At Amaro Bistro’s Italian restaurant in Bothell, you can order up the Italian pasta favorite known as tortellini off of our lunch and dinner menus. This delicious four cheese stuffed noodle is served with butternut squash cream, pancetta, sage, romano, and pinenuts.
The invention of tortellini is hard to pin down. However, there is a legend that it was first created as a tribute to the goddess Venus. According to the story, Venus and Jupiter had agreed to meet at an inn for a romantic rendezvous. As the goddess awaited her lover in one of the inn’s rooms, the innkeeper gazed upon her through the keyhole. He could only make out her bellybutton, but was so overcome by its beauty that he went to the kitchen to replicate it as a pasta.