Great product and great service
I've had a few deliveries from Pasta Evangelists and the food is amazing and so quick! Love it! I also had some issues with my account and they were super helpful in getting everything sorted and working for me. Overall great experience and customer service.
Repeat after me: Amatriciana e Scarpetta
Not my first experience, and never for a single bite even disappointed in the past. Today I have decided to order the Amatriciana which I chose with homemade rigatoni. Eating a large portion of Amatriciana on a white plate… left almost 0 traces on the plate. Don’t get me wrong, if you love a pretty spicy pasta dish with guanciale. The actual sauce was little to nothing. So little some chefs would call it a “garnish” for the rigatoni, or ravioli.. or rigatoni? Ravioli? Yes, rigatoni! But cooked until they ”evolve” into naked ravioli.. I’m just sorry I can’t upload the picture. Please review the recipe, or at least its name.. Secondly, I promise to be the last.. I’ve ordered your plain focaccia with Olive oil and Balsamic Vinegar. It’s utterly mind blowing how one can put in the delivery bag the olive oil and the balsamico….. but not the focaccia. I hope you laugh as well when you read this. Or maybe you though I was the gluten free side of the customer?!
I have had several deliveries from PE.
I have had several deliveries from PE and they’ve always arrived on time. I always have veggie dishes and they are very tasty, especially Pappardelle with a Wild Mushroom Sauce and Rigatoni with a Datterini Tomato & Mascarpone Sauce. Great communication too. No issues for me.
Excellent pasta dishes and a small…
Excellent pasta dishes and a small problem sorted seamlessly
Not had a PE meal since lockdown but…
Not had a PE meal since lockdown but still a great and tasty meal, would recommend anytime.
Great date night experience
Me and my partner went on a pasta master class with Roberta, and it turned to be a great date night. Roberta is a very enthusiastic, charming and funny chef who taught us step by step how to make pasta. Super fun experience, and a great dinner:)
Exceptional customer service
Updated: So after the original review, Pasta Evangelists reached out to me and were kind enough to send me a complimentary recipe kit for dinner for 2 people to cook at home, which I have reviewed below, with my original review preserved at the bottom. I would like to say I highly admire their commitment to good customer service. I didn't leave a review in the hopes of getting anything from them, I just wanted to honestly share my experience. That they care this much about how a customer feels about their service is amazing and exceptional. For the home delivery, we had 1x Nduja Fettuccine, 1x Carbonara and 2x Profiteroles. Instructions on the back of each of the two recipe packs were very easy to follow and it only took about six minutes to cook and prepare each dish. My partner and I shared both between us. The bucatini and fettuccine were both very fresh, you can really taste the difference between those pastas and the dry pasta commonly bought in supermarkets. The pancetta with the carbonara was just the right amount for the portion size, crisped up well in the frying pan and had a good salty flavour. The carbonara sauce was really excellent, with the right balance of seasoned flavour and smooth, silky texture. I did add a little freshly ground black pepper on top to serve, otherwise I wouldn't change a thing. Likewise the Nduja sauce was very flavoursome, with decent chunks of the Nduja sausage and just a little bit of a spicy kick. Fresh, vibrant and tasted great. The fettuccine pasta to go with it came out perfectly from the cooking instructions and was the perfect pasta to complement the sauce. Profiteroles were probably the stand-out in terms of being both very good portion sizes and what I would describe as real restaurant quality desserts. We enjoyed those immensely. In particular the chocolate sauce was delicious, rich and plentiful. The food was very good overall, I'd say definitely a much better experience in terms of food quality than we had with the Deliveroo order and there's no doubt about the high quality of the ingredients or that the recipes which go into the sauces have been well thought out and skilfully prepared. Overall, I feel the only thing I can criticise is that the single portion sizes are a bit too small to be an adult's main meal. If the single portion sizes were just a little bit bigger for the normal price, I would be tempted to keep up a regular subscription. Original review (3 stars): Ordered from Deliveroo. I had the beef shin ragu with "ruffled ribbon" pasta. It wasn't terrible, but there was too little ragu sauce (and what was there was quite dry) for the amount of pasta. Further, the pasta itself was a bit undercooked and the taste and texture were stale - not fresh al dente, but rather like it had been cooked a few hours earlier and kept warm or something. I had thought based on hearsay Pasta Evangelists was meant to be a fancy, higher end of the market "restaurant quality at home" type of thing, but to me the food was more Bella Italia than a taste of Rome. Not awful but I wouldn't order again.
Horrendous packaging for tasteless food.
First order arrived. Horrendous amount of packaging for such a small amount of food. Mostly recyclable but it filled half my bin! Beef ragu was like corned beef, dry and tasteless. Cancelled my subscription immediately.
Tasty and enjoyable pasta dishes…
I have always had enjoyable and tasty pasta dishes from Pasta Evangelists, delivered on time and a nice treat without the effort of your own preparation! The customer service from them is always friendly, polite and helpful. On my last order, unfortunately an automatic order went through without me realising but they kindly amended the order for a dish I wanted and refunded me the price difference. Vera is particular helped with this query and her assistance was much appreciated, thank you.
Average, don’t expect much
Do not recommend any of their truffle dishes. They don’t use actual truffles but rather flavour additives. I would say they are average nothing exceptional.