Anton's Pasta Bar, Italian restaurant in The Heights, Burnaby, Canada
Anton's Pasta Bar is an Italian restaurant on Hastings Street in Burnaby, British Columbia, serving fresh pasta with house-made sauces. The kitchen offers a wide selection of dishes, covering both classic preparations and recipes developed in-house over the years.
The restaurant was founded in 1983 by a family from Calabria, Italy, who arrived in Canada and opened with just a handful of tables. Over the following decades, the place grew steadily and became a long-standing part of the dining scene in Burnaby.
The menu at Anton's Pasta Bar runs to over 70 pasta dishes, which gives the place a strong identity as a spot where pasta is taken seriously and variety is central to the experience. Regulars often have their personal favourite dish and return specifically for it.
Anton's Pasta Bar is open for both sit-down meals and takeaway, making it easy to visit whether you have time to stay or prefer to eat elsewhere. Arriving outside of the busiest lunch and dinner hours helps if you want a more relaxed experience.
The portions at Anton's Pasta Bar are known to be generous enough that many guests end up taking part of their meal home in a box. This is so common that asking for a takeaway container at the end of dinner is treated as completely normal by the staff.
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