Pastaio: Stevie Parle brings pasta and prosecco slushies to Soho

Stevie Parle’s latest London restaurant will serve fresh pasta, with a side of Prosecco slushies.

The chef and restaurateur, who worked at The River Café early in his career, will open Pastaio on Soho’s Ganton Street later this year.

It will be his sixth restaurant in the capital, and the third which focuses on Italian cooking along with Rotorino in Dalston and Palatino in Clerkenwell.

Pastaio translates as a pasta maker, and refers to chefs or cooks who make pasta by hand. This will be the case at Pastaio where a small menu will be predominantly made up of seasonal pasta dishes.

These will include tonarelli cacio e pepe; potato and gravy ravioli; caserecce, pesto, green beans and potato); grouse, rabbit and pork agnoli; and long fusilli, crab courgette, yellow tomato & marjoram. They will be priced from £7 to £11 and will change regularly.

Also available will be a selection of smaller antipasti dishes, including anchovy-stuffed pepperoncini, cured meats and a fried mozzarella sandwich.

To drink there will be both prosecco and Aperol slushies alongside Italian cocktails, wines, spirits and beers.

Parle said: “Over the last few years at Rotorino and Palatino we’ve managed to make fresh pasta consistent and fast and I’m super excited to bring affordable handmade pasta to Soho.”

He added: “Pastaio isn't a temple to Italian gastronomy, much of the pasta we make would upset the mythical nonna with it’s lack of authenticity but we hope it all tastes great and has all of the simplicity and confidence that makes Italian cookery the food we all want to eat.”

The restaurant will seat 70, and will take on the former Cha Cha Moon site. It has been designed by Tom Dixon’s Design Research Studio, which is also responsible for his other restaurants, including Dock Kitchen in Ladbroke Grove and Craft London in Greenwich.

It will feature communal tables while its look will be influenced by the industrial materials used in a professional kitchen.

Parle said: “We’ve worked hard with Tom Dixon and DRS to make a space that feels contemporary, vibey and fun rather than make you feel like like you’re on holiday in Bologna.”

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