The last time we went to Old Spaghetti Factory was years ago at either the New West or Gastown location. This time we decided to go to the Old Spaghetti Factory Richport location instead since we’ve never been there before. The Richmond location is in the entertainment area where it is surrounded by the movie theatre, the bowling alley, watermania and all so sorts of fun things for kids.
We got to Old Spaghetti Factory Richport at around 7pm on a Saturday after playing a few games of pool. We didn’t think that it would be as busy as it was but the place was packed but after a 20 minute wait we were able to get a table. Then we placed our orders and the glorious sourdough bread with whipped butter came.
I tell Grayson all the time I just come for the bread which is true because I rarely ever get to have sourdough on any other occasion. There isn’t anything special about it but it’s just so crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside! Grayson hates sourdough so I was more than happy to have some of his share (and then take the rest home of course!)
Minestrone soup
To start I decided to go with the minestrone soup and Grayson went with the salad. Their minestrone soup is a little on the salty side but it did have a handful of pasta and veg in it. Not something I come here for but good enough.
We couldn’t decide on our pastas so we just decided to share two plates. We got the seafood marinara linguine and the spicy chorizo penne.
Seafood marinara linguine
The seafood marinara sauce was almost florally but I’m not sure what it was from. The seafood was cooked well and there was plenty of shrimp, scallops and mushrooms to go around. The linguine was al dente and went with it all swimmingly. My only complaint would be that there wasn’t enough sauce on the plate!
Chorizo penne
As much as I love my seafood, I feel like the chorizo penne was the star of the show. There was so much chunky tomato sauce on the plate that we had more than enough to put some on our linguine too! The chorizo was smoky from being seared in the pan before being added to the sauce which gave it another element of flavor. We could have opted to put parmesan over everything but it was already fantastic without it!
Sputmoi ice cream
Last but not least is their signature sputmoi ice cream which is a mix of vanilla, chocolate and pistachio. I wonder if they sell it anywhere else because I’ve never seen it before but they really should because it’s amazing! I mean you get the classics and something new all in one ice cream flavor! Move over Neapolitan there’s a new flavor in town!
