Pasta
- Pastaio announce a long term residency at Giant Robot in Canary Whart
Good news for the pasta loving workers and residents of Canary Wharf - Stevie Parle's Pastaio is coming your way. The perenially popular pasta spot, which opened in Soho this time last year and has been packing them in ever since, has signed up for a long-term residency at Giant Robot.
They'll be taking over the spot previously held by Pocho in the street food trading space at Crossrail Place.
As you'd expect the menu will feature
... - Jollibee is coming to London and here's why you should be excited about it
17/10/18 - Updated with opening time and launch offer
The hugely popular Filipino fast-food chain is opening its first UK branch in London this Autumn. We look at why that's a big deal.
Their fried chicken is supposedly AMAZING
American food blog Food Beast
... - Test Driving Bancone - a fresh pasta bar for Covent Garden
Bancone is the latest fresh pasta bar to hit London, this time with a Giorgio Locatelli alumnus. We head along for a look.
- Test Driving Lina Stores - the 75 year-old deli opens a restaurant
Lina Stores have been in Soho for over 75 years - and only now have they opened a restaurant. We head down to Greek Street to see what the pasta masters are cooking up.
- Test Driving Pastaio - Stevie Parle's hip pasta joint in Carnaby
With a regularly changing menu of top fresh pasta dishes, Parle's Carnaby restaurant is the complete package
- Fat Tony's fresh pasta pops up for two months at Bar Termini Centrale
Updated 3/4/18 with revised opening times
Ahead of its permanent restaurant opening up in South London this summer, fresh pasta joint Fat Tony's is bringing fresh pasta to central London for two months. It'll be popping up at Tony Conigliaro's Italian Bar Termini Centrale on Duke Street.
The man behind the brand is young, self-trained chef James Young. Young has been travelling around Italy for inspiration, stopping to do a stage at
... - Soho icon Lina Stores is opening a pasta restaurant on Greek Street
The original deli has been open for over 75 years in Soho, giving them plenty of time to get things right before opening this, their first restaurant
- Pasta Evangelists backed by Coren, Leigh and Sitwell in their pasta delivery business
With the rise in popularity of fresh pasta joints like Padella, Pastaio and Flour & Grape, it's not surprising someone's cottoned on to Londoners' passion for pasta and come up with a home delivery service.
Pasta Evangelists have won the backing of food folk like Giles Coren, Prue Leith and Waitrose magazine editor William Sitwell to support their new business.
The premise is simple, but genius. Packed in the same kind of boxes they send flowers in
... - Via Emilia on Hoxton Square is all about the pasta
If you want the best egg pasta in Italy, so they say, you have to go to the Emilia Romagna region where it was created. But if you can’t *quite* justify getting on a plane yet then Hoxton Square’s new Italian Via Emilia looks like the next best thing, and in traditional Italian style, they’re keeping it ultra simple with eight pastas, one pudding and a wine list that’s short but sweet.
- A new Italian by Old Street - we Test Drive Passo
From the team behind Fitzrovia spot Foley's, this new restaurant on Old Street roundabout already has the buzz of a place that's been open for ages. We went to check it out.
- 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
... - 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