Pasta Factory Turns Eatery

Photo by Talia Ricci
Famiglia Baldassarre, led by Leandro Baldassarre, above, makes a variety of fresh pasta, including long, egg-shaped pasta, filled pasta, bronze die-cut pasta and eggless noodles.
Baldassarre insists on using seasonal produce and high-quality ingredients such as DOP cheeses and salumi in the pasta fillings. The pasta can be purchased to take home, but a small seating area also allows customers to enjoy a plate of the day's pasta special right in the shop.
Fresh noodles rest in trays at Famiglia Baldassarre on Geary Avenue, a fresh pasta shop that now offers lunch service to hungry customers.