A Casual Italian Restaurant With Traditional Italian Preparation, The Freshest Ingredients, and Made-to-Order Meals
123 Pasta is a modern fast casual Italian restaurant focused on allowing guests to create fully customized pastas, pizzas and gelato. We combine the traditional slow levitation method to produce our homemade dough with the freshness of all-natural ingredients like San Marzano Tomatoes, Fior Di Latte, and the freshest herbs and spices sourced straight from local farms, to produce an extraordinary dining experience for you.
Real Italian, Delivered to Your Door
Looking for a local Italian food delivery service near you that specializes in authentic pizza, pasta, and gelato? Our Irvine and Sherman Oaks Italian restaurants have taken Italian food online and can prepare customized cuisine based on our unique online ordering process. And if you prefer Italian take out, then we can do that too!
Authentic Wood-Burning Pizza Ovens
There are many pizza oven manufacturers right here in the US, and most Pizza shops purchase their ovens local since it’s much cheaper than importing from Italy. However, there is a very good reason why all our pizza ovens are made in Naples.
To provide high quality pizzas for our customers, we need ovens that can produce the finest quality pizzas, with a true authenticity that represents pizza the way it’s been made through generations of strict Italian tradition. Our 6000 lb. pizza oven, built in Napoli by a 3rd generation craftsman pizza builder with handmade bricks from Vesuvius volcanic sands, has been shipped across the Atlantic Ocean through the Panama Canal to our store in California.
Powered by the finest aromatic timbers from Californian plantations, our Napolese pizza oven can produce the highest quality, most authentic Italian pizza in town. And when they’ve been lovingly baked for 90 seconds at 900℉, you can be sure you’re getting a pizza experience your taste buds deserve.
Ingredients Imported From Italy
Given that Italian food is centered around freshness, it can be hard to duplicate. Authentic Italian cooking is about simplicity: few ingredients and traditional techniques. Why your penne with tomato sauce tastes nothing like what you’d find in Naples, is because all of the ingredients are slightly lacking: mass produced vegetables don’t have the same flavor and the domestic products are inferior.
While it is unfair to say you can’t find quality ingredients or products that are not imported from Italy, the Italian varieties of pepperoni, pasta, wine, olive oil, and cheese, are far better. Italy produces products in a land of such specific climates and with traditional methods, that food producers on mainland U.S. just can’t replicate the results.
True Italian Cuisine is More Than Just Fresh Ingredients
Authentic Italian cooking focuses on simplicity, so in addition to fine Italian ingredients and cooking equipment, we use traditional preparation techniques passed along by our authentic Italian chefs.
We Cater Too!
Are you a local OC business looking for an Italian catering service? We specialize in corporate and business event catering for any sized function. Contact us to find out more.