Auntie Pasta
Category: Restaurants Italian Italian [Edit]
Mountain Lodge10 Snowshoe Dr
Snowshoe, WV 26209
(304) 572-5252
- Price Range:
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$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
4 reviews for Auntie Pasta
4 reviews in English
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Review from George M.
Herndon, VA
2/28/2010
Awesome place. Dinner buffet was 17$. It was great. Lobster, steak, salad, dessert. You name it. Less than 10 min wait for a party of 8.
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Review from kirby c.
Washington, DC
1/29/2012
Anita's offers uninspired, sub-Olive Garden "Italian" food. I get that it's on a ski resort, and it's allowed to be a little worse and a little more expensive than average, but it's just bad.
I had a chicken pesto dish, and my wife had primavera. They were slightly better than frozen dinners--very bland and pasty, with over cooked pasta and obviously frozen vegetables.
Service was abysmally slow even with a half-full dining room. We finally received bread after an hour of waiting, and it came right after entrees.
Anita's has a captive set of customers, and I'm convinced that's the only reason they are still in business. Avoid. -
Review from Louis B.
1/10/2009
Auntie Pasta is one of the oldest culinary names at Snowshoe Mountain, dating to 1981. Its previous location was where the luxurious Seneca Condominiums are now, and after a couple of years' absence, it is now it is located in the Conference Center level of Mountain Lodge, where the old steakhouse used to be.
Despite its location outside the Center Village, it nonetheless is very convenient to all of the sprawling Snowshoe resort, being a short walk from the village and within easy access from the Snowshoe shuttles.
The old Auntie Pasta used to be a fairly no-frills, hearty Italian food. The new Auntie Pasta is still hearty in its offerings, but with a little upscale ambiance action added. The restaurant now features nice Italian and continental music. I was surprised to hear Eros Ramazzotti on the speakers, and despite the deplorable food, I was briefly transported to Europe. That's where the similarities end as to comparing it to the Old Continent...
The menu's antipasti selections include escargot, mussels and bruschetta as some of its traditional faire. For those with a fried fetish, fried calamari, fried provolone, and stuffed banana peppers complimented the offerings.
The entrée menu included several pastas as well as a five-sauce selection that included vongole (both red and white), meat, marinara and pomodoro. The other selections included meat as well as vegetable lasagna, manicotti, shrimp scampi, chicken Marsala and Pasta Primavera among others.
Desserts include the must-have Tiramisu, Creme Brulee, and several cakes.
The wait staff is made up primarily of H2B-visa seasonal foreign employees, mostly college students. This is perhaps why despite its food quality shortcomings, service at Auntie Pasta was all but impeccable.
I arrived at 7 PM and was promptly seated at a table of my choosing. My waitress was a young Peruvian student with outstanding service skills and manners.
The appetizer was an abysmal disappointment. I ordered the mussels, and out of about 30 mussels on the platter, fully 12 - almost half, weren't open. This means they were either dead or bad. Any chef worth his or her salt would have excised them from the plate, exercising proper quality control. I spoke to the manager and after checking in the back, she said that they come precooked (!!!) but they would check their supplier. Upon hearing this, I was brought back to memories of Bette Midler in her anguished cry in Ruthless People "I've been kidnapped by K-Mart!!!"
I ordered the catch of the day, the trout stuffed with crab meat, as well as a tasty California Pinot Grigio to accompany the selection. It is obvious that this selection is a commercial ready-made item. Although the stuffing was very flavorful, the trout was dry and tough, obviously reheated. I only was able to pass less than half.
After this experience, I didn't dare order dessert, for fear of Chernobyl-manufactured Creme Brulee... The coffee was good, though.
Overall, dinner at Auntie Pasta deserves one star or less judging by food quality alone. However, that would put it at par with the Junction at Snowshoe, the world's worst restaurant in my book, and it clearly doesn't merit that dubious notoriety. Besides, service was superb. No reason penalizing a great wait staff for the chef's shortcomings.
After reviewing most of Snowshoe-owned restaurants, I can attest that Snowshoe can deliver a superb, unmatched, solid business in ski operations, but it lacks substantively when it comes to the restaurant business. Just about all of the independent mountain-top competition delivers better food. And a good contractor could deliver a much better quality to its customers. As is, Auntie Pasta is un-Pastable. -
Review from Zoe P.
Vienna, VA
2/1/2010
Auntie Pasta's should get negative stars. My friends and I were in Snow Shoe last weekend and wanted to go out to a nice dinner on Sat night. We made a reservation as we were a party of 14. We got there and the table was not ready for us. We asked if we should sit in the bar till the table was ready, and the hostess said "well it's kindof crowded in there" leaving 14 of us awkwardly standing in the hallway. So we decided to go to the bar anyway, there were 2 cocktail tables and that's it! it was NOT crowded. However, I guess she knew the limit of the bartender because even though there were only 2 cocktail tables and NO ONE at the actual bar, the bartender still could not seem to pay attention to us. We waited over 10 minutes for him to even acknowledge our existence only for him to so say "i'll be right with you" ...well... the hostess came back sat us at our table. We were determined to make this evening into a good experience so we just brushed it off... our waiter came to order our drinks. Mind you, there were 3 couples that ordered a bottle of wine and the rest of us got vodka tonics...I tried to order an espresso martini but they said they didn't have espresso ...(what kind of Italian place doesn't have espresso?) regardless...I switched my order to a chocolate martini and asked him to make it CREAMY...all the other people got vodka tonics which for those of you who don't know involves ice, vodka, tonic and a lime... not too difficult, bartending 101 right there...so 30 minutes go by... and the waiter is now bringing out the drinks one by one. I'm pretty sure they weren't MAKING the bottles of wine that we ordered so I have no idea what the hold up was. Mind you... there were about 10 other tables in the entire restaurant, most of them mostly through their dinners...
45 minutes later he finally brings us the 3 vodka tonics that belonged at our end of the table and my chocolate martini. Not one of the three vodka tonics have a lime in it, or a straw like the other drinks that have been coming out 1 by 1 and the waiter has spilled 1/2 of my chocolate martini all over the glass but still proceeds to put it in front of me spilling it on me in the process ...
WE STILL HAVE NOT ORDERED ANY SORT OF FOOD AT THIS POINT and it has been almost an hour into our "meal" ...all the while no one has brought us bread or anything of the sort. We ask for bread and BEG the hostess to take our order, letting her know we'd like seperate checks. Now I know seperate checks are a pain but, restaurants should be able to do this in this day and age...and she agreed that it would be no problem.
The food came out and it was less than italian. My friend's eggplant dish looked like 2 veggie burgers over cheap penne and pizza sauce. All the food left much to be desired and at this point we had had enough.
Our waiter has disappeared.. it is now 11:00pm. We started this shenanigan at 8:30pm.
Finally he reappears and we beg him for the checks...
meanwhile the manager finally comes over and says "hey i was just checking to see how you guys were doing over here" really wanting to know why the hell we were the last table in the entire restaurant...at this point we had HAD it and told her it was "too little too late" and that we had no choice but to still be here.
Our waiter NEVER offered us coffee or desert, and the manager NEVER offered us anything for our troubles.
The waiter conveniently added 18% onto the check even though he was splitting all the checks and so we were forced to leave that as a tip even though for the FIRST time in my life (as I have bartended and waited tables all throughout high school and college) I could not fathom leaving 18% (when I usually tip 20% or more).
This was a sore disappointment and I wish I could get my money back.
I highly recommend you go ANYWHERE else but Auntie Pastas.
And the last kicker? They don't even have antipasta on the menu.
