Pastina Rustic Italian
9354 Mentor Ave,Unit 1, Mentor, OH, 44060
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Address :
9354 Mentor Ave,Unit 1
Mentor, OH, 44060 - Phone (440) 255-3117
- Website https://www.pastinarusticitalian.com/
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Opening Hours
- Mon :4:00 pm - 10:00pm
Specialities
- Takes Reservations : Yes
Delivery : No
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Dinner
Parking : Private Lot
Bike Parking : No
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Ambience : Casual
Noise Level : Average
Good For Dancing : No
Alcohol : Full Bar
Happy Hour : No
Best Nights : Wed, Thu, Sun
Coat Check : No
Outdoor Seating : Yes
Wi-Fi : Free
Has TV : Yes
Waiter Service : Yes
Caters : No
Categories
Italian Cuisine
The immense popularity of Italian cuisine globally isn't unknown. You can find an Italian Pizzeria around every corner of almost every city in the United States. Not to forget that in every house, people enjoy mac and cheese as comfort food. But it would be wrong to believe that Italian food starts with pizza and ends with good pasta as this Mediterranean country has much more to offer other than these two dishes. In Italian Cuisine, there is a high use of fresh tomatoes, all kinds of herbs, great quality of cheese, all types of meat, seafood and fresh handmade pasta. Many find it hard to believe that Italians have been making noodles long back.
Italian and Greek cuisines are always mistaken to be same, but they are poles apart. The primary difference between the two cuisines is the use of cheese in most of the Italian dishes. Italians love to cultivate their own cheese and process them as per their food requirement. It is believed that some cheese is so expensive that cheese producers secure them in lockers.
If you are bored eating the same old pasta or pizza, you can try some of the authentic Italian dishes like Risotto, Polenta, Ribollita, Lasagna, Fiorentina Steak, Bottarga, Ossobuco, Carbonara, Focaccia, Arancini and Supplì. Another item which Italians love to relish every morning is a good cup of Italian Coffee. Once you taste a freshly brewed cup of Italian Coffee, you might not visit Starbucks ever again. Authentic Italian food is made with heart and soul, so go find a restaurant where you can relish Italian cuisine in your city.
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Juan S.
Drove past the restaurant and decided to try it out. Excellent food and service. The calamari is great. Love the spicy sauce and Wasabi mayo. The marinara sauce and bread is so good. We bought a pint of it when our waiter said they sell it to customers. Pasta bolognese is so good. Very good restaurant. Like the farm to table and local product concept. The pasta is worth the money for fresh made pasta. We will be back for more.
(5)Dan M.
Three of us had dinner early last Friday on the patio and were very impressed with the cuisine and service. Loved the 3 cheese ravioli especially. Will definitely be back.
(5)Anthony L.
Great to see a Mentor get some good non chain restaurants. The food was great, and good drink menu. Staff was super friendly as well.
(5)Joe W.
Been here a few times now, for obvious reasons. Pizza is great as well as the homemade pastas. The dipping sauce with the bread is out of this world. I highly recommend a stop here.
(5)Tony S.
I have wanted to try this restaurant for some time. I was encouraged as the parking lot was full on a Thursday night and a number of people were waiting for tables. I decided to sit at the bar, which was also busy. Nonetheless, I was greeted quickly and got a glass of the house Chianti. The staff I met were friendly and helpful. The atmosphere was very nice, lots of people and a beautiful bar. It was a thick slice of a large tree that was irregular and obviously custom made for the restaurant. I did not have a chance to see the main dining room. The outdoor patio looked nice, with what would be typical outdoor furniture. It is covered and even though it was raining people were comfortable eating there, it was almost full. I ordered the house bolognese with papardelle. Which is the appropriate pasta for this type of sauce. This was not a classic bolognese since it was made with ground meet instead of braised beef, but it tasted very. The pasta was cooked AL dented. The only complaint I had was that some of the pasta was clamped together as it was not stirred during cooking. The pasta came with a side salad and cost $17, the check came to $25, a little expensive for a strip mall restaurant, but the quality made it a reasonable clue. This restaurant is a nice addition to the city and especially this part of town.
(4)Anastasia W.
Came in for dinner tonight and had zerina as my server, she was awesome. They were out of mussels, which was a bummer, but she recommended the calamari and it was perfectly cooked. I had the lamb and gnocchi special and my fiancé had the Luna Rosa cavatelli. Both entrees were great. I am a pastry chef and the tiramisu wasn't anything to write home about. But the service more than made up for the bumps. Zerina was personable and funny with great recommendations.
(5)Dimitri S.
