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Bologna Grand Tour Italy: Pasta Makers for a Day
If you're a cooking enthusiast looking for new challenges, this course is your chance to become a true master of fresh pasta!
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168 signature dishes found across every Italy city we cover on TableJourney. Click through to see where to eat and what to order in each city. Want the global picture? Browse all dishes.
Agnolotti del PlinTurin · Agnolotti del plin are tiny pinched-pasta squares filled with leftover roast meat, from Langhe and Monferrato in Piedmont.
Anolini in brodoParma · Small round pasta parcels filled with a long-braised beef and Parmigiano paste, served drowning in capon or mixed-meat broth.
ArancinaPalermo
Baba au RhumNaples
Baccala mantecatoVenice · Whipped salt cod with olive oil and parsley, served on polenta crostini.
Bagna CaudaTurin · Bagna cauda is the Piedmont winter dip of garlic, anchovies, olive oil and butter, eaten warm with raw cardoons, peppers and bread.
BelliniVenice · White peach puree topped with chilled Prosecco.
BicerinTurin · Bicerin is Turin's layered coffee, chocolate and fior di latte drink, served in a small handle-less glass.
Bigoli in salsa2 cities · Whole-wheat thick-cut spaghetti dressed with a slow-cooked onion and anchovy sauce.
Bistecca alla fiorentinaFlorence · The dry-aged Chianina T-bone, grilled over wood fire to a charred crust outside and blood-rare inside, seasoned only with salt and olive oil.
Bollito mistoVerona · The Sunday-lunch boiled-meats platter of beef brisket, veal tongue, cotechino sausage, capon and beef cheek.
BonetTurin · Bonet is the Piedmontese dessert pudding of eggs, milk, cocoa and crushed amaretti, baked in a caramel-lined mould.
Brasato al BaroloTurin · Brasato al Barolo is Piedmontese beef pot-roast slowly braised in Barolo wine for hours, served sliced with the wine-rich pan sauce and polenta.
Bresaola della ValtellinaMilan
Bucatini all'amatricianaRome · Amatriciana is Rome's tomato-and-guanciale pasta: bucatini tossed in a sauce of guanciale, peeled tomatoes, white wine, pecorino romano and chilli.
Cacio e pepeRome
Cannolo SicilianoPalermo
Cantucci e Vin SantoFlorence
CaponataPalermo
CarbonaraRome
Carciofi alla romanaRome · Whole Romanesco artichokes braised in white wine, olive oil and mentuccia (Roman wild mint), served stem-up at room temperature.
Carciofo alla giudiaRome
Carpaccio (alla Cipriani)Venice · Beef sliced paper-thin, served raw with a mustard-mayonnaise drizzle.
Cassata SicilianaPalermo
CassoeulaMilan
Certosino di BolognaBologna
CicchettiVenice
Cima alla genoveseGenoa
Coda alla vaccinaraRome
CotechinoModena
Cotoletta alla bologneseBologna
Cotoletta alla milaneseMilan
Crostini toscaniFlorence · Slices of Tuscan country bread topped with a rough paste of chicken livers cooked with onion, capers, anchovies and vin santo.
Culatello di ZibelloParma · The heart of the pork leg, hand-tied in a bladder and aged in the fog of the Po lowlands.
CulurgionesCagliari · Wheat pasta parcels filled with potato, aged pecorino and mint, closed with a hand-pleated seam that looks like an ear of wheat.
FarinataGenoa
Fegato alla venezianaVenice · Calf liver sliced thin and slow-cooked with sweet onions in butter and white wine, the Venetian secondo.
Fiori di zucca frittiRome · Zucchini blossoms stuffed with mozzarella and a fillet of anchovy, dipped in a cold beer batter and deep-fried until shatter-crisp.
Focaccia di Recco col formaggioGenoa
Focaccia genoveseGenoa
FriggioneBologna · Friggione is Bologna's slow-cooked side dish: white onions, San Marzano tomatoes and salt, simmered for three hours into a dark, sweet jam.
Genovese (Naples Onion Ragu)Naples
GianduiottoTurin
Gnocco fritto2 cities · Gnocco fritto is Emilia's puffed pillow of fried bread dough, served hot with a board of mortadella, prosciutto di Parma, salame and squacquerone.
Granita with brioche col tuppoPalermo
LambruscoModena
LampredottoFlorence
Maritozzo con la pannaRome · Maritozzo con la panna is Rome's classic sweet bun: a soft enriched-dough oval split lengthways and stuffed to overflowing with cold whipped cream.
Marron glaceTurin · Marron glace is the candied chestnut Turin claims as its sweet: skinless chestnuts soaked in heavy syrup for days, then wrapped in silver paper.
MichettaMilan
Minestrone alla genoveseGenoa
MondeghiliMilan
Mortadella di Bologna IGPBologna
Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOPNaples
NadalinVerona · Verona's medieval predecessor to pandoro, a flatter denser eight-pointed star cake topped with sugar glaze and almonds.
