Pasta Fagioli

The pasta palomino is the best around. I would also recommend the chicken pontevechchio and the heartsmart chicken. Highly recommend this place for great Italian food!

The eggplant parmesan was delicious. The serving was very large. The pasta fagioli soup was absolutely wonderful. Cozy restaurant with friendly staff. Very good cheese crusts come free.

Pasta Fagioli is an un-​polished gem stuck in a half empty, dated Arkin Jonna strip center in Bloomfield Township. Its performance should not reflect its surroundings. For a restaurant that charges $ 18 to $ 28 for entrees and does not have a liquor license one needs to be on top of their game. Offer a house special non-​alcoholic drink instead of just water, pop and coffee. With a new coat of paint on its service staff and more attention to detail in the kitchen this little restaurant could be really good. The staff is attired in uniforms left over from the days of Machus Red Fox. They appeared bored and not happy to be there on a Saturday night. The specials on the boards are sloppily written and some words are not readable. The minestrone is presented as the ugly stepchild to the dinner to come. Put it in a warm, large shallow soup bowl and offer grated cheese. Make it a special, part of the meal. Our Caesar salads were good but lacked of dressing that would have made them very good. We opted for two chicken specials from the board. They arrived before we had finished out salads and we were asked to clear our plates to make room. Big mistake! The kitchen is open to the dining room. Our plates should have been cleared, our silverware replaced, and our drinks replenished before the entrees were brought. Just bad communication between the kitchen and front staff. The same happened to the tables next to us. The specials though were very very good. What wasn’t good was the plate presentation. The food covered to the rim of the plates surrounded by uninspired, steamed vegetables. It was hard to cut without food falling to the table. No one came to the table to ask how our meal was. The gnocchi came with a very good sauce but the gnocchi itself were heavy. Good gnocchi are light «pillows». These appeared to be store bought. The tiramisu was exceptionally good. House made, light and perfect. It was explained that the other dessert, a chocolate mousse cake was not made in house. We don’t need to know that. It devalues the choice. Were we offered coffee or espresso? No. With a little more enthusiasm and attention to detail this restaurant could be very good. Then maybe there would be more than 3 tables at 8 o’clock on a Saturday night.

We had the lasagna and the chicken cacciatore. Both were only okay, we have definitely had better. The side salads that came with the entrées were very simple, basically just cheap iceberg lettuce and dressing. Each of the entrées also came with a large piece of bread. This was our first time having food from here and didn’t know what to expect. At $ 18 each we were really surprised by the prices, and our entrée choices were some of the lesser expensive on the menu. The veal entrées are $ 22 — $ 24. The salmon is $ 22. Simple whole wheat pasta with vegetables is $ 20. We can now say we’ve tried Pasta Fagioli but we won’t be back.

Good food for the price. Here comes the but. I neglected writing this review earlier as I spent the remain night and parts of the morning with my face all too near the pristine waters of my local toilet. All I can say is if you do choose to take your life in your own hands do not get the veal for it will seal your fate.

So glad we finally tried Pasta Fagoli and the reviews are right! We ordered this takeout on a Friday and it was ready in 20 minutes. We had the spinach/​ricotta ravioli and went with the palamino sauce. Outstanding! We only ordered 1 meal and it was plenty for the two of us-​about 8 large stuffed ravioli’s each. The meal comes with a side salad but we also ordered and enjoyed the Caesar with the tasty dressing. Definitely worth trying this place and next time we will dine in and take advantage of the byow.

FANTASTIC!
Not exactly the hippest place around but perhaps the most underrated food in all of Bloomfield Hills. Between the salad, the ravioli, the angel hair pasta, or the chicken piccata with artichokes, I could eat at this restaurant every day for the rest of my life.
Try it, you will not be disappointed!

Outstanding food and service. Staff was friendly and the place was quiet and clean. Will return!

Had dinner here the other night. The ravioli were tender. The palomino sauce too watery to be truly tasty. My companion had the special-​angel hair pasta with lobster and shrimp in an olive oil chopped tomato basil sauce. Good except the lobster was tough. The interior is clean but could use some repairs. The staff was attentive and helpful. The bread basket was warm but the crust was soft. Served crisp olive oil, basil, garlic and tomato flavored warm thin bread also which was tasty. The caesar salad was dressed/​tossed well but no croutons.

Terrible service. Our waiter was sweating over our food. Ordered dessert and coffee. They bring dessert but the coffee was not ready so we had to wait. I spoke to the owner and said that we preferred to receive both together, the service was awful etc… Still charged for dessert and coffee. Lost my business.

Whenever my family goes to Michigan… This is the place we head to. Wonderful, tasty, and definitely a treasure.

I agree with other reviewers. Fine food in a local convenient place. Friendly quick service. But NO WINE! Thats tough to take in an Italian restaurant. Used to be able to BYO, but some jerk turned them in. Boo!

Best Veal Palomino I have had. The Gnocchi is excellent as well. If I lived closer, I would visit often.

