Butta la Pasta UK

It’s our summer holidays!! We’ll be away from the restaurant for a couple of weeks to enjoy a little family break.

TBH we’re not really used to taking time off, so it’s not a lie to say that we’re looking forward to seeing you back here when we open again on Thursday 22nd.

Cheers!!

It’s with great pleasure we can say… we’re 6 years old today!!!

Honestly, we’re as thankful as ever for all the support & custom that you’ve given us over the last year. Things got really busy for us after gave us a shout out in , in January. Obviously we love filling up the restaurant, but it’s meant that we don’t have as much time for ‘creating content’, which hopefully explains why we haven’t posted much recently.

Although we mix up the menu every week, we’re proud to say that things for us haven’t changed a great deal since we opened 6 years ago. We still love making fresh pasta dishes from around Italy and tagging on tasty starters and desserts to book end your meal. Hopefully we’ve refined things a little, but it is important to us that we stay true to our vision of celebrating great Italian food in a relaxed environment.

Big thanks as always to our lovely waiting staff and everyone who helps us keep things going in the right direction. Cheers 🥂

So, we’ve been really busy at the restaurant recently & haven’t had much time to post here. Suffice to say we’re working super hard for you, trying to make as much great pasta as we can…

Last week we made spinach and wild garlic tortelloni, using the first of Sheffield’s abundant wild garlic. Although it has been a grey start to March , it’s a great way of enjoying the flavours of early spring. We doubled up and used the wild garlic in the pasta dough & the filling, so we decided to dial down the sauce and serve it simply with butter & fresh tomatoes.

Like we said we’ve been full for quite a few weeks now. We feel so happy to have a busy restaurant, but we’ve had to say no to quite a few enquiries so it’s probably worth saying that we’re booking up about ten days in advance at the moment.

Thanks as always for your support and if you are interested in booking a table then please contact us here or call on 07834561809.

We’ve been fully booked for the last few weeks, which is absolutely fantastic, but we’ve not been able to take any late bookings.

If you’d like to try and learn a few tricks for making your own fresh pasta, then why not try one of our pasta classes. We show you how to make orecchiette (which we’ll eat for lunch) as well as making egg pasta into tortelloni & tagliatelle for you to take home.

Everything is very relaxed 🤞🏼, and we’ll fix you up with a drink on arrival and a bag to go home with.

It would make a great present for the foodie in your life & we’ll happily make you up a personalised gift card.

Bookings are essential and available for the dates pictured. Please contact us here to book in or ask any questions.

Here’s this weekend’s menu…

We’re fully booked tonight Saturday, but we do have limited availability for Thursday & Friday. Please message us here or call us on 07834561809, if you’d like to book a table.

On Sunday we have a private party booking so no Sunday lunch. If you’re interested in having your own event here , then please get in contact and we can try to tailor everything to your needs.

Valentine’s menu for next week…

This is our one night only Valentine’s special for 2024. Nothing too smoochy; just a nice drink to start with & a sharing anti pasti plate, followed by some of our favourite pasta dishes and our usual mix of tasty desserts.

Booking is essential; please message us here or call on 07834561809.

This weekends menu…

We’re actually fully booked for Friday & Saturday evenings, so this post is really for anyone free on Thursday, or as a heads up for those who have booked in.

If you would like to book in the future then you can always message us here or call on 07834561809.

Here’s our two menus for the weekend…

Thursday to Saturday evenings we’ll be making some of our favourite pasta dishes, if you fancy a burst of Italian goodness on a cold January night.

Sunday lunch is is the usual three courses of freshly made treats for just £23.5.

Hopefully we’ll be able to see you here Thursday & Friday from 5:30, Saturday from 5:00 or Sunday from 12-3. Please contact us here for bookings or call us on 07834561809.

We’re back from our mini break and feeling ready for 2024! We’ll be kicking off the year with this menu, full of tasty dishes to keep the January blues away.

We’re open as usual Thursday & Friday from 5:30 and Saturday evening from 5:00. To book a table please contact us here or call on 07834561809.

Here’s the menu for tonight and tomorrow…

We’re closed on Saturday as it’s a little close to Christmas and we’re not open next weekend either, other than for New Year’s Eve, which is already fully booked.

Please contact us here for bookings or call us on 07834561809 to get your last fresh pasta fix for 2023.

New Year’s Eve menu🍾!

We really enjoy making special menus here . We always start with a nice drink & a fully loaded antipasti and finish with our usual mix of tasty desserts. For your main course we’re making a selection of our favourite pasta dishes, so hopefully something for everyone to enjoy.

We’re taking bookings from 5:30 onwards, so if you fancy saying goodbye to 2023, with an Italian treat then please contact us here or call on 07834561809 to book.

Here’s this weekend’s evening menu…

We’ve made a great pine nut loaf cake for this week’s special dessert; it’s got subtle lemon, almond & vanilla flavours and a topping of extra pine nuts. We’re also adding prawns to our Scottish mussel, tomato & white wine sauce, which we serve with tagliatelle.

Please contact us here for bookings or call us on 07834561809.

We’re open Thursday and Friday evenings from 5:30 and Saturday evening from 5:00.

