It started with four friends
missing the food from home.

Elisa, Alberto, Paolo and Daniele grew up together in the north of Italy — three from Turin, one from Salerno. When they moved to England they missed the same two things: the fresh pasta of Piemonte and the family sauces they'd eaten their whole lives.

So they made them. They opened The Pasta Factory on Shudehill — Manchester's first pastificio, where the pasta is rolled and cut by hand every morning from nothing but flour and water, sold to eat in or to carry home from the deli counter.

Then, a few doors away on High Street, they built Noi Quattro — a proper Neapolitan pizzeria, its wood-fired oven domed, tiled, and shipped over from Napoli. The dough proves for a full day and cooks in ninety seconds. The name means “the four of us,” because that's exactly who's behind both doors.