Pasta

• Perfect pasta at penny pinching prices - we Test Drive Flour and Grape in Bermondsey

  The team behind Antico in Bermondsey have reopened as Flour & Grape, honing the menu to simple starters and top quality pastas

• Stevie Parle's Pastaio brings handmade pasta and prosecco slushies to Carnaby

  Pastaio is Italian for someone who makes pasta by hand - something you can expect plenty of in the latest venture by Stevie Parle (Dock Kitchen, Rotorino, Palatino, Craft) in Soho. Based on his track record, and his limitless enthusiasm for the dish, we’re expecting very good things…

• You can now buy Angela Hartnett's pasta in Fortnums

  

  Last week Hot Dinners popped into Fortnums, as you do on a Thursday night, for a pasta dinner cooked up by none other than Murano's Angela Hartnett. The object of the occasion was to launch Hartnett's new range of pastas and sauces for the Piccadilly store. And if what we had was anything to go by, you need to head down here pronto to stock up.

  Hartnett has spent time training up Fortnum’s chefs to make up pastas to her own specification - everything from

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• Affordable pasta, wine and gelato in Bermondsey at Flour and Grape

  There'll be just eight pastas on the menu at Flour & Grape, who aim to create a beautifully pared back selection of Italian antipasti, pasta and gelato. They promise very reasonable prices, pasta to go and a very healthy (and affordable) wine list. Colour us interested...

• Saucy pasta bar with a twist is opening on Tottenham Court Road

  Dublin chef sets her sights on London with this Tottenham Court Road pasta bar that has a distinctly healthy range of options

• Emilia's Crafted Pasta bar prepares to open at St Katharine Dock

  

  23/11/16 - updated with soft launch info

  Does London have room for two places serving up freshly rolled pasta? Given the permanent queues outside Padella, one would think so. All of which is good news for newcomer Emilia’s Crafted Pasta which is opening next month at St Katharine's Dock.

  The restaurant's founder Andrew Macleod’s says he wants this to be the best pasta restaurant outside of Italy. To that end, every bit of pasta in the place

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• Test Driving Padella - speedy pasta in Borough Market

  The boys from Islington's Trullo bring fast-paced pasta south of the river 

• Pasta bar Pasta Sereni gets ready to serve real pasta on-the-go in Piccadilly

  

  There's a new pasta bar on Air Street that's getting very close to opening. Just off Piccadilly Circus, Pasta Sereni will be doing fast hand-made pasta to eat there or take away - so if you fancy an escape from the hordes of shoppers, this could be the place. 

  Starting from £5, dishes include (although there will be specials too): 

  • Fusilli Sereni - tuna marinated in extra virgin olive oil, green
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