Pastabilities

Pastabilities is a restaurant in Syracuse, New York. It has served guests in the city for 43 years, offering seasonal menus built around homemade pastas, sauces and salads, along with the Stretch Bread baked at its own bakery across the street. Everything on the menu is made from scratch. Lunch is a fast-casual, seat-yourself service running Monday through Friday from 11am to 2pm. Dinner is served Sunday through Thursday from 4pm to 9pm and Friday and Saturday from 4pm to 10pm, with advance reservations and a day-of waitlist; reservations are required for parties of seven or more, while smaller groups may reserve or take their chances on the waitlist, which opens daily at 4pm online, by phone or in person. Takeout is available during both lunch and dinner service, limited to ten entrees, with catering offered for larger orders. The restaurant's Spicy Hot Tomato Oil, known as Hot Tom, is a signature item available to purchase. Pastabilities was voted Best Restaurant in the Readers Choice Awards in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Its bakery, Pasta's Daily Bread, is open seven days a week across the street.

The restaurant sits on South Franklin Street in Syracuse's Armory Square, about a tenth of a mile from Armory Square Park and the Armory Square neighborhood itself. The Shot Clock Monument and the public artworks One, Two, Three and Walt are all roughly a tenth of a mile away.

Pastabilities holds a rating of 4.60 from the customers who have reviewed it, a reflection of the reception its homemade pasta and signature Hot Tom have earned over more than four decades in Syracuse.