Pasta Plus Restaurant

Grabbed a slice of pepperoni on the way in to work. The pizza was very doughy and seemingly undercooked. The cheese was good, the sauce unremarkable. Not worth going out of your way, but if you’re on the run in the area I suppose do. I’ll give it another try, maybe it was a bad time of day.
Easy to get in and out, staff was nice.

I have to start off by saying that the staff at Pasta Plus totally blew me away. I went last week on a busy lunch hour … maybe Thursday or Friday of last week. We were greeted as we came in the door and the line moved fast. As many previous reviewers have pointed out, this is not a fancy joint. This is a place where you order your food and sit down while it is being made. The friendly staff took our orders quickly and helped us zero in on just what we wanted. If you’re looking for something fancy … move on … but if you’re looking for good food at a fair price, Pasta Plus is tough to beat. And please don’t give them a negative review just because you wanted to be waited on. They don’t do that here!
But on to the food! I ordered the fettuccini carbonara and it was absolutely delicious. Nice creamy sauce with bacon. I was also impressed with the portion size for the cost. It arrived at the table maybe five minutes after I ordered and was piping hot! That gave me time to dive into that delicious house salad. The other reviewers don’t lie … this little side salad with house dressing was one of the best I’ve ever had. The croutons were crispy and flavorful. The dressing was tangy and delicious! I even took half of my pasta home. There was that much food on my (styrofoam) plate! My rating was totally based on my experience, which was excellent. The employees also continuously moved through the room delivering food to other customers and asking us if we needed anything else. We couldn’t have asked for better service!
Now my friend wasn’t particularly enamored with her baked pasta dish (red sauce). She thought the sauce was okay, kind of on the sweet side, but it was just poured over the pasta and quickly baked with some cheese on top. The flavor was fine, but the preparation wasn’t to her liking. She enjoyed it, and cleaned her plate, but will try something different next time. She too was impressed with the overall value presented here. She just could have chosen more wisely. To be fair, she wasn’t exactly sure how they were going to prepare a baked dish so quickly and she didn’t ask. Her hope was that they would bake a tray and keep it warm and ready to go. But what she got instead of a fresh dish of pasta that was very quickly baked. Again, she was not at all unhappy with her meal … she will just try something different next time. Let’s just say the baked red sauce with pasta didn’t knock her socks off.
And oh, we will definitely be back! That house dressing and those croutons are already calling my name. And we saw some delicious food coming out to land on other tables. Come in expecting a simple meal of good quality at a fair price and you won’t be sad. If you want to sit down and be waited on … there are better choices. For what this place attempts to be, they excel. And for that … five stars!!!

the best house salad dressing ever! please bottle it! the food is amazing as well… salads, sandwiches and pasta who could ask for anything more!
small quaint place could use a little sprucing up but who goes to a restaurant for the décor?
the food is amazing and you can call ahead for carry out!

Styrofoam plates, order at the counter, good prices and excellent food. Highly recommend

Best chef grilled chicken salad! Delivery could be quicker especially if it was just a salad but with a –8 windshield I’ll let that slide. Otherwise it would be five stars with me. Thanks Pasta Plus, I was hungry!!!

The food and service was good. The atmosphere was ok my biggest issue was the price. I got a soda pasta and cheese bread and it cost me almost 20 bucks. It was a big portion of pasta was good and hot however for the size and atmosphere of the place it wasn’t worth that much. It really is whats keeping me from going back.

This place seems pretty underrated on Unilocal!It’s definitely not the kind of place that I’d bring a date or anybody that I was trying to wine and dine, but as a quick, old school Italiano lunch in Clayton this place is great. The restaurant gives off a family-​owned vibe, and the walls are like with photos of the goodfellas and sopranos.
Working that corporate life in Clayton, this place was always a favorite midday pit stop. For less than $ 7, you get a pretty good salad and the best meatball sub you’ve ever eaten (Unless, in fact, you are Italian). It’s perfectly toasted, comes with a couple peppers on the side, and its just a taaad greasy; though all the best sandwiches are. The service is quick, but pretty basic; they won’t wait on you hand and foot, so you’ve got to make that walk back to the register if there’s anything you’ve forgotten.
They also have outdoor seating for when the weather doesn’t suck, but only a couple small tables. Pasta Plus isn’t the place that you want to have a huge corporate meal, but for small groups, it’s perfectly accommodating

A no frills pasta and pizza joint in Clayton for a quick and cheap lunch. I don’t gather that there is supposed to be an atmosphere — it’s an in-​and-​out kind of place.
I’ve never ordered the pasta. The pizza is just ok — it’ll suffice.
In all honesty, the only thing I regularly order is the side salad just for the creamy salad dressing — it is just THAT good. The best Italian salad dressing I have ever had. I also like the provel cheese and the croutons (as other reviews have spoken about). What I don’t like is the iceberg lettuce — it has no nutritional value when compared with greener lettuces. It’s time for Pasta Plus to face the facts — we order salads for nutritional value — and make the switch. Once I asked them to not use iceberg and sub in their greener lettuce (which I know they have for their other salads) and they up-​charged me — that was disappointing.
Have never experienced disappointing or unfriendly service. The place is usually buzzing with customers. It’s really A-​OK.
All and all, I will be back because I work in Clayton and there are limited lunch options for reasonable prices — we’re kind of a captive audience.

