Giovanni Rana Pastificio & Cucina

Very excited to go here. Unfortunately hair in my food, had to send it back. Watched the rest of my party eat their food. Restaurant offered no comp for this unfortunate experience. Waiter never brought our bread. They are obviously too busy to be very concerned about customer experience.

The smell walking past here is very alluring. As soon as you walk in your are greeted by a visual sensation with chefs preparing and cooking all sorts of pasta. If you are wanting take away you stop here, pick and order. If you want sit down then continue on through. There is so much seating here in a well decorated space. They have kept the charm of the old warehouse and added some of their own italian flair. The menu contains a multitude of new and old school Italian pasta dishes. My tip is to go for the 3 pasta dish special where you can choose any 3 pastas form the menu for a special price. The pasta dishes come out one by one and I feel the value is good as the portions are quite a good size and enough for you to enjoy each separately. We choose 3 seafood options and can say they were exceptionally good. Very well cooked with enough al dente texture. The sauces were outstanding, oozing flavour. Another surprising hit was the fluffy bread presented at the start.

If I impart nothing else, DO NOT ORDER THE PARMESAN CHEESECAKE. My vegetarian pasta dish was buttery and bright, and my guest's squid ink pasta was the right amount of spicy and umami, but the dessert was one of the yuckiest things I've ever put into my mouth.

Went their for lunch today. Had small bites to share, calzone, mozerrala and prosciutto fritters, shrimp and ghnocci with spinach as a maon dish we ahared the ravioli with spinach and fetta, that pasta was amazing. The shrimp sauce was very tasty, the ghnocci was also geeat. The only reason I gave it a four is I didn't try their desserts for the full experience. Waitress was very nice and service was very good. Absolutely would go again.

Great fresh pasta, nice cocktails, spacious. Service was friendly, but a but confused - entrees arrived before appetizers and our waiter seemed disappointed, but not so surprised...he immediately told us they'd provide a free dessert for the trouble as if this happens frequently. That said I would would not hesitate to go back and order the same pasta with braised short ribs - decadently delicious!