Finally! A good meal at Il Pasticcio

I travel to Savannah, Georgia a good bit for business. One of my good friends is in LOVE with Il Pasticcio - a chic italian place on Broughton - so we always have at least one dinner there. Up until now, I have been completely unimpressed by the food. Lets start with my natural biases - I think that expensive mexican and italian is ridiculous. I mean, how expensive is spaghetti for the love of God? So, Il Pasticcio already had one strike against it. I also don't like heavy Italian foods and stay away from the white sauces - my friend always gets the four cheese ravioli in a white sauce - if I ate that I would immediately grow two extra chins. And I'm not interested in that look.

In contrast with the restaurant, I have always like the bar area at Il Pasticcio. They have a great selection of wines, the bartenders are cute and friendly and the atmosphere is very cool. They have a great prosecco there that I just adore.

So, I was unsurprised when he suggested that we take our group there last night. At least I knew I had the prosecco to look forward to. I ordered the Penne Pasticcio and asked them to add some red pepper flakes to make it a little spicy (sound familiar?). They brought my food and I was expecting the same blah fare that I have had there so many times. Boy was I surprised - this dish was actually really good! Reminiscent of the light Italian meal I had at Valenza. So - yeah - I now have a go to dish at Il Pasticcio.

I have to give props (or complain?) about the waiter. He was very, very attentive considering we had 16 people in our group. He made sure I never had an empty glass of prosecco - even bringing my glass to the bar, and outside. Of course, I didn't actually order any of these drinks, but they kept coming.

So, Il Pasticcio - I'm not dreading the visit the next time I'm in Savannah.