Do you Know the reason behind why pasta is getting most popularity

If there’s one food that’s timeless, it’s pasta. In the classic sense, yes, but also in that it can take no time at all to prepare, making for a logical next entry in the fast-casual restaurant movement in New York. Notable chefs—veterans of highly lauded Italian restaurants—are now serving speedy versions with top-quality ingredients; so are teams from other parts of the quick service world.

To trace the pasta revolution, look to U.S. fine dining. From Lilia in New York to Chicago’s Monteverde and Felix Trattoria in Los Angeles, consumers are bucking gluten-free concerns for toothsome bowls of pink peppercorn mafaldini and pesto trofie. Food Business News reports that pasta consumption worldwide was on the rise in 2017, for the second year in a row. Of course some entrepreneurs would recognize the high margins that pasta offers (even the highest-quality product is cheap, compared to most proteins) with its quick cooking capabilities. What separates these places from, say, an Olive Garden or a New York deli lunch special is that the pastas are not pre-cooked. What makes the concept viable for a fast-casual restaurant is that the sauces can be; most benefit from being made ahead.

Mitchell Davis, executive vice president of the James Beard Foundation, argues that at its roots, pasta is fast food. “Pasta was originally a street food in Naples, where the Neapolitans were and still are called (derogatorily) Mangia Macharoni, the pasta eaters. The tradition is still alive. You can still go to parties near Naples, and find places where they’ll mix a giant cacio e pepe in a tablecloth and then eat it with their hands. That invariably happens late-night,” he says. Davis is anticipating the imminent arrival of Pastaficio Di Martino, the century-old pasta company from Naples, which is scouting locations around the city, including Chelsea Market. At its shops, Di Martino, which last year partnered with Dolce & Gabbana to create stylish packages, sells 125 shapes and serves diners at an elegant pasta bar. There are also take-out windows, so customers can eat pasta al Pomodoro on the run. “The key thing here is they are reclaiming this street food past, in a new way,” says Davis.

Di Martino will join an increasingly crowded field in New York. In late 2017, Pasta Flyer was opened by James Beard Award-winning chef Mark Ladner. He formerly ran the kitchen at New York’s grand Italian restaurant Del Posto. Pasta Flyer’s spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce, fettuccine with creamy Alfredo sauce, and organic fusilli in pesto are all made in the amount of time it takes to order, and none costs more than $8.75. The pasta itself, flash-frozen with a procedure from the 1950s that’s used for vegetables, cooks in exactly three minutes. Another place that can fill a pasta order in less than five minutes is the Sosta. The restaurant in Manhattan’s SoHo is the newest enterprise from the team behind the popular vegan chain, By Chloe. Chef Ali LaRaia found inspiration in the €5 ($5.91) spaghetti she ate while road tripping around Italy. “I came back to New York, and if I wanted a bowl of pasta, I had to make a reservation and spend $25. It was ridiculous,” she says.

LaRaia created a concept based on fresh pasta that cooks in less than two minutes and teamed up with Esquared’s creative director, Samantha Wasser. “It’s so obvious that quick pasta is the perfect vehicle for fast-casual,” says LaRaia. “It’s so cheap: flour and water. And it cooks so quickly.” At the Sosta, shapes such as gemelli are made in-house, using an extruder; nothing costs more than $13. The most popular is the pumpkin-shaped zucca vodka, with a sauce of tomato, cream, and the eponymous spirit. Pasta Flyer’s Ladner is on