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| Location |
| 6241 Highway 99, Lomo, CA 95953 |
| Bar Hours |
| Monday-Saturday 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. |
| Restaurant Hours |
| Monday 4:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. |
| Phone |
| (530) 695-3384 |
| Fax |
| (530) 695-1206 |
| Website |
| http://pasquinisfinefood.com |
| Owner |
| Angelo Micheli |
| Established |
| 1925 |
Pasquini's Fine Italian Food is a full-service Italian restaurant. Reservations are highly recommended for parties of five or larger.
Appetizers and starters include steamed clams, steak John, Lotus Inn prawns, calamari, garlic bread, house salad, Caesar saad, and wedge salad.
Pasta specialties include spaghetti ragu, linguine marinara, fettucine alfredo, spicy penne, and Genova Deli® cheese or meat ravioli, all served with garic bread and salad.
Italian specialties include prawns scampi, calamari limonata, and chicken picatta, all served with a seasonal vegetable and salad.
Steaks and chops include ribeye, medallions of beef, steak John, filet mignon, and Basque lamb, all served with a seasonal vegetable and salad.
The restaurant features a Monday night spaghetti special. From 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Monday nights, customers age 65 and older get a senior early bird discount on the spaghetti special.
Peope who sign up for the Pasquini's eClub mailing list receive a welcome email with a gift and annual birthday, wedding anniversary, and eClub anniversary emails with gifts in each.
History
In 1930 Addenaco "Dan" Pasquini purchased the current property to establish Pasquini's Grocery and Gas Station. He and his nephews, who helped him run the place, supplemented their income by serving big Italian dinners in the basement of the grocery store, including homemade bootleg wine. After Prohibition was repealed in 1933, the store added a bar. Dan's son Bernard "Benn" Pasquini inherited the store, bar, and gas station in 1964. After a fire in 1971 forced the company to close temporarily for repairs, Benn re-opened it as a restaurant and bar without a store or gas station attached. The restaurant struggled in the early 198s, and in 1984, the sons of two of Dan's nephews purchased it from Benn at a bankruptcy auction.
In 2007, Angelo Micheli, a grandson of one of Dan's nephews, took over ownership of the restaurant. Angelo Micheli also serves as the restaurant's chef, having graduated from the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco. He has planted a two-acre garden next to the restaurant, which now supplies fresh produce for use in the restaurant's meals.
Links
Pasquini's Fine Italian Food "Rebirth of Pasquini's: Restaurant with Roots Dating Back to 1930 Reinvents Itself with Garden-Fresh Cuisine" by John Hollis, Appeal-Democrat, August 26, 2009
