This Delish Looking Pasta Dish is Being Called the Best in Illinois

Making pasta at home is one of the easiest meals you can make.

Boil the water, add the noodles, open up the jar, and either warm that up or just pour it on top and you're all set.

It doesn't sound delicious, does it? That's why we go to restaurants. To eat things that we can make at home, but have it done so much better.

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When it comes to pasta, this Illinois restaurant is doing more to its pasta than boiling some water and adding a jar of sauce to finish it off.

At Formento's they're doing pasta so well, they just got noticed nationally as serving up the very best pasta dish in Illinois.

In LoveFood's deep dive into Your State's Best Pasta Dish and Where To Eat It, they say the bucatini at Formento's is an absolute must.

You might think there's no need to re-imagine a classic like carbonara, because what could possibly make it better? But you'll change your mind once you visit Formento's. Here, bucatini (thick spaghetti-like pasta with a hole running through the center) is topped with a perfectly runny egg yolk, crispy pancetta and fresh cracked black pepper, which come together to create a sensational dish.

Siri M. on Yelp says "A little pricey but it's worth it for a fancier meal. The bucatini carbonara lived up to the hype!" but Ellery M. added, "My bucatini was cold and the noodles stuck together."

Good, bad, or just plainly decent, I'm sure Formento's bucatini is going to be better than anything I can make at home.

Formento's is located at 925 West Randolph Street in Chicago.