Pijja Palace's Malai Rigatoni Is $28 Now. It's Still the Order.

The Indian sports bar on Sunset Boulevard has dropped dishes and raised prices, and the tomato masala pasta is still the one to get.

The malai rigatoni at Pijja Palace costs $28 now, $9 more than it did in the restaurant's first months, and it's still the first thing I'd order.

Eater LA updated its guide to the best Indian and South Asian restaurants in Los Angeles on Tuesday. That makes this a good week to pick where to start, and my pick is this Indian sports bar at 2711 W. Sunset Blvd. in Silver Lake. It's in the old Happy Foot/Sad Foot clinic space, Time Out notes. My verdict rests on the restaurant's posted menu and on what critics have published, not on a meal of my own.

Start with the dish. Cathy Chaplin of Gastronomy Blog ate there the week it opened, and in a Sept. 17, 2022, post she listed the rigatoni at $19. She called it "my favorite dish, and the whole world's too (or so it seems on the internet)." She named the team as owner Avish Naran and chef Miles Shorey.

As of Wednesday, the menu on Pijja Palace's site lists the rigatoni at $28. It's described in the same three words as before: tomato masala, cream, coriander. A lot of the other dishes Chaplin wrote up aren't on it anymore. There's no tandoori spaghetti, no saag pijja with Goan sausage and no chaas dumplings.

The lamb kebab sliders she ordered for $15 aren't listed either. There's an 8-ounce New Zealand lamb burger instead, with the same Amul cheese and laccha onion salad, for $19. So the menu has clearly changed since opening, and the rigatoni kept its place through all of it.

The critics haven't moved on from it either. Time Out's Patricia Kelly Yeo, in a review dated Sept. 29, 2025, called the place "gloriously unfussy." She compared the rigatoni to vodka sauce and described the cooking as "rich in spice, though not necessarily spicy." She also mentioned the giant flatscreens you can't miss.

You could fairly look at $28 for pasta under a wall of TVs and decide to eat somewhere else. But the rigatoni didn't get singled out for a price hike. Going by Chaplin's 2022 prices, the dosa onion rings went from $9 to $16 and the cookies-and-cardamom soft serve from $8 to $12. In percentage terms, the famous pasta went up less than the onion rings did.

So I'd get the rigatoni, the dosa onion rings ($16, in urad lentil batter with mango chutney) and a $12 soft serve. Choose mango lassi creamsicle or cookies and cardamom, since the posted menu offers only those two. I'd skip building my own pizza, too. The house pizzas say "Substitutions politely declined," and the build-your-own section says "Creativity encouraged."

The math backs up the kitchen. A $17 makhani base with chicken tikka ($6) and tandoori onions ($4) comes to $27. That's exactly what the menu charges for the Green Tikka Masala Pijja the cooks designed, with turkey kofta, onion and cilantro.

It's a good fit for a table where one person wants Indian food and another wants the game on. Time Out lists dinner on Wednesday from 5 to 9:30 p.m., with no hours on Tuesday. On the current menu, the rigatoni still has its three-word description and costs $9 more than it did in 2022.

Source: timeout.com, retrieved November 4, 2026. Other sources: gastronomyblog.com, pijjapalace.com.