Amazing food a great little hole in the wall find.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Italian Sodas
Nucknfuts
This place has amazing Italian food for a for a tiny town.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Salsicca Con Pollo, Chicken Tetrazzini, Chicken Cacciatore, Mamma Mia Meatball
Joy Bender
Amazing food a great little hole in the wall find.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Italian Sodas
Jon Dennis
La Pasta-A gem of an Italian restaurant in the littletown of Dorset. Attached to the General Store, it has probably the best, most varied, and most authentic Italian food available in central Minnesota, in a cozy family-type setting reminiscent of some of many family-owned Italian restaurants.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Butternut Squash Ravioli
Brent Hochstetler
I like this little restaurant (the restaurant is actually called La Pasta, but is connected to the Dorset General Store). We go here once a year on an annual vacation in the Park Rapids area. And we always stop here for breakfast.
Their menu isn’t large, but it’s for breakfast. I don’t expect anything major. The staff are friendly, and the service is prompt. (They do have a lunch/dinner menu, but I’ve only been there for lunch.)
The restaurant is deceptively larger than it looks from the outside, although none of the four dining areas is exceptionally big. If you have a larger party, I’d highly recommend making a reservation. In fact, if it’s a weekend, you might want to call about a reservation for even a small party if they’ll accept one.
As for the food, it is always well prepared. The eggs are done well, and while I often get French toast for breakfast, this time I opted for an omelette. It was excellent, with lots of cheese and ham to make it especially filling.
When you’re done, you pay next door in the general store. They have some basic food items standard Minnesota gifts.
I’d recommend this restaurant among the many options that exist in the town of Dorset!
Parking: Parking is often a challenge in Dorset, especially on weekends and during evenings in the summer, at least when we’ve been there. You can park along the street or behind the restaurants, but if the town is busy, you may have to exercise some patience to find a spot.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Aaron Tompkins
La Pasta is fantastic! Definitely recommend for some great Italian food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Dmitri Fancypants
Nice, cozy Italian restaurant connected to a small convenience store. Good was very good and plentiful. Service was fast and efficient.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Salsicca Con Pollo
Steph Havens
Kid-friendliness: Varieties on the kids menu
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tossed Salad
Bob Hanson
the scallops were undercooked and I wasn't impress with the most expensive dish on the menu but the cheapest dish, spaghetti w the meatball/sausage combo is great! decent sercive.
I feel a need to be honest with this one. The pasta was good, I had the pasta genovese, but truthfully, it needed a little more pasta and much more pesto. What I had was some dry ground chicken on a small bed of noodles that I kept stirring around on the plate to scoop up the tiny but of sauce. The sundried tomatoes saved it (sort of).
Ambiance was challenged. There was an elderly couple behind us, apparently on a tinder date from a nearby trailer park because both were very hard of hearing and everyone heard the entire first date conversation- including the rodent problems under the trailers and the struggles of cooking with propane and the loneliness of sleeping alone.
Not to be outdone, the 4 ferral-raised kids aged 5 to about 12 at the other table in the small room were climbing on the chairs, shouting over the deaf older couple, screaming at each other, and the parents did zero about it.
So I was here with the motorhome from the west coast to visit my brother, sister-in-law, and elderly mother - and that was the dinner evening out. We should have spoken up and asked to sit out in the rain, but who wants to be that person? When it gets out of hand though, sometimes the restaurant needs to offer it up. The others were there before us and were already at full speed. It was hard to believe they would stick the adults aged 50+ next to romper room, but it happens very often. We went from seen but not heard in my generation to now everyone is expected to want kids around after raising ours 30 years ago.
My 2 cents, get rid of the tables and orient the seating to face each other to minimize the need to shout over each other like a stuffed tavern... or charge $10 and serve burgers like a loud tavern.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Chicken & Pesto
Janis Schmid
The Food was prepared to perfection
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Crystal Van Muyden
Can't review food, service or atmosphere because every time I've tried to dine here, they are either closed completely or have deceptive hours posted. Just found out, after driving 20 miles out of the way, that they are 'closed daily 2pm-4:30pm'. Not by signage on the door with a flashing 'open' sign, no no, had to walk thru the restaurant entrance, past the front desk to a darkened dining room with a sign posted there. Still trying to decide if they can possibly make food good enough to make the headache hassles worth it?
