Paesano's Italian Restaurant - Plano, TX

So we arrive at this restaurant via a birthday dinner as it is a favorite of our good friends.  The service is great and friendly, the bread and garlic oil great, house salad with house dressing highly recommended and several vegan options when ordered correctly.

Salad - this Paseanos does not list the ingredients to their house dressing on their web site, but the one in San Antonio (no idea if related) uses mayonnaise in theirs, so either ask directly or avoid it if you are looking for vegan.  Also it comes with Parmesan and feta cheese, so same warning.  Aside from that, the ingredients of the actual salad were great - crisp and fresh.

The bottom picture is the Angel Hair Primavera - fresh vegetables and marinara ordered without the cheese.  Personally, I like my vegetables crisper (that also adds more color than the pictured brownish broccoli for example), but honestly the taste does not suffer.  Based on the salad and the other food served I have little doubt the veggies were fresh prior to being cooked.  This dish had just the right hint of garlic.

No vegan dessert options but a pretty decent wine selection and a variety of exotic coffees.  The house salad was $5.99 and the pasta $8.99.  Again, it was plenty of food.  They did charge $2 to split our bill, which I have not seen anywhere before (?), but I will not hesitate to return and look forward to trying the Aglio e Oilo Linguine and Arrabbiato Penne...