This weekends menu for Thursday & Friday evenings from 5:30 and Saturday from 5:00…

We save our Venetian spiced duck ragu for the coldest months, as a little something when you feel like treating yourself. We’re also making ribollita soup as a starter, which always puts us in mind of early winter, when the cavolo nero is at its best.

As always we’d love to see you here this weekend; to book a table then please contact us here or call us on 07834561809.

Friday & Saturday evenings menu…

We’re not taking bookings for Thursday as we’ve got a private party and we’re having our window fitted during the day (fingers crossed for everything looking back to normal soon).

We’ve also got a pasta class on Sunday, so it really is only the two nights available for your fresh pasta hit this weekend.

To book a table please contact us here or call on 07834561809.

Our evening menu for Thursday to Saturday this week…

We’ll be using some great autumnal ingredients with our pasta dishes. We’ve got butternut squash filled agnolotti & cavolo nero which we’ll make into a luxurious sauce topped with burrata. For dessert we’ve got a classic pear & almond tart, to enjoy the last of this year’s English pears.

We’re open Thursday & Friday from 5:30 and Saturday from 5pm. Please contact us here for bookings or call us on 07834561809.

Our evening menu & Sunday lunch menu for this weekend…

Thursday to Saturday evenings we’ll be making Autumnal treats like a classic pumpkin soup, slow cooked beef shin ragu or mushroom ravioli.

Sunday lunch is served from 12-3, at the give away price of £23.5 for three courses.

As usual you can book a table by messaging us here or call on 07834561809.

Orange, almond & polenta cake.

This is our special dessert of the week. It’s a classic mix of Italian flavours of orange & almond, given a little added texture with the addition of a little polenta. It’s a very nice finish to a meal and great with a freshly made espresso or a glass of Marsala.

Of course our lemon tart and chocolate torte are available as always, alongside a selection of homemade ice creams.

Here’s this weekend’s evening menu, which we’ll be serving from 5:30 Thursday & Friday and from 5:00 on Saturday.

We’re making a warming beef shin ragu with pappardelle & a slow cooked fennel sausage sauce with tagliatelle for this weeks ‘meaty’ mains. The cannelloni is made from spinach pasta, filled with more spinach & ricotta, before being baked with a layer of tomato sauce & bechamel.

To book a table please contact us here or call on 07834561809.

Late on Thursday evening we got a call from the police to inform us that someone had broken our window at the restaurant. It’s the sort of thing that any small business owners dread, with money, time and our image literally being smashed up.

There’s lots of worse things happening in the world, but for us it’s stuff like this that makes running the restaurant really hard work.

Fortunately the glass is reinforced, so although it looks awful we’re able to open as usual. The cost of replacing the glass is eye watering, but we’ll get it done and hopefully we’ll be looking smart again soon!

It turns out that yesterday was ‘world pasta day’, which isn’t really a thing for us, but it does give us the chance to show off some of the fresh pasta that we’re making this week…

Here we’ve got salmon ravioli, pappardelle with a sausage ragu & tagliatelle with mussels, tomato & white wine.

So if freshly made pasta, mixed with great sauces is your thing then we’d love to see you here .

This is our menu for Thursday to Saturday evenings this weekend…

We’ll have some homegrown cavolo nero in our first ‘ribollita’ of the year. It’s one of our favourite soups, based on a traditional Tuscan recipe, that’s also got tomato, veg, beans and bread in.

We’re open from 5:30 Thursday & Friday and from 5:00 on Saturday. Please message us here for bookings or call us on 07834561809.

No Sunday lunch this weekend as we’ve got a pasta class.

Here’s our evening menu for this weekend and also our Sunday lunch menu which we’ll be serving from 12-3:30.

We’re fully booked for Saturday night, so if you fancy a pasta fix then it’s just Thursday or Friday from 5:30. Please contact us here for bookings or call on 07834561809.

Strong autumnal vibes for our menu this weekend…

We’ve got a warning oxtail ragu and butternut squash agnolotti (half moon shaped filled pasta), for your pasta main course. On starters we’re making a rich, super green soup of spinach & puy lentils and for dessert we’ve got a classic pear & almond tart.

Please contact us here or call on 07834561809 for bookings from 5:30 Thursday & Friday or 5:00 on Saturday evening.

Time for us to show off this weekends menu…

Some nice October flavours to enjoy, like a roasted pumpkin soup, butternut squash agnolotti and a super fresh fig, mascarpone & chilli sauce for farfalle.

As usual we try to mix in a few classics like our salmon ravioli & slow cooked Sicilian fennel sausage sauce which we’re serving with pappardelle.

Please contact us here for bookings or call on 07834561809. We’ll be open Thursday & Friday from 5:30 and Saturday evening from 5:00.

Farfalle with tomato, aubergine, peppers & pecorino.

This is similar to the classic Sicilian ‘alla Norma’ sauce, but we haven’t been able to get hold of any ricotta salata, so we’ve tweaked it a little. The fresh farfalle works great with the rich tomato, soft aubergines & peppers, finished off with plenty of salty pecorino.

It’s on the menu this weekend….