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Explore the pasta-bilities: 4 places to get the best fresh pasta in Seattle
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Naomi Tomky, Special to the Seattle P-I
April 14, 2021
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Fresh Italian-style noodles are exactly the type of food that draws people to restaurants: the effort to expertise ratio makes it worth paying a premium for someone else to fling the flour all over the kitchen and those with years of dough-making under their apron strings turn out superior strands.
Unfortunately, the a la minute style of cooking that works best to quickly cook and sauce those fresh noodles tends to take poorly to takeout, leaving many local pasta professionals turning quickly to a new business model: selling fresh noodles for folks to cook at home – often with accompanying sauces.