The Old Spaghetti Factory

Love the food and ambience here. I got the pomodoro angel hair pasta which was super flavorful. All entrees come with bread, your choice of soup or salad, and spumoni or vanilla ice cream. Everything was delicious! Salad was a simple iceberg blend, which is what I expected for a pasta chain, but it was still pretty tasty. The minestrone soup was pretty good, and the bread and butter were quite filling. Pretty decent prices for a «3 course meal». Good service. Dim lighting with dark wood décor and nice chandeliers make for a cozy and romantic atmosphere. I’d look forward to coming here again.

5 stars for ambiance and location, in beautiful old building. 3 stars for food, Gourmet Jumbo Crab Ravioli was decent, the rav and crab are good but the sauce lacked real taste, could have made it much better. I upgraded the dinner salad but didn’t think it was worth it. Would have liked to get our bread before the meal came out. I did not try but was told the garlic shrimp fettuccine was really good.

We were in town for a race weekend and decided to eat here. Walking in, the place was pretty empty (which was very surprising for a Saturday night at 5:00). We were seated right away… at the front of the restaurant. I don’t recommend sitting there at all if you want to have a conversation. Also, we sat there for almost 15 minutes with no one stopping by. I finally went back to the hostess station and asked if someone would help us out. I ended up going back a SECOND time. Finally, a waitress stopped by our table and apologized stating that no one was assigned our area. We placed our order (chicken parm — good, crab ravioli– also good). The bread was nice and warm. The salad was just okay.
Overall, I am not sure we will go back — there are other options in the District. It was $ 31 for 2 of us (no drinks) before too.
Again, the hostess station really needs to be organized.

I liked the décor and food. Had to ask Liela questions that should have been provided or basically if she had worked there for years she has loss her professionalism. We saw that with other tables near us too. Serve bread before we have to ask after eating salad and serve to us and not to side or middle of table.

One of my favorite places to eat when I’m on the Landing.

Excellent service from our server Bailey, fast and friendly! The building itself is pretty cool, and very fitting for a nice meal. The food was great, and next time we are in town a repeat visit will occur!!!

I was very pleased with the service, a huge BLT salad, soup and loaf of bread, all for $ 10.50! A great value in a clean neo-​Victorian setting. They have one of the finest stained glass window collections in the city! Everyone was having a fun time.

Was a hit and miss visit! Lots of hostess staff and not enough wait staff. Then some wait staff seemed bored while others were scurrying around like crazy. Staffing was way out of balance. Our waitress was good but was one of the ones scurrying. Food was typical for here.

I certainly like this one over the chesterfield location. the décor is pretty. older style furniture for people waiting for tables. i think the food’s a little better here too. our server was really good.

3 stars for decent service and good atmosphere. Im just not a huge fan of the food here. Its ok, but nothing spectacular. I ordered the lobster raviolis and ate a few bites. It was bland and not good. The server came and asked if i wanted a box. When i said no, she never questioned if anything was wrong. Working in the service industry, that is the first question i ask. I didnt complain (my own personal preference. …) but will comment if asked. Just not a huge fan. I will go to the Hill for my italian fix!

Love this place, girlfriends family kept telling us to go, and definitely glad I took their advice. Food was awesome, bread was fresh and delicious. The atmosphere is what I loved the most. And to top it all off, a balloon maker came by our table, and surely made my 4 year Olds night. A must visit if you’re downtown St. Louis.

I went here with a couple of friends and the ambiance is really cool. There are trolleys inside the restaurant and it was a neat place to eat. I ordered the gnocchi which was decent. Definitely not mind blowing food, but a cool place to take friends and hang out in Laclede’s Landing.

