Dining at The Old Spaghetti House

Pizza and pasta remain to be my family’s top food favorites and so our Saturday mall trips usually include scouting for the best pizza places in the metropolis.  Just recently, we ventured into the comfy ambience of The Old Spaghetti House and decided to try out their ‘trio’ treats.  These trio treats are said to be good for 2 to 3 persons or for one very hungry person.  On our first trip to this well-known resto, we got their best-seller trio which included an appetizer basket, pesto pasta, and 5-cheese pizza.  This was among the cheapest of the packages and true enough, it proved sufficient for me, my husband, and my 4 year old daughter.  The appetizers were good actually, a little bland for me but nothing like a good pinch of salt wouldn’t fix.  The pizza was great.  I love the simplicity and rustic appeal of the 5-cheese pizza and so I would have wanted more for myself.  The pesto was a bit overpowering that I swore I would not eat pesto for maybe a month or so after that.
For our second trip, we decided to try out the other ‘trio’ packages and settled for the Italian trio.

The Italian included mozarella sticks, carbonara, and supremo pizza.  Their mozarella sticks have very subtle flavors, which I do not exactly fancy.  I am not a fan of Xtremely Xpresso but their mozarella sticks are actually better in terms of flavor.  The carbonara was also screaming salt but the supremo pizza was okay.  My 12 year old daughter, who eats like a man (lol), was with us so the serving was scarce- I guess, she alone fits the criteria for ‘a very hungry person’.  Anyway, comparing the two trio meals, I’d go for the bestseller– minus the pesto, of course.
Nevertheless, the Old Spaghetti House is promising, especially for dessert-a-holics like me.  My heart was screaming for a slice of cheesecake, but to shell out 200+ pesos for one slice seemed too pricey… I would definitely schedule another trip just to have a taste of this imported treat from Philadelphia’s Cheesecake Factory.  Anyway, I opted for their other bestseller dessert- the colossal choco-chip cookie ala mode.  It took them like forever to make it that we were on the verge of leaving.  It, however, proved to be worth the wait because seriously, that dessert was heaven on a plate!  The cold and creamy vanilla ice cream blended well with the heat and sweetness of the freshly baked choco-chip.  Me and my daughters were literally fighting over the last bite and would have wanted to order more, if not for the long wait.  We left the Old Spaghetti House with a smile on our faces and vowing to return, maybe not so much because of their pizza, but for their delectable desserts!