…they started bringing out complimentary snacks. This is a great way to start your evening in Bologna and enjoy some light bites with your drinks. Whether you’re a fan of spritz, pasta dishes like ragu or lasagna, or want to explore the apertivo culture, Bologna has something for everyone. Join us on our food tour and discover the top foods to try in Bologna, Italy! And if you want to support us, consider buying us a coffee or using our affiliate links. Happy eating!
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Holy cow! We are in bolognia the food capital of Italy and today we’re going to walk through the Top Foods you need to try when you come to bolognia Italy let’s go bolognia is the culinary capital of Italy and in addition to the city’s iconic medieval architecture bolognia is actually the
Birthplace of some of Italy’s most famous dishes so in this food tour we’re eating our way through bolognia and sharing some of the top food s you need to try when visiting bolognia Italy our first stop on the food tour is taking us to a highly rated restaurant to
Try two bia’s most famous dishes so here we have one of the most famous dishes in all bolognia this is called the Ragu it’s very similar to what you’d expect a bolognese a sauce to be back in the States but here they call it a ragu and it looks unbelievable so instead of
Being served on Spaghetti it’s actually served on these flat noodles which we believe this restaurant has homemade flour egg noodles and they look amazing Courtney took the liberty of already pre parmesianing this for me so it looks beautiful and hopefully it tastes as
Beautiful as it looks cuz it looks like a work of art I’m going to go in for my first bite here here goes nothing even just the smell smells amazing holy cow mhhm that is just bursting with flavor it’s got a really nice tomato to it without being overpowered by tomatoes and you
Really do taste the meat in there I think there’s both beef and pork in there and it gives us this really hearty flavor and the noodles are so soft and T I got to have another bite that’s
Amazing I want the sprinkle of Parmesan on there might be my favorite pasta dish we’ve had on this Italian trip so far and I got another classic thing to get here in bolognia this is lasagna and specifically this is the vegetable lasagna we’ve been having a lot of meat in Italy so it’s
Nice to have a little bit of vegetables even if they’re baked into pasta and cheese here but I’m going to go in for my first bite already I’m noticing a lot of vegetable layers it actually looks like they’re using zucchini for the noodles so let’s see if that’s
True Mhhm I think it is zucchini noodles which I wasn’t expecting and it’s almost more creamy than cheesy too they have a really nice creamy sauce in between each of the layers that’s really good I don’t think there’s any pasta in here which is actually pretty impressive for how
Intact it is going for H one more bite here Mhmmm okay there’s also a chance to actually put vegetables in the dough for the pasta I’m not really sure I just know that it’s green and it doesn’t fully taste like normal pasta has that veggie flare to it that’s really good very
Unexpected next on our food tour we’re partaking in a centuries old Italian dining tradition called apptivo originally invented by the ancient Romans and repop poize in the 1800s the apptivo culture is thriving in bolognia for our apptivo we found a highly rated local spot in the Heart
Of the City Marcelino so we’re at Marcelino right now and we’re about to have our first bolognia appertivo apparently it’s pretty big that the locals will sit down after work and have a cocktail as well as some snacks so I have here a lemon cello Spritz this is
A combination of club soda lemon cello and prco it’s supposed to be pretty light and refreshing which is great because it’s literally 99° out so I’m going to dive in for a taste here M that’s really good I’ve had lemon cello before but never lemon cello Spritz that’s really
Light and refreshing especially if you don’t really have the taste for Apperol spritz I know for some people it can be pretty offputting this is a pretty safe bet you can definitely taste the prco in there and just a hint of lemon and they actually gave me a a cute little dried
Lemon in there as well so this is really nice so we’re recording one with the lemon jell Spritz I want the aperol Spritz I think this is the more common of the two and I’m laughing to myself cuz
I keep thinking this is a straw and going in for a sip we’ve had April spritzes elsewhere in Italy so I don’t think this is Bolognia specific but they are really good and they definitely are in
Iconic taste in Italy so we’re here right around 7:00 this is called Apertivo it’s kind of like an Italian happy hour where you typically there’s drink specials and they start bringing out light food to you so we sat down they gave us some complimentary potato chips here and our waiter