Well that was kinda disappointing. I stopped in at Pasta Plus in Clayton for lunch today with another, thinking that some quick Italian would be a nice change. Oh well, perhaps I need to reset my expectations. This is pretty much a no atmosphere place to grab a pretty quick bite, or to pick up pre-​ordered food. Even with its apparent appeal as a quick place, the order/​pick up line quickly got really long & didn’t move that quickly.
I had eaten a lot of stuff already this morning, so I opted for the large house salad and a regular size soda. Salad came out and was all iceberg lettuce, with «hot» onion slices, canned olive slices, extruded provel cheese, a few tomato pieces, but a decent semi-​creamy homemade Italian dressing (and not so much that it was swimmming). Oh, yeah — it also had a ton of those really greasy/​deep-​fried croutons. It also came with one slice of Italian bread. Meh.
The other person got the side salad and «ultrathin» (their words, not mine) pizza combo, which came with a sode. The side salad was a small bowl of iceberg lettuce, with onion slices, provel cheese, those croutons, and dressing. Pizza was bizarre. 8″, looked like a very thin tortilla, with pizza sauce painted on it and provel cheese melted. Even meh-​ier than my order.
It was fairly cheap, though. But, really, now I’m just damning them with faint praise.

As others have said, you get what you pay for. And this is «food court» Italian. It’s perfectly acceptable food, it’s just nothing special.
We ordered in today. Toasted ravs; tossed salad; a sausage & pepperoni pizza; lots of garlic bread; and that pink cream sauce and shells with broccoli dish everyone seems to serve. Everything arrived at a good temperature, the ravs & bread weren’t soggy, and neither was the the salad.
The pizza in particular I enjoyed and would like to have again. Plenty of soft, chewy cheese and not over sauced.
Basically, it’s good banquet food, and it travelled well. There weren’t many leftovers, either.

Pasta Plus is great when you need a quick bite to eat and are bored from ordering from the usual places again. The food is hot, relatively cheap, and sometimes creative. I usually order the veal bianco which comes with broccoli and a side of pasta.
Pasta Plus is not your traditional Italian restaurant. Its more like food court Italian. With that said, I do have one time. Watch the locals. They tend to order delicious looking items that are off the menu.
Pasta Plus does offer delivery in the Clayton area but be prepared to wait.

I was actually shooting for another lunch spot farther down the street, but the horrible humid heat got to me and I ended up bee lining it for the closest restaurant. Pasta Plus it was.
I wasn’t really thinking pasta sounded good on such a hot day and decided their spinach salad special of the day would be perfect. I got it to go. It was the perfect choice for a hot day and at the right price. The only grip, the dressing was SUPER oily and not enough vinegar and seasoning. Aside from the dressing, the bacon bits, onion, tomatoes AND Mandarin oranges atop fresh spinach were a really good combo.

The bottom line with Pasta Plus: you get what you pay for. If you’re looking for something fast and cheap and aren’t too concerned about the quality, you probably won’t mind Pasta Plus. But if you want more than just decent quality, I would stay away from this place.
It’s a cute little place on Central Avenue, just south of Forsyth. When you walk in you’ll see that the atmosphere won’t blow you away, as it’s meant to be a quick, cheap place to get a bite (and it’s definitely not the kind of place you want to go on a date). You take your order at the counter and your food is brought out to you on a tray with styrofoam plates. They have a wide variety of pastas, pizzas and salads, and if you play your cards right you can get a full meal for under $ 8. Their pastas with tomato sauces are probably your best bet; the quality is not fantastic but it’s pretty decent.
But beyond that I’m not too thrilled with Pasta Plus. I got their pesto pasta once, and it wasn’t much of a pesto sauce. It was basically liquefied margarine with some green specks and some salt and garlic. It had no taste, and the pasta itself was a pallid white color. I got some grilled chicken and vegetables on it, and those didn’t have any taste either. The chicken was mushy and chewy and tasted like it was stuck in the microwave for ten minutes, and the broccoli was still light green and I question whether or not they actually cooked it. The bread they served with the meal was two slices of generic white Italian bread with some margarine. Nothing too special.
I will probably avoid this place in the future simply because the quality of the food I’ve had there has been mediocre at best. But if you’re looking for cheap pasta and pizza and don’t mind sacrificing quality to save a few bucks, this is the place for you.

Back in the good old days of working at the County Court, I used to frequent this place for lunch. The place has a very wide menu ranging from pizza to sandwiches to salads and more. I am simply in love with their house salad and if you are in Clayton for lunch, I highly suggest checking it out. The croutons are what make the salad and honestly, are just to die for. I have found none so buttery and garlicy anywhere else in town.
A word of warning: this is a Clayton Lunch Spot. It gets packed quickly and people tend to be harried while they are getting their food. It’s usually packed with the general Clayton crowd, so tons of lawyers and government workers, but that’s not a bad thing, just a fact. Also, they tend to close early so don’t depend on them for dinner. It’s certainly a better spot for catching lunch than anything else.
Another tip: There’s another location in South County that stays open slightly later.