"Stopped in to Pastai before heading to work an event for Tribeca Film Fest yesterday, and we were excited for the dinner, but then let down afterwards. The restaurant is intimate, only a handful of tables, relaxing decor, low volume crowd so you can hear your guests you dine with, great bartender making drinks so big thumbs up there, and a menu of food items that seem to be the best thing ever. However, things were not impressive when we got our food taste wise. The fried olives were my favorite of everything though, best app to get, it doesn't come with sauce but I recommend asking for some kind of dipping sauce because this dish deserves it. The potato croquettes were underwhelming and bland, nothing special here, just tasted like raw potato with some meat in the middle. The servers are friendly, and efficient, as well as the other staff on site. The pastas were both very ordinary and bland. Also my gf's was salty and she didn't care for it. Mine was the Cauliflower one and it was tasteless and lacking. Nothing special and just, fill your stomach kind of food. Manhattan dinner, Manhattan prices, Inflation we get it. 2 drinks 2 apps 2 mains. $140 including tip out the door. Bottom line, not worth it, I'd look elsewhere for a special evening. Regular dinner on the fly though, sure why not."
