Soho House spotlights handmade pasta as edible art in global classes

Soho House is pushing handmade pasta beyond the restaurant table and into member culture, and that shift matters for anyone watching where the hobby is headed. In its House Nights roundup, the club put Fiona Afshar front and center with a hands-on class built around her vibrant, patterned pasta, treating dough as something closer to design than dinner.

The framing was deliberate. Soho House said the class showed members how to turn simple dough into edible art, which places pasta squarely in the lane of creative making, not just cooking. That approach gives the craft a new kind of status code: the finished sheet or strand is not only meant to be eaten, but to be seen, shared and talked about as part of a social night out.

The class also landed inside a much bigger machine. Soho House said it hosts more than 300 events around the world each month, and the pasta workshop was introduced as part of that global calendar rather than as an isolated food demo. That matters because it signals how easily handmade pasta can travel in lifestyle-club programming. If a patterned pasta class works in that setting, other members’ clubs and local venues are likely to copy the format, especially when the experience blends learning, conversation and visual payoff.

Afshar is a strong fit for that world. Soho House described her as a home chef and creative entrepreneur known for her patterned handmade pasta, while her wider profile has already made her a recognizable name in food circles. She started posting cooking videos on Instagram in 2018, and her colorful pasta sheets later went viral. By 2023, her home-based pasta business in Malibu, California, was bringing in $129,300 a year, with nearly half a million followers watching her work.

That combination of craft, entrepreneurship and online reach gives the Soho House class extra pull. It is not just a lesson in shaping dough. It is a sign that handmade pasta has become a format for community building, personal branding and visual storytelling, with enough style to fit comfortably inside a global club’s event calendar.