Wine Bar
Osteria del Sole
Centuries-old wine tavern where you bring your own cured meats and bread to pair with the pour.
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The guide to Osteria del Sole in Bologna traces a house rule that hasn't changed since the tavern opened in fourteen sixty-five: the house pours the wine, you bring your own food from the meat and cheese shops of the Quadrilatero market alley. It follows the tavern into the hands of the Spolaore family in nineteen forty-five, arriving there through a cyclist's promise and a race he entered, and through the matriarch Adele's decades pouring wine behind the counter. For a while she quietly sold boiled eggs on the side, before one especially rowdy night ended that.
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