It turned out finding good restaurants in Bologna was quite difficult - and not because the city doesn’t have any good ones but we were visiting when many of the restaurants we were interested were closed due to vacations. For our first restaurant in Bologna we picked Corbezzoli https://www.corbezzoli.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=mybusiness which was quite well known for their different tasting menus and takes on traditional dishes. As it turns out they have changed their menu and the larger tasting menu is gone and some others are cut down - still a good dinner (with a seafood focused menu) but not on the level and creativity we had hoped.
Bread
Amuse bouche - radicchio, citrus
Smoked salmon carpaccio with raspberries, citrus fruits and fennel
Gramigna pasta with seafood
Swordfish in tomato stew with taggiasca olives
Neapolitan baba with custard fabbri sour cherries