Cathedral Quarter, Winchester
Trattoria Sera
Cucina di famiglia
Handmade pasta in the morning, Umbrian wine by evening, and a welcome that still feels like family.
"Rosa has made the pasta by hand every morning since 1991."
Rosa Conti arrived in Winchester from Perugia in 1990 with a wooden box of her mother's recipe cards and the firm belief that pasta made by machine was not pasta at all. She opened Trattoria Sera the following year in a room that seated fourteen people.
Marco still travels to Umbria each year to taste and choose the wines himself, and Lucia now runs the room with the calm precision of someone who knows every regular by sight. The restaurant seats sixty-two now, but the pace has remained reassuringly unhurried.
33
Years open
4.9★
Rating
62
Covers
Weekly
Fresh pasta
The sort of place people keep coming back to.
The tagliatelle ragù is the best plate of pasta I've had outside of Bologna. Rosa's recipe is extraordinary. We've been coming every anniversary for nine years.
Lucia seated us like family from the first visit. Marco's wine recommendation was perfect. The tiramisù alone is worth the trip to Winchester.
We held my parents' fortieth anniversary dinner here. Lucia handled every detail — the menu, the flowers, the pace of service. A perfect evening.