ARTIPASTA Italian Food (Austin Highland)

Mauro was fabulous!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Gnocchi Tomato - Vegetarian, Tiramisu

Amazing Italian food, beautifully prepared and presented. Portion size might seem small, but if you’re looking for quality over quantity that’s what you’re getting. I loved this place!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

We’ve been coming to this wonderful Italian restaurant for a while, and every visit feels like a special occasion. The staff truly treats us like family, always making us feel welcome and appreciated. The food is delicious – fresh, flavorful, and made with love. This time, they went above and beyond to help us celebrate our grandma's birthday. Not only did they make sure our meal was perfect, but they also prepared a beautiful, yummy cake for us on the spot! It was such a thoughtful touch that made the day even more memorable. Highly recommend this place!"

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Probably the most authentic Italian pasta I’ve had in the States. Portions are great for the price and there is a large variety of options for meat-eaters , pescatarians, and vegetarians.

A must-visit, casual spot for people wanting the real-deal pasta.

Some star dishes that are on repeat for us— spaghetti carbonara, truffle ravioli, gnocchi with tomato sauce (simple but delicious).

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The best Italian you will have in Texas, amazing pasta!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Panna Cotta Chocolate, Carbonara Pasta

The best pasta I’ve ever had. Highly recommend trying it, you’ll definitely come back.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Lasagna Bolognese, Carbonara Pasta

UPDATE - I am full-blooded Italian, and very familiar with Italian cuisine as I grew up in Sicily. Where you most definitely receive bread and salad with your meal. Regardless, my review focuses more on quality, the lack-of, rather than the quantity. The sauce placed in my dish did not even cover my few pieces of pasta. Extremely cheap for something extremely expensive.

This review is not meant to hurt the feelings of the owner but rather make them aware. Sometimes you have to give a little to see the return. The return of new customers.
Pasta is cheap, sauce is cheaper, the competition is vast, and the reward is the return when your customers feel they are receiving more than what they paid for, not so very, very less.

Original review-

Smallest portions I have ever paid $15 for...and the quality does not make up for it whatsoever. The complete lack of sauce left all 9 strands of my pasta brown and dry in my dish. The expensive, tiny dry bites do not come with any bread, nor any salad. Nothing. I ordered a salad on the side, and there was NO LETTUCE. Simply 8 pieces of mozzarella and 8 cherry tomatoes on a skewer...that was the salad.

Terrible. And they don't take cash. What a business.

Now, the flavor? I'm almost glad at this point it was miniature sized. What sauce was there, in the tiny corner of my container, was terrible. Tomato and meat sauce? I can't even tell you what it truly was.

We paid 50 bucks for 2 pasta "dishes" and 1 "salad" to-go and then had to order door dash because it wasn't even enough to feed our 7 pound dog.

Food: 1

Literally ANYTHING you eat here will be amazing. The service is fast and the servers are awesome. Funny and kind. I’ll be back!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Fantastic! Authentic Italian at a great price. Friendly owner and staff. Food is delicious. I love this place. Update: I’ve been back 2x since. Absolutely phenomenal and AMAZING value for the price. Note- this is authentic, real Italian cuisine (and experience) and not the Olive Garden. The service is top notch and every detail matters to the fine folks here. Austin is lucky to have a place like this at a great price.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

pretty decent pasta but wouldn't say the best out there. the flavors were just minimum, nothing exceptionally good to make me want to come back. small portions as i wasn't full after finishing my dish. on the more expensive side for not matching flavors. very friendly service with casual ambiance.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 4

Delicious! Friendly service too.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Pasta is always incredible and owner is knowledgeable and friendly! Gave us a free authentically Italian dessert to try! Food always comes fast and hot and you can taste the authenticity. Will definitely keep coming back here :)

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Lasagna Bolognese, Tiramisu

Mauro is the best! The food was SO fresh and delicious. I ordered the gnocchi with basil pesto.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Very good food and respectful staff, I will sure come back tot his awesome place

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

We are from out of town, but when we are here to visit family, Artipasta is top of our list! If you want excellent, craft pasta in a low-key, intimate setting, this is your place. First off, the pasta is FRESH. Spaghetti, penne, macaroni, tagliatelle…GNOCCHI…it’s excellent. What I really appreciate is that the sauces are so well balanced, from the lemon ham, the carbonara, and their mushroom truffle…I feel I can order any of their dishes and it will be good. Today they had a ravioli mushroom truffle oil dish and it was divine. The fontina was light and the dish was well-balanced.

The desserts…I cannot recommend the panna cotta enough! You cannot go wrong with the cannoli’s either!

The service is exceptional. It is counter-service and the food comes out quick and hot, which is always appreciated. The manager allowed us to try his dairy-free grape-strawberry dessert he is trying out, and it was a delicious flavor and texture. You can tell they put a lot of love and care in their menu, bringing some of the most authentic pasta and desserts to the area.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Gnocchi Tomato - Vegetarian, Tagliatelle Lemon Cream, Panacotta, Panna Cotta Vanilla