Our New York City restaurant reviews
Lunch at Basta Pasta, Chelsea, NYC
On my floormate's continuous recommendation of Basta Pasta, an Italian restaurant with a Japanese accent, inside the Yinova Center in our hood, I met friends there for lunch. We opted for the $30 prix fixe with antipasti (a choice of salad or soup), a choice of pasta and housemade gelato or sorbet and coffee. Two of us started with a steaming bowl of flavorful chicken soup (+$2) with chickpeas, chicken meatballs and veggies; my other friend had their huge tossed green salad. I liked — and would again order — their Calabrian chili spicy fusilli with Iberico sausage, chopped Prosciutto and ricotta salata. My friends tried their signature Tagliolini on Prosciutto [...]