Padella Borough Market
The original. Fresh pasta made every morning, queues that start before opening. The pici cacio e pepe is the dish that started London's fresh pasta obsession.
Order this: Pici cacio e pepe, beef shin pappardelle
Bancone
Covent Garden pasta restaurant with an open kitchen and a menu that changes with the seasons. The silk handkerchiefs with walnut butter are the most talked-about pasta dish in London.
Order this: Silk handkerchiefs with walnut butter
Lina Stores
Soho deli turned restaurant. The green pasta is famous for good reason — spinach dough made fresh daily. The carbonara here would satisfy a Roman.
Order this: Green pasta, carbonara, tiramisu
Flour and Grape
Bermondsey Street pasta restaurant with a natural wine list that matches the food in ambition. Small menu, everything worth ordering.
Order this: Seasonal pasta, natural wine pairing
Mele e Pere
Brewer Street institution doing regional Italian pasta with real conviction. The basement prosecco bar is one of Soho's best kept secrets.
Order this: Regional pasta specials, prosecco downstairs
