the state of pasta

What I liked most about their food: 1. All their pasta is handmade and you can select the type you want. 2. The carbonara sauce is not cream-based and is made the traditional way, with just cheese and egg (yolk, I believe) - which is great! And they used guanchale, not just any ham. However, its taste was quite bland to me.

Had one night in Vientiane and was craving some pasta. This popped up and we were not disappointed! We were greeted at the door with the most friendliest employee who seated us immediately making sure we were comfortable. Looking through the menu, it was hard to choose what to eat as everything sounded amazing. The pricing was super affordable for the quality we received as well. I got a classic carbonara and it was up there with one of the best ones I’ve had! To finish off we were offered a dessert menu and couldn’t help ourselves but get a chocolate fondant cake to share. I highly recommend this restaurant if you need a break from all the other delicious authentic Lao food 😊

Exceptional dishes at a fair price. Fresh pasta cooked to your liking. I ended up having 2 dishes myself - highly recommend if you want some great pasta. Highly recommend the Halle’Nduja!

Amazing meal, I got the Wagyu bolognese and my friend got the Carbonara both were great. A little bit on the pricier side but if you’re looking for a good meal with great service definitely would recommend. Also the chocolate fondant was to die for!!

Very friendly staff, reasonable price. Black angus steak was good and love fries too. It would be better if the pasta flavor was balanced a little more. It takes quite a while to cook, probably because the pasta noodles are made with homemade noodles.

Clean and modern.... kind staffs. Mine (Ravioly) was fine. My friend ordered pasta marinated oil which is not tasty. Anyways for me , i was nice to visit this place.

Incredible tasting pasta in town. The nduja sauce was a nice blend of creamy and spicy, pasta was al dente. I first went here years ago for the lao sausage pasta, glad to see the menu has expanded. ++ The staff were welcoming and attentive.

We came here because it’s so highly rated. Genuinely the worst food I’ve ever eaten - sorry to upset the staff, as they were lovely, but this food was inedible. We got trapped by the tourist trap, and have no idea how it has any star rating - other than perhaps the chef was on holiday. This food was so salty it was inedible. The “al dente” pasta was just raw, it was incredibly overpriced, it was labelled as ‘vegetarian friendly’ but there was no creative vegetarian option on the menu (just pesto/tomato, how beige). I ordered the salmon teriyaki, and the salmon was salty (as was everything), the fish skin soggy, and raw pasta with a watery sauce. My partner ordered the Nduja sauce for a whopping £8 (161k KIP) which was just a 3 slices of shop bought salami on a watery and SALTY (did we mention?) tomato base. And raw pasta. We had a serious conversation a few bites in about sending the food back, but didn’t want to upset the kind waiting staff, so ate as much as we could, quenched our parched mouths with beer, and escaped as quickly as we could. What a disaster. AVOID.