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It’s my dear mum’s birthday today and the whole family had dinner at Pasto at El Pueblo.

I think I got my “Italian taste buds” from my mother. Like me, she also loves Italian food - pesto, pomodoro, crostinis, paninis etc. I remember her whipping up fancy italian dishes when I still lived at my parents’ house. I have no doubt she is still doing it right now.

I got to the restaurant ahead of the rest of my family so I perused the menu so I could start my decision-making on what dish to order. They did not have a lot of choices for antipasti so I just ordered refillable iced tea - raspberry (my favorite!).

Although they did not have much in the list for starters, there was a fair variety of pasta and pizza choices to choose from. I was waiting in hungry anticipation of the food that we will be having.

We were a big party as my brother brought his fiance, my director sister came out of her cave, my yaya and son were there, plus the driver. With a lot of hungry mouths to feed, we ordered a mix of 5 pasta dishes and 3 pizzas (they said the pasta was single-serve). The family’s choices were bolognese, salmon in anchovy sauce, mushroom in cream, mussels&shrimp in wine sauce, and pomodoro for pasta. For pizza, we had all meat, formaggio and blanca (seafood pesto).

The food that was served barely touched the table before it was dug into. The pomodoro was an instant hit and the plate where it was served was emptied in 2 minutes. I love the mushroom cream sauce (of course) and the salmon in anchovy sauce was interestingly new to my tongue.

The first pizza to plate to be taken away was the one holding the formaggio. Their pizza was awesome! The crust was made of the same pastry used for their crostini. It was cracker-thin and delicious!

I really wanted to order dessert but I must admit, I was sooo full, it took a while for me to finish my drink. But… It must be fate as it turned out my mum’s boss was dining at the same place and sent us 5 mouth watering dessert cakes… the waitresses put them down at our table all at the same time to our surprise as we were just thinking about ordering dessert.

My mind did not register the names of cakes that were given to us as I was busy trying to get a piece of each cake before my brother finished everything! Just look at my pictures and see for yourself.

Eating at Pasto has been quite an experience. What they lack in choices, they more than made up for great tasting dishes and scrumptous desserts.

As of this writing… I still feel full… *burp*

“The birthday cake”

Yummy!

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