If London is to lean heavily into pasta by delivery, the pasta being delivered needs to get better. I won’t name names but I’ve tried out some of the brands: the little shops flogging pots to go, over the counter or by way of courier. Mostly the pasta is overcooked and the sauces only marginally better than premade variations from Waitrose. There is limited depth. I just don’t really think it works all that well.
If you think about it, ordering a box of pasta on an app and tracking it for 20 minutes while it congeals, the sauce cools and condensation taps away at the plastic lid, is actually quite unseemly. Delivery culture is all the rage in London. It might be ideal for pizza, curries and egg fried rice but it is less so with pasta. If it wasn’t overdone before it is by the time it arrives at the front door.
