Anton's pasta bar

Anton's Pasta bar is located at 4260 East Hastings St., Burnaby. You can find the place while driving because the line up outside is usually really really long.  I went with my boyfriend and I think there were about 20 people ahead of us.  Fortunately, the people in the front were in big groups and a table for two opened up and we got in the restaurant after 5 minutes of waiting.  As we were exiting the restaurant after our meal we saw the people who were in front of us still waiting in line.. (Today's lesson: never come in big groups to Anton's :P)

We got bread while we were waiting for our pasta

The bread was okay.  What I loved about this was whipped butter.  I LOVE whipped butter with bread. OM NOM NOM

Our favourite at Anton's is the seafood pescatore with penne.  I think this pasta usually comes with linguine but my boyfriend and I both prefer penne.
  This pasta is full of fresh seafood flavours(scallop, mussel, squid) and it also has mushrooms.

OM NOM NOM

When I first came to Anton's, I didn't think the pastas were particarly special.  The reason behind that was because I had to sit in the restaurant, smelling pasta for 30 minutes or so while waiting for my food.. When my dish finally came out I couldn't really taste anything.

BUT

When I ate the leftovers the next day, I thought it was amazingly good!!! So I look forward to taking the leftovers home (Very odd.. I know)but almost everyone will have leftovers  because the portions are BIG at Anton's.

If you do manage to finish their pasta, they will give you a free pen! WOOT!

I was being adventurous and ordered stuffed seafood Conchiglie which is large pasta shells filled with seafood & served with a tomato, cream or creamy tomato sauce ) $16.50

As you can see, I got it with the creamy tomato sauce

When I got this dish I was surprised.. I didn't know that they were pasta shells.. XD...When I googled this dish, it looked like this...

... which looks quite different from the ones that I got..Mine just looked like huge dumplings in pasta sauce and it was really tough and hard to cut and also to chew.  I did like the filling though at first but I got sick of it later on.  I personally do not recommend this dish!!

I might just stick with the pastas next time.. because being adventurous wasn't a success at Anton's 


We'll see