The reason I say the pasta is healthy is because it's not drenched in oil.
I went to Amorosa one day because I didn't want to wait in line at Anton's.
I found that the two Items ordered where quite decent.

I forgot the name of my dish, but it was stuffed pasta with chicken mushrooms and avacado (white sauce). It was a very nice combination of my favorite ingredients.
I didn't know you could drop avacado chunks into pasta.

Anyway, the flavor of the sauce was not very strong and I did add some salt. But after the salt was added it was very good.

I ate 1/3 and packed the rest for lunch two days in a row. The pasta was good even on the 3rd day. When I put it into the microwave at work the sauce was still good and did not separate into a layer of cream and oil.

One time I brought pasta home from Italian tomato and after I re-heated it... I was horrified... it had split into a thick layer of butter/oil and cream... ew ew ew...

So, in my opinion, I think the pasta sauce was light and healthy.

Second item we ordered was from the back page of the menu. It's the one where you can pick your pasta, sauce, and toppings.

We picked white sauce, spinach pasta, meat ball, Prawns and scallops.
The sauce was not very strong, but the pasta was fresh, and the toppings were amazing. You could actually see 5-6 big big Prawns in the pasta and also the scallops were big and tasty.. not the tiny little ones that shrivel up if they're over cooked..

So if you wanna eat pasta that actually has toppings and more than just sauce.. then this is the place to go for dinner!!!

I will go again!!!

** to correct my last review, I meant under $20.00 for a single bill, not for my whole family **

also, the ambiance is meant to be 3: solid. The music is pretty good, just easy listening cds usually playing which I like for a meal. They recently repainted parts of the restaurant to touch it up. They now have a spot on the wall inside of the restaurant where they write the daily special. (Before they only had the outside sign with the italian chef that read the daily special)

The first thing you should know is that they only have two portion sizes small and large. Large is very big and could probably feed 3 people and small is more like a medium. I had the large Seafood Cannellini it was alright but I would suggest that you pick some thing else because I went with a large group of friends and all their meals seemed better then mine. I think that refills for pop were free. The staff are friendly and helpful. The bathrooms aren't the best so I would try and hold it in until you get home. But overall I would recommend this restaurant to people who want great value and good food.

PS: For three people our bill came to about 62 dollar.

this place serves decent pasta and is a neat place to share/split some dishes. The calamari was a good starter.

good food and offered good valu - better than some of the pricier joints I've been 2 which often charged more money for less quality/quantity

central Burnaby location and decent pricing are nice also

My wife and I along with a friend went to this restaurant just this last Sunday evening. Unfortunately we had to wait around 20 minutes, but we were promptly given a table when one was available. My wife ordered the veal with pasta, our friend ordered the Pestore (clams, mushrooms, shrimps and scallops) with cream sauce with gnoochi (pasta) and I ordered the same Pestore in garlic butter in white wine sauce in spinach linguine. The food came out nice and hot. My dish there could have been more seafood as I noticed that the mushrooms were dominant. The flavour was good. My wife and our friend had the same cream sauce for their pasta and I thought it was medicore. The cream was a bit thick and not too much flavour. My wife's veal was okay. All in all the dining experience was positve. We will try other restaurant before we come back.

We have been coming here for years and will continue to go. The pasta sauce is a little watery at times but it's still good. They use fresh pasta instead of the dry hard stuff. We have tried other pasta places but keep coming back to this one. Whenever we go the place is packed and there's always a line up. The service is good and the servers are always friendly.

Things are sliding down.
Myself and 2 friends went there a couple weeks back,and,well,quite frankly it was chef boy ar dee quality.
Thin flavorless sauces,overcooked pasta,and tough veal.
2 of us got our orders together,while the third sat for 10 minutes without his salad.Not too impressive.
Very cramped also.

Will not be making any stops at this place anytime soon.

We had a large (17) party in there last night, and while the food was okay, and just okay, the service was simply terrible.
Appys came over the course of 27 minutes, entree's rather than being timed as any decent kitchen would do to arrive within a reasonable time together came out in bits and pieces and at least three entree's were wrong. How do you mix up a basic tomato sauce with an alfredo????
The excuse offered, the single server we had for such a large table was writing exams this week.
I have been in this business for 30+ years and a very few experiences were this bad.
Never again folks. Either hire a chef who can cook, and servers who can do the job or prepare to hang up a for sale sign, because this was downright emarrassing.

This place is a regular. always seems busy and needs reservations for the weekends or you will wait forever. wrth the drive..... .... The servings are quite extensive with loads of sauce. lots of choices. typical western/BC pasta house.

Service is good and has a neighborhood feel. Nice wine, flavours are rich.
nothing more than a great little neighborhood pasta house. obviously wih the large orders you more than enough to take home for tomorrows lunch.

We will definitly return and continue to work our way through the menu. Quite nice with lots of choices

I love this place 99% of the time. I live a few blocks away, so I do take-out a lot.
The food is solid. Good portions and nice sauces. If you like your pasta heavy on the sauce, maybe its not the place for you.
Also! I had friends over for dinner with different dietary needs (lactose intolerant, only eats fish, doesn't eat peppers) and I managed to accomodate everyone. They have a great varied menu.
My only beef is a couple of times when I called on a busy night for take-out, I was left on hold (phone on counter) for a long time (one time for 25 minutes). My suggestion to them, if reading, is to get a better system in place for take-out orders.