Pastamore Italian Restaurant

Very good environment. You have a choice of casual dining at the lower foyer or a more cosy upper level surrounded by greenery which I prefer. The staffs are attentive and obliging. Food and drinks are reasonable pubbing standards. Convenient location with ample parking at Rochester. Thumbs up 👍😊

Beer is cheap at $12++ per pint and 1for1 during happy hours! The normal selection of lagers, IPA, lagale (mix of lager and IPA), and wheat beers are decently smooth. Hulk (green beer) is very similar to the lager with a slightly sweeter taste. Cherry (red beer) looks like a very thirst quenching mug of Ribena, and it surely doesn’t taste like beer. More like some cherry flavored F&N soft drink with a tinge of alcohol? Even then, I couldn’t really taste the alcohol. Literally finished that pint in a couple of minutes because it just looked so thirst quenching, and I was really very thirsty. Then again, we do suspect that the drinks have been slightly watered down due to the 1for1. Now comes the food. Don’t be expecting to get very full from their meals. Pizzas are decent and what you should expect in size and quality from a normal restaurant. The Hawaiian pizza is somehow slightly more cheesy than usual though. When the carbonara came, I thought it was it in a some bowl but great disappointment came when I tried to scoop the cream onto the pasta only to find that the dish was served on a plate. This meant that whatever pasta I was looking at was all there was for the dish! When I thought the serving size couldn’t get smaller, the $12 aglio olio came and I was (and still am) short for words on the serving size. What was worse, was that $12 was just for a basic aglio olio and we added the $5 option for chicken, which meant we were looking at a $17 aglio olio. Ded. We had to order another pizza, which would mean 2 pizzas, 2 pastas, 1 truffle fries for one guy and two girls. That should speak a lot about the serving portion. Anyway, the truffle fries saved the day. Very strong presence of truffle in the fries.

Cosy quiet place with quite a few drinks choices. Food at certain timings have different % of discount. Ordered before 8pm so we had 20%. Ordered the beef ribs, crispy pork belly and lamb chops. Beef ribs are yummy and meaty, comes with BBQ sauce which is a little salty. Personally don't quite fancy the pork belly as it doesn't have a lot of meat, although it is indeed very crispy. The Sauerkraut and mashed potato sides were quite ordinary as well. Loved the lamb chops, though it is quite a small portion (3 small pieces). Had the spirulina beer which tasted like regular beer that was dyed green lol.