When I was a child, my grandfather would dunk stale bread in meat broth and eat it like pasta. Bologna's bread is still the same: crunchy and dark on the outside, soft and white on the inside.​Spiders and crosses, stand for the most common bread shapes, but honestly, I'm not mad about the typical ones. ​If you're looking for homemade bread that will last more than one day, wholemeal and select

I'm not a huge fan of takeaway or delivery, partially because I love cooking and also because in Italy it's usually synonymous with junk or low-quality food. But sometimes that's not true and you can find a few great places in Bologna to bring home a great dinner. These are my best choices. Pizza MasanielloOpened just a week ago, it's the first "ethical pizza" in town: all the ingredients are

Exclusively hand-made with kitchen scraps such as stale bread, hardened cheese, eggs and beef marrow bones.Passatelli, or rather passatelli soup, is a poor but definitely tasty dish typical of the ancient Emilia culinary tradition.Learn all about it to arrive in Bologna hungry and well prepared.

Passatelli is one the best pasta in Bologna. No discussion. You get it by passing the dough through a special press called fer.​It's quite similar to a ricer, formed by a slightly domed metal disc with a diameter of 15 cm, with holes of about 4-5 mm and comes with two side handles for crushing hard on the dough until it comes out of the holes, realizing that the typical shape: thick and coarse spa

Exclusively hand-made with kitchen scraps such as stale bread, hardened cheese, eggs and beef marrow bones.Passatelli, or rather passatelli soup, is a poor but definitely tasty dish typical of the ancient Emilia culinary tradition.Learn all about it to arrive in Bologna hungry and well prepared.

Passatelli is a pasta obtained by passing the dough through a special press called fer.​It's quite similar to a ricer, formed by a slightly domed metal disc with a diameter of 15 cm, with holes of about 4-5 mm and comes with two side handles for crushing hard on the dough until it comes out of the holes, realizing that the typical shape: thick and coarse spaghetti.In the past, passatelli were prep

Travel on a budget and eat well in Bologna? Science-fiction? No, but you need to know where to go. Street food and aperitifs can be an option for a fast lunch. Here are 5 restaurants not far from Piazza Maggiore where you can sit, eat and be happy with less than 25€. 1. Zenzero Bistrot I'm sure you have a special place. One that you follow since it opened. Where you spent moments