Authentic Italian Pasta and Sauce, Made by Hand
Enjoy delicious Italian recipes from Ruviano, Italy, at your table, with hand-made artisan pasta, sauce, and Italian specialties. Trusted by Connecticut’s finest Italian restaurants and loved by families for over 40 years.
Buon Appetito!
What Connecticut keeps coming back for.
Our Pasta Is Different, Here’s Why.
People taste something special.
Some say it’s our wooden drying racks. Some say it’s the air quality. Others say it’s family recipes carefully kept.
Those recipes come from Ruviano — a tiny rural village in the Province of Caserta, in the Campania region of southern Italy, inland from Naples. It is farm country, where the cooking has always been simple and done by hand, and that is still how it is done here in West Haven.
We say it is our love and passion for our simple tradition. Our family makes pasta and sauce the way that keeps our tradition alive, using the finest ingredients, handcrafted with old-world techniques, so the awesome people who enjoy our food keep coming back.
Durantes is the best! I am Italian and very picky about sauce and theirs is amazing. I drive 45 min each way to stock my freezer and I look forward to it!
Angelo Has Been Sharing This Recipe for Years
Nearly 40 years of the same family recipe is worth telling, so Chef Angelo keeps telling it: on the local news, in cooking segments, and to anyone who walks through the door.
Four decades of the family recipe
Angelo’s parents, Amedeo and Carmelina Durante, started the business in 1986. Today Angelo carries it forward using the same old-world technique, rolling and pressing the dough by hand for a genuinely authentic bite, and hopes the next generation will keep it going.
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More on Durante’s
Made in Connecticut: Durante’s Pasta
The West Haven shop still rolling and pressing its dough by hand, four decades on.
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The Ricotta Cheese Masters of West Haven Have Done It Again
Another write-up for the ricotta that goes into the ravioli, manicotti and cavatelli.
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Durante’s in the Southern Alumni Magazine
The family business featured in the university’s alumni magazine.
Read the feature →Our Bestselling Pasta & Sauces
The ones people ask for by name.
Cheese Ravioli
Fresh ricotta, Parmesan, and Romano, stuffed by hand for a good bite in every piece.
Cheese Manicotti
The same recipe featured on local TV, hand-filled tubes done the traditional way.
Homestyle Marinara
The famous sauce, still made from the family’s original recipe.
Ricotta Cavatelli
Soft ridged shells that hold onto a sauce the way pasta should.
Lobster Ravioli
A customer favorite for special occasions.
Spaghetti
Our classic dry egg pasta, air-dried the old-fashioned way.
Put Durante’s on Your Shelves
Owner, buyer or manager: if you decide what goes on the shelf or on the menu, start a wholesale account with Durante’s Pasta, a trusted Italian pasta supplier since 1986. $500 minimum order, delivered direct.
Start a wholesale accountFind Us Near You
Come to us, or find us already on the shelf.
Find Durante’s homemade pasta and sauces at retail stores, restaurants, and gourmet shops across Connecticut, or visit our West Haven storefront directly.
- Monday – Friday
- 9:00am – 4:00pm
- Saturday
- 9:00am – 2:00pm
- Sunday
- Closed
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