Sfoglia Rina, Traditional pasta restaurant near Two Towers, Bologna, Italy
Sfoglia Rina is a restaurant and takeaway in Bologna that specializes in fresh handmade pasta, with a counter for walk-in orders and a dining room for table service. The kitchen is open to the room, with a large central communal table positioned so that diners can watch the pasta being shaped and cut throughout the meal.
The place opened in 1963 as a small fresh pasta stand run by Rina, closely tied to her home kitchen. In 2010, her grandson Lorenzo expanded it into a full restaurant with seating and table service.
The name comes from the founder herself, and that personal touch still shapes how the place feels today. Watching the pasta being rolled and cut by hand in the open kitchen gives a direct sense of how cooking has worked in this part of Italy for generations.
You can choose to eat at the table or order from the counter to take away, and both options are easy to spot as soon as you walk in. Coming early in the day is a good idea, as the fresh pasta selection tends to run down as the hours pass.
The kitchen works only with ingredients from local farmers and reworks its dishes around what is available and in season at any given time. This means the menu can look quite different from one visit to the next, depending on when you arrive.
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