Risata Cucina is an American Italian restaurant in Minneapolis, co-owned by Brendan Denne and Bryan Gooding. The menu runs dinner, drinks, dessert, and happy hour, with a pasta lineup that includes casarecce scampi, fusilli with beef cheek ragù, rigatoni alla vodka, and spaghetti pomodoro.
Starters range from Calabrian fried calamari and meatballs to a beef tartare done as 'cacio e pepe.' Entrees include chicken Parmesan and a grilled pork chop, rounding out a menu built around familiar Italian-American staples.
Starters range from Calabrian fried calamari and meatballs to a beef tartare done as 'cacio e pepe.' Entrees include chicken Parmesan and a grilled pork chop, rounding out a menu built around familiar Italian-American staples.

