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Modena: Private Pasta-Making Class at a Local's Home
Have a fresh pasta cooking class, in a local home, with a certified home cook. Learn local recipes and taste everything you make with wine included.
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CuisineOsteria
Price€€€€
NeighborhoodCentro Storico
HoursDaily 12:30-14:00, 19:15-22:00; closed Fri evening
Phone+39 059 4722600
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Why locals love it: A handful of tables on a quiet back street off Via Fonte d'Abisso, easy to walk past despite careful Emilian cooking behind the plain door.
Tip: Seats are few and demand is high; call weeks ahead for a weekend table.
Hidden gems: tours, tastings and classes in Modena
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Modena: Market & Lunch/Dinner at a Local's Home
Tour the vibrant local market and immerse yourself in a private lunch or dinner in a local home with a certified home cook. Enjoy an exclusive cooking demo and taste l...
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Modena: Pasta & Tiramisu Cooking Class at a Local's Home
Learn to create the famous Pasta and Tiramisu at a local's home, guided by an expert cook. Savor these Italian classics with fellow enthusiasts.
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Location
Address: Via Fonte d'Abisso 23, 41121 Modena
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Ristretto Vicolo Coccapani ★ 3.9
Ristretto sits down a hidden alley called Vicolo Coccapani in central Modena, an enoteca kitchen open late for gnocco fritto and beef tartare.
OrderGnocco fritto with culaccia or the beef tartare.
Why locals goThe entrance sits down a closed alley off Via Sant'Agostino with no street sign visible from the main road, so most visitors walk past it.
TipLook for the sign at Vicolo Coccapani off Via Sant'Agostino, easy to miss after dark.
Antica Trattoria Cervetta ★ 4.1
Antica Trattoria Cervetta has cooked Modenese classics on pedestrian Via Cervetta in Modena, an Accademia della Cucina choice closed on Thursdays.
OrderThe house Cervetta cutlet and coppa di testa with fried gnocco.
Why locals goRecognised by the Accademia Italiana della Cucina, it still sits on a quiet pedestrian lane behind Piazza Grande that few itineraries include.
TipThe Cervetta cutlet and the house cake give the kitchen its name, order at least one.
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Trattoria L'Antica Grama ★ 4.0
Trattoria L'Antica Grama cooks Sicilian-accented Emilian dishes on Via Vignolese in southern Modena, a family run trattoria closed on Tuesdays.
OrderTortelloni or a Sicilian influenced antipasto plate.
Why locals goSet on Via Vignolese well south of the tourist route, this trattoria draws a mostly local crowd and rarely appears in visitor guides.
TipThe Sicilian touches show up in the antipasti more than in the pasta courses.
Ristretto Vicolo Coccapani ★ 3.9
Ristretto sits down a hidden alley called Vicolo Coccapani in central Modena, an enoteca kitchen open late for gnocco fritto and beef tartare.
OrderGnocco fritto with culaccia or the beef tartare.
Why locals goThe entrance sits down a closed alley off Via Sant'Agostino with no street sign visible from the main road, so most visitors walk past it.
TipLook for the sign at Vicolo Coccapani off Via Sant'Agostino, easy to miss after dark.
Trattoria Bianca ★ 4.3
Trattoria Bianca on Via Spaccini in Modena grew from a grandmother's osteria opened in 1948 and still serves salumi with gnocco fritto and duroni cherry jam.
OrderMixed salumi with gnocco fritto and duroni cherry jam, then tortellini in brodo.
Why locals goA family trattoria on a residential street north of the railway that its owners call one of the few historic Modena places left, open on weekdays only.
TipClosed on Saturdays and Sundays and from 31 July to 24 August; at lunch the kitchen stops taking orders at 13:45.
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Antica Trattoria Cervetta has cooked Modenese classics on pedestrian Via Cervetta in Modena, an Accademia della Cucina choice closed on Thursdays.
OrderThe house Cervetta cutlet and coppa di testa with fried gnocco.
Why locals goRecognised by the Accademia Italiana della Cucina, it still sits on a quiet pedestrian lane behind Piazza Grande that few itineraries include.
TipThe Cervetta cutlet and the house cake give the kitchen its name, order at least one.
La Masseria ★ 4.4
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Why locals goAn 18th century mill in the Marzaglia frazione, well outside the centro storico, serving Apulian food few visitors think to look for in Modena.
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Lo Stalliere occupies a converted stable near Modena's Nord tollbooth, a roadside find most visitors to the centro storico never even encounter.
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