beam
April 16, 2025, 3:10pm
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Looking for a place to have lunch in Bologna. Something along the lines of Hosteria Giusti (Modena) vibes would be perfect. And open on Mondays!
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Here are a bunch of relatively recent posts:
We are planning a two week trip to Bologna in Spring of 2024. I wnt through the recent posts on Bologna and there are not very many of them. we have not been to that city in over 20 years. If anyone has been there recently and has any suggestions, I would appreciate them.
My son is finishing his last term of law school in Paris. I am going to visit him and we will take a short trip to Bologna at the end of my visit so he and I can enjoy being Italian citizens in Italy (we got our Italian passports last January). Due to a school requirement, we will be arriving late on a Friday and leaving Monday at 2:30. I want to make the most of our brief visit since he has never been to Bologna and although I have been a couple of times, I haven’t been for years. I’d love your…
Excellent dinner at Trattoria Da Me https://www.trattoriadame.it/ in Bologