Writing about the best foods of the year is a way to speak about places and people that left a mark in the memory. Here's the list of Taste Bologna's best foods of 2019 and if you're new here, read what happened in 2017 and 2018.

#5 Everything @Kitchen Raku Raku, Kyoto

Antica Corte Pallavicina is an ancient oasis in a desert of fog.Reach this silent land to open the door of a 700-year-old cellar.And get inside the forest of culatello guarded by Massimo Spigaroli.

The rise and fall of Antica Corte Pallavicina Antica Corte Pallavicina was a court of Marquesses Pallavicino, one of the most popular Italian noble families. The castle was built in 1320 and then became a farm in the 700s. Its cellar was used to season culatello, cured meat and cheese, refine wines and store the products of the countryside. From the end of the 18th century, the court began a slo

There are places that you discover by chance, maybe you've passed next to them a thousand times but you never look inside.There are others where, when you enter, it is as if you had entered your own apartment.​Then places where time seems to have stopped long ago. Billi Bar in Bologna is all these places.

Billi bar: just a bar, like old times

Find an open restaurant in August in Bologna seems like a jigsaw to solve.Most of the places are closed for the summer holidays, but I won't leave you without good food.Here's a list of quality restaurants open in August.

TamburiniIf Bologna's food has a sacred temple, this is Tamburini. An old salsamenteria, meat shop, that serves generations of Bolognesi in the heart of Quadrilatero food market.Via Caprarie, 1, 40124 BolognaTel. +39 051 234726www.tamburini.comCantina BentivoglioFood + music is my magic potion. In this restaurant and jazz club you find both really well made. And if you fancy a drink with a snack a

If I ask my friends which are the best tagliatelle of Bologna I always get the same answer: my grandmother's.It might be true, but maybe emotions sometimes give a better taste.These are my favorite tagliatelle that you can find in Bologna's restaurants: with ragù Bolognese sauce, of course, but not only.

1. Tagliatelle with Porcini Mushrooms @Osteria Broccaindosso