The Old Spaghetti Factory is located in downtown St. Louis, and the building itself is lovely. Old brick, wood, and stained glass gives the restaurant an old time-​y vibe that serves it well. The parking on a not entirely scorching Saturday was abysmal, but it’s downtown, so we expected that. As of writing this, August of 2015, there is a lot of construction going on downtown, so if you go there, take that into account, and have some patience, cash on hand for lot parking, and give yourself extra time.
Again, the building itself is beautiful, and our server was lovely. So why two stars? Everything else, my friends. Everything else.
My family and I went to OSF to celebrate our dad’s birthday. It was on a Saturday, so the wait for a table in a packed restaurant was actually not too bad at only twenty minutes. That gave us time to give dad his card and catch up.
Once we were seated, it quickly became apparent that all of us were going to be squinting at our menus. This place was Dark. Not movie theater dark, but dark enough that I was wondering how rude it would be to get out my phone’s flashlight just to read the menu.
The menu was your standard Italian-​American fare – pastas, meatballs, Marsalas, and so on. The wait for our food was average for a Saturday in summer. I ordered the fettuccine Alfredo, along with choosing the house ranch for my salad dressing.
My salad was good – in the sense that the house dressing was lovely, but the salad itself was a basic bagged salad that consisted of mostly iceberg lettuce, which wasn’t great. My fettuccine Alfredo was quite possibly the most mediocre pasta dish I’ve ever eaten. I realize that Alfredo sauce isn’t usually a blow your mind thing, but I don’t think they could have made the sauce more bland if they were actively trying. And it was also oddly oily. I ate it, because that’s what I do with food, and also it was just bland, not rotten or anything.
The dessert was ice cream, and I chose the Spumoni. That was not a great decision. The Spumoni ice cream was by far the worst I have ever eaten. It was like some took some crappy ice, vaguely waved some milk at it, and then vaguely waved some flavorings at it to finish it off. It was not good. Schnucks brand Spumoni is way better in my opinion, and that’s saying something!
The cost for 5 adults was around 110, which for a chain restaurant that you are seated in is about on par with other restaurants. However, the food quality is absolutely not worth the price. At all. If I have a choice, I will not be going back.

We have been going to The Old Spaghetti Factory for years and it’s always the same great food. The waitresses are always very good. The wait for your food isn’t long at all. All of the pastas that I have ordered have been great. And also, the ice cream that comes with your dinner is very good as well. The only problem with this particular place is the parking. You have to pay to park. There is no parking on the street. And also it can get very crowded and sometimes there is a long wait if there is an event going on in St. Louis. But all in all its worth it all!

Great value and a great experience overall. I’m not usually quick to give such high praise to a chain but this particular visit was overall top notch. The online reservation was really easy and I’m glad we used it because when we arrived there were a lot of people waiting for tables. We were seated right away. We really enjoyed everything and to think that I can feed a family of five for under $ 50 to include ice cream is almost unimaginable these days. Service was good, broccoli with meat sauce had great flavor, and the meatballs were almost as good as my own. To top it off, it doesn’t get much better than spumoni ice cream.

Love the feel of this place, the antique décor and dim lighting make for a unique dining experience. The menu has many different options, I ordered the garlic mizithra. Every entrée comes as a 3 cours meal. Started with a salad, pretty generic, looked like it was out of a bag but the ranch dressing was delicious! The mizithra wasn’t my favorite, it was light and didn’t have much flavor; it needed a kick to it, I should have ordered something with meat! The ice cream was horrible, do your self a favor and order the vanilla! On the plus side we had great service, our servers name was Bridgette and she was nice, attentive and helpful!

Having been to a number of Old Spaghetti Factory locations throughout the United States and Canada, I can attest that this location is among the most appealing with regard to the building itself. The beautifully aged brick structure has been reappointed with an eclectic mélange of antiques, and is quite lovely.
The food itself is about average with regard to what I’ve come to expect from this restaurant chain: Americanized Italian, modestly priced and reasonably filling, but otherwise unremarkable.
Wait times here can be very lengthy, and parking can be a bit tight on the Landing. These are hardly unusual for a downtown restaurant, however, especially during sporting events or during the weekend.
This location would otherwise earn three or four stars from me based upon the aforementioned criteria. After several visits to this location, however, I’ve witnessed and/​or directly experienced some of the worst service imaginable. From absent and inept managers and staff, to truly hostile servers who argue loudly with customers, repeated instances of rudeness and disdain for customers have simply driven us to other locations, such as the excellent Old Spaghetti Factory in the Chesterfield Valley.
In closing, I would observe that I have only once seen a waiter who glared at one of my fellow diners as if he actually was thinking about murdering her… and it was at this location. Other than bringing in a chain gang to work in the kitchen and equipping the servers with toothbrush shanks, I can’t imagine the service could get much worse.

My husband and I had been here a couple of times.
My husband and I were walking around town and stopped in here. We of coarse went at the dinner rush, and had to wait, which was fine. I wasn’t very happy with where we sat, it was so far in the back of the resturant, however we had a great time when we got there. Our server was amazing, even with being busy he acted like we were the only people he had to wait on. He was funny, and very helpful. The food was amazing.
We came back a year later, and it was another good experience. We were very happy with the restaurant.

Waiter would argue with customers about what was ordered.
Management would not cater to the the customers at all.
Food was over priced like crazy.
Food was very average.

Nowhere near as good as the Nashville location that we’re used to going to.
The server was a little snotty.
The food and portions were pretty disappointing.