Slow food meets fast food.

The Pop Pasta® Spaghetti Donut® blends tradition, innovation, originality and quality. 

Traditionally, the Spaghetti Pie is a Neapolitan family dish prepared with pasta leftovers combined with eggs and cheese and then fried. The spaghetti is formed into a large round pie that is cut into wedges. Kids in Naples delighted in finding a wedge their mother tucked into their bag for a picnic or visit to the beach.

Pop Pasta’s Original Spaghetti Donut® reinvents this beloved Neapolitan dish into a delicious, easy-to-eat snack. Cooked spaghetti is combined with several cheeses and a tasty sauce made from scratch following traditional Italian recipes. The ingredients are baked into a soft, savory donut for a truly delicious and fun eating experience. 

The Pop Pasta® menu offers a selection of main flavors with the addition of gourmet flavors offered as specials. The process of adding new sauces and combinations to the menu is constantly evolving. The Pop Pasta® Spaghetti Donut® is offered in two sizes: Original and Mini.

Our story.

Founder Luigi Fiorentino’s childhood memories, love for Naples’ traditions, and pop culture inspired his creation of the Pop Pasta® Spaghetti Donut®.

Growing up in Italy’s southwestern coastal town of Sorrento, Luigi loved spending time in the kitchen with his mother. Beginning as a teenager, she taught him the secrets and traditions of many of the family’s most-loved recipes. This ignited his lifelong devotion to delicious home-cooked meals, using the best ingredients and imaginative flair. 

After graduating from university in Italy, Luigi began a career as an architect and designer. In 1996, he married a fellow architect and designer and they moved to New York, settling in Brooklyn three years later. While Luigi cooked meals for his family and friends, it remained a hobby. That changed in 2013, when he decided to unite his work with his passion—cooking with the Italian traditions and skills he learned from his mother. Of course, as an architect, he was interested in form as well as content. 

The Spaghetti Pie, one of his favorites, is a staple in the childhood of every kid in the South of Italy and Naples in particular. While the dish embodied a nostalgia, Luigi wanted to infuse it with today’s pop culture and way of life. After months of testing, he reinvented the beloved cuisine in a clever, new form.

In 2016, he founded Pop Pasta® (from “Popular Pasta”) and its Spaghetti Donut® debuted at the Smorgasburg market in Brooklyn, quickly becoming an international sensation! Now, with the continued collaboration of his wife, Pop Pasta® and the Spaghetti Donut® are approaching a new, exciting chapter of their story.

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