Office catering · Old Street, Shoreditch and EC1V
Office catering in Old Street
Most office catering arrives cold, because most caterers are not nearby. We are at 123 City Road, a ten-minute walk from most of Old Street, Shoreditch and Silicon Roundabout. The pasta is extruded here on the morning of your booking and cooked to order for your slot, so it has a short walk to travel instead of a drive across London.
Build your order below and we will call you back to confirm it and agree the price.
Bulk pre-order
Build your order and we will call you back with a price
Pick a dish, say how many, press Add. It goes into your order above the picker so you can see the whole thing building up. When it looks right, send it — we ring you back to confirm the order and agree the price. Nothing is charged here.
What you get
Hot pasta, made to order, three ways
Hot food has to leave the kitchen above 63°C and be eaten within two hours, and fresh pasta keeps cooking in its own residual heat — so every extra minute in transit costs texture. A kitchen in Park Royal burns that window on the drive. We do not have that journey.
Catering comes out of the same kitchen as our Old Street restaurant, cooked to order for your slot rather than made the night before.
For meetings and desk lunches
Individual boxes
Everyone gets their own, labelled with the dish. Best when people are eating at their desks or straight after a meeting.
For teams eating together
Sharing trays
Served with tongs and plates. One tray serves four. Better value and better for a table everyone gathers round.
The counter menu, scaled up
Build your own
Choose the shapes, the sauces and the toppings for your group. Same six shapes, same sixteen sauces.
Fresh pasta extruded on site each morning from semolina and water. Sauces made in-house, no additives and no preservatives. Vegan sauces on every menu. Gluten-free penne, cooked in separate water.
Cooked to order for your slot, boxed at the counter
How it works
The terms, in full
Collection, delivery, notice and invoicing, in plain terms, so you know exactly what you are sending before you send it.
- NoneMinimum if you collect. Any size of order
- £150Minimum for delivery only
- 16:00Order by, the day before
- VATInvoice in your company name, sent the same day
- PriceNot shown online and nothing is paid online. Send the order and we will ring you back to confirm it and agree the price.
- MinimumNone at all if you collect — a meeting for four is as welcome as a floor of forty. Delivery is for orders of £150 and over. Below that we still take the order; it just becomes collection, and we tell you on the call.
- Lead timeOrder by 16:00 the day before. For groups up to fifteen, call us the same morning and it will usually be ready for lunch. A late request is a phone call, not a refusal — send the order anyway and ring us.
- CollectionFree, and no minimum. Ready when you arrive, boxed and labelled.
- DeliveryFor orders of £150 and over. We arrange a courier and charge it at cost, local to EC1V 1JB.
- InvoicingVAT invoice in your company name, sent the same day and reclaimable by most businesses.
- DietaryTell us the vegan, no-nuts and gluten-free numbers in the notes and they come labelled. The kitchen handles gluten, nuts, dairy, egg and crustaceans.
- OrderingDirect only — the order form, the phone or email. Catering is not ordered through the delivery apps: they cannot issue a VAT invoice in your company name and a thermal backpack will not hold fifteen boxes.
Before you book
Frequently asked
How much does office catering cost?
There is no price on this page and nothing is paid online, because the format changes the cost — individual boxes, sharing trays and build-your-own are not the same job. Build your order with the dishes and numbers you want, send it, and we will ring you back to confirm it and agree the price.
What happens after I send the order?
It lands with the shop as an itemised list. We ring the number you gave us, check the dishes and the timing, agree the price with you and confirm it in writing. Nothing is booked and nothing is owed until you have said yes on that call.
Is there a minimum order?
Not for collection — a meeting for four is as welcome as a floor of forty. Delivery is for orders of £150 and over. If you are under that we will still take the order, it just becomes collection, and we will tell you when we call.
How far do you deliver?
Most orders are collected from us at 123 City Road, a ten-minute walk from most of Old Street, Shoreditch and Clerkenwell. For orders of £150 and over we book a courier and charge it at cost. Ask if you are further out and we will tell you honestly whether it still arrives hot.
How much notice do you need?
By 16:00 the day before. For groups of up to fifteen, call us in the morning and it will usually be ready for lunch — we are ten minutes away and we cook to order, so a same-day request is a phone call, not a crisis. If you have missed the cut-off, send the order anyway and ring us.
Can you cover vegan, nut-free and gluten-free?
Vegan sauces are on every menu. Gluten-free penne, cooked in separate water — the kitchen still handles gluten, nuts, dairy, egg and crustaceans, so it is not a gluten-free kitchen and we cannot guarantee any dish is free from any allergen. Put the numbers in the notes and those boxes come labelled.
Do you cater in the evening?
Yes. We are open until 23:00 on weekdays and until midnight on Friday and Saturday.
Can you do a weekly standing order?
Yes. Tell us the day and the usual numbers and we will hold the slot each week so you do not have to reorder.
Find us
123 City Road, by Old Street roundabout
123 City Road, London EC1V 1JB. On City Road just north of the Old Street roundabout, two minutes from Old Street station. Look for the red shopfront with the striped awning.
Opening hours
- Mon – Thu 11:00 – 23:00
- Fri – Sat 11:00 – 00:00
- Sunday 11:00 – 23:00
Fresh pasta extruded on site every morning and cooked to order at the counter.
How to order
See the full menu
Collection
No minimum, any size. Counter prices from £7.90. Two minutes from Old Street station.
Order for delivery
Deliveroo and Uber Eats set their own prices, higher than the counter, and their own minimums.