Best Pasta in NYC: Six Manhattan Kitchens Worth Booking
Marco Reale · October 7, 2026 · 7 min
The best pasta in NYC by menu, price and booking: Rezdôra's $110 tasting, Via Carota's $25–$28 walk-in list, L'Artusi, Don Angie and two more.
The best pasta in NYC, judged on what each kitchen publishes, is at Rezdôra at 27 East 20th Street, where nine Emilia-Romagna primi run $26 to $38 and a $110 regional pasta tasting takes the whole table through the list. If you cannot plan ahead, Via Carota at 51 Grove Street is the walk-in answer: five pastas from $25 to $28, and its own site says walk-ins are always welcome. Menus, prices, hours and booking rules below were read from each restaurant’s own site in October 2026.
That is a verdict on menus, prices and booking difficulty, not a claim that one bowl beats every other in the city. Six Manhattan kitchens make the list, each for a different kind of evening.
Best pasta in NYC at a glance
| Restaurant | Address | Best for | Key verified detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rezdôra | 27 East 20th Street, Flatiron | Pasta as the whole evening | Nine primi, $26–$38; $110 regional tasting |
| Via Carota | 51 Grove Street, West Village | No reservation | Five pastas, $25–$28; walk-ins always welcome |
| L’Artusi | 228 West 10th Street, West Village | The widest list | Nine dinner pastas, $24–$38; Resy at 9am, 14 days out |
| Don Angie | 103 Greenwich Avenue, West Village | Pasta you will not find elsewhere | Five pastas, $27–$29; lasagna for two, $72 |
| La Pecora Bianca | 1133 Broadway, NoMad | Value and gluten-free | Six house-made pastas, $24–$28 |
| Novità | 102 East 22nd Street, Gramercy | A quiet traditional room | Thirteen pastas, $26.50–$36 |
How we chose the best pasta restaurants in NYC
Every kitchen here publishes its current pasta list, with prices, on its own website, so you can see what you are booking before you book it. Beyond that, we weighed three things: how much of the menu is built around pasta rather than carrying it as a side section, how hard a table is to get, and what a plate costs. We did not use review scores or star ratings to rank. Where a restaurant does not publish something, such as daily hours, we say so.
Where to get the best pasta in NYC
Rezdôra: best for pasta as the whole evening
Rezdôra describes itself as a New York Times three-star restaurant and a 2021–2025 Michelin Star recipient, with a menu built around the house-made pasta of Emilia-Romagna. The dinner list runs nine primi from $26 to $38: Anolini di Parma with a traditional meat filling and parmigiano sauce at $26, Tagliolini al Ragù from Modena at $28, cappelletti verdi with leeks at $29, and the Uovo Raviolo di Nino Bergese with corn, chanterelle and tartufo nero at $38.
The regional pasta tasting is $110 a person, with an optional wine pairing at $90. The menu prints the conditions: a vegetarian tasting is available, the full table must take part, and you should allow two hours. Dinner runs nightly from 5pm to 11pm, with lunch from noon to 2:30pm Tuesday through Friday and from 11:30am at weekends.
Best suited to a table that has agreed in advance that pasta is the point of the night.
Via Carota: best pasta in NYC without a reservation
Via Carota runs a short pasta list on its plain-text menu: tonnarelli cacio e pepe at $27, pappardelle with wild boar ragu at $28, a Meyer lemon risotto at $26, butternut squash tortelli at $25 and tagliatelle with parmigiano and prosciutto at $27. Chefs Rita Sodi and Jody Williams won the James Beard Award for Best Chefs, New York City, in 2019.
The deciding fact is on the homepage: “Walk-ins always welcome.” The restaurant is open 11am to 11pm Monday through Thursday and 10am to 11pm Friday through Sunday, which makes a late lunch or an early dinner the easiest way in.
Best suited to an unplanned evening, or anyone visiting who cannot book weeks ahead.
L’Artusi: best for range on one list
L’Artusi carries nine pastas at dinner, from the Pici ‘Cacio e Pepe’ at $24 to a chestnut ravioli and a perciatelli nero with crab, both at $38. In between sit tagliatelle with bolognese bianco at $29, bigoli alle vongole at $32 and cavatelli with lamb neck ragu at $35. At weekday lunch, from noon to 2:30pm, the list adds a tajarin carbonara at $27.
All reservations release on Resy on a two-week rolling basis, each day at 9am, and a selection of bar and counter seats is held for walk-ins. Dinner runs 5pm to 11pm Sunday through Thursday and to midnight on Friday and Saturday. Corkage is $55.
