Island Pasta Company

by Katherine

Key Words
Large Variety, Creative Cuisine, Reasonably Priced, Good Seafood
                 
Would We Come Back? 
Definitely, food was really good and there's a lot more we'd love to order.

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          After looking for manatees, we were ready for some lunch! We walked around in Melbourne looking for a good menu and settled on Island Pasta Company. The menu looked delicious, was reasonable priced, and happened to be run by the same people as River Rocks. 

          First, I got the Island Crab Chowder, which had tasty chunks of crab and sweet potatoes. The soup was so good and unique that I contemplated ordering another one for dessert. Brad got a bleu cheese and candied walnut salad, which is our favorite kind of salad. This one also had grapes, which I thought was a nice addition.

          It was a hard choice deciding what to order as the main course. Being a pasta place, it was oh so tempting to order pasta. But being that I was in Florida, I also wanted all the seafood I could get. So much of the menu looked appetizing, but since I hadn't had any crab cakes, I went with the seafood cakes sandwich. This was more unique because they also had shrimp in them, so the chunks of shrimp added a nice contrasting texture that I really liked. Brad got the mango shrimp, which was something else that I had pondered over. The mango rum sauce was out of this world! Perfect combination! Another awesome meal!