Best Pasta Shop

Central: Pasta & Co.; South: Bottega de la Pasta

Central: Pasta & Co. Mary Lou Morales has been making excellent pasta in this busy shop on Austin's quaintest shopping street for more than 12 years. In addition to fresh pasta, there are take-out lunch specials, frozen entrées, eggplant parmesan, and risotto, plus fabulous homemade breadsticks and biscotti. 3502 Kerbey Lane, 453-0633 South: Bottega de la Pasta It's a measure of how much Austin has grown and changed that this wonderful little pasta factory prospers in South Austin. Stop in to see Rino Lanzalotti for pasta; fresh or dried, stuffed or die cut, sauced or not. Andiamo!