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Longtime eatery offering pasta dishes & other Italian fare in an intimate setting.
Address and Contact Information
Address: 3056 Perkins Rd, Baton Rouge, LA 70808
Phone: (225) 387-9134
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. BayouTiger1981. • 2y ago. La Contea has a great red sauce for anyone who hasn’t been and is looking for a new place to try. aruss15. • 2y ago.
Pinetta’s European Restaurant | Baton Rouge LA – Facebook
Pinetta’s European Restaurant ; Details. . 86% recommend (368 Reviews). . $$. . 3056 Perkins Rd, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, 70808-2251 ; Links. .
Pinetta’s European Restaurant – Baton Rouge – MapQuest
3056 Perkins Rd, Baton Rouge, LA, 70808. Pinetta’s European Restaurant in Baton Rouge, LA offers an authentic dining experience inspired by European cuisine.
Reviews
Rene’ Simon
Very small and quaint. The atmosphere is very charming and dates to the 70’s. The food is amazing. I had the scalopini (spelling?) and it was delicious. My wife had the seafood ravioli special and said the same. Everyone at our table raved about how great their meal was. Before we left we made plans to return in two weeks to celebrate our son’s birthday! Will be back…
… moreGina Delaney
Best red sauce ever! You can’t go wrong ordering anything that has the red sauce! It’s AMAZING! The Lasagna is my favorite, my husband’s favorite is the Veal Parmigiano.
… moreJohn Ladouceur
“I love it. Unique, delicious food. Haven’t ever gotten a bad meal. Don’t get wine by the tiny glass – get a bottle.” – 3 years ago (5 star review)
On a personal note:
That wasn’t my first time there. The first time I went I had the “portabello mushroom red wine reduction” sauce. It was amazing. I have been cooking Italian ‘gravy’ since being taught a family recipe passed down by my friends grandmother from Federal Hill in Providence, RI. (My life was literally threatened if I ever reveal the recipe so Fuggadaboutit!). I thought to myself, “the sauce is good. I think I’ll make it. So I did. I should sell it in jars to all Pinetta’s former customers.
Update:
Went with my in-laws two years ago. Mother-in-Law said her food was so salty she couldn’t eat it. Good luck getting something else! She must have ordered the special to replace it because it actually came. The owner actually came over after we finished our meal to start an argument with my mother-in-law. Thankfully she didn’t really understand so she just agreed with whatever and smiled. What the owner said was, “I just wanted you to know that you will be charged for both meals. And no, I’m not tasting your food to see why you think it was too salty.” Well, mom didn’t get the check, I did, and I happily paid to avoid a fight. Gave a generous tip (not the $100 bill I left the previous time). My wife said, “we’re never going back.” We haven’t been back.
Today:
My brother is coming in town and his favorite restaurant is a quirky German restaurant. I thought, “he would love Pinetta’s” so I checked the reviews and, sure enough the owner is still trolling around and spoiling whatever love and loyalty her former, or soon to be former, customers might have.
… moreOn a personal note:
That wasn’t my first time there. The first time I went I had the “portabello mushroom red wine reduction” sauce. It was amazing. I have been cooking Italian ‘gravy’ since being taught a family recipe passed down by my friends grandmother from Federal Hill in Providence, RI. (My life was literally threatened if I ever reveal the recipe so Fuggadaboutit!). I thought to myself, “the sauce is good. I think I’ll make it. So I did. I should sell it in jars to all Pinetta’s former customers.
Update:
Went with my in-laws two years ago. Mother-in-Law said her food was so salty she couldn’t eat it. Good luck getting something else! She must have ordered the special to replace it because it actually came. The owner actually came over after we finished our meal to start an argument with my mother-in-law. Thankfully she didn’t really understand so she just agreed with whatever and smiled. What the owner said was, “I just wanted you to know that you will be charged for both meals. And no, I’m not tasting your food to see why you think it was too salty.” Well, mom didn’t get the check, I did, and I happily paid to avoid a fight. Gave a generous tip (not the $100 bill I left the previous time). My wife said, “we’re never going back.” We haven’t been back.
Today:
My brother is coming in town and his favorite restaurant is a quirky German restaurant. I thought, “he would love Pinetta’s” so I checked the reviews and, sure enough the owner is still trolling around and spoiling whatever love and loyalty her former, or soon to be former, customers might have.
Anthony Oster
Always delicious, always exceptional, in a city full of hipster restaurants that treat customers like a nuisance, this quite, quaint and quirky hole in the wall never fails to impress. Sit back, have a couple of glasses of wine, and take some time to enjoy your company, you’ll be glad you did.
