Carbo-loading Birthday Dinner at A Veneto

I turned 23 last Wednesday. How depressing can that get? I'll be 30 in no time...aaaarghhhhhh... Anyway, we had a family dinner at A Veneto Pizzeria Ristorante, Aguirre branch. I've been dying to check the place out since it already opened another branch in Glorietta. Since i'm the celebrant, i was given the liberty to choose what we'll have for the night. My fickle-minded self took over and i ended up ordering too much of one thing and too little of another. I had Amici's pizza in mind that night, so i ordered 2 large pizzas for a group of eight and 2 pasta. You can split the pizza into two different flavors, so we had: Cheeseburger Pie, New England's Best, New York Style, and Seafood Pesto Pie (roughly around 400php/large pan). For the pasta, we had Lasagna (200php) and Baked Ziti with Chicken (220php). I couldn't help but let out a loud gasp when the two orders of L-A-R-G-E pizzas finally arrived in our table.

The Baked Ziti (above) is good enough for five but the Lasagna is so small, i'd be conservative to say that it can serve two. As for the quality, i'm very happy to say that the resto did not at all scrimp on the ingredients for both the pizza and pasta. My top favorites are New England's (super generous mushrooms), seafood pesto (something new to try out), and the mozzarella-topped ziti. I just wished i should have ordered a white sauce pasta and some greens to start it all right. The second pan of pizza was hardly touched and even the monsters easily gave up after having their larger than life dose of carbo for the night. The selection of dessert is very limited. We were supposed to drop by at Conti's cake shop for some sweets but it's already a little past 9pm (the store closes early). So i just settled for their New York-style Cheesecake (80php) drizzled with caramel sauce to finish the night off. I'm not too happy with the peanutty graham base but i am so relieved that the filling is not a whip cream-and-jello-disguised-as-cream cheese type after all.