Exceptionally good traditional Italian food, sauces actually taste like they’re processing their own locally grown fresh tomatoes the day of preparation (which isn’t near as common as you’d think it should be), and very attractive wait staff (call me shallow but I enjoy good looking servers). Also the restaurant itself is very aesthetically pleasing from the outside.
John David Hebert
Great food. They go above and beyond to give a great meal and dining experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Nathan White
Ugh so terrible! Horrible waits, seating, and terrible food.. I've worked in the restaurant business for many years and don't usually leave reviews but I can't help but to this time. This was our first dinning experience in Boulder and I won't be back to this place. We got there at 5:33pm on a Thursday, it was busy but when I asked the host how long for 2 she said about 15mins. Ok great, no worries we wait... Then after 25-30mins I checked to see how much longer she thought it might be and she said there is one other 2 top ahead of you and then you can be seated. I said ok no worries just checking. We finally sat down at 6:35.. at a small table shoved in the corner with no room to move my arm and the table wobbled so bad I thought my water might fall off. Even the waitress and host made a comment on the tight space, bc there were about to sit a 6-8 top right beside us. One of the guys tried to get to his seat and said excuse me so that I would make room, I looked at him and said I'm on a wall there's no where for me to go. His whole family left the restaurant. I wish we would have too. After the server went to the manager about switching us to another table,(which we didn't ask for) the manager came to the table and asked if we wanted to wait at the bar for another table. I asked her how long she expected us to wait we have been there for an hour, to be sat at a horrible wobbly table with no room? ! She said we can either stay there or wait at the bar. I was starving so I said we would just wait this is about 6:50 at this point... After she left we decided we were leaving bc there are too many nice places to eat to be eating like this.. as we went to leave the manager said wait we will set u right now at this other table and I will get y'all's drinks and apps. We never saw her again after that. And she didn't take care of anything.. not that I want free food. We paid the whole bill and left disappointed. The kicker after all that waiting is that my husbands pasta was burnt and my carbonara sucked and was spicy? I didn't even eat my food.. the service was just ok. Not good food and horrible lies about wait times! No thanks!
Nathan white
Ugh so terrible! Horrible waits, seating, and food.. I've worked in the restaurant business for many years and don't usually leave reviews but I can't help but to this time. This was our first dinning experience in Boulder and I won't be back to this place. We got there at 5:33pm on a Thursday, it was busy but when I asked the host how long for 2 she said about 15mins. Ok great, no worries we wait... Then after 25-30mins I checked to see how much longer she thought it might be and she said there is one other 2 top ahead of you and then you can be seated. I said ok no worries just checking. We finally sat down at 6:35.. at a small table shoved in the corner with no room to move my arm and the table wobbled so bad I thought my water might fall off. Even the waitress and host made a comment on the tight space, bc there were about to sit a 6-8 top right beside us. One of the guys tried to get to his seat and said excuse me so that I would make room, I looked at him and said I'm on a wall there's no where for me to go. His whole family left the restaurant. I wish we would have too. After the server went to the manager about switching us to another table,(which we didn't ask for) the manager came to the table and asked if we wanted to wait at the bar for another table. I asked her how long she expected us to wait we have been there for an hour, to be sat at a horrible wobbly table with no room? ! She said we can either stay there or wait at the bar. I was starving so I said we would just wait this is about 6:50 at this point... After she left we decided we were leaving bc there are too many nice places to eat to be eating like this.. as we went to leave the manager said wait we will set u right now at this other table and I will get y'all's drinks and apps. We never saw her again after that. And she didn't take care of anything.. not that I want free food. We paid the whole bill and left disappointed. The kicker after all that waiting is that my husbands pasta was burnt and my carbonara sucked and was spicy? I didn't even eat my food.. the service was just ok. Not good food and horrible lies about wait times! No thanks!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: Garlic Bread
Emerson Beckham
Me and my family on new Year's Day, went down to the good 'o' pasta jay. We were ready to dine, we had food on our mind. Our teeth, we got ready to grind. To food down to a rind. We got three pizzas, a margarita, a roman, and a custom one too. Not to mention a salad that made me feel blue. They said their produce was lovely, sourced locally. But really it made me feel quite melancholy. After we finished stomachs still diminished , but we still got gelato, and It cost a loto. Just for the freezer burn. I lost a lot of money I earned. Mic drop
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
Britton Beckham
Look, it's my first review in Boulder, but I have high expectations. Especially when you walk into a place that touts their founding story... and by a local no less. Sadly, the experience of the food was just not quality. I could have easily sourced more tasty, nutritious AND ripe ingredients from King Soopers! To their credit, after mentioning the lackluster salad, they did remove it from my bill, but for a company that prints how authentic and quality their ingredients are, I was less than impressed, and so was my entire family. It's a solid 3 star place.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 3
Seiko Tran
Good food and great ambience. Soda for $6 is bit pricey though
Essi
We were spending a day in Boulder and came here for lunch. We ate pizzas and pastas. Pizzas were good with crunchy crust and pastas were very fulling (huge portion size!). Service was also awesome! It looked a bit popular place so we needed to wait about 15 mins for the free table on Friday afternoon. I could recommend this restaurant.
