Ciao Pasta Bar

Windsor, Canada

3.6

10 reviews

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Telephone:
+1 519-962-2426
Website:
ciaopastabar.com
Address:
839 Erie Street E, Windsor, ON, N9A 3Y5
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
0.7 miChatham @ Glengarry
1.1 miVIA Rail Windsor
1.5 miRenaissance Center
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Local time (Windsor) 13:07 Friday, 23 May 2025

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Description

Specialties

A unique and casual atmosphere with an even more unique menu. Only at Ciao Pasta Bar can you create and customize your very own pasta dish with homemade pastas, sauces and proteins as well as vegetables and cheeses cooked together to enrich your pasta dish with all the flavours you love. In addition to creating your own pasta, our menu includes some family favourites such as homemade Lasagna, Cannelloni, and Osso Bucco. With each dinner you will be served our Nonno Lolo’s authentic focaccia bread and Ciao basil, balsamic and oil dip. After each dinner you can enjoy Papa Joe’s famous Sicilian Canoli or another in house dessert such as Marsala Cheesecake, Chocolate Tiramisu Martini and Red Velvet Torte. We are confident that your experience at Ciao Pasta Bar will be unrivalled by any other dinning experience around town.

History

Established in 2012.

We are a family owned and operated establishment. We wanted to give customer exceptional quality and a fun concept. Most customers usually change something from a menu they have been given. We wiped the slate clean and allow you to creat your plate from the size up! The sky is the limit. We are entirely homemade, local ingredient sourced and provide healthy as well as gluten free options! We are proud of our product and concept and love our food! We can’t wait for you to come and try! We hope you’ll live it too!

Meet the Business Owner

Bianca M.

Business Owner

Bianca attended the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park, NY in 2001. While there, she graduated with an Associates degree in Culinary Arts and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management. During her time there she completed an internship with Food Network Television in New York City. She worked with many talented celebrity chefs like Emeril Legasse, Bobby Flay, Tyler Florence, Sara Moulton and Rachael Ray.

While working on 30 minute meals, Bianca was approached to be one of Rachael Ray’s Food stylists for her upcoming syndicated daytime talk show Rachael Ray. Ecstatic at the opportunity, she gladly obliged and joined the team of three chefs to be Rachael’s food team.

Bianca has dreamed about opening a pasta bar where people can eat what they want and not have to be prisoner to a menu someone else created for them. Bianca is not only the owner but also the chef!

Pasta is her true food love; it’s the one thing she couldn’t live without, aside from her loved ones of course

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10 reviews of Ciao Pasta Bar

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Place rating: 5
Royal Oak, MI
Stumbled into this restaurant with my sister and a friend. What a pleasant surprise!
The ambiance of the restaurant is warm, elegant, beautiful and comfortable. Food was delicious –fresh, home made and full of flavour.
Service was attentive. Amanda was incredible!
We will be back!
Place rating: 5
Windsor, Canada
Gnocchi was amazing ! Such awesome atmosphere. Décor was beautiful. Recommend to anyone for a date night !
Place rating: 4
Green Bay, WI
Cool concept as a build your own pasta bar. Kind of expensive if you aren’t careful! The small size serving is probably plenty if you are ordering an appetizer.
Place rating: 3
Calgary, Canada
Nice and modern décor, average food (the homemade pasta is a selling point). Didn’t try desert but probably should have as they have an authentic italian bakery in the back of the restaurant.
Place rating: 2
Windsor, Canada
When I visited this place again after a great first experience, and had an encounter with the chef/​owner, I was truly disappointed how unwelcoming and condescending she is. What a true disappointment. Still great good (hence the 2 starts), but the experience is ruined after dealing with the owner.
Place rating: 3
Windsor, Canada
One of the friendliest staff members I’ve talked to in years. Great atmosphere. A bit pricey in food. The dishes were great — quality at its best. This is the first restaurant that I’ve eaten in Little Italy so I can’t say if this restaurant is better or worse than the others in the area but as my first one it’s pretty good. Recommended.
Place rating: 3
Windsor, Canada
It wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t great. Nice décor, great staff.
We ordered salad, bruchetta, pasta, and drinks.
For the good: my drink was amazing. I ordered some fruity cocktail and it was delicious. My boyfriend ordered Coke and was impressed that it came in a glass coke bottle.
My caesar salad had a strange taste. I’m assuming that they make their own dressing, but something didn’t taste right to me. Don’t get me wrong, it was good, but it didn’t taste like a caesar salad.
Bread stick were good.
Bruchetta was ok but I would not order it again. I do not like warm tomatoes on brochette, I prefer it to be cold.
My boyfriend had lasagna, he liked it, but does not think he would buy it again.
I created my own pasta. I liked it, but did not love it. I can’t blame the chef, because I decided what went in it.
Will not go back for a date night, but might try it again with some girlfriends and see what they have to say.
Place rating: 1
Amherstburg, Canada
The place has a nice interior, but that’s about it. The waitresses are inexperienced, the place is very loud. We had to yell are each other. The food was not good but pricey. My wife had spaghetti bolognese and she loves pasta, but didn’t even finish. I had salad with salmon. The salad wasn’t fresh and the salmon was breaded, though the menu didn’t say that. Overall the food was rather bland. Two meals, one bruschetta, $ 40.- no drinks. They try hard and have a fun concept, but they fail at the basics.
Place rating: 5
Detroit, MI
This place is a lot of fun! I’m also a huge pasta buff and love my Italian food (and men ;))
At this restaurant you build your own pasta dish. Starting from your noodle, sauce, protein, veggies, and cheese. You get all your favorites in a dish.
The décor is great too. It has a very modern, homey feel to it. It is a bit pricey, but totally worth it.
Place rating: 5
Windsor, Canada
Incredible food, great atmosphere and amazing staff! I was blown away at my first visit to this restaurant. Our waiter was so friendly and helpful and my water glass was never empty. The homemade pastas and sauces definitely make this restaurant a cut above the rest. The «create your own» combinations are endless and include vegetarian and gluten free options. The portions are perfect and although the food may seem pricey, its worth every penny! I had the «full» portion of the sweet potato gnocchi in a blush sauce with a side of Osso Bucco. The gnocchi was absolutely amazing and the portion size was perfect. It was one of the best pasta dishes I’ve ever had and coming from an Italian, you know I mean business haha! The Osso Bucco was large enough to share with someone and was well worth the $ 8 add-​on cost! I also had a chance to taste the meatballs and was very impressed! Extremely lean and the size of baseballs, these will not dissapoint!
If you have room after dinner, they also have an impressive and very affordable dessert menu ranging from $ 3-​$ 7 per item.