Both come with a small salad. If you like cream sauces, you should like Bar Italia. Their cream sauces are delicious and very rich. Unfortunately, the pasta does not quite reach perfection. The tortellini comes out well, but the linguini is a bit sticky.
Many restaurants prepare pasta dishes in large batches ahead of time.
It is more obvious that this is the practice at Bar Italia and the pasta sometimes suffers as a result. The meat dishes include beef, pork, chicken, veal and fish. Some have an additional side of couscous. The fish is not bad, but it could be better. The tuna is good but it is cooked until it is white all the way through.