Great and friendly staff. Try the foccia bread! A nice change from chain places. Family friendly. I’ll be back!

Pasta Fagioli is a great little spot for some quality Italian cuisine. I think they serve up some of the better pasta around. I don’t go out for Italian food that often, but when I crave Italian it is usually Pasta Fagioli. The place is tiny, so if you come on the weekend you will have to wait for sure. If you are my age (25), you will definitely be the youngest person in the restaurant by far! Definitely an older crowd. They don’t have much of an ambiance, but they do have BYOB! I love places that will let you BYOB because it cuts the cost of your meal in half. Its a really nice option to have.
There are two dishes that I always get here: Spaghetti del medici, and the ravioli stuffed with spinach and ricotta with palomino sauce. Mmmm I love their palomino sauce! The spaghetti del medici is a thin pasta with giant shrimp and a light tomato sauce. Really delicious and big enough for 2 people. The ravioli is hand made, but the sauce really makes it. The best part of the meal though, is their house salad! The dressing they use is incredible. I could drink it, or just spread it on everything I eat… I am not sure what kind of dressing you would call it, I guess something close to creamy caesar but SO much better.
The service is whatever, I don’t really remember it either way. I do remember one server being very very patient with my whole family when we came once for a big dinner there. Let me tell you, they are Jewish, it was passover, and for some reason we decided to go eat at pasta fagioli… don’t ask me why we went to a pasta place on passover! But, the server was super patient and sweet to my grandparents and extremely picky cousins. So I have to give them props on that! They even put matzo out on the table with the bread. I guess that is what you get at an Italian place in Bloomfield Hills :). Either way, I would definitely check this place out. Don’t expect much on ambiance, but do expect fabulous food!

One of our favorite Italian Restaurants to go to — homey and classic Italian. I always get the seafood with linguini (usually on the special board) and my wife gets the pasta bolognese. The bread is incredible and their soups are to die for. A bit on the pricey side but you can usually get a coupon thingie from
(although no Friday or Saturday nights with that) for half off. Carry out is always an option as there are only like 10 tables. Highly recommended!

Simply a classic. It’s a small place, very homey, many regulars. They are not fancy and they are not cheap. However, they serve quality, tasty, reliable cuisine every time you go. I recommend the veal palamino– it’s one of my favorite veal dishes anywhere. Also, they hand make all the lasagna noodles and their seafood pasta (it’s on the chalk board) is pretty good. If low carb is what you want the chicken fancese is made with an egg-​white wash. They have an amazing house salad with a homemade spicy mustard caesar dressing. Lastly, their appetizer eggplant rollantini is to die for.

When visiting a restaurant its not always about food! We were there today and our hostess looked very distressed and when my friend nudged her for why she looked so upset. She was struggling to hold back her tears. Our hostess after some prodding hesitatingly shared what she had been going thru. Her house had been robbed that morning and she said that she rather be home waiting for the cops to follow up on things stolen. But the owners/​managers insisted she show up at the restaurant and when she did — in her jeans and not her usual dress code — the owners read her the riot act for that.
Lack of empathy or concern for employees hardly appetizing!
I recently changed jobs and am now in the area and this was my first time to this restaurant. I would be hard pressed to go back there.

Very comfortable cozy spot. Price is worth the friendly service and tasty pasta.

I visited Pasta Fagioli between a private dance lesson at the nearby Fred Astaire Dance Studio and a group lesson in Bachata later that evening. Despite my better judgment, I was craving a bowl of pasta. (I probably shouldn’t eat so much in the way of carbs.) The menu looked promising enough if not a bit behind the times. I felt like it was a time warp back to the 1990’s with a lot of ingredients, sauces, and dishes that seemed to come into vogue in that decade: portobello mushrooms, penne, puttanesca, angel hair pasta. I suppose it’s not surprising that their wall of accolades includes reviews from the early 2000’s including being one of Detroit’s best restaurants of 2003, according to the Detroit Free Press. The restaurant seemed like a place that was forgotten by modern social media like Unilocal*.There’s nothing really wrong with that, I think, though.
I got one of the specials. It was an angel hair pasta with shrimp, lobster claw meat, fresh tomato, fresh garlic, and fresh basil with a healthy topping of extra fresh basil chiffonade over the top of everything. What came was a gutbustingly large portion of food. Yeah. I felt the stomach stretch uncomfortably. Ouch. Anyway, it was good. I loved the simplicity of that Italian trinity of tomato, basil, and garlic. The shrimp was cooked decently enough without overcooking it. It’s a bit too bad that the chiffonade of basil was like my ham-​handed attempts at the technique. Sure, it looked like it was cut into strips, but it wasn’t cut cleanly. I think both the Pasta Fagioli kitchen staff and I either need to work on our knife skills or to sharpen our knives. In any case, it was a tasty dish even though I felt I was back in the 1990’s.
Service was pretty friendly and attentive. I felt it was a little much to pay $ 29 for what I got, but it was still good.