"Between the truffled mushrooms and polenta, briny squid ink lumache, and torchetti with fried rosemary on top, Union serves the kind of bold and delicious Italian food that you’d be thrilled to find anywhere in the city, let alone the chain-store hub that is Old Town Pasadena. If you’re looking for a fancy, impress-the-hell-out-of-somebody kind of dinner on this side of town, there are few options better than Union." - jess basser sanders, brant cox, sylvio martins, arden shore