Went to tank up on carbs at the super casual Pastaria Abate. I've been curious about how it has managed to keep its prices low and fill their seats. Pasta is like... an essential food. Many cafes make horrible pasta and charge you S$22 and above for a plate of nonsense. Pastaria Abate fares a lot better. This restaurant is kinda tiny, and you probably would have to share tables at some point.
V and I were curious about its pasta carbonara of course. We could choose our pasta; we opted for a fettuccine and a tagliatelle. The menu offered a standard carbonara (S$13.80), a carbonara Roma (S$15.80), and a truffle carbonara (S$16.80) We picked the standard carbonara. Well, we didn't have high hopes for it (very few restaurants do it without cream), and when it arrived, it was more or less what we expected. It held cream and it wasn't the proper carbonara we had hoped for. We like the slightly dry type, with only cheese and yolk and no cream; or holds so little cream that it's almost indiscernible. This plate wasn't inedible though.
The next time I eat at Pastaria Abate, I would probably do a lot better with its other sauces that are of a tomato base, pesto, or with plain anchovies or simply done aglio e olio. It's cool that it keeps to its casual vibes and churn out its own fresh pasta and sauces in-house, and also offers dried pasta. I do like how they keep it real. At these prices averaging S$15 for a small portion of pasta, and S$6.80 for a small glass of chianti, there's nothing much to complain about.
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