The Italian seat at RASA makes its pasta fresh — ravioli, tagliatelle, gnocchi — runs a live pasta station and a wood-fired or stone-deck pizza oven at events, and cooks risotto to order rather than holding it. As a counter at a Bangalore wedding it adds about ₹250–₹450 a head in 2026; a full Italian dinner runs ₹1,000–₹1,900 a plate.
The seat
The Italian chef makes the dough in the morning and will not serve a risotto that has waited more than eight minutes. Continental is a different seat; so is Mediterranean.
Italian food on a Bangalore buffet is white-sauce pasta in a chafing dish, and it is the reason "Continental" has a bad name in the city. The Italian seat cooks Italian: fresh pasta made that morning, sauced to order at a station, pizza from a live oven, risotto that is stirred in front of the guest and served at once.
It is the seat most asked for at engagements, receptions with a younger crowd, and corporate dinners. It pairs well with the Mediterranean seat for the antipasti-mezze end of a cocktail hour, and with the desserts seat for a tiramisu-and-kulfi table that Bangalore weddings have quietly adopted.
What the Italian chef cooks
- Fresh ravioli (spinach-ricotta, pumpkin) with brown butter sage
- Tagliatelle with slow ragù or wild mushroom
- Gnocchi
- Risotto (mushroom, saffron, beetroot) cooked to order
- Wood-fired pizza: margherita, funghi, diavola
- Bruschetta and arancini
- Tiramisu, panna cotta, affogato
From the other seats
Dishes we pair with this cuisine at one event — each cooked by its own chef, never by this one.
- A Mediterranean mezze counter for the cocktail hour
- A North Indian tandoor across the room for the elders
- Affogato and tiramisu alongside Indian sweets at the dessert table
Menu
Sample only. Every menu is built with you and cooked for the tasting by the chef who will cook the day.
Italian catering in Bangalore — questions
Is the pasta fresh or dried?
Fresh — ravioli, tagliatelle and gnocchi are made in the kitchen on the day; dried pasta is used only where a specific shape needs it, and the menu says so.
Do you bring a pizza oven to the venue?
Yes — a wood-fired or stone-deck oven runs at the counter where the venue allows an open flame; otherwise a deck oven.
What does an Italian counter add per head at a Bangalore wedding?
About ₹250–₹450 a head in 2026 for a live pasta and pizza counter; a full plated Italian dinner runs ₹1,000–₹1,900 a plate.
Build a Italian menu with the chef
Date, head count, the cuisines you have in mind. Enough for the first reply to carry a menu and a number rather than a brochure.
What happens after you send the ticket
- A written reply, usually the same day. A first menu built for your occasion, the per-plate figure it comes to, and the two or three questions we need settled before the number is firm.
- A tasting. For weddings and events of size we cook the shortlist for you before you sign. Each cuisine on the menu is cooked by the chef who will cook it on the day.
- The plan for the day. Counters, service staff, timings against your muhurtham or your agenda, and the venue's rules on outside catering, checked with the venue by us.