Negroni SbagliatoMilan · The Milan-invented 'wrong negroni': Campari, sweet vermouth and Prosecco (in place of gin) over ice with an orange slice.
Ossobuco alla milaneseMilan
Paella alghereseAlghero
PandoroVerona · Verona's buttery star-shaped Christmas cake, a tall enriched bread with vanilla notes and a powdered-sugar finish.
Pane ca' meusaPalermo
Pane frattauCagliari · Sheets of pane carasau dipped in hot broth until they soften, layered with tomato sauce and grated pecorino, and topped with a poached egg.
Panelle e CrocchePalermo · Panelle are thin chickpea-flour fritters; crocche di patate are mashed-potato croquettes.
PanettoneMilan
Panna CottaTurin
PanzanellaFlorence
PanzerottoMilan · The panzerotto (technically Pugliese, but adopted by Milan since 1949) is a fried half-moon dough pocket stuffed with tomato and mozzarella.
Pappa al pomodoroFlorence
Parmigiana di MelanzaneNaples
Parmigiano Reggiano2 cities · The granular, crystal-studded cheese aged 12 to over 100 months in the dairies around Parma.
Pasta con le sardePalermo
Pastiera NapoletanaNaples
Pastissada de cavalVerona · Verona's historic horse-meat stew, marinated 24 hours in Valpolicella wine with onions, carrots, cloves and cinnamon.
Pesto genoveseGenoa
PiciFlorence
PinguinoTurin · Pinguino is the chocolate-covered gelato on a stick invented at Gelateria Pepino on Piazza Carignano in 1939.
Pinsa romanaRome · An oval long-fermented flatbread of wheat, rice and soy flours, baked thin and crisp underneath with a soft fluffy crumb.
Pizza al taglioRome · Long rectangular trays of focaccia-thick pizza baked on the floor of an electric oven, cut to size with scissors and sold by weight.
Pizza biancaRome
Pizza FrittaNaples
Pizza Margherita NapoletanaNaples
Polenta e bruscittiMilan
Prosciutto di ParmaParma
Ragu NapoletanoNaples
RibollitaFlorence
Risi e bisiVenice · A risotto-soup hybrid of rice and fresh spring peas, traditionally served to the Doge on St Mark's Day (25 April).
Risotto al nero di seppiaVenice · Black-as-ink risotto coloured with cuttlefish sac, with chunks of stewed cuttlefish folded in.
Risotto alla milaneseMilan
Salame di FelinoParma
Saltimbocca alla romanaRome
Sarde a beccaficoPalermo
Sarde in saorVenice · Fried sardines marinated with caramelised onions, raisins, pinenuts and white wine vinegar, served at room temperature.
Schiacciata fiorentina (sandwich)Florence
Seadas2 cities · A large semolina pastry filled with fresh acidic sheep's cheese and lemon zest, fried until it blisters and served under warm honey.
SetteveliPalermo
SfincionePalermo
Sfogliatella RicciaNaples
Spaghetti aglio, olio e peperoncinoNaples · Four ingredients: spaghetti, garlic, extra-virgin olive oil, dried red chilli.
Spaghetti ai ricci di mareAlghero
Spaghetti alle VongoleNaples
Spritz VenezianoVenice
StigghiolaPalermo
Suppli al telefonoRome
Tagliatelle al raguBologna
TajarinTurin · Tajarin is Langhe and Monferrato's fine egg-yolk-rich pasta, traditionally cut very thin and tossed in butter with white truffle from Alba in season.
TiramisuVenice
Torta frittaParma
Tortelli d'erbettaParma · Square pasta parcels of ricotta and erbette chard, sauced with nothing but melted butter and a snowfall of Parmigiano Reggiano.
Tortellini di ValeggioVerona · The lovers'-knot tortellini from Valeggio sul Mincio outside Verona, large hand-folded egg pasta filled with a slow-cooked mixture of beef, pork.
Tortellini in brodo2 cities
TramezziniVenice
TramezzinoTurin · Tramezzino is the crustless triangular soft-bread sandwich invented in Turin in 1926.
TrapizzinoRome
Trippa alla fiorentinaFlorence
Trippa alla parmigianaParma · Tripe stewed soft with tomato, butter and broth, finished under so much Parmigiano it barely needs the name explained.
Trippa alla romanaRome · Trippa alla romana is Rome's tripe dish: honeycomb tripe simmered in tomato sauce with celery, mint and a generous shower of grated pecorino romano.
Vitello Tonnato2 cities · Vitello tonnato is paper-thin cold poached veal blanketed in a creamy tuna-and-caper emulsion.
