Dish · 3 kitchens in 2 cities
Tortellini
Small pasta parcels folded around a meat filling, classically served in broth in Bologna.
Nobody paid to be here. Each kitchen is described from its own menu where it publishes one, unranked, so each note says how that kitchen makes it.
In London
Tortelloni, roasted pork shoulder, sage butter
Flour & Grape · Bermondsey · ~£32 pp
Tortelloni, filled pasta, stuffed with slow-roasted pork shoulder, in sage butter. The pasta to put first.
In Bologna
Tortellini in brodo di cappone
Trattoria di Via Serra · Bolognina · ~€40 pp
Small pasta folded around a meat filling, in a capon broth simmered for hours. We'd begin here with a bowl.
Tortellini
Paolo Atti & Figli · Quadrilatero · ~€10 pp
Small hand-folded pasta filled with pork, mortadella and Parmigiano
Little parcels of egg pasta folded by hand around the city's official filling of pork loin, prosciutto, mortadella, Parmigiano and egg. They're meant for capon broth at home.