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Rigatoni’s
Greater Manchester, Altrincham - Italian - Restaurant - ££
Short and appealing menu of house-made pastas
The expansion and contraction of the pasta mini-chain that started as Sugo Pasta Kitchen (more recently Sud Pasta) has settled where it began; behind a solo shop front in Altrincham, part of a clutch of quality options that cleave to the Market Hall. It's a small, friendly and cool place, with a menu that is distinguished by house-made pasta dressed with some of Italy's biggest-hitting flavour exports and served in rustic Puglian crockery. A bowlful of casarecce broccolini in chicken broth is soupily comforting but laced with chilli and pangrattato for kick and rustle, and there are also slow-cooked meaty sugos and brighter seafood options such as ‘scoglio’ (Shetland mussels, baby squid and king prawns with chilli, ginger, garlic and lemon). It can all be bookended with starters such as a masterfully fried arancino with basil pesto, scamorza cheese and red pepper purée, and desserts including apple and treacle tart or – purists look away now &n...
The expansion and contraction of the pasta mini-chain that started as Sugo Pasta Kitchen (more recently Sud Pasta) has settled where it began; behind a solo shop front in Altrincham, part of a clutch of quality options that cleave to the Market Hall.
It's a small, friendly and cool place, with a menu that is distinguished by house-made pasta dressed with some of Italy's biggest-hitting flavour exports and served in rustic Puglian crockery. A bowlful of casarecce broccolini in chicken broth is soupily comforting but laced with chilli and pangrattato for kick and rustle, and there are also slow-cooked meaty sugos and brighter seafood options such as ‘scoglio’ (Shetland mussels, baby squid and king prawns with chilli, ginger, garlic and lemon).
It can all be bookended with starters such as a masterfully fried arancino with basil pesto, scamorza cheese and red pepper purée, and desserts including apple and treacle tart or – purists look away now – a ‘panna cotta tiramisu’ hybrid. All this, plus a short Italian wine selection, is delivered with genial ease, while a decently priced weekend lunch offer keeps the dream of bargain carbs alive. No cash.
VENUE DETAILS
22 Shaw's Road
Altrincham
Greater Manchester
WA14 1QU
0161 929 7706
OTHER INFORMATION
No background music, Family friendly