ZamponeModena
Zuppa ImperialeBologna · Small golden cubes of baked semolina, egg and parmigiano floating in a clear capon brodo.Abbacchio scottaditoRomeAceto Balsamico Tradizionale di ModenaModenaAperitivo MilaneseMilanAragosta alla catalanaAlghero · Spiny lobster boiled, split and served cold under raw tomato and sweet onion dressed with oil and lemon.BabbaluciPalermo · Small white land snails boiled in salted water with garlic, parsley and pepper, sucked out of their shells with a slurp.Baci di GiuliettaVerona · Pasticceria Flego's almond-and-hazelnut shortbread sandwiches with a hint of rum.BensoneModenaBigoli con l'arnaVerona · The canonical Veronese pasta plate, thick whole-wheat noodles pressed through a bronze bigolaro die and dressed with a slow-cooked duck ragu.Bomba di risoParma · A moulded dome of rice baked around braised pigeon, unmoulded at the table like a savoury cake.Chianti Classico TastingFlorenceCrescentine (tigelle)2 citiesCrostini di fegatiniFlorenceCuoppo di MareNaplesFocaccia sarda ripienaAlghero · A wide flat bread split and packed with tomato, tuna, hard-boiled egg, anchovy, rocket, onion and pancetta under a house sauce.Fregola con arselleAlghero · Toasted semolina pearls simmered with clams, garlic, tomato and their own liquor until the fregola swells and the broth thickens.Fregola con le arselleCagliari · Semolina rolled into rough pellets, toasted until nutty, then simmered in the broth of tiny arselle clams.Friarielli con salsicciaNaples · Neapolitan turnip tops sautéed in olive oil with garlic and chilli, paired with a coil of pork sausage.Fritto misto della lagunaVenice · A paper cone or platter of mixed deep-fried lagoon fish: schie, calamari, prawns, sole, sometimes whitebait.Gelato FiorentinoFlorenceGnocchi veronesiVerona · Verona's light pillowy potato dumplings, served with butter and Monte Veronese cheese or a slow-cooked pastissada de caval ragu.Lasagne verdi alla bologneseBolognaLuccio in salsa (luccio e polenta)Verona · Verona's lake-fish primer, poached pike from Lake Garda served in a briny sauce of olive oil, capers and anchovies atop grilled white polenta.Macarrones de busaAlgheroMalloreddus alla campidaneseCagliari · Ridged semolina shells, sometimes yellowed with saffron, in a sauce of crumbled fresh sausage and tomato, finished with grated pecorino.Menjar blancAlghero · Alghero's Catalan blancmange, a set almond cream scented with lemon and cinnamon, spooned into pastry cases or served plain.Moeche fritteVenice · Lagoon soft-shell crabs caught during their April-May molt, dredged in flour and deep-fried whole.Ous de butxacaAlghero · Small Alghero sweets whose Catalan name means pocket eggs, built on egg yolk and almond and finished with a sugar glaze.Pandolce genoveseGenoaPansoti con salsa di nociGenoaPassatelli in brodoBologna · Bolognese eggy bread-and-parmesan dumplings extruded through a passatelli press into simmering capon broth, finished with fresh parmesan.PearàVerona · Verona's peppery bread-and-bone-marrow sauce, served with bollito misto on Sundays October through March.Pesto di cavalloParma · Raw minced horse meat seasoned with oil, salt and lemon, eaten cold with bread or torta fritta.Pizzetta sfoglia cagliaritanaCagliari · A palm-sized round of puff pastry topped with tomato, oregano and often capers or anchovy, sold from bakery counters all over Cagliari.Polpo bollitoPalermo · Whole boiled octopus tentacles, hand-sliced cold from a wooden board at the Vucciria market, dressed with olive oil, lemon and parsley.Porceddu2 cities · Suckling pig cooked slowly until the skin crackles and the meat pulls away clean, scented with myrtle.Punta di vitello ripienaParma · Veal breast pocketed and stuffed with a Parmigiano-rich filling, roasted slowly and sliced to show the mosaic.Puntarelle alla romanaRome · Curly white shoots of catalogna chicory, soaked in iced water to crisp and curl, dressed with anchovy, garlic, vinegar and olive oil.Rigatoni alla griciaRome · Gricia is the fourth Roman pasta: rigatoni tossed in a sauce of crisp guanciale, rendered fat, grated pecorino romano and cracked black pepper.Risotto al saltoMilanRisotto all'AmaroneVerona · The canonical Veronese risotto, Vialone Nano rice toasted in butter.Savarin di risoParma · A ring of enriched rice baked in the crown-shaped savarin mould, its centre filled with creamy ragu or mushrooms.Schiacciata all'olioFlorenceStoccafisso accomodatoGenoaTagliere di salumi mistiBolognaTagliolini alla bottargaAlghero · Fine ribbons tossed in oil and pasta water, then blanketed with grated cured grey mullet roe.Taralli Sugna e PepeNaplesTorta di riso bologneseBolognaTorta pasqualinaGenoaTorta RussaVerona · Verona's buttery almond-and-rum cake shaped like a traditional Russian fur hat.Tortelloni burro e salvia2 citiesTours, tastings and classes that match this page, bookable on GetYourGuide.

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