Dans le Vieux-Port, L'usine de Spaghetti se présente comme un restaurant italien chaleureux et rustique avec un grand buffet de salade à volonté, du pain et du beurre à l'ail et un large choix de pâtes que beaucoup décrivent savoureuses et réconfortantes, des fettuccine riches aux plats de viande copieux. L'ambiance est cosy et nostalgique, le service généralement attentif et sympathique, et la carte des vins ainsi que l'accueil sont souvent loués; toutefois les périodes d'affluence peuvent entraîner des files d'attente et des retards. Le rapport qualité prix est perçu comme favorable, notamment pour les familles et les groupes, même si certaines visites signalent des assaisonnements inégaux ou des plats manquant d'un certain peps et des portions qui varient selon les visites.
Cute place with a very nice vibe. They serve all you can eat bread & salad bar before your meals, portion sizes are quite generous so make sure to not fill up on bread & salad. Service is very good & attentive! Sometimes long lines cause they're very popular so be prepared to wait.
Service, atmosphere & salad bar good but food is not very good! Complementary bread was dry & tasted like frozen bread. Overall, I think the price for what we got was good considering it was in the middle of old montreal. It felt like it was a place for tourists! The main dishes were too salty & felt like I could have made them at home. Mushroom risotto: not a lot of mushrooms, oily & lacked flavour. Lobster pasta: nothing amazing The sauce lacked character. Lamb chops & pesto pasta: nice lamb chops & pasta was pretty good. Would recommend out of all the dishes. Salad bar: fresh salad & side dishes!
30 juin 2024
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We tried the Bruschetta, Penne Arrabiata, & the meatball. Loved everything that came. The tomatoes on the bruschetta & in the arrabiata is simply scrumptious! The complimentary breads were really fragrant too, I didn't think I would like onions on bread, but turns out I do! The place was charming & nice atmosphere too.
Very nice look to the restaurant but food was just OK. My spaghetti was not warm, hardly had any sauce & definitely no flavor... Bread was not warm & butter was cold from the fridge. No exceptions are allowed for the plates.
The restaurant is very old & that's the best thing about this place, in my opinion. The decorations & design transports you way back in time to early 20th century perhaps. & Charles Dickens writing the notes for "A tale of two cities" there is very impressive! There was a line when we went for dinner at 6 PM & the line was much longer by 7:30 when we exited the restaurant. The waiter was super attentive & very kind. The salad bar is free with any main meal but half of the salad bowls were nearly empty & we had to ask them to refill them. I got "le Jean Talon" which was Fettuccini in Alfredo sauce but asked for the jumbo shrimps to be replaced by chicken. It was nice but nothing extraordinary. I mean it felt like I had tasted the exact same thing several times in my life, & so close to the recipe I used to make at home. The portion wasn't super big. I had butter & bread that they brought at the table, had two plates of salad, & still could easily finish my dish of pasta (which considering the creamy sauce is a bit heavy). The restaurant is a bit on the pricey side, especially considering the portion size. All in all, amazing environment, polite waiter, but not impressed by the food & prices. :)
OVERPRICED BARILLA! I expected to have a nice pasta, prepared by hand but instead they serve a basic Barilla that you can buy in any store & boil yourself. The meatball that comes with pasta No.14 also feels like they bought it in a supermarket & just heated it. To ask 24$ for such a quality is a crime! The sauce in pasta is over spiced with rosemary, too much, not enjoyable at all! Feels like someone tried to cook pasta for a 1st time really! If you buy a ready to eat Italian sauce in a supermarket, it would be better than this one for sure. The atmosphere was very tourist, but not in a good sense like the Banquise, more like very crowded & dark. The salad bar that is included in the pasta price is very basic, simple pasta salad with mayo, potato with mayo, nothing worthwhile. The bread they serve is also from a supermarket & not from a good one. I expected to enjoy some freshly baked tasty bread, but it is not the case! The garlic butter is very artificial & it also from a store & it is a cheap one. The burrata costs 24$ & it is small & not fresh! The fresh burrata should be a bit liquid on the inside, this one is more firm. The waiters do not replenish the water. Over all, it is a place which serves cheap food from a supermarket but puts an overpriced tag on it, do not recommend.
7 avr. 2024
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The atmosphere was nice. The food was good & the portions were generous. The salad bar was ok, not a lot of variety, but it does the job. I wish the service was better, there was no explanation on the menu, nothing about the all-you-can-eat salad bar. We even have to ask for our bread in the middle of the service. The waiting time was also long even if the place is almost empty around 4pm.
Superb service, great decor, this will be one of my goto places in Montreal. This is a classic Italian restaurant that has been around for decades. Dark, masculine interior with sports photographs on the wall. Our server was a delight. Attentive, helpful, just lovely. The wine... Liano Sangiovese. Delicious. I picked up a bottle on the way home. Bread, perfect. We got the penne with salmon & the lobster fettuccini, both fantastic. Dinner comes with their salad bar; simple & fresh. Just when I thought it could not be better... maple, carrot cheesecake. It was literally a combination of carrot cake & cheese cake. I've been to hundreds of restaurants. This dessert is now in my top five. I can't wait to go back. Magnificent! Magnifico!
