Various Eateries launches Noci, fresh pasta Italian concept, expands portfolio

Various Eateries launches Noci, a fresh-pasta-forward Italian concept, and is serving handmade silken-handkerchief pasta, Sicilian street food-inspired snacks and cocktails, the company announced March 7, 2026. The group positions Noci for long lunches, aperitivo hours and late-night cocktails as a neighbourhood fresh pasta restaurant designed for high street expansion.

Noci opened its first site in Islington in early 2022, followed by a second site at Battersea Power Station in May 2023 and a third in Shoreditch in September 2023. The company reports the first Noci site grew like-for-like sales by 23 percent in the second half of the period from April to September 2023, and the Battersea and Shoreditch sites have traded in line with management’s expectations to date.

Noci is described by Various Eateries as an evolution of the Tavolino concept, with menu copy highlighting handmade silken-handkerchief pasta alongside Sicilian street food-inspired snacks and cocktails. Tavolino’s sole site near London Bridge, on the river by Tower Bridge, delivered like-for-like sales growth of 10 percent, the company material states. Coppa Club, the group’s multi-use all-day concept for dining, café-workspace and lounge, also features in the portfolio: Coppa Club sites in Bath and Guildford delivered positive performances, and new Coppa Club openings in Cardiff and Farnham are scheduled to open in the next year.

Chief executive Mark Loughborough said the group intends to convert smaller concepts into Coppa Club and Noci sites and is open to taking on a third core brand as it focuses investment on those banners. Various Eateries plc’s own materials state the group “currently operates across nineteen sites”; other company-sourced descriptions refer to Coppa Club as 13-strong and Noci as four-strong, a breakdown the company has not reconciled publicly.

The group is also expanding through acquisitions, having agreed terms to buy four premium pubs across the South for £11.25m to form The Linwood Collection under a Coppa Collective umbrella. The four venues named for the portfolio are Wild Thyme & Honey in Gloucestershire, The Hare & Hounds in Berkshire, The Stag on the River in Surrey and The Wellington Arms in Hampshire, with talks noted to potentially exchange on The Queen’s Head in Surrey. Four of the five sites are freehold, while The Wellington Arms is held on a long leasehold and is subject to landlord consent. Mark Loughborough called the deal “an important step in the evolution of the group.”

Financial snapshots show cash at bank at 1 October 2023 was £1.9m, down from £9.4m in 2022. Company marketing assets tied to the rollout include images labelled Coppa Club Brighton.jpg, Sonning Interior.jpg and Sonning Igloo 2020.jpg for editorial use. With Noci now formalised as a core brand, Various Eateries is prioritising further openings in the Greater London area and converting smaller sites into its Coppa Club and Noci formats as it scales the fresh-pasta concept.