… moreDan MacDonald
The best little known secret in BR! Been going here since I was 10 – got a very long and unique history (on the back of the menu). This is THAT place that is always great and youd eat there every day if you lived next door – I’m telling you! No regrets here ever – food ranges from Italian to German to I can’t even guess. They are old school handed down for generations style recipes too!
… moreLinda C.
Service was great food was delicious atmosphere was perfect! Seafood ravioli & Tuscan pork!
… moreFRENCH SHADOW
It’s a dark little place in the corner of a small building. Wine bottles hanging from the ceiling and candles light the way. Falstaff and Lowenbrau signs hanging on the walls. They serve Italian and German dishes.
… moreJ.S. M.
Once had this as a five star but that was a loooong time ago when I imagined the food tasted better. The red sauce is still out of this world but the spaghetti noodles weren’t that different from a particular store-bought brand (Luxury?) which I could easily make at home, and with MUCH less salt. Something also wasn’t quite right with the meatballs. Texture? Flavor? Can’t quite figure it out. Still love the ambiance but I also went there a lot for the German beer drinking and merrymaking music they’d play over the speakers. Now it’s a local radio station playing some genre I don’t care for. Service is excellent, red sauce is excellent, ambiance is excellent. Outside of that just three stars. Also, the owner apparently still takes the front parking space closest to the door – a no-no in my book.
… moreJ. Miles Higgins
It has gone from one of my favorites to poor service and declining food taste and quality. I am 50 years old and have been going here since I was a child with my parents. Last night they had one waitress (the one we usually get) handling the entire restaurant. She is never very friendly and “it’s her way or the highway”. Lately, even when the owner is there she just hides behind the and bar never pitches in when the waitress is swamped. The waitress is not very professional and always blames the owner for any issue that arise. We had to ask for our bread order after 45 minutes of not seeing it, had to request more wine, my food was cold when it arrived, etc. I wish they would sell this to someone willing to bring back the quality, personality and friendliness of the original owners. I’m going to give them one more chance, mainly because they have the best red-sauce recipe on the planet…passed down from the original owner.
… moreJamie Passalacqua
We came here on a recommendation as we were traveling on business, however, after visiting, I could never recommend this place.
We sat down at 730 but didn’t leave until 10pm. This gives you a little feel for the time it takes, which is not worth it.
We ordered appetizers 45 min into sitting down, not because we didn’t know what to order but that’s when the server came to take our order. We ordered shrimp cocktail, eggplant appetizer and French onion soup.
The shrimp was not fresh at all. The eggplant was basic sliced eggplant with olives, and we had to remind the server about the French onion soup which was not traditional French onion (cheese was on the bottom of dish instead of baked over). Was bland and needed salt.
Now on to the main course: my dinner party ordered the Bratwurst which was supposed to be from traditional Thurigian but tasted like frozen bratwurst and the river mashed potatoes was not good. I ordered the special, a grilled tuna steak. It arrived way over salted and the rice was not fully cooked.
Fast forward to 6 hours later after dinner, I woke up to a stomach ache, fever, and nausea. The next day I was completely out of it with vomit and diarrhea, clearly a sign of food poisoning. This obviously impacted my work schedule and I had to cut short my trip. I should have known walking in, it was clearly not up to health standards. The bathrooms were also gross. Stay away from this place!
… moreWe sat down at 730 but didn’t leave until 10pm. This gives you a little feel for the time it takes, which is not worth it.
We ordered appetizers 45 min into sitting down, not because we didn’t know what to order but that’s when the server came to take our order. We ordered shrimp cocktail, eggplant appetizer and French onion soup.
The shrimp was not fresh at all. The eggplant was basic sliced eggplant with olives, and we had to remind the server about the French onion soup which was not traditional French onion (cheese was on the bottom of dish instead of baked over). Was bland and needed salt.
Now on to the main course: my dinner party ordered the Bratwurst which was supposed to be from traditional Thurigian but tasted like frozen bratwurst and the river mashed potatoes was not good. I ordered the special, a grilled tuna steak. It arrived way over salted and the rice was not fully cooked.
Fast forward to 6 hours later after dinner, I woke up to a stomach ache, fever, and nausea. The next day I was completely out of it with vomit and diarrhea, clearly a sign of food poisoning. This obviously impacted my work schedule and I had to cut short my trip. I should have known walking in, it was clearly not up to health standards. The bathrooms were also gross. Stay away from this place!