are spaghetti served with bread in Italy?!

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Restaurants in Italy always bring you a serving of bread or breadsticks before the meal (also so you can nibble while waiting for the food you ordered) which sometimes is charged on the bill. If you want extra bread you'll have to ask for it, but it will almost always be free.

You generally don't eat bread with pasta, and surely not with spaghetti or lasagna (one of my uncles actually did but he was a sort of an odd guy in many ways). Using bread to clean up the plate of the remains of sauce is instead rather common, but you're not supposed to do it at a very formal dinner ;-).

A few people (including me) eat bread with pasta soups. Vegetable soups with added pasta are not so common in restaurant menus but are a staple of the real Italian home cuisine. In a restaurant they might be served with some toasted bread (crostini) which you can crumble and add to the soup.

I'm Italian

You can expect a basket of breadsticks and/or bread to be put on the table no matter what pasta or second course you order. You need to be aware that this is not always free with the meal. In some places, you will be charged if you eat any bread; in other places it comes with the meal. In the area where I live in northern Italy some places serve stria instead of bread - it's basically pizza crust with toppings like rosemary or garlic or smoked scamorza (a cheese) or parmigiano reggiano and aceto balsamico or other toppings. It's basically pizza without mozzarella.

Not in a real (non-touristy) restaurant in Italy.

You usually get some bread and breadsticks before you order, but they don't keep bringing more after that.

Also, it's unusual to order spaghetti or lasagna alone. Instead of one section for entrees, the menu will have two sections - "i Primi" meaning "first" which are mostly soups and pastas, and "i Secondi" meaning "second" which is mostly things with meat that are more substantial than the firsts.

I've been to Italy a few times.

If you have a more detailed look at the cuisine in whole, you'll find the Italians eat alot of bread, and can be used in or served with just about anything.

Personally I love cleaning the bowl/plate with bread. :)

it can be but it will prob cost around 2 euro extra but at a high end restaurant it will prob be free

been to italy, england and now living in germany

Is, not 'are.'

And in Europe, bread is not usually offered when the meal is pasta.

The breadsticks are always there! The bread, you can order it:)

I'm Italian!

Focaccia!

Longpig

yes they soemtimes serve garlic bread which is lovely:D

No not like in the US.

mmm i want pasta now

yes

dont know

i serve mine pastas with garlic bread