Restaurant: Il Pastaio
Location: 400 N.Canon Drive. Bevery Hills, CA 90210. Phone: 310.205.5444
Date: December 2, 2011
Cuisine: Italian
Rating: Excellent neighborhood Italian
Il Pastaio is one of the Drago brothers many many excellent Los Angeles Italians. This is probably the flagship of brother Giacomino Drago’s collection of seven restaurants. The pastas in particular (the name does mean the Pasta Maker) are incredible. This meal, however, was just a quick lunch.
A lobster salad with marinated peppers and cucumbers. I’m a huge lobster salad fan and this was no disappointment. Look at all that juicy lobster meat!
Gnocci in pink sauce. A classic, but very good.
A spinach parpadelle with a meat ragu. I love this kind of hearty meat ragu. yum yum.
To avoid carb coma.
And parked outside was this totally whacky but cool chopper. If you zoom in you can see that every part of it from engine block to the seat is custom tooled!
Anyway, while this is just a mini glimpse at Il Pastaio’s cusine, it’s a fantastic place. I’ll have to come back and document a much more extensive meal.
Older brother Drago restaurant is reviewed here and Giacomino’s via alloro.