Zero Zero Handmade Pasta

Zero Zero Handmade Pasta is Mitch Fagan and Leah Steinberg’s Westside pasta studio — born as a COVID side project in 2020, open as a brick-and-mortar since 2022. Stone-milled organic flour from a mill a mile away, local eggs, seasonal rotating pastas and fresh focaccia daily. Dinner Tue–Sat; lunch Fri–Sun. KCUR Best New Restaurants 2025.

Description

Zero Zero Handmade Pasta grew out of a pandemic kitchen experiment. Mitch Fagan, an emergency room physician who had been making pasta since high school on his parents’ hand-crank machine, and his partner Leah Steinberg began feeding neighbors from their home during COVID lockdowns in 2020. By 2021 the delivery service had a following; by 2022 the couple had converted a small Westside storefront at 1702 Summit Street into a pasta studio. The concept is disciplined and local: stone-milled organic flour sourced from a mill about a mile away, eggs and meats from local farms, a menu that rotates with the seasons and takes cues from the regional Italian traditions Fagan has studied. Fresh pasta at pick-up counters ran first; in spring 2025 they added lunch and dinner service inside the shop, adding wine and an intimate dining room to the pasta counter experience. Collaborators include Yoli Tortilleria, Fyler Farm, and Myco Planet Mushrooms. Reservations via Tock.

Tier classification

Tier 2 provisional — KC-dedicated 5-year operator; hometown. Mitch Fagan and Leah Steinberg built Zero Zero in Kansas City starting in 2020 and opened the Westside brick-and-mortar in 2022. No press source confirms whether Fagan or Steinberg is KC-born/raised — the sources focus on their culinary journey rather than hometown. “ — if either is KC-born/raised, revisit as Tier 1.

Menu

Last verified: 2026-07-14 · Source: Zero Zero official site + IN Kansas City Magazine features (menu rotates weekly; no fixed public price list) · URL(s): https://www.zerozeropastakc.com/ · https://www.exploretock.com/zero-zero-handmade-pasta-kansas-city · https://www.inkansascity.com/eat-drink/restaurants/reservation-for-one-zero-zero-handmade-pasta/ · Confidence: Medium (format and representative dishes confirmed; the pasta list rotates weekly and is not fixed, and prices are not published online)

An ever-changing Northern Italian menu built on stone-milled organic flour, local farm eggs and pasture-raised meats — a short antipasti list, four fresh pastas that rotate weekly by season, focaccia baked daily, and a rotating dessert. Genuinely small and seasonal by design; representative dishes below.¹

Antipasti

• Focaccia — baked daily, served with whipped ricotta and honey¹
• Prosciutto Arancini — mushroom risotto, truffle aioli¹
• Caesar Salad — toasted garlic breadcrumbs, parmesan¹
• Meatballs in Pomodoro — Barham Family Farm pork and beef, San Marzano tomatoes¹

Fresh Pasta (four rotate weekly by season)

• Lumache alla Norcina — Barham Family Farm Italian sausage, mushrooms, white wine, cream¹
• Chitarra alla Gricia¹
• Butternut Squash Agnolotti — small pinched filled pasta in browned butter¹
• Spicy Vodka Pasta¹
• Chitarra Aglio e Olio¹

Dessert

• Amaro Date Cake — sticky amaro toffee glaze, served with ice cream and house-made Italian almond shortbread crumble¹

Sourcing partners

• Zero Zero flour (stone-milled, ~1 mile away)²
• Fyler Farm · Myco Planet Mushrooms · Central Soy · Marion Milling³

Links

• Website: https://www.zerozeropastakc.com
• Instagram: @zerozeropastakc

Sources

Footnotes

1. Zero Zero Handmade Pasta — official site and menu features, https://www.zerozeropastakc.com/ (reservations https://www.exploretock.com/zero-zero-handmade-pasta-kansas-city; representative dishes per IN Kansas City Magazine features), accessed 2026-07-14. The pasta menu rotates weekly and prices are not published online. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹

2. Feast Magazine — “In Kansas City, Zero Zero Pasta offers creative pastas made from Midwestern flour on a weekly basis” — https://www.feastmagazine.com/travel/kansas-city/in-kansas-city-zero-zero-pasta-offers-creative-pastas-made-from-midwestern-flour-on-a/article_99681aaa-ba9f-11ec-99a9-437b817223e1.html — Confirms: Stone-milled organic flour (local mill ~1 mile away), local eggs, pastured meats, daily fresh pasta delivery service 2021 origin; Mitch Fagan + Leah Steinberg founders. ↩

3. Whole Harvest Kitchen — sourcing note confirms Zero Zero pasta as a local KC supplier (Myco Planet Mushrooms, Central Soy, Marion Milling, Fyler Farm as co-local-sourcing partners — wholeharvestkitchen.com). Also: The Pitch KC — “Pasta-tively Perfect: Zero Zero Pasta’s new storefront” — https://www.thepitchkc.com/pasta-tively-perfect-zero-zero-pastas-new-storefront-offers-delicious-twists-on-the-taste-of-italy/ ↩