廚師冬青史密斯的科克蘭德繁華年代支柱erves several excellent tasting menus, including pescatarian, vegetarian, and vegan options, many of which feature exquisite pasta dishes. Dishes currently include ravioli with oxtail and greens and hand-cut tajarin with creme fraiche and caviar.

This Sunset Hill favorite offers exquisite Italian fare for reasonable prices, including a pappardelle topped with veal ragu and a selection of excellent ravioli, including one stuffed with goat cheese and ricotta and tossed in browned butter with sage. In addition to the comfortable dining room with a bar, there’s also a outdoor courtyard with plants growing on trellises that’s open for seating.

The menu at this popular Ballard restaurant is minimal and lighter than one might see at more traditional Italian joints, featuring standouts such as the strozzapreti with lamb sumo, and the saffron spaghetti bolognese with pork and veal. There’s also an outdoor deck and expanded sidewalk seating.

Montlake’s Cafe Lago is the perfect neighborhood white-tablecloth Italian restaurant — just upscale enough for celebrating a special occasion, but not to fussy to accommodate an off-menu order of fettucini alfredo. The pastas, including two excellent lasagna dishes, are well-executed here, and evolve with the seasons.

Ethan Stowell’s Capitol Hill restaurant dedicated to the cuisine of Rome serves well-executed renditions of classic pasta dishes like spaghetti carbonara and cacio e pepe. But the restaurant also offers more creative dishes, like tagliarini with uni butter, Fresno chili peppers, and smoked trout roe. Tavolàta, another Ethan Stowell restaurant with locations in Belltown, Capitol Hill, Spokane, and on Stone Way in Fremont, serves similar pasta dishes, including a bucatini dish with bits of pork belly adorned with a shimmering egg yolk.

This Capitol Hill locale has been serving soul-comforting plates of noodles to diners for decades. Standbys like the lasagna bolognese oozes layer upon layer of stringy melted mozzarella, fontina, and parmesan cheese, while the penne with roasted red pepper, walnuts, and cream is supremely satisfying.

This excellent Capitol Hill restaurant features dishes from chef Sabrina Tinsley, emphasizing northern Italian cuisine. Must-try pastas include tagliatelle with white alba truffle butter and the gnocchi al pomodoro. The restaurant also launched a pop-up series in 2021that celebrates local BIPOC chefs.

Star chef Brian Clevenger is beginning to grow a mighty little line of Italian restaurants in the city, and it's all thanks to the success of this Madrona gem. The pastas here draw fans from around the city, with options like tonnarelli with prawns, uni butter, and Meyer lemon and strozzapretti with duck and dandelion greens.

This Pike Place star has a rotating menu of simple, yet thoughtful made-to-order pasta plates that all cost less than $15. Dishes typically include a bowl of handmade pasta tossed with a light sauce and locally caught or foraged ingredients, such as ziti with rockfish, olives, and capers or reginette with Calabrian sausage and rapini. You can eat at a small counter in the restaurant or take the food to go.

Nationally recognized chef Mike Easton turned the historic Alki Homestead into a classic Seattle dining experience that offers rotating list of excellent pasta dishes. He also aims to make the restaurant more accessible with a new “aperitivo hour” that doesn’t require reservations (which need to be booked well-ahead for the main dining room), as well as a patio. But the main dinner service continues to be a special treat.

Diners flock to this West Seattle Italian restaurant for creative pasta dishes like the lamb bolognese served with pecorino and mint and fusilli with arugula pesto. To add flair to more simpler pasta dishes — like the tonnarelli cacio e pepe — order shaved truffle for an additional $15. As a plus, you can watch cooks toss the pasta in sauce from most areas of the compact dining room.

Chef Jason Stratton (formerly ofSpinasse, another entry on this list) recently took over the kitchen at Georgetown’s new Italian restaurant, which has a large, heated and covered patio. Stratton serves several exquisite pasta dishes like bucatini with spicy huckleberry marinara, gigli with roasted king oyster mushrooms, and like Spinasse, a tajarin dish with sage butter.