Hand-rolled semolina tubes formed around a knitting needle, thick and chewy, dressed with a long-cooked tomato and sausage sugo or with seafood on the Alghero coast.

Busa is the Sardinian word for the thin iron rod, often a knitting needle, that the pasta is rolled around. The technique belongs to the island's interior, where hard durum semolina and water made pasta without eggs, and each piece is shaped by hand on a wooden board. The tube's thickness is the point: it takes a heavy sugo without collapsing. It reaches Alghero tables through families who came down from mountain villages, and appears on the menu at Trattoria Lo Romanì, where the kitchen's roots are in Tonara in the Barbagia.

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Trattoria Lo Romanì ★ 4.4

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Trattoria Lo Romanì takes its name from rosemary in Alguerès and pairs Gigi's daily Alghero fish run with macarrones de busa from his native Tonara.

OrderMacarrones de busa from Tonara, followed by whatever Gigi bought that morning.

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