I took my mother and my brother here, and we were all very impressed! For an appetizer we got the Arancini. This is a must get, it was absolutely fantastic! You get three large rice balls, easily enough for us. All of our entrees came with either soup or house salad, but unfortunately they were all out of soup. Salads were nothing special. The homemade italian was good, but a little sweet. For an entree, my mother got the mahi mahi, my brother linguine marinara with meatballs, and I got the butternut squash ravioli. Portions on all of these were quite large! Both the ravioli and the linguine are homemade and were fantastic. The squash ravioli was amazing itself! I got sausage on the side, and it was great! The fish had some troubles though. While absolutely delicious, the topping on it was very cold, as in pulled out of the fridge and put on. This made the parts of the fish that had the topping on it just as cold. So in the end 1/2 was perfect, and half was very cold. This was just added in, as it was a paper insert in the menu. We mentioned to them and hopefully it will be fixed in the future, cause it's a shame cause everything else about it was great. For desert we had their homemade tiramisu. We tried to get bread pudding as well, but they were out of that as well. That said, the tiramisu was great! The atmosphere is nice. Not as casual as something like olive garden, but not as fancy as a higher end restaurant. The furniture felt a little cheap. In the end, without alcohol, expect to spend $25-$30 per person. We will be going back for sure!
(4)renee p.
We were excited to try this restaurant. We walked in and the two hostesses, one with a bandage on her had, would not even give us the time of day. When they did finally acknowledge me standing directly in front of them after I said "hello?" every question I asked regarding eating outside was met with a snotty response. We just turned around and left. What a disappointment. First impressions are everything and that was a terrible first impression.
(1)Ericka H.
Severely underrated! Everything was excellent. The food, the service and the pricing! Shrimp fettuccine, chicken, parm and pork shank were mouthwatering delicious!
(5)Phil M.
I absolutely love this place. At first I was like great, another Italian place in mentor? I have been blown away by this place. Pastina offers some of the best food in the city and is now my first choice when dinning close to home. I eat here about once a week and every time I find something new and exciting to try. It all starts with their home made bread and tomato oil dipping sauce which is complementary!!! Then I always order the calamari, it is by far the best I've ever had. After that it's a guess as to which entree to try because everyone I've had has been great. Their steak is melt in your mouth and the pasta.... Forgot about it. All freshly made and out of this world. Lastly the service has been very good and I always look forward to coming back.
(5)Bryan P.
First time here after reading all the great reviews and was not disappointed. Everything was awesome with our party of 10 from the appetizers to the deserts.
(5)Erin S.
Glorified "Olive Garden." White Clam dish was so soupy, it could have been mistaken as pho. The "house" dressing was straight from a bottle. The meat in the stuffed peppers was mushy. Only decent dish was our calamari. Will never return.
(1)Dan Z.
GREAT Italian food from real Italians! I want to congratulate the Longo Family for another great restaurant. The food here is authentic. I come from an Italian family and the homemade pasta and bolognese sauce is perfect. This place is one of the best in the county.
(5)Denise B.
This was our first time here. Food was excellent, very fresh and flavorful. We had the stuffed peppers as an appetizer, and had dinner salads. The Pastina salad is very good, and I highly recommend, I just didn't care for the dressing that came with it...Italian dressing tasted much better with it. The house salad was very good as well, had chicken breast added to it, very moist and tender. The desserts were ok, nothing spectacular. Our server started out a little slow at first, but improved as the night went on. Overall food it very good, but pricey.
(5)Mary Kay D.
It's funny how we always thought we had to go to Little Italy for authentic Italian! Now we have Pastina right in our backyard; it really is delightful! The food was fabulous: I enjoyed a handmade Mushroom ravioli and my husband ordered a traditional pasta dish and loved it. The service was sensational; we were blessed with a server who was right on the ball. We have already spoken about our next visit to Pastina and look forward to bringing all our friends here! We were so pleasantly surprised by the ambience inside because the exterior is very generic. Hopefully, they will stay here for a long, long time ... look out Brio!
(5)Allison P.
Little disappointed. Food was alright, service was horrible. We had to ask for bread multiple times. Our waitress never brought us a refill on water. Edited star rating after chef responded to my first experience. I hope these guys stick around.
(4)Jenn G.
The service and red bread dipping sauce are the stellar items here! The pizza was "ok" - I feel like more options as to combination pizzas are needed for this place to shine - don't get me wrong - the mushroom pizza was good - not very "mushroom-y" though... The cavatelli tasted like frozen Chieffos cavatelli that we make at home...only colder & swimming in watery red sauce. Would I go back - for the take out red bread dipping sauce and maybe a craft beer (they have a good draft selection) - pizza would be only "to go".
(3)Tana S.
