24/12/2025: Small trattoria in the center of Parma.
Good dishes with simple ingredients, except for the desserts (gelato and panettone), which I didn't appreciate.
On a negative note, the restrooms were not particularly clean.
29/11/2025: Brisla is a trattoria in the center of Parma, on the edge of the limited traffic zone. A trattoria by name, but a trattoria is my definition, because it's the first thing that comes to mind when you walk in the door.
For the way the place presents itself—understated and elegant, everything new, nothing old—for those seats at the counter overlooking the kitchen, for traditional dishes brought into the third millennium in terms of the choice and care of the ingredients, the storytelling and presentation, and the intensity and balance of the flavors.
My grandmother used to make the ragù with eggplant, the tagliolini di Brisla are a wonderfully modern interpretation, the rice bomb and the horse carpaccio are quintessential Parma dishes and don't belong to my Bolognese memories, but I loved them dearly. And the same can be said for everything else...
The wine list focuses heavily on Italy, and especially Emilia, with many small rarities that are irresistible.
Vigna Cunial's Monteroma has changed its label and name, now called 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐞, while still remaining enchanting: the Foradori's 𝐋𝐞𝐳𝐞̀𝐫 is intense and velvety, the 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐞 from Cantine dell'Angelo is a blade of freshness scented with minerality. The 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐢 Pinot Noir from Azienda Agricola Il Rio boasts a magnificent nose, with a flavorful presence that certainly doesn't deny its Mugello.
Wonderful dinner 🙌
🍴 Bread and oil tasting
🍽️ Mackerel in saor
🍽️ Spice-marinated horsemeat carpaccio with light caper mayonnaise
🍽️ Rice bomb and pigeon ragù
🍽️ Tagliolini, liver ragù, and toasted bread with embryonic egg
🍽️ Quail stuffed in crépinette, porcini mushrooms, black truffle, its pâté, currants, and orange
🍾 Vigna Cunial – VSQ Brut 𝑽𝒐𝒍𝒕𝒂 𝒂𝒍 𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒆
🍇 Casalini Malvasia, aromatic Malvasia di Candia
🍷 Foradori – Vigneti delle Dolomiti Rosso 𝑳𝒆̀𝒛𝒆𝒓
🍇 82% Teroldego, 18% other red grape varieties
🍷 Cantine dell’Angelo – Greco di Tufo Riserva 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆 2022
🍇 100% Greco
🍷 Az. Agr. Il Rio – Toscana Pinot Noir 𝑽𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒊 2020
🍇 100% Pinot Noir
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