Pasta

• Officina 00 opening on Old Street is a carb-lover's pasta heaven

  Here in London, they've worked for Kiln and Soho House, but the duo behind this new Italian hail from Naples originally.

• Pophams Bakery are bringing patisserie and pasta to Hackney's Richmond Road

  Expect all the carbs at Pophams Bakery's new Richmond Road space - with the open kitchen turning out viennoiserie by day and pasta by night.

• Pasta Nostra serves up fresh pasta and more on Old Street

  Two young chefs have brought their passion for pasta to East London, opening up this small plates and pasta restaurant which aims to do a few dishes very well.

• Test Driving the Wild Pasta menu at The Ninth on Charlotte Street

  Knowing how much Londoners love their pasta, we popped along to Jun Tanaka's Fitzrovian restaurant to check out his new seasonal menu.

• Emilia's is bringing their fresh pasta to Aldgate

  The original Emilia's Crafted Pasta in St Katharine's Docks was among the first of the new breed of simple, fresh, well-made and affordable pasta restaurants in London. Now they're expanding with a new restaurant in Aldgate.

• Vapiano are opening restaurants at Centre Point, Tower Bridge and Canary Wharf

  This popular Italian casual chain is expanding with three key openings set for the west end, riverside and Canary Wharf areas.

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.