40 Dean Street opened in 2009 to bring real Italian cooking to Soho. Fifteen years on, the recipes we run through this kitchen every day have been gathered into our founder Nima Safaei's first Italian recipe book.
At Home with Nima is the cookbook from 40 Dean Street. It carries the same spirit you find when you walk through our doors.
Where the book begins
Long before there was a restaurant, there was a young Nima in London, discovering Italian cooking for the first time. The dish that changed things, he writes, was ossobuco - "I felt like I had found my home from home." Years later, his sister Neda moved to Florence, and Nima spent as much time there as he could, sitting in small trattorias, watching nonnas roll pasta by hand, drinking peppery olive oil that was "alive".
Those Florence trips planted the seed for what would eventually become 40 Dean Street. When the doors opened in 2009, the goal was to recreate that trattoria feeling in Soho - beautiful ingredients, treated with respect. The same approach has run through every plate we've sent out since.
Our pasta, and our pistachio tiramisu
The pasta recipes in At Home with Nima are inspired by the pasta we've been making at 40 Dean Street since 2009 - the same morning-made dough, the same approach to sauce, the same respect for what Italian tradition gets right at home.
And the dish at the heart of the book is one we've served here for fifteen years - our pistachio tiramisu. At Home with Nima is the first time the recipe has been published. Now you can make it at home, exactly the way we serve it.
What you'll find inside
Bringing Italy into your kitchen
Where to buy At Home with Nima
The book is available now. You can pick up a copy when you visit us at 40 Dean Street, or order it online.