Seaport’s Pasta Seaside restaurant reopens with new menu, ambiance


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The restaurant is again almost three years after a fireplace pressured it to shut.

Native chain Italian restaurant Pasta Seaside has reopened in Boston’s seaport almost three years after closing as a consequence of a fireplace. Pasta Seaside

Almost three years after being pressured to shutter as a consequence of a fireplace, Pasta Seaside‘s Rowes Wharf location reopened on June 25 with a reimagined restaurant, an up to date menu, and new cooks.

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On the helm are govt chef Andrea Congiusta, who has labored within the kitchens of two- and three-Michelin Star eating places in Italy and was acknowledged there as a “Prime 10 Chef Below-35,” and head chef Massimo Cascone, who has labored as a lead chef in Torino, Italy, for the previous 20 years, in keeping with a information launch.

“With the mentality of ‘much less is extra,’ the cooks will artfully produce handmade pastas and proteins utilizing the fewest and easiest elements, letting every ingredient shine by itself,” the discharge stated.

Congiusta and Cascone are excited to serve a pizza crust referred to as “pinsa” to hungry Boston diners. Pinsa is a “… blissfully ethereal, Roman-style pizza crust made with 4 totally different flours,” in keeping with the discharge.

Pasta Seaside’s margherita pinsa, made with marinated tomatoes, burrata, and basil infused olive oil. Pictured beneath is the nduja pinsa, which is made with fior di latte mozzarella, spicy nduja sausage, and caramelized onions. – Pasta Seaside

Pasta Seaside’s menu options 9 pastas, together with mouthwatering dishes like cappelletti al parmigiano made with do-it-yourself cappelletti, 24-month aged parmigiano reggiano, porcini, and oyster mushrooms, in addition to plin di gamberi e pistacchio made with do-it-yourself ravioli, shrimp, pistachios, and pescatora sauce.

For antipasti, the restaurant has a spread of selections, from tartare di manzo made with beef tartare, dill, cappers, pickles, marinated onions, rosemary olive oil, and a mustard and egg emulsion, to capesante made with scallop carpaccio, fried capers, fragrant breadcrumbs, and Mediterranean sauce.

Pasta Seaside’s prosciutto e fichi, which is made with prosciutto San Daniele, figs, and aged balsamic vinegar. – Pasta Seaside

For secondi, diners have six choices:

  • Pollo Arrosto – roasted hen, cacciatore sauce, roasted potatoes
  • Salmone – pan fried salmon, bok choi cabbage, tartar sauce
  • Tonno – fried breaded tuna, balsamic tomato chutney, burrata
  • Filleto – beef tenderloin, potato terrine
  • Anatra – roasted duck breast, rhubarb, cherries
  • Brasato – slow-roasted beef, Barolo wine, celeriac puree

Pasta Seaside’s mixologists will likely be pouring seasonal cocktails, six beers on draught — three of that are Italian — and a number of Italian wines.

The area, which is supposed to evoke each tranquility and spirit, is enveloped in banana leaf print wallpaper and options three commissioned artworks by Newport-based artist Chris Willey.

Native chain Italian restaurant Pasta Seaside has reopened in Boston’s seaport almost three years after closing as a consequence of a fireplace. – Pasta Seaside

The newly renovated restaurant now provides a pasta-making and pinsa station on the entrance, {a partially} open kitchen, an expanded zinc-topped bar space which serves as the focus of the restaurant, and expanded indoor and out of doors seating overlooking Boston Harbor.

The restaurant additionally has a singular lighting design created by Tyler Ropolo, son of the restaurant’s house owners, in collaboration with Torino-based lighting artisans ECLISSI, the discharge stated. It options brightly coloured chandeliers and lighting fixtures in hues like tangerine and emerald, sheathed with raffia palm.

Native chain Italian restaurant Pasta Seaside has reopened within the Seaport almost three years after closing as a consequence of a fireplace. – Pasta Seaside

The small chain is family-owned and operated. It’s lead by Dr. Gianni Ropolo, who hails from Torino, Italy; his spouse, Susie, a New England native; and their sons, Eldredge and Tyler. After assembly and sharing their love of Italian meals, the Ropolos began Pasta Seaside in Newport, R.I., in 2002.

Pasta Seaside Rowes Wharf is positioned at 30 Rowes Wharf, and is open Wednesday by Sunday starting at 4:30 p.m.

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