Food: 4
Service: 5
Tai Johnson
The manager, who was clearly multitasking, treated me very differently than the customers before me. He assumed I was someone picking up a DoorDash order or something. Clearly snobbish. It’s not actually hard to treat everyone the same at onset, then see if people are troublesome or justifiably unwarranted, unless the restaurant or its workers have prejudice involved. The woman who brought my food was actually very kind and personable. It was clearly that manger that was the problem, not the restaurant entirely.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Tracy Metzger
I AM NOT A RESIDENT OF COLORADO BUT MY DAUGHTER'S FAMILY HAS BEEN SINCE 1988. SINCE YOUR RESTAURANT BECAME THEIR NUMBER ONE CHOICE IT HAS ALSO BECAME MY NUMBER ONE CHOICE. I AM IN COLORADO AT LEAST 3 OR 4 TIMES A YEAR BRING FRIENDS. WE ALWAYS MAKE IT A POINT TO EAT AT PASTA JAY'S. WHEN YOU HAD LOCATIONS IN DENVER AND BRECKENRIDGE WE ATE AT THOSE LOCATIONS. I AM USE TO A LONG WAIT TO GET SEATED AND WILLING TO DO SO BUT WHAT I'M NOT WILLING TO DO IS TO BE TREATED RUDELY! I HAVE HAD TO ENTERACT WITH THE PUBLIC DURING HOLIDAYS FOR MANY YEARS SO I KNOW THE SITUATION YOUR STAFF WAS DEALING WITH LAST NIGHT DEC 24,2024. WE CALLED BEFORE ARRIVING AT THE RESTAURANT INQUIRING ABOUT RESERVATIONS AND WAIT TIMES, WE WERE TOLD HALF RESERVATIONS AND HALF WALK INS WITH WAIT TIMES OF 45 MINUTES AS OF 4:00. WE ARRIVED AT 4:30 BUT WERE TOLD IN A VERY RUDE CONDESCENDING MANNER THAT YOUR HOSTESS NEVER SAID THAT. IT WAS RESERVATION ONLY BUT IF WE WANTED TO WAIT OUR NAME COULD BE PUT ON A LIST BUT IT WOULD BE 1 HR 45 MIN WAIT MAKING IT 6:15. AROUND 5:45 WHEN WE WERE JUST INQUIRING HOW THE WAITING LIST WAS LOOKING SHE AGAIN VERY SARCASTICALLY SAID IT IS WHAT IT IS PEOPLE ARE STAYING 2 TO 2 1/2 HOURS AT A TABLE. THE OTHER SITUATION YOUR HOSTESS WAS ALLOWING PEOPLE WAITING TO BE SEAT TO STAND ALL AROUND INSIDE THE THE RESTAURANT WATCHING SEATED PEOPLE EAT THEIR MEAL. AS IN THE PAST NO ONE WAITING SHOULD PAST THE DOOR ENTRANCE OR SEATED AT THE BAR. WE WERE FINALLY SEATED AT 6:45. SADLY TO SAY DUE TO YOUR HOSTESS 'S ATTITUDE AND HER PEOPLE HANDLING SKILLS PASTA JAY'S IS NO LONGER MINE, MY DAUGHTER'S FAMILY AND OUR MANY FRIENDS NUMBER ONE RESTAURANT. TO BE HONEST I DOUBT IF I WILL RETURN TO YOUR RESTAURANT WHICH IS SO SAD. OUR SERVER AND FOOD WAS EXCELLENT.
Pasta Jay's provided an amazing spread to Niwot High School! The food was excellent!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Ravioli with Meat Sauce, Garlic Bread
Jair Heredia
This has to be the best Italian restaurant in town. Pasta Jay’s catered food for our lunch and Jacky made the ordering process very easy!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Karrla McGee
My place of employment had Pasta Jay's catered in for our holiday party, it was delicious! Everything from the house salad to the tortellini alfredo was fresh and made to perfection. Highly recommended and you won't be disappointed in trying this good hearty food.
Thank you so much to Pasta Jay’s for providing a delicious catered dinner for our high school orchestra fundraiser. They were so generous! Pasta Jay’s came out to our school and set up everything, complete with serving and heating equipment. The food was delicious: fresh salad, pasta with 3 different delicious sauces to choose from, rolls and all the toppings. More than enough for people to fill their plates high and everyone loved the food!