Nice place to eat kinda over noisy just different
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 5
Amazing food a great little hole in the wall find.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Italian Sodas
This place has amazing Italian food for a for a tiny town.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Salsicca Con Pollo, Chicken Tetrazzini, Chicken Cacciatore, Mamma Mia Meatball
Amazing food a great little hole in the wall find.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Italian Sodas
La Pasta-A gem of an Italian restaurant in the littletown of Dorset. Attached to the General Store, it has probably the best, most varied, and most authentic Italian food available in central Minnesota, in a cozy family-type setting reminiscent of some of many family-owned Italian restaurants.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Butternut Squash Ravioli
I like this little restaurant (the restaurant is actually called La Pasta, but is connected to the Dorset General Store). We go here once a year on an annual vacation in the Park Rapids area. And we always stop here for breakfast.
Their menu isn’t large, but it’s for breakfast. I don’t expect anything major. The staff are friendly, and the service is prompt. (They do have a lunch/dinner menu, but I’ve only been there for lunch.)
The restaurant is deceptively larger than it looks from the outside, although none of the four dining areas is exceptionally big. If you have a larger party, I’d highly recommend making a reservation. In fact, if it’s a weekend, you might want to call about a reservation for even a small party if they’ll accept one.
As for the food, it is always well prepared. The eggs are done well, and while I often get French toast for breakfast, this time I opted for an omelette. It was excellent, with lots of cheese and ham to make it especially filling.
When you’re done, you pay next door in the general store. They have some basic food items standard Minnesota gifts.
I’d recommend this restaurant among the many options that exist in the town of Dorset!
Parking: Parking is often a challenge in Dorset, especially on weekends and during evenings in the summer, at least when we’ve been there. You can park along the street or behind the restaurants, but if the town is busy, you may have to exercise some patience to find a spot.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
La Pasta is fantastic! Definitely recommend for some great Italian food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Nice, cozy Italian restaurant connected to a small convenience store. Good was very good and plentiful. Service was fast and efficient.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Salsicca Con Pollo
Kid-friendliness: Varieties on the kids menu
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tossed Salad
the scallops were undercooked and I wasn't impress with the most expensive dish on the menu but the cheapest dish, spaghetti w the meatball/sausage combo is great! decent sercive.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
Great place for breakfast too!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I feel a need to be honest with this one. The pasta was good, I had the pasta genovese, but truthfully, it needed a little more pasta and much more pesto. What I had was some dry ground chicken on a small bed of noodles that I kept stirring around on the plate to scoop up the tiny but of sauce. The sundried tomatoes saved it (sort of).
Ambiance was challenged. There was an elderly couple behind us, apparently on a tinder date from a nearby trailer park because both were very hard of hearing and everyone heard the entire first date conversation- including the rodent problems under the trailers and the struggles of cooking with propane and the loneliness of sleeping alone.
Not to be outdone, the 4 ferral-raised kids aged 5 to about 12 at the other table in the small room were climbing on the chairs, shouting over the deaf older couple, screaming at each other, and the parents did zero about it.
So I was here with the motorhome from the west coast to visit my brother, sister-in-law, and elderly mother - and that was the dinner evening out. We should have spoken up and asked to sit out in the rain, but who wants to be that person? When it gets out of hand though, sometimes the restaurant needs to offer it up. The others were there before us and were already at full speed. It was hard to believe they would stick the adults aged 50+ next to romper room, but it happens very often. We went from seen but not heard in my generation to now everyone is expected to want kids around after raising ours 30 years ago.
My 2 cents, get rid of the tables and orient the seating to face each other to minimize the need to shout over each other like a stuffed tavern... or charge $10 and serve burgers like a loud tavern.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Chicken & Pesto
The Food was prepared to perfection
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Can't review food, service or atmosphere because every time I've tried to dine here, they are either closed completely or have deceptive hours posted. Just found out, after driving 20 miles out of the way, that they are 'closed daily 2pm-4:30pm'. Not by signage on the door with a flashing 'open' sign, no no, had to walk thru the restaurant entrance, past the front desk to a darkened dining room with a sign posted there. Still trying to decide if they can possibly make food good enough to make the headache hassles worth it?
Great store friendly staff
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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