Pasta House Company

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The Food – St. Louis foodies publicly disdain the ignoble Pasta House, regarding its pseudo-authentic Italian menu, shirtsleeve service and family atmosphere with the utmost haughty condescension. But as one of them, I'll let you in on our shameful little secret--we clandestinely yearn for the restaurant's mortifyingly overdressed house salad, with its delightfully glutinous ropes of provel cheese, sweet red onions and plump little pimentos. I myself have been known to skulk in furtively late at night (after 9pm, by Midwestern standards) and order nothing but a house salad and the…