Modena · since 2012 · fourteen tables

An evening, slowly, with good pasta and a short wine list.

A small osteria cooking the way people cook at home in Emilia-Romagna — handmade pasta at four, open at six, last table at nine-thirty.

Tonight

Tortellini in brodo, by grandmother Elena's recipe. Pork loin with mostarda. A Lambrusco that is better than its reputation.

Tue–Sat
18:00 – 22:30
Sat lunch
12:30 – 14:30
Sunday
closed — we rest
What Giulia is making this week

Three dishes worth arriving hungry for.

The menu changes every two or three weeks, depending on what the markets and Giulia's mood are up to. Here's what's on the board now.

Tortellini in brodo primi · handmade

Tortellini in brodo

By Elena's recipe — Giulia's grandmother, from Castelfranco. Capon broth simmered six hours, tortellini folded on the marble at four.

Served Tue–Sat€18
Pasta dish with sauce primi · comfort

Tagliatelle al ragù

Slow-cooked beef and pork ragù, no cream, no tomato shortcut. Tagliatelle rolled an hour before you sit down.

Served Tue–Sat€19
Roasted meat with sides secondi · the main

Pork loin, mostarda di Cremona

Pork from a small farm in Modena province. Mostarda brought back from our friends Augusto and Rita at their place in Cremona.

Served Tue–Sat€26
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Our story, briefly

A room for fourteen tables, a few friends, and a good evening.

Giulia grew up in her grandmother's kitchen in Castelfranco — flour on the marble at four o'clock, the broth going on the stove. When she and Paolo opened the osteria in 2012, the rule was simple: we'd cook the food we'd actually want to eat, for people we'd actually want to cook for.

That's still the rule. The pasta is made fresh every afternoon. The wine list is short, and every bottle is from someone we've sat at a table with. We keep fourteen tables because that's how many we can look after properly.

Giulia & Paolo

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Visit

Via dei Mercanti 12,
Modena.

A quiet street in the old town, three minutes on foot from Piazza Grande. We're in the blue door with the brass bell — you'll smell the ragù before you see the sign.

Tuesday — Saturday
18:00 – 22:30 (kitchen closes 22:00)
Saturday lunch
12:30 – 14:30
Sunday — Monday
closed
Phone
+39 059 555 0412
Email
ciao@osteriadellasera.it
Come for dinner

Fourteen tables, and we'd love you to have one.

We take reservations online, by phone, or — our favorite way — you walking in before six and asking nicely.

Reserve a table +39 059 555 0412