Told us there’s probably going to be pizza and bread and some places will have meats and cheeses that come out as well so we’ll see if those come out but as now not a bad way to start the
Evening similar to Courtney it’s very light it’s not very sweet at all which is almost surprising cuz nor think a prco is being very sweet but it is nice it’s cold and it’s got that nice April flavor not a bad Spritz so apparently it’s not just
The locals that know it’s apptio time we got a little local pup who came out and joined us we have no idea whose it is but he’s making his round looking for potato chips bread crumbs or any spilled Apple sprits so he hasn’t found any yet but he’s found tons of loving
I think someone knows what time it is okay so it’s officially attivo hour the Clock Struck 7 and the waiter immediately started bringing out plates of food to every table so what we have here kind of looks like a take on Pizza just using bread looks like we just
Have bread with some sauce and some what I think is mozzarella cheese so going to go in that cheese is absolutely amazing so we didn’t really understand how the apptivo concept worked we didn’t know if we showed up to order and we just said we’d like an apptivo
Or if it was kind of like a happy hour generic term seems like it’s kind of both at least in the place that we went to we just showed up and ordered drinks and at 7:00 they brought
Out food to everybody so I think it’s kind of a generic term where at some restaurants where you sit down to order tricks they’re going to bring out food so this is such a fun little concept to partake in and it’s nice to unwinded after the work day with some
Munchies really good so we’re leaving our apptivo that was actually a really affordable experience we’d highly recommend this place the waiters were really friendly and our total only came out to €10 and that was for those two drinks we had they gave us
A bowl of chips and that little pizza so pretty affordable I’d say our next stop on the food tour takes us to one of bia’s highest rated sweet spots in the city this is located near the city’s famous Basilica Santa Stefano the ancient building comprised
Of seven churches which we’ll be covering in our upcoming top things to do in bologa video so make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss it here we track down a classic Italian tree gelato all right so I think this is the prettiest gelato we’ve had had in Italy
So far they gave us a little cookie on the side as well as chocolate dled on Top This flavor came highly recommended to us this is the Biscatto della Nonna flavor and then we also got coffee as our second flavor and this was actually pretty reasonably priced too I think it was 350
For a small cone with two flavors I’m dripping already so I’m going to go in for the first bite wow that is really good and I’m so happy they drizzled a chocolate on top too I’m going to get a top bite here with the bisato
Flavor oh my gosh I actually think the chocolate is more of like a Nutella drizzle oh my gosh I can’t keep up with it yeah the Biscotto flavor is amazing it almost has like cookie crumbles
Within it that is so good and we’re definitely going to have to eat this fast so signing off and I know some people probably think it’s disgusting to share ice cream cones but so what having tried Courtney’s cone I this might be the best chelato we’ve had in Italy so far
Yeah we knew coming into bolognia that this was a foodie City but that’s truly the case we’ve been so impressed with every single meal we’ve had so far it’s so good our next stop on the food tour is taking us to bia’s famous Marcado dezo this has been a public market
Since the Middle Ages and is still an amazing spot to sample some of the iconic dishes Bolognia is famous for we grabbed a seat on the top floor to try a handheld Italian delicacy we’re currently in the Marcato di Mezzza and we got ourselves an Italian
Classic this is a pizza fritta this is essentially a fried pizza instead of being traditionally baked it does seem like this style originated in Naples but we’re excited to try this bologan take on it so I’m going to Dive Right
In and hopefully I don’t get pizza burn cuz this essentially looks like a big hot pocket so I pretty much only got crust on that bite but man is that good it’s still maintained like the chewi of the dough that you typically get with pizza crust but it has the deliciousness of
Being deep fried on the crust so that’s really good let’s see if I uh find any fillings in here still dough but still delicious so I took a couple bite myself and feel inspired to turn
The camera around I don’t know if this is a hot take or not or even okay to say in Italy but it tastes like Chuck-E-Cheese pizza or as Courtney said Pizza Hut pizza just that classic mozzarella taste so I don’t know if that’s saying Chuck-E-Cheese and Pizza Hut are really good or
If this is on that level but I think it’s really good so those are some of our favorite foods that we tried in bolognia if you could please like this video and be sure to subscribe to see our
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