The Best Pasta in Toronto

At this Geary Avenue factory, pasta lovers stock up on oodles of long and short, curly and straight, stuffed and simple fresh and frozen noodles. Snag one of the 10 on-site seats and spend your lunch hour sampling them in the team's equally stunning seasonal sauces.

Italian-American classics are the backbone of this casual Bloordale Village destination. Tender with requisite bite, every bowlful of spaghetti pomodoro and saucy rigatoni needs nothing more than a cupola of parm to feel complete.

Saucy whorls of spaghetti and impossibly tall lasagna squares, tender with caramelized edges, dot every table at this southern-Italian space on St. Clair West. Yes, there are other things on the menu. Ignore the pasta, though, and you've kind of missed the point.

At this cozy Leslieville go-to, quality ingredients become the rustic dishes diners crave. House-made pastas — sauced with slow-simmered Bolognese or smoky guanciale swirled together with yolks and cheese in silken carbonara — make prime partners to the restaurant's thoughtfully chosen wines.

Faithful renditions of Rome's greatest pasta dishes draw diners to this snug spot on Dundas West. No nonna? No problem. At this Michelin-recommended restaurant you can dine on cacio e pepe, carbonara, fra diavola and more as if Italian blood coursed through your veins.

A flair for the dramatic inspires a rotating cast of ravishing pasta dishes at this Italian restaurant on Davenport. Collide with confit artichoke and shitake mushroom pappardelle one night, casarecce with pesto Genovese the next. With three seasonal, saucy fresh pasta dishes available daily, you can find a new favourite every night of the week.

Step away from your usual bowl with a night at this Italian French brasserie in King West. Here, pastas are fresh and plush, tender and sexy as hell — whether you opt for the zippy rigatoni alla vodka or plump, three-cheese ravioli soused in parm-rich beurre monté.

An offshoot of Queen's Pasta, this traditional Bloor West Village restaurant is the perfect spot to sample lumache, bauletti, cappelletti, and every other product that cemented the wholesaler's popularity. Bolster a meal with garlicky starters and wine, or focus squarely on noodles mixed with seafood, meat, seasonal vegetables or nothing more than a simply stellar sauce.