So first let's start with they say no reservations but they will take them before 6 and after 8. We had a party of 10 and they sat us right away. We told them we were bringing in a cake and they even offered to serve it ! The outside doesn't look to appealing and hope soon this changes because the inside is amazing. It is so cute inside. The bar is awesome ! The outside patio is amazing and you can still sit outside even if it's pouring rain like it was the night we were there. Back where we were sitting I also noticed that there was a private outside area with fireplace. I believe you can have parties there. Everyone loves the calamari appetizer ! The number one thing at our table offered was the pork shank with mushroom risotto ! So delicious but I actually got the salmon entree which was cooked perfect. On a side not we had a newborn and 5 year old with us and is totally kid friendly as well as a great place for date night. Totally recommend giving this place a try !!!!!
(5)John B.
Be warned!! Yelp says no reservations but they DO! We had a 45 min wait on a Thursday evening. If you knew the location before (I do) great make over! Spacious bar area with both booths and bar tops. Bar tops, first come first served. After our wait, which the hostess apologized for (there was a rehearsal dinner for 30, hence the wait), we were seated. Got a booth fit for six for our party of four. Comfy for sure. Our server, Sara was just great! Attentative but not interfering to our conversations. Got our drinks in, got us fresh bread and took the dinner orders. Orders of cavatells; raviolis, with side salads. Dishes were hot and salads FRESH. Wife loved that w/o asking salad dressing was served on the side! BRAVO from her! No rush to finish, and well worth my five ! To us locals, great addition! To those searching, make the trip to Mentor!
(5)Dennis R.
Pro: Food was extremely good: flavor, presentation was nice. Con: Everything else. - Price - Service was sloooooooow - Hostess was snotty, like getting us a table was an inconvenience. The gal who seated us was sweet though, she seemed nice - Appetizers were tasty, but very small - Soup was great, but was only about a cup of it - Portions were strange. My entree portion was minimal, my friend's was huge. I had the Rosemary shrimp. Tasted wonderful. But why leave the tails on the shrimp?? Do you think I want to pick the tails off, after the shrimp is coated with sauce? Poor decision making there. Also, particularly for the price, I should have walked out and not still been hungry (plus they gave us a plate of bread and some tomato tasting sauce and we split two appetizers between three of us.) I'll probably try it again, I really liked the food, but at the price point, I should not have to stop at McDonald's on the way home!
(3)Brittany N.
I love this place. Muddled grapes in their drinks, fresh herbs. The food is outstanding as well. No problems with wanting to modify meals too. The place looks beautiful as well. Nice patio. Can't go wrong here. Although I wouldn't recommend going during dinner rushes on fridays and saturdays. Waiting sucks, although the service is still great when they're busy. Nice servers and hostesses too.
(5)Ashley B.
I haven't been back since my last review, but I'm updating to reflect that one of the business managers at Pastina contacted me on yelp to let me know he has changed the wing recipe. I've not had them yet, so I can't say if they are better, but that he considered my comments constructively bodes well for this place. One of my other complaints was about an (apparent) supervisor or manager was rude, and while that wasn't addressed, the action's and words of the manager who messaged me tells me she was an exception to the rule (or maybe having a bad day). It soured me down to giving one star, which probably wasn't fair. While there were some other issues I had (see my previous review), I've added a star back to my rating to reflect what I consider to be improvements. While I never intended on returning, I'm going to give this place one more shot in the near future and will update my review again.
(2)Jen S.
I came in on a Sunday evening about 6:30 with a friend. We were sat right away. Friendly staff, nice new decor. I didn't realize how big the place was. The bread that comes to the table is so good! Nice and light. I ordered the pastina pizza. It was so good! The sausage was awesome. I can't wait to come back and check out the patio!
(4)Andy C.
Four of us went to dinner tonight. Got right in and sat right down at 6pm. Two of us had daily ravioli special, one had the bistro steak, and I had the daily red snapper special. We had the shrimp and polenta appetizer, which wasn't bad for taste... but the price point was WAY too much for that much food. Appetizers are meant to shared... and tbis was definitely not big enough fo four people. Maybe two. We then waited over 60 minutes for our entrees which then were incredibly underwhelming. The steak wasn't cooked right (well on the ends, medium rare in the middle) and was bland and the red snapper didn't have any flavor. At all. And it didn't have all the ingredients promised. Complete waste of $22.00. The ravioli was amazing though. But for waiting 45 minutes... not worth it. HOWEVER! The waiter was VERY kind and brought us 3 free desserts for our wait (we didn't complain). The place was clearly VERY busy... but for our first 30 minutes we saw nothing but salads and soups come out from the kitchen. In the end the 4 of us agree that we won't be back for dinner. BUT... we would totally pay for that amazing bread pudding. Whole dinner for all four was $110.00 before tip. Not worth it at all.
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