Pastabilities

From gourmet to no way!
Pastabilities started out on King street about 2 years ago. Their vision was to make REAL gourmet pasta and still deliver it fast to meet the needs of the lunch rush. For about the first year and a half, they did a great job — so good that they opened a second location here in Sick Kids Hospital. The Sick Kids location started out just as great as it’s King Street counterpart, and I was a regular customer of both locations. Yes, I would go out of my way to go to a hospital for the pasta, it was that good. See Kat T’s review for all the foodie details — none of them apply now anyways.
But then something happened. About two months ago, the management changed hands and I noticed the colorful cast of characters working there start to disappear and all being replaced by some more… «efficient» workers. Now, the place has gone to the dogs. You’ll never get a consistent pasta there, half of the new staff don’t have a clue what they’re doing, the quality of the ingredients has gone downhill, and — worst of all, everybody seems to be run like slaves by this short lady who has no problem chewing out her staff in front of customers in what sounds like Bengali.
Used to be the best, now it’s just like the rest. Faster than ever, dirty as a dog and just an unhappy place to be. Skip it.

Healthy, hot, freshly prepared food in a hospital?! Unfortunately hospital food has a terrible past as bland and unappealling. However, the food for the guests and staff at Sick Kids just got better with Pastabilities. This place just opened in the location that formerly housed Burger King (really, can it get any less healthy?).
It’s a new take on customized meals in minutes. Choose from the menu or build your own pasta bowl. Portions are pretty huge, and I’d love to have a kids size next time. But, kid-​friendly sizes only offer kid-​friendly basics like noodles with red sauce or butter.
I tried the very adult combo of chickpea, Rapini, tomatoes, garlic, basic topped off with olive oil dressing. The ONLY problem was too much food, and by the bottom, my multigrain spaghetti was drowning in EVOO.