Best suited to a group that wants several different pastas on the table at once.
Don Angie: best for pasta you will not find elsewhere
Don Angie, from Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli, writes an Italian-American pasta list that reads like nobody else’s: Buffalo Milk Caramelle with black sesame and candied kumquat at $28, Stracchino Gnocchi with broccoli rabe and sharp provolone at $28, Sourdough Pasta Cacciatore with mezcal-braised chicken and nduja at $29, and Garganelli Giganti with a broken meatball ragu at $29. Our Lasagna for Two, with Italian sausage bolognese and whipped robiolina, is $72.
The restaurant opens at 5pm Monday through Thursday and 4pm Friday through Sunday, with lunch from 11:30am to 2pm Friday through Sunday and a last seating at 10:30pm nightly. Reservations go through OpenTable from the restaurant’s own site.
Best suited to a table of two or four that wants to share the lasagna and argue about the rest.
La Pecora Bianca: best value, and best for gluten-free
La Pecora Bianca prints the claim directly above its NoMad pasta section: “All of Our Pastas Are Made in House.” Its six pastas run $24 to $28, from spaghetti with pomodoro or cacio e pepe at $24 to rigatoni with vodka sauce and stracciatella and tagliatelle with beef and pork bolognese, both $28. Burrata can be added to any pasta for $7, and house-made gluten-free pasta is available on request.
The NoMad room at 1133 Broadway opens at 11:30am Monday through Friday and 10am at weekends, closing between 9:30pm and 10:30pm depending on the day.
Best suited to a weekday lunch, a mixed group with a gluten-free diner, or anyone watching the bill.
Novità: best for a quiet, traditional room
Novità at 102 East 22nd Street publishes the longest pasta list here, thirteen dishes from $26.50 to $36. They include tonnarelli freschi al cacio e pepe at $27, homemade spaghetti with clams and zucchini flowers at $32, paglia e fieno with Kobe beef bolognese at $32 and green spinach ravioli with bufala mozzarella at $32. Reservations go through OpenTable.
Novità does not publish daily hours on its site, so call before you build a meal around it.
Best suited to a weekday dinner where conversation matters more than the scene.
How to book a table at the best pasta restaurants in NYC
Match the booking to the restaurant. For L’Artusi, be ready at 9am exactly fourteen days before the date you want. For Rezdôra’s tasting, confirm that everyone at the table wants two hours of pasta before you book, because the whole table has to take part. Via Carota is the opposite case: there is nothing to book, so arrive early in the evening or come for lunch.
If the date is close, the reliable fallbacks are Via Carota’s walk-in policy, L’Artusi’s bar and counter seats, and La Pecora Bianca’s all-day hours from 11:30am on weekdays. Don Angie’s Friday-to-Sunday lunch is a second way in if dinner is booked up.
What does a plate of pasta cost at these restaurants?
Across the six kitchens, dinner pastas run from $24, at La Pecora Bianca and L’Artusi, to $38 at Rezdôra and L’Artusi. The flat lists at Via Carota, Don Angie and La Pecora Bianca stay within a few dollars from top to bottom, while the higher end of each wider list is carried by crab, lobster, truffle or hand-filled shapes. What you are actually paying for when a pasta costs $38 explains that spread in detail.
If you would rather judge a kitchen on one dish, our best cacio e pepe in NYC compares six bowls by pasta shape, and the modern Italian kitchens between Union Square and NoMad covers Rezdôra alongside its neighbors. For what “house-made” does and does not promise, a sister site reads house-made pasta claims on NYC menus shape by shape.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the best pasta in NYC?
Our pick is Rezdôra at 27 East 20th Street, where nine Emilia-Romagna primi run $26 to $38 and a $110 regional pasta tasting is available for the whole table. Without a reservation, Via Carota at 51 Grove Street is the best option, with five pastas from $25 to $28 and a walk-ins-always-welcome policy.
Which pasta restaurants in NYC take walk-ins?
Via Carota’s own site says walk-ins are always welcome, and it is open from 11am on weekdays. L’Artusi holds a selection of bar and counter seats for walk-ins on a first-come, first-served basis. Both are in the West Village.
How much does pasta cost at the best restaurants in NYC?
At the six restaurants in this guide, dinner pastas run from $24 to $38 as of October 2026. Rezdôra’s regional pasta tasting is $110 a person, or $200 with the optional wine pairing. La Pecora Bianca and Via Carota keep their whole pasta lists under $30.
