Pasta Cosa has been on Castle Street since 2016
15:24, 06 Sep 2025Updated 15:25, 06 Sep 2025
Pasta Cosa on Castle Street(Image: Liverpool ECHO)
After opening its doors on Castle Street in 2016, Pasta Cosa has announced an exciting new venture. The restaurant offers a range of Italian pastas and fresh pizza to customers as well as a selection of delicious desserts.
Dishes on the menu include hot options – Bolognese, pomodoro, carbonara, pesto, primavera etc – as well as cold choices such as tuna, mixed vegetables, cured meats, chicken and pancetta. The popularity of the authentic Italian food restaurant means they will now be opening a second restaurant in the heart of Liverpool.
Pasta Cosa has shared on Instagram that a “new chapter” is beginning. Yesterday, September 5, the restaurant wrote: ” A new chapter begins
“We’re so excited to share our fresh new look with you and even more excited to announce that we have a new store opening at Albert Dock in the coming months!”It’s still us, the same family run business serving the pasta you love, just with a new identity and a brand new second space to call home.”Pasta Cosa announced they will be keeping their Castle Street spot open. The statement continued: “Our Castle Street store still remains open every day, dishing up your favourites, and later this year, it’ll be getting a little refurb too, so it’s an even better place to recharge and reconnect over pasta. Evolving together, one bowl of pasta at a time!”
Since the Pasta Cosa journey got underway in the spring of 2016, the business has amassed plenty of loyal customers who reacted to the news of the new restaurant opening. One posted to Instagram saying “Amazing can’t wait” and another said “My favourite for carbonara”.
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Other customers posted “Can’t wait”, alongside hand clapping emojis and another said “Fab! Can’t wait to visit.” Sharing a glimpse into the new chapter, a black and white video uploaded by Pasta Cosa showed an empty building with “Albert Dock coming soon” written across it.
Castle Street’s thriving hospitality scene has transformed the city’s business distict. Last year, The Ivy Liverpool Brasserie officially opened its doors in the Castle Street building becoming the Ivy’s third North West venue.
The Ivy’s collection of bars and restaurants is renowned for exceptional service, food and atmosphere, and its Liverpool venue has continued this legacy.
It is no surprise that Pasta Cosa have chosen to open a new location in Liverpool. In March of this year, Liverpool was named as the best city in the UK for food.
Time Out asked people across the country to rate the general quality of their culinary scene including its “diversity, innovation, tastiness” and its affordability.
This helped Time Out to create its ’11 best cities in the UK for food in 2025′ list. New Orleans was named the best city for food in the world while Liverpool took the top spot in the UK.
Time Out’s praise included: “A whopping 84% of respondents rated Liverpool’s quality of restaurants, with a still-very-impressive 68 percent saying the food scene is affordable. Liverpool came the closest to Time Out’s overall global top 20 food cities, placing 26th in the worldwide list.