Updated 21/11/22 with launch offer and opening date
As the nights draw in and thoughts turn to steaming bowls of hearty pasta, it’s like Officina 00 is reading our minds. They’re opening a second restaurant, this time in Fitzrovia. If you’ve been hitherto unaware of the Old Street venue that opened in mid-2019, Officina 00 is an Italian kitchen and workshop with Napoli-influenced fare.
Founders Enzo Mirto and Elia Sebregondi (the head chef) both hail from Naples and have previously worked at restaurants Roka and Kiln. Italophiles will need no introduction to the ‘00’ in the restaurant’s name, given it’s a finely ground Italian flour used for quality doughs. Officina’s 00 flour (which they call ‘pastaflour’) is actually milled in England for traceability and sustainability purposes, said to have an earthier flavour, and produced by Wildfarmed.
In the new Fitzrovia site, pastas are made daily in-house on a spianatoia (a traditional pastry board that absorbs humidity, giving the pasta an extra adhesiveness to the sauce). But they’re also installing a smoker, a fryer and a grill to expand the menu’s repertoire, which will include:
- Anoli with smoked shiitake broth, soy and confit garlic butter;
- Casarecce with red and yellow datterino, black olives, capers, chilli and parsley;
- Ravioli Bergese (oversized ravioli) with egg yolk, crab, turmeric butter and mizuna;
- Spicy octopus with saffron rice;
- Confit tomato tartare, burrata, caperberries and rocket
- Baccala mantecato with chickpea schiacciata, tomato chutney and beetroot
If the above hasn’t already whet your appetite, there’ll be tiramisu corretto in the Italian dessert selection, and Italian classics on the cocktail list, such as negronis and limoncello martinis.
More about Officina 00
Where is it? 67 Whitfield Street, Fitzrovia, London W1T 4DE
When does it open? 25 November 2022
Launch offer: Free Wildfarmed x Officina 00 Curly Pappardelle dish to all diners from 25 November until 9 December.
Find out more: Visit their website or follow them on Instagram @officina00.
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