{"id":41101,"date":"2025-11-06T18:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41101\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T18:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:05:07","slug":"pasta-e-pasta-review-japanese-spaghetti-shines-at-this-little-tokyo-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41101\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasta E Pasta Review: Japanese Spaghetti Shines at This Little Tokyo Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/venue\/87880\/pasta-e-pasta-by-allegro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pasta e Pasta<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/maps\/best-restaurants-los-angeles-little-tokyo-japanese\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Little Tokyo<\/a> is a Los Angeles offshoot of Tokyo-based Trattoria Pizzeria Allegro, an Italian and Japanese fusion restaurant group. Expect to find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eater.com\/2019\/7\/17\/20683610\/wafu-spaghetti-napolitan-tokyo-japan-best-pasta-dishes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deft Japanese riffs on pasta<\/a> with ingredients like cod roe, shimeji mushrooms, seaweed, and sea urchin; the menu gets broken up by sauces, which include tomato-based options, garlic oil, cream sauces, and wafu (Japanese-style) renditions. Red and white wines, as well as Japanese beers, are available for pairing and parking is available in the lot out front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Pasta e Pasta only offers one pasta shape, a thin spaghetti <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eater.com\/23840266\/angel-hair-pasta-is-back\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">similar to angel hair<\/a>. The pasta has a bouncy texture that is commonly found at Japanese pasta restaurants; don\u2019t expect anything very al dente.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">The table bread offered at Pasta e Pasta is unlimited, so make sure to request a refill when the pastas arrive so you can sop up any excess sauce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pasta e Pasta in Little Tokyo is a Los Angeles offshoot of Tokyo-based Trattoria Pizzeria Allegro, an Italian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5105,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-41101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-dining-report","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}