Spaghetei

http://spaghetei.com/

I bumped into this new restaurant few months ago, after having dinner at another restaurant on Robson street. I was quite captured by the theme of this restaurant, the white exterior design gave a strong calming feeling  and made it look like a good place for chit-chatting with friends while enjoying the relaxing ambience. J Of course, the Japanese fusion spaghetti was what interests me the most, so much that I decided to give it a full blog post for a detailed introduction.

And I…. finally had the chance to step into this place last week for a quick lunch with my girlfriends.

J Credit to blackangel`s photography.

It didn`t look quite like a spaghetti house to me, it looked more like a café and dessert place instead.

I like how they inject the Japanese creativity by `comictizing` the menu and paper dining mat to make them look more interesting. Honestly, I wouldn`t have looked at the dining mat if it wasn`t because of the cute Ojiisan, as he reminded me so much of Beard Papa, just without the yellow hat.

I ordered the signature dish-meat sauce spaghetti wondering how different would it be from the regular Bolognese spaghetti I use to have. All spaghettis come with a piece of complimentary garlic bread, lol a green one! I think the topping was spinach-garlic spread because it had more vegetable taste to it. Not sure if I was influenced by the colour or my taste bud was just sensitively accurate.

Food-waiting time was decent and all orders came at the same time to avoid the embarrassment of having to wait for each other`s food. My meat sauce spaghetti was quite similar to that of the display picture on the menu, but I was just surprised with the fact that it was served in a mini serving pan. Spaghetti being served on a pan undoubtedly added some yaki soba feel to it.

Despite the great food display, I was not too surprised by the taste of the food. Hmm don`t get me wrong, the food tasted decent but it was just not too significantly different than any other Bolognese spaghetti out there till it could be a signature dish of the restaurant. Meat sauce tasted fine and blended well with the spaghetti, but eating the meat sauce alone was salty.

                       J Credit to blackangel`s photography.

I like my friend`s Barayaki instead, the display successfully created the home dish feeling and I really like the strong onion fragrance of this dish.  J I swear I`m going to replicate this at home with a Korean meat marinade and pan fry the spaghetti with lots of onions.

My dining experience was pleasant as I`m not the type who likes to chit-chat with waiters/waitresses only when necessary and this restaurant was just a place for me. The waiter made sure we were fully informed about the current events and promotions of the restaurant and the waitress who served us smiled all the time , she only approached us once to ask about the dining experience.

The restaurant is still not too busy now but I believe it will definitely be more popular in future. :) Oh you'll get a free trial salad for completing the satisfactory survey, and a free soft drink for sharing pictures about this place on any social-networking website.  Freebies always good eh!