Friday Night Dinner: 27 Old Compton Street

Friday, October 24th 2025, 16:30 BST
27 Old Compton Street, London W1D 5JP, United Kingdom
https://www.27oldcomptonstreet.com/
Italian
Pasta: £13.90-£17.90; Pudding: £7
by Morag Rethans

27 Old Compton Street is a restaurant close to Shaftesbury Avenue. It sits among the busy streets of SOHO, it is hip, and it focusses on pasta.

I had the Pumpkin Ravioli, and my husband the Cacio e Pepe Bucatini. We thought the dishes to be lovely, but in our opinion the pasta was a little too al dente for us — another 30 seconds in the pan, and it would have been perfect.

We followed with a portion to share of their only dessert, a pistachio sweet gnocchi — these were little gnocchi sized doughnuts with a liquid pistachio filling with a scoop of ice-cream and some crushed and chopped pistachios (mind the inevitable squirt when you cut in).

Next time I'd have the courgette fries too which the table next to us had and looked great.

We were in and out in about 45 minutes.

Cacio e Pepe Bucatini
Cacio e Pepe Bucatini
1 / 3
Pumpkin Ravioli
Pumpkin Ravioli
2 / 3
Pistachio Gnocchi
Pistachio Gnocchi
3 / 3
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