Pasta

• 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.

• 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

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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