I want to know. It can be any restaurant – high end, diner.. and sure, Olive Garden if that’s your cup of tea (jk, please don’t post OG).
I’ll go first. The Cacio e Pepe at Taverna Trilussa is Rome is a pasta that I still dream out. Not the prettiest photo but everything about it was perfect.
Also, don’t be that annoying person and say “mY oWn pasta that I make at home”. I’m sure there’s a thread out there for you.
by wembleybear
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Fusilli with Octopus and Bone Marrow, Marea, NYC
Wheel of cheese pasta done at the table.
Fusilli Bolognese at Cafe Spaghetti in NYC. At least in recent memory. I’ve eaten a lot of pasta in NYC (I live here) and have been to Rome, but that stood out to me. Maybe because I make bolognese pretty well if I do say so myself, and I was still mind blown by how good it was
The cacio e pepe with black truffles at Sapore di Mare in Miami.
I actually saw a video of it on Reddit. When I looked it up I realized one of the places I go for work isn’t too far. The place is tiny but absolutely phenomenal. The best thing about the dish is that there is no fake ass, overdone truffle oil which I can’t stand. Just real shaved truffles that make it incredible. Very simple dish but I look forward to going any chance I get.
Edit: Aww man. I actually had the post saved but you can only see a small pic of it and not the video anymore. But [here it is.](https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodPorn/s/MQLsi1qdI0) I actually have a vid of it from when I went somewhere on my phone I think. I may try and dig it out and post it tomorrow.
Padella’s Pici Cacio e Pepe, back in the day when it was £6.
Something from Famiglia Baldassare in Toronto.
Too many to choose from.
Carbonara from Luciano Cucina Italiana in Rome
You ate it from the source country, so you ate from the best.
A mussels linguine I had at Fabbrica, in Thornbury (ON, Canada). Best pasta dish I had for the past 4 years no doubt. Otherwise it will always be my dad’s Carbonara 💞
Chicken and mushroom pappardelle from a now closed restaurant called Heights Cafe in Brooklyn. It was extra good because the pasta itself was a porcini dough, which gave it a beautiful brown shade and a deep flavor
Sweet corn agnolotti with brown butter and sage at Jon and Vinny’s in LA
Beef cheek ravioli at babbo
Chicken spaghetti from Chickalini’s
The spicy seafood pasta I had at D.B Brasserie (now closed) in Las Vegas. Had everything you could possibly want, spice, texture, acidity, etc.
Gnocchi in pesto cream sauce, in Düsseldorf in 2005. It was incredible. I have absolutely no idea what the restaurant is/was called, but it was operated by the friendliest Italian immigrants ever.
Carbonara at La Carbonara in Rome
Pistachio pesto spaghetti with roast eggplant slices from an nice old nonna who had over all the families staying at guesthouses in Sicily
Totally blew my pesto possibilities wide open
Gnocchi with roasted eggplant. Had it outside Florence. The gnocchi were the size of tiny pearls. Absolutely delicious
Kimchi carbonara
I had a hand made tagliatelle from a food truck several years ago with house made fennel and apple sausages and locally foraged chantarelles and a demi glace sauce that was absolutely fucking stellar. It falls second only to the box spaghetti with butter and shaker parm that my mom used to make me as a kid when I was sick