Primped Pasta: Basta Pasta Italian Café

As grain-heavy reminder in the landscape of Skippack Village restaurants, easily grabs hold of the main street pasta playing title on Skippack Pike.

With the pre-dinner complement of still warm and lightly doughy miniature twists of bread, prepped caringly by the chef behind a glass counter, these early meal delights set a fitting scene for the pasta to come. With slippery dip after easy dip into a small pond of olive oil and a dash of accentuating spices, it’s the ultimate mouth-pleasing starter push.

Clams before pasta, suitably salty, herb stuffing-infused and bacon-swept, the Vongola Al Forno joins the table with a purple and emerald mingling of greens by way of one fine leaf under each shell, accompanying the sour pinch of lemon wedges.

From the entrée section, Pennette Harry’s Bar, a dish doused thickly in a cloudy, almost apricot-hued pomodoro sauce—a tomato, garlic, olive oil and fresh basil-inspired brand known for longer simmering than the usual marinara—comes with a plentiful pouring of penne pasta, sprinklings of spinach, the blended in addition of sundried tomatoes and well-hidden, toasted pine nuts.

This dish spends its heavy load of flavoring on savory whims by the mouthful with a willing fork. Topped with two thinned, sizable squares of already melting Parmesan, the Pennette Harry’s Bar sets up the palate for pasta perfection.

Also donning the iconic pomodoro sauce of Italian plate spillings, Cacciatora, prepared with veal in place of chicken, beckons of mushrooms across varieties--red and green peppers, onions and tomatoes also pooled with penne pasta samplings cooked to just the right bite, not too soft and not too firm. The heavy fading of parmesan slices also play a part across this pasta platter.

 With nearly tucked full bellies above the belt but sweets still on the mind, a heaping plate of tiramisu shaken over with Dutch cocoa welcomes a meal’s end with the sweep of a fluffy yet airily coffee-spent and pressed chomp to wind down a delectably done dinner.

Find out more about Basta Pasta Italian Café--at 4052 Skippack Pike
in Skippack, PA 19474--here.