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Tom's Pasta
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At Tom’s Pasta, the drinks are strong, there’s a thickly layered, TikTok-bait lasagne, and a slightly haphazard supper club feel. Despite that, and the fact that the lasagne doesn’t quite live up to the hype, the permanent pop-up Italian restaurant in Hackney Downs is still a fun place to visit to see and be seen while giving your leopard print gilet its first outing.
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
photo credit: Aleksandra Boruch
By day this airy, industrial space is Brunswick East Bakehouse and caters to the needs of Hackney Downs’ start-up contingent. But come evening, fashionable couples sip blood orange spritzes and groups pile onto the big communal table, extinguishing candles and speckling tables with sauce as they reach across for a bite of their friend’s dish. Forgotten drinks are forgiven and mushy lasagne overlooked as conversations increase in volume and a flurry of phone camera flashes capture the beauty of a parmesan snow storm. If a sceney dinner party atmosphere is your priority, you’ll love Tom’s. If you want perfect pasta, we’d go to one of these spots instead.
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