we pulled in to the parking lot but we noticed that there was alot of people standing around and that wouldn't do because we didn't have time to wait. (Also playing hockey on a stomach full of hamburger didn't sound the best.) So we pulled out of the parking lot and noticed the place across the way called Pasta Bowl Italian Mix, after a quick vote in the car we kept on driving up the street to see what else we could find.
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Best decision ever.
The restaurant turns out to be like Noodle's and Co. but it only does Italian food. The interior was very nice and modern and the prices were fair $7.50 for a bowl of pasta and a Coke. We ended up ordering a good variety of things and all of them were very good, actually they were all great. It was real Italian food (I should know; I have to eat Italian food made by Italians quite a bit during the holidays). The kicker was the owner (?) of the place that was just the nicest guy around. He was defiantly Italian (he had heavy stereotypical accent and all) and it showed that he cared very much for his food and his customers. In fact if it wasn't for him the Pasta Bowl would not be the topic of a post on my blog. But he was the kind of guy that you just have to smile because he likes doing what he is doing so much.
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Even though the staff apologized for saying that it took along time to get our food out, we all got our food in less than 15 minutes, which was a pretty good accomplishment considering there was only one cook. It turned out that the team thought that the place was good, and some guys seemed like the place even better than I did. Our Coach said that the Pasta Bowl will go on our (short) list of places to eat while in town, and we have already told the owner of the place that we will be back up there next weekend.
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p.s. It also made me think that everyone should smile more often, it makes the world a happier place.
4 comments:
I've never met an italian restaurant I didn't like ;o) Love me some pasta!
Where every-a-body-a knows-a you name!
It's so difficult to find a good Italian restaurant. Trust me. I grew up with an Italian grandmother, and most of the Italian food you get in restaurants is crap.
(then again, I may be just a little biased)
:-D
@kat- Pasta is one of my favorite foods too.
@earl- ^_^! that was too funny... I think I might go pitch the idea of an Italian Cheers to NBC.
@callie- I couldn't agree more. I have almost stopped going to Italian places because they are over priced, and even the best ones make their pasta only as good as when we can do. It isn't too hard to make a better red sauce than what 95% of the restaurants are serving.
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