"Everything you need to know about this Italian restaurant with a staunch commitment to British produce can be found among its incredible pasta dishes, like the brown crab cacio e pepe and pappardelle hogget ragu. There are four-or-so changing pastas on Manteca’s menu at any time, and while traditionalists might have a wobble in this slick Shoreditch spot, it’s unlikely to last. Duck fat pangrattato sprinkled on top of a rich ragù is a flourish that even the most hardened Marcella Hazan stan will eulogise over." - jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna
Aleksandra Boruch