Exceptionally good traditional Italian food, sauces actually taste like they’re processing their own locally grown fresh tomatoes the day of preparation (which isn’t near as common as you’d think it should be), and very attractive wait staff (call me shallow but I enjoy good looking servers). Also the restaurant itself is very aesthetically pleasing from the outside.
Great food. They go above and beyond to give a great meal and dining experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Ugh so terrible! Horrible waits, seating, and terrible food.. I've worked in the restaurant business for many years and don't usually leave reviews but I can't help but to this time. This was our first dinning experience in Boulder and I won't be back to this place. We got there at 5:33pm on a Thursday, it was busy but when I asked the host how long for 2 she said about 15mins. Ok great, no worries we wait... Then after 25-30mins I checked to see how much longer she thought it might be and she said there is one other 2 top ahead of you and then you can be seated. I said ok no worries just checking. We finally sat down at 6:35.. at a small table shoved in the corner with no room to move my arm and the table wobbled so bad I thought my water might fall off. Even the waitress and host made a comment on the tight space, bc there were about to sit a 6-8 top right beside us. One of the guys tried to get to his seat and said excuse me so that I would make room, I looked at him and said I'm on a wall there's no where for me to go. His whole family left the restaurant. I wish we would have too. After the server went to the manager about switching us to another table,(which we didn't ask for) the manager came to the table and asked if we wanted to wait at the bar for another table. I asked her how long she expected us to wait we have been there for an hour, to be sat at a horrible wobbly table with no room? ! She said we can either stay there or wait at the bar. I was starving so I said we would just wait this is about 6:50 at this point... After she left we decided we were leaving bc there are too many nice places to eat to be eating like this.. as we went to leave the manager said wait we will set u right now at this other table and I will get y'all's drinks and apps. We never saw her again after that. And she didn't take care of anything.. not that I want free food. We paid the whole bill and left disappointed. The kicker after all that waiting is that my husbands pasta was burnt and my carbonara sucked and was spicy? I didn't even eat my food.. the service was just ok. Not good food and horrible lies about wait times! No thanks!
Ugh so terrible! Horrible waits, seating, and food.. I've worked in the restaurant business for many years and don't usually leave reviews but I can't help but to this time. This was our first dinning experience in Boulder and I won't be back to this place. We got there at 5:33pm on a Thursday, it was busy but when I asked the host how long for 2 she said about 15mins. Ok great, no worries we wait... Then after 25-30mins I checked to see how much longer she thought it might be and she said there is one other 2 top ahead of you and then you can be seated. I said ok no worries just checking. We finally sat down at 6:35.. at a small table shoved in the corner with no room to move my arm and the table wobbled so bad I thought my water might fall off. Even the waitress and host made a comment on the tight space, bc there were about to sit a 6-8 top right beside us. One of the guys tried to get to his seat and said excuse me so that I would make room, I looked at him and said I'm on a wall there's no where for me to go. His whole family left the restaurant. I wish we would have too. After the server went to the manager about switching us to another table,(which we didn't ask for) the manager came to the table and asked if we wanted to wait at the bar for another table. I asked her how long she expected us to wait we have been there for an hour, to be sat at a horrible wobbly table with no room? ! She said we can either stay there or wait at the bar. I was starving so I said we would just wait this is about 6:50 at this point... After she left we decided we were leaving bc there are too many nice places to eat to be eating like this.. as we went to leave the manager said wait we will set u right now at this other table and I will get y'all's drinks and apps. We never saw her again after that. And she didn't take care of anything.. not that I want free food. We paid the whole bill and left disappointed. The kicker after all that waiting is that my husbands pasta was burnt and my carbonara sucked and was spicy? I didn't even eat my food.. the service was just ok. Not good food and horrible lies about wait times! No thanks!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: Garlic Bread
Me and my family on new Year's Day, went down to the good 'o' pasta jay. We were ready to dine, we had food on our mind. Our teeth, we got ready to grind. To food down to a rind. We got three pizzas, a margarita, a roman, and a custom one too. Not to mention a salad that made me feel blue. They said their produce was lovely, sourced locally. But really it made me feel quite melancholy. After we finished stomachs still diminished , but we still got gelato, and It cost a loto. Just for the freezer burn. I lost a lot of money I earned. Mic drop
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
Look, it's my first review in Boulder, but I have high expectations. Especially when you walk into a place that touts their founding story... and by a local no less. Sadly, the experience of the food was just not quality. I could have easily sourced more tasty, nutritious AND ripe ingredients from King Soopers! To their credit, after mentioning the lackluster salad, they did remove it from my bill, but for a company that prints how authentic and quality their ingredients are, I was less than impressed, and so was my entire family. It's a solid 3 star place.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 3
Good food and great ambience. Soda for $6 is bit pricey though
We were spending a day in Boulder and came here for lunch. We ate pizzas and pastas. Pizzas were good with crunchy crust and pastas were very fulling (huge portion size!). Service was also awesome! It looked a bit popular place so we needed to wait about 15 mins for the free table on Friday afternoon. I could recommend this restaurant.
Food: 4
Service: 5
The manager, who was clearly multitasking, treated me very differently than the customers before me. He assumed I was someone picking up a DoorDash order or something. Clearly snobbish. It’s not actually hard to treat everyone the same at onset, then see if people are troublesome or justifiably unwarranted, unless the restaurant or its workers have prejudice involved. The woman who brought my food was actually very kind and personable. It was clearly that manger that was the problem, not the restaurant entirely.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
I AM NOT A RESIDENT OF COLORADO BUT MY DAUGHTER'S FAMILY HAS BEEN SINCE 1988. SINCE YOUR RESTAURANT BECAME THEIR NUMBER ONE CHOICE IT HAS ALSO BECAME MY NUMBER ONE CHOICE. I AM IN COLORADO AT LEAST 3 OR 4 TIMES A YEAR BRING FRIENDS. WE ALWAYS MAKE IT A POINT TO EAT AT PASTA JAY'S. WHEN YOU HAD LOCATIONS IN DENVER AND BRECKENRIDGE WE ATE AT THOSE LOCATIONS. I AM USE TO A LONG WAIT TO GET SEATED AND WILLING TO DO SO BUT WHAT I'M NOT WILLING TO DO IS TO BE TREATED RUDELY! I HAVE HAD TO ENTERACT WITH THE PUBLIC DURING HOLIDAYS FOR MANY YEARS SO I KNOW THE SITUATION YOUR STAFF WAS DEALING WITH LAST NIGHT DEC 24,2024. WE CALLED BEFORE ARRIVING AT THE RESTAURANT INQUIRING ABOUT RESERVATIONS AND WAIT TIMES, WE WERE TOLD HALF RESERVATIONS AND HALF WALK INS WITH WAIT TIMES OF 45 MINUTES AS OF 4:00. WE ARRIVED AT 4:30 BUT WERE TOLD IN A VERY RUDE CONDESCENDING MANNER THAT YOUR HOSTESS NEVER SAID THAT. IT WAS RESERVATION ONLY BUT IF WE WANTED TO WAIT OUR NAME COULD BE PUT ON A LIST BUT IT WOULD BE 1 HR 45 MIN WAIT MAKING IT 6:15. AROUND 5:45 WHEN WE WERE JUST INQUIRING HOW THE WAITING LIST WAS LOOKING SHE AGAIN VERY SARCASTICALLY SAID IT IS WHAT IT IS PEOPLE ARE STAYING 2 TO 2 1/2 HOURS AT A TABLE. THE OTHER SITUATION YOUR HOSTESS WAS ALLOWING PEOPLE WAITING TO BE SEAT TO STAND ALL AROUND INSIDE THE THE RESTAURANT WATCHING SEATED PEOPLE EAT THEIR MEAL. AS IN THE PAST NO ONE WAITING SHOULD PAST THE DOOR ENTRANCE OR SEATED AT THE BAR. WE WERE FINALLY SEATED AT 6:45. SADLY TO SAY DUE TO YOUR HOSTESS 'S ATTITUDE AND HER PEOPLE HANDLING SKILLS PASTA JAY'S IS NO LONGER MINE, MY DAUGHTER'S FAMILY AND OUR MANY FRIENDS NUMBER ONE RESTAURANT. TO BE HONEST I DOUBT IF I WILL RETURN TO YOUR RESTAURANT WHICH IS SO SAD. OUR SERVER AND FOOD WAS EXCELLENT.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 1
Restaurantji Recommends
Pasta Jay's provided an amazing spread to Niwot High School! The food was excellent!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Ravioli with Meat Sauce, Garlic Bread
This has to be the best Italian restaurant in town. Pasta Jay’s catered food for our lunch and Jacky made the ordering process very easy!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
My place of employment had Pasta Jay's catered in for our holiday party, it was delicious! Everything from the house salad to the tortellini alfredo was fresh and made to perfection. Highly recommended and you won't be disappointed in trying this good hearty food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Food is delicious!!! Excellent friendly service.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Ravioli with Meat Sauce, Marinara, Tortellini Alfredo, Perfect, Garlic Bread
Thank you so much to Pasta Jay’s for providing a delicious catered dinner for our high school orchestra fundraiser. They were so generous! Pasta Jay’s came out to our school and set up everything, complete with serving and heating equipment. The food was delicious: fresh salad, pasta with 3 different delicious sauces to choose from, rolls and all the toppings. More than enough for people to fill their plates high and everyone loved the food!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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