Ricci
Hasselt, Belgium
The read// why locals go
Ricci does one thing: pasta, made by hand, every day. Chef-owner Giuseppe Pitelli brought his Calabrian training to Maastrichterstraat in 2023, and the menu stays deliberately short because of it, holding southern Italian classics alongside a rotating dish built on whatever the season is offering, truffle or artichoke or pumpkin. Ingredients come directly from Italy, which sounds like a slogan until the plate lands. The format is a trattoria in the plain sense of the word, pasta and wine and espresso, no more, in a room in the middle of Hasselt that fills with people who work nearby. It is the kind of narrow, well-executed idea a city keeps to itself.
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Maastrichterstraat 36, 3500 — Hasselt
The read// why locals go
Ricci does one thing: pasta, made by hand, every day. Chef-owner Giuseppe Pitelli brought his Calabrian training to Maastrichterstraat in 2023, and the menu stays deliberately short because of it, holding southern Italian classics alongside a rotating dish built on whatever the season is offering, truffle or artichoke or pumpkin. Ingredients come directly from Italy, which sounds like a slogan until the plate lands. The format is a trattoria in the plain sense of the word, pasta and wine and espresso, no more, in a room in the middle of Hasselt that fills with people who work nearby. It is the kind of narrow, well-executed idea a city keeps to itself.
