Padella - Iconic Pasta at Home by Tim Siadatan

Padella: Iconic Pasta at Home is the debut cookbook from Tim Siadatan, co-founder of Padella, the London pasta restaurant known for its queues. Published by Bloomsbury in 2025, it brings over 100 recipes into your own kitchen, from the restaurant’s signature dishes to new and off-menu plates. Tim’s approach is refreshingly simple: a few good ingredients, handled with care, and pasta cooked exactly right. Bound in real cloth and full of photography from Italian kitchens, markets and landscapes, it’s as lovely to read as it is to cook from.

All of the restaurant’s best-loved dishes are here. There’s the pici cacio e pepe that people queue for, slow-cooked beef shin ragù with pappardelle, fettuccine with ‘nduja and mascarpone, and tagliarini with crab, chilli, lemon and parsley. Alongside them are quick midweek suppers, seasonal dishes for every month of the year, and clear step-by-step guides to making and shaping fresh pasta. That makes it just as useful on a Tuesday night with a bag of dried rigatoni as on a slow Sunday spent rolling dough.

Why we love it:

• Written by the co-founder of Padella, so these are the real restaurant recipes, adapted for home cooks
  
• Over 100 recipes, from signature dishes to quick everyday plates and seasonal cooking
  
• Step-by-step guides to equipment and fresh pasta technique, so it works for complete beginners as well as confident cooks
  
• Named Waterstones Gift Book of the Year 2025 and a beautiful cloth-bound hardback that makes a lovely gift

More information:

• Written by Tim Siadatan, co-founder of Padella, and published by Bloomsbury
  
• Hardback, bound in real cloth, 368 pages
  
• Published 11 September 2025. ISBN: 9781526674616
  
• Store away from direct sunlight and steam to keep the cloth cover looking its best