NOTTO pasta bar to open in Piccadilly

A London-based pasta delivery venture is set to open in its first bricks and mortar site this month.

Having been initially launched as an online delivery service in May 2021, Michelin-starred chef Phil Howard and business partner Julian Dyer are now set to open NOTTO, an all-day pasta bar in Piccadilly, on Monday 14 November.

Last month, Howard confirmed the restaurant's name would be changing from Otto to NOTTO.

During opening week, for each portion of pasta sold NOTTO will donate the same amount to The Passage, a London-based charity which supports the capital's most vulnerable people.


NOTTO will open at 199 Piccadilly on Monday 14 November 

NOTTO's menu will be made up of authentic pasta dishes flanked by simple, freshly-prepared snacks, starters and desserts. Eight pasta dishes will be available daily, changing according to the season, and highlights will include gnocchetti with smashed sausage, white wine, fennel and chilli (£10), pappardelle with slow-cooked shin of beef, oxtail and red wine (£13) and squid ink spaghetti with a sauce of sardines, garlic, sweet peppers and tomato (£13).

Plump olives, NOTTO's rosemary rock salt, tomato and garlic focaccia and crostini will appear on the snacks menu, while starters will include vitello tonnato (veal served chilled with a creamy tuna mayonnaise-style sauce).

Executive chef Louis Korovilas (previously of Locanda Locatelli, Pied à Terre and Bancone) will be at the helm in the kitchen. Korovilas, who has worked alongside several acclaimed chefs including Giorgio Locatelli and Marcus Eaves, has extensive fresh pasta experience and will oversee the entire food operation. He will be joined by Nicholas Georgoulakis (of Sloane Street Deli and Elystan Street) as general manager and Harvi Singh (Le Manoir aux Quat’saisons and Elystan Street) as operations manager.


The squid ink spaghetti with a sauce of sardines, garlic, sweet peppers and tomato

The 74-cover restaurant will have an open central kitchen, neutral colour palette, olive-green mosaic tiles and wooden features, to emulate a welcoming Italian trattoria.

“It would be fair to say that I have spent my career to date cooking a certain kind of ingredient at a certain kind of price point," Howard - who is behind Elystan Street, Church Road and Kitchen W8 - says. "I’ve loved it all, and continue to do so, but it is exciting however to have a project that can be delivered without compromise, at a price point that is wholly accessible to all. The fact that pasta is the medium is the icing on the cake and with the fantastic team we have in place the goal is simple - to bring pleasure to fellow Londoners by sharing authentic pasta dishes in a relaxed fun environment.”

NOTTO will soft launch with 50% off food between Thursday 3 November and Friday 9 November (reservations only) and open officially on Monday 14 November.


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