Delhi foodies, help me out.

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Hi guys, I am looking for a good affordable place where I can have some good pasta. So, please help me out. Please, do remember main thing is affordable. :)
 
I hate pasta, but i really liked one in faridabad. IDK if going there would be okay for u.
 
Go to Italy, Florence in particular for fresh pasta :P.

Otherwise, go to any Little Italy outlet, theres one in GK2.

But as someone said, it is very costly.
 
Big Chill means like 1.5-2k for 2 people.

Pizza Hut is like 1k for 2 people.

What is your budget?

You can try some good dhabas, some are pretty good, they are like syb 300-500 for 2 people.
 
A couple of pastas from Slice of Italy are good. Pizza Hut pastas are decent. Big Chill Cafe pastas are awesome. Want to try an unknown pasta gem? Go to Brown Sugar in GK M-block market. Try their pastas, and be gastronomically surprised! :) Oh and Brown Sugar will be the most affordable of them all.
 
I make my own :ohyeah: and incidently had it in lunch. Alot better than craps everywhere. BTW, it was red one today, white one next week perhaps, wanna come over ?
 
stalker said:
Make your own.
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Exactly, its not that hard. More like typical student food. The harder bit is the sauce, tho you can do that with practice as well.

That is if we're talking just plain pasta, things like ravioli or other packaged pasta will be harder.

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You wont get good authentic pasta unless you cough up serious monies.
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Why ?

There is the stuff you can get in packets and fresh pasta. The difference in taste is minimal. Just the preparation is faster. Any of the brands you get in a decent shop that stocks import stuff will do, its the same as is available abroad.
 
^^ Depends on whether you've eaten the real stuff :P

My reference to serious monies was for stuff in restaurants. Which was also why I said you should make your own. Please don't compare the ready to cook sunfeast/maggi stuff to REAL pasta.

Like you said, I'm not getting into packaged raviolis and stuff here. But making good al dente pasta is a task that seems to be beyond most restaurants around here. It really is a simple task, all you need are the correct ingredients which are easy enough to find these days.
 
I had pasta from Slice of Italy once & it was so pathetic that I felt I am eating some gooey trash. The best pasta I ate till now was & the Hotel where I work there was one party held & we had arranged pasta station & it was my duty to check its taste & all as i was the only one who liked pasta & I ate spaghetti It was really good. The best restaurant pasta I have tried are at Potpourri Cp, Brown Sugar Def.Col. & Hungry I in Noida & they all are in same order of my taste experience. Hungry I is cheapest its near Amity uni. & meal for two can't cross more than 400-500 max. The one pasta I had at Liquid kitchen was little better than Silce of Italy. So please I need much more options to try. If nothing works out then I have to make it myself.
 
stalker said:
^^ Depends on whether you've eaten the real stuff :P
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I lived with an Italian immigrant when i was in France, so yeah. I've had fresh pasta and the taste to me was nothing much. Just quicker to make. Its more 'oh its fresh so it must be better' sort of thing. Thing here is i've always had pasta out of a packet so i've grown accustomed to that taste. If you only ever had fresh pasta then you would notice the difference because its ingrained. But otherwise nah.

The taste is in the sauce and there's many ways to do that. You might not be able to do it the way a restaurant does but you can come pretty close or good enough with practice. Thing is if you could do that its not worth going to a restaurant here maybe one abroad.

THis is not like parathas or something where its not feasible to do at home, western cooking on the whole is a damn side easier than indian cooking.

stalker said:
My reference to serious monies was for stuff in restaurants. Which was also why I said you should make your own.
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no disagreement there, if you noticed.

stalker said:
Please don't compare the ready to cook sunfeast/maggi stuff to REAL pasta.
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I had Barilla in mind. Not exactly top of the range abroad but common nonetheless and more importantly available in India.

sunfeast/maggi, lol, thats noodles, did not even know they made pasta.

stalker said:
Like you said, I'm not getting into packaged raviolis and stuff here. But making good al dente pasta is a task that seems to be beyond most restaurants around here. It really is a simple task, all you need are the correct ingredients which are easy enough to find these days.
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Yep

There is no way in hell restaurants make their own pasta here unlike abroad and even then thats iffy. Pity, because it isn't really that difficult, if you can make papads yourself then its no different ie no big deal for a restaurant.

You can make an excellent italian meal at home for a fraction of the cost you pay in restaurants. They just use the foreign label to overprice here. The state of pizzas here is a sore point for me.

I doubt we'll see better restaurnats here because we don't have any Italian immigrants and it would cost even more than the high price avg stuff costs here already.
 
Slice of Italy sucks , not only does their food taste very bad it is probably very unhygienic , i have twice become ill after eating there
 
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