Aunt Jake's UES

Aunt Jake's on Second Avenue is a Michelin Bib Gourmand restaurant on the Upper East Side that holds weekly hands-on pasta making classes for small groups, where participants learn to make fresh pasta from scratch before sitting down to a full three-course dinner with unlimited wine. The instructors trained at schools in Bologna, the Italian region most associated with egg-based pasta, and the class covers dough preparation, rolling, cutting, and shaping different pasta forms before the group moves to the dining portion. With a 4.5 rating on Yelp across nearly 400 reviews, it combines a genuine culinary skill component with the kind of casual communal dinner that makes it a natural choice for a date night or a small group outing.