Padella

Tell me if this sounds familiar: you love pasta, but never order it in restaurants because it’s something ‘you can just make at home’.

But unless you own a pasta machine – correction, unless you own and use a pasta machine, rather than leave it in the back of a cupboard like a small-scale instrument of torture that enjoys intimidating your other kitchen gadgets – then what you’re scoffing in front of ‘Gogglebox’ is a world away from what you’ll find at Padella, a sleek pasta bar from the duo behind Islington’s Trullo just a stone’s throw from Borough Market.