Padova, Italy-born chef Paola Da Re and her family have accomplished a lot with Pasta Sisters since 2015. They started by offering mix-and-match, hand-made pastas and sauces from a tiny café in the Arlington Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. They expanded to a larger, higher profile space in the Helms Bakery complex, a patio-centric location that’s well-positioned to benefit from businesses like Amazon, Apple, and HBO that are flooding Culver City.

The area’s booming, and everything’s within walking distance, but people have been working from home throughout the COVID-19 crisis. The family didn’t launch Pasta Sisters Truck in response to the pandemic, but going mobile should prove valuable for service and catering moving forward.