Where to order fresh pasta in Metro Manila (Photo Instagram / @noodlelab.ph)
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Elevate your weekly pasta habit with fresh-made pasta from these six brands, including plain, flavoured, and stuffed variants

For many of us, pasta has become a regular feature in our rotating weeknight menus. And why shouldn’t it be? The family of Italian dishes makes for a filling, comforting meal, and is vibrant with a world of flavourful possibilities. However, this repetitive habit can often result in lacklustre dishes when we find ourselves reaching for the same jar of bottled sauce and store-bought boxed noodles that have long haunted our pantry.

If you feel stuck in a rut and want to spice up your pasta dishes, the fresh-made pasta from these six brands are an easy but elegant way to do just that. Who knows, you may just find your next weekly habit below.

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1. The Daily Knead

From their inspired variations on the pain au chocolat to their ensaymada loaded with manchego and topped with jamon, The Daily Knead is well-known for its innovative baked goods. What you may not know is that the brand also carries an array of pantry staples and ready-to-cook items to help you get fired up in your own kitchen— including some fresh pasta. Choose between their fettuccine or spaghetti alla chiattara which have delicate flavours that bring your sauce of choice to the fore.  

Tatler Tip: skip the grocery line and order other ingredients you may need from The Daily Knead’s pantry staples collection like eggs, butter, and even parmesan cheese.

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2. Conspire Foods

Conspire Foods specialises in bread and pasta products that cameo in some of your favourite restaurants. Lucky for us, you can also enjoy their products as personal orders, handmade pasta included. Their selection of restaurant-quality frozen fresh pasta includes fusili, bucatini, and radiatore, but what makes their pasta truly special is that they are extruded with bronze dies. This special tool creates a rougher, more porous surface, allowing your delicious pasta sauce to cling to the noodles with effortless ease.

Tatler Tip: Conspire Foods also has an array of fresh ramen noodles and egg noodles, perfect for days you’re craving Asian fare.

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3. Noodle Lab

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Raviolo (Photo Instagram / @noodlelab.ph)
Above Self-Saucing Carbonara Raviolo (Photo: Instagram / @noodlelab.ph)

If you’re looking for quick, easy, and delicious dishes to whip up at home, the pasta from Noodle Lab are right up your alley. While they’ve also got lots of basic noodle staples, their filled pasta are packed with so much flavour you won’t have to do much to complete the meal. For example, take their self-saucing carbonara raviolo with guanciale, pecorino romano, black pepper, ricotta, and luscious egg yolk— simply boil, toss in some flavoured butter, and you’re all set.

Tatler Tip: Noodle Lab’s Ally Lim-Gonzales is always busy coming up with seasonal limited-edition creations, especially on holidays. Be sure to check in on their Instagram page for easy gifting, as well as pop-up dining experiences around town.

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4. Made by Nadine

Long or short, plain or filled, round or square— Nadine Howell Fanlo does it all. The self-proclaimed carb enthusiast has grown her brand tremendously, and now supplies her fresh pasta to One World Deli at San Juan and Jupiter Branches. Pop by these select branches to snag your pasta of choice, or reach out to One World Deli for bulk orders. 

Tatler Tip: The talented Pastaia is also known to host demo classes from time to time, so make sure to follow her on Instagram for the latest updates.

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5. Dough & Grocer

This much-loved one-stop shop truly has it all, so it should come as no surprise that Dough & Grocer’s expansive portfolio includes fresh-made pasta as well. The collection of tagliatelle alone is quite impressive with four variants to choose from: plain, moringa, tomato chilli, and squid ink.

Tatler Tip: Dough & Grocer also has some premium pre-made sauces to accompany your fresh pasta, such as truffle mushroom, amatriciana with Iberico pancetta, and Wagyu beef bolognese.

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6. Manila Pasta

Get your fresh pasta, sauce, and bread in one fell swoop through Manila Pasta. Opt for textured pasta like garganelli which has lots of ridges for your sauce to cling to, a classic tagliatelle, the playful farfalle, or even the rare sopressini. On the sauce front, they offer arrabbiata, bacon and cream, and pesto— be sure to order some focaccia as well to mop up all that delicious sauce afterwards, too.

Tatler Trivia: The duo behind Manila Pasta, Alex Tan and Mikee Lopez have recently opened a plant-forward fine-dining restaurant, Tandem in Legazpi Village.

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