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Authentically Italian, sustainably British.
Fresh pasta restaurants in Bristol (Wapping Wharf) and Bath (Shires Yard)

We are a small Independent Pasta Restaurant making Fresh Pasta every morning
Accompanied with Homemade Sauces
For our Community to enjoy.
We offer food, wine and a little conversation
In our relaxed, informal Home Kitchen.

In Italy, cooking is simple: between four and eight ingredients are used for a dish.
It is based on quality of ingredients and not on complexity.
(+ grandmother – chef)
It is seasonal and it is local.

Why?

Because Italian cuisine is home cooking, of peasant origin. Farmers did not go shopping; in the kitchen, they prepared creative recipes with what they produced.
Those who had cows prepared ragout with butter and milk; if pigs were bred in the next village, lard was used in addition to butter. A little further south, the butter disappears, and oil, rosemary and wild boar appear in the sauce.
Any dish of traditional cuisine gradually changes until it becomes completely different when the distances get longer.
Here at Magari we have chosen to do as the farmers of the past: if an ingredient is not there, we adopt a similar one, and we often discover that it “fits”, thus creating a new variant.