Elystan Street’s Phil Howard to launch casual pasta restaurant OTTO

The award-winning chef Phil Howard and his business partner Julian Dyer will open a new pasta restaurant in early November.

OTTO, a 74-cover site in Piccadilly, follows the duo’s London-based pasta delivery company of the same name, which debuted as an online service in May last year.

An announcement said OTTO will ‘celebrate Phil’s career-long love of pasta’ and will focus on ingredients-led dishes in a restaurant set to ‘evoke a warm and comfortable Italian trattoria’.

Locanda Locatelli and Bancone alumnus Louis Korovilas has been named executive chef, and he will cook dishes changing with the season, including beef shin pappardelle and squid ink spaghetti.

‘It would be fair to say that I have spent my career to date cooking a certain kind of ingredient at a certain kind of price point,’ said Howard.

‘I’ve loved it all, and continue to do so, but it is exciting however to have a project that can be delivered without compromise, at a price point that is wholly accessible to all.’

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