Albano's

03/03/2026

Good morning Pasta-tutes!🙂

The first 2 weeks of march we are CLOSED for a much needed recharge, a bit of spring cleaning, pasta shop repairs, planning for our busy outdoor market season coming up and maybe…just maybe.. fix the extra saggy, bags and dark circles under our eyes❤️

**We reopen Tuesday the 17th and it will be business as usual:
*Tuesday-Saturday 11am-10pm (dine in and carryout/delivery)

That said, we have been booked aggressively into April already and are looking for remedies to make sure everyone has a fair opportunity dining with us when we reopen.

Our online reservation link (listed below) and found in our google listing page has the most up to date availability for the upcoming weeks/months 🙂

Thanks for everyone’s tremendous support, being great neighbors, and being our very best friends. You’ve showed us the most amazing love!
Can’t wait to see you all soon!

-All the love,
Nick Albano
2192429160

https://gm.cake.net/widget/albanos-pasta?type=reservations

01/27/2026

Dearest Pastatutes,
Boy oh boy…you booked us solid from November to January..and boy oh boy did we upset a LOT of walk in customers and for that im soso sorry!!
While i promise im indebted to everyone’s support and our entire staff expresses the most gratitude to everyone’s kindness, we are absolutely working diligently on how to accommodate everyone as fairly as possible 🙂

Until then, im going to post our in house vacancy here 🙂

We can’t wait to feed you!!

-Pasta daddy

Reservation: https://gm.cake.net/widget/albanos-pasta?type=reservations

Order online: Http://eatalbanos.square.site

12/28/2025

*** last week for eGift Card Special until the end of 1/1***

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What a holiday season!!!
We are beyond thankful and grateful for all the love you showed us this year but holy balls..November and December guys!!🥹❤️🍝

Through the good and the bad, you all have had such an impact on our life, stability, and growth as a business but also as people too. You’ve taught us community, patience and selflessness; that there is still big magic and big impact from the simplest gestures and small acts that people do for each other daily; that there is always something to learn from and that beauty hides even in the most imperfect moments. Perhaps most importantly this year you reminded us to never ever give up and life is what you truly make of it ❤️

From our entire heart we want to thank you and wish you all a Happy New Year!
We will be in holiday break mode doing maintenance, rebuilding and recharging our internal batteries through Thursday (12/28-1/1) and will reopen as normal Friday and Saturday (1/2 and 1/3).

Thanks and with a big ol’ heart of love,
- Pasta Daddy

Ps, As mentioned above and because the holidays are hellishly expensive and we want to continue the giving spirit, we are doing our LAST drawing this week for $1000 in holiday replenish cash***
Another $1000 will be donated to another local cause to show our appreciation for your support and love this year 🙂

Congrats to our week FOUR winners!! (Not tagged for privacy reasons but feel free to tag yourself!)
And a modest gesture of love and gratitude to:
Santa Delivers (All Year Round) 🎅🏻🍝❤️

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22 Washington Street
Downtown Valparaiso
Tuesday-Saturday
11-9pm on weekdays
11-10pm on weekends

Closed 12/28-1/1

12/21/2025

Dear Pastatutes,
Thank you to all who have participated in our week 3 give away and to everyone who has come out and filled our dining room and supported us all year long!

Sprinkling more holiday magic again, we are doing another drawing this week but this time for $1000 in holiday cash***
Another $1000 will be donated to another local cause to show our appreciation for your support and love 🙂

Congrats to our week Three winners!! (Not tagged for privacy reasons but feel free to tag yourself!)
And a modest gesture of love and gratitude to:
Project Neighbors 🏡❤️

We love you all!
-Nick

eGift Card Special
All month long!

*Buy $100
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22 Washington Street
Tuesday-Saturday
11-9pm on weekdays
11-10pm on weekends

Closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

12/16/2025

***Closed for Regular Business Today, Tuesday the 16th for a holiday catering. We will reopen tomorrow, the 17th regular hours 🙂***

We love you all!
-Pasta Daddy

eGift Card Special
All month long!

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22 Washington Street
11-9pm on weekdays
11-10pm on weekends

12/14/2025

Ho ho ho Pastatutes!!

You guys are overwhelming us and sending so much love our way this season! Thank you to all who have participated in our week 2 give away and to everyone who has come out and braved the hustle n bustle and our holiday dining room chaos even through our imperfections and busy phone lines! We are nothing without you and your kindness and grace! We are humbled and so thankful ❤️🍝

Sprinkling more holiday magic again, we are doing another drawing this week to win $500 in holiday cash***
Another $500 will be donated to another local cause to show our appreciation for your support and love 🙂

Congrats to our week TWO winners!! (Not tagged for privacy reasons but feel free to tag yourself!)
And a modest gesture of love and gratitude to The Hobart Humane Society 🐶🐾❤️

We love you all!
-Nick

eGift Card Special
All month long!

*Buy $100
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Buy here: https://squareup.com/gift/ML09JQTZ0VNYX/order
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22 Washington Street
Tuesday-Saturday
11-9pm on weekdays
11-10pm on weekends

12/07/2025

🎶🍝 Oh Christmas Balls, Oh Christmas Balls..

A giant Pasta Daddy thank you to all who participated in our 1st week give away and to everyone who has come out and made our dining room so so merry and filled with holiday fuzzies this season!! ❤️🍝

Leaning into the holiday spirit, we are doing another drawing this week to win $500 in holiday cash***
Another $500 will be donated to another local cause to show our appreciation for your support and love 🙂

Congrats to our week one winners!! (Not tagged for privacy reasons)
And a modest gesture of love and gratitude to The Caring Place in Valpo ❤️

We love you all!
-Nick

eGift Card Special
All month long!

*Buy $100
**Get a $50 promo card
Buy here: https://squareup.com/gift/ML09JQTZ0VNYX/order
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22 Washington Street
Tuesday-Saturday
11-9pm on weekdays
11-10pm on weekends

12/01/2025

Grab your stockings..
Here comes Pasta Santa!!

This week our gift card promo puts you in a drawing to also win $500 in holiday cash***
Another $500 will be donated to a local cause ❤️

eGift Card Special
All month long!

*Buy $100
**Get a $50 promo card
Buy here: https://squareup.com/gift/ML09JQTZ0VNYX/order
(Please include your email in purchase)

-Hide your location from Santa and saddle up for some really big holiday malarkey…Pasta Daddy has got something naughtyy and special in his holiday sack this week 😈
This morning we have a couple shots of ‘something extra’ to put in your travel mug to lighten up the mood and plow over some of those little internal pricks in life that might be slowing you down..
or cutting you off..
or weaving through your lane while they scroll through their phones trying to find that Mariah Carrey song about an impossible Christmas List or that really cool ‘Christmas Trap playlist’ on spotify to play for 5 minutes before they enter work…

Whatever it is, we want to be the salt truck in your life spreading thick layers of Himalayan sea salt on those otherwise unseasoned, ice covered roads in life (metaphorical and physical right now) that can sometimes slow us down.

And..as some of you might know..at the pasta shop..we like salt 🙂
When we salt, we salt with intention.
We season like we mean it!
And It’s bold. And it’s from the heart! And we definitely don’t try to hold back!!..a couple botched batches of meatballs over the years definitely know what im talking about 😑❤️

>>>(Small side note: ‘salt’ is mostly being used as a metaphor for love here and is not a savage salt flex on my part. I swear 😉. While we do try to season aggressively at the restaurant, it is done thoughtfully and should never be unbalanced 🙂
Again, this is not a love poem about how much salt i can put in a dish but rather that perhaps, the best seasoning in life is the bold, coarse grained kind of love deep within the salt mines of our heart! The kind we all might need more of on ‘our plate’ i.e LIFE and sprinkled over our ‘friend’s plate’ i.e SOCIETY! Sea…salt good now 🙂) pardon that last pun

11/28/2025

***Pasta Daddy’s Holiday Promo***

eGift Card Special
Nov 27-Jan 5

*Buy $100
**Get a $50 promo card

Buy here: https://squareup.com/gift/ML09JQTZ0VNYX/order
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Hello dearest Pastatutes!
Have you ducked away yet? Are you at the house you grew up in? Are you in your childhood bedroom hiding? Are you hanging around by yourself, reflecting? Are you stewing over your Gen Z nephew’s righteous outrage lecture over supporting the ‘settler colonist propaganda movement’ during grandma’s family grace?
Did you watch the dog show? Are you watching football with the family? Are you flipping through reels? Is someone yelling yet? Is someone making a bad dish that they make every year but you’re going back for seconds to be polite? Are you vegan and completely lost at the buffet line?
Does the family dog have poetic nervous diarrhea?
What are we thankful for today…Leftovers..we’re definitely thankful for leftovers!! What else though?
For us here, It’s been a hell of a year filled with a few bumps but soso many triumphs! Aannndd… it is still Thanksgiving, which means I am fully within my rights to deploy a classic, ‘Pasta Daddy’ tasteless holiday metaphor about our meatballs…
That aside momentarily, what really matters this time of year is to remember to appreciate the people you’re with..the ones that lift you up and stick with you through the hard, not so pretty times and even the ones that are so difficult and different from every ounce of who you are and what you believe and turning those feelings into liberation and growth.

The amount of support you all showed us left this mischievous, rapscallion pasta boy humbled and speechless for most of the year. You have shown us love when we needed it most and allowed us to get better and listen when you needed it from us. You complete us and I am so thankful for all of you and our staff and restaurant family. Without you, there is nothing❤️🍝

So without any further sappy ramblings i want to say Happy Thanksgiving and also offer a token of gratitude this holiday season. I can’t wait for you all to feast on these balls (picture below) into the new year ❤️❤️

All the love,
Nick Albano
Pasta Daddy

Handmade Pasta
reservations here:

https://gm.cake.net/widget/albanos-pasta?type=reservations

02/03/2025

Happy monday pasta-tutes!
Papa Noodle has some unsolicited ball pics to get your tum tum rumblin’ 😘❤️🍝

Open all week long 🙂
22 Washington St
Valparaiso

Mon-Sat
Lunchy and dindin

11-9pm
Dine-in, Carry-out, Delivery

Make Reservations here: https://gm.cake.net/widget/albanos-pasta?type=reservations

Order to go or delivery here: https://eatalbanos.square.site

01/15/2025

Pasta Daddy is back from his brief winter power nap and has a kitchen full of tasty nom noms! We missed you all and are ready to spread the love again 🫶🍝

Order online here: https://eatalbanos.square.site

22 Washington St.
Downtown Valpo

Mon-Sat
11-9pm

Taking resys again 🙂

https://book.w8li.st/reservations/albanos-pasta

Ball and Noody Hotline: 2192429160