Chanoey's Pasta Portland

Chanoey's in Dartmouth was the first place I got takeout when I moved here, and has since become my favorite place to eat. The owners are sweet and kind, the food is delicious and fairly priced, and the atmosphere of the restaurant itself is great. They are very accommodating people like me that can't eat gluten and they are very diligent about preventing cross contamination. If I have friends or family in town, I always recommend they stop into Chanoey's.

The staff are friendly, the place is clean, the meal was very filling, but I wasn't impressed by the food. Sort of an overpriced Michelina's for the Dartmouth condo crowd. I had double beef stroganof gluten-free. It's mostly penne noodles, with very little beef, and the braise on the round roast slices wasnt very tender—probably added to the sauce to be warmed last minute, then lost in the dish, making you wonder what you just ordered. The sauce is too much cream, with no beef base, just grainy mustard and sour cream, a pinch of red pepper flake, which reminds me more of a corned beef and cabbage mustard sauce, not really the stroganoff I've had elsewhere. I think of beef stroganoff as just meat and rich veal stock or demiglaze and fancy mustard with a bit of sour cream. It's the dish on the noodles; the noodles aren't the dish. Anyhow, it was filling. But for a price point of $32 you could pay for an all-you-eat Sushi or Chinese food spot, or get a rice noodle dishes at a Thai food restaurant, huge Sharma plates with extras at a Lebanese place, a giant bowl of pho at a Vietnamese place, a gluten free Haddock and salad almost everywhere, BBQ, etc. I wanted to try the spot because I had heard good things a few times from other people, but I don't think I'd go back. Most of the restaurants in Dartmouth are pretty lousy at offering quality food, with large portions at a cheap price, gluten-free or not. It is what it is. The people here seem to like it. The staff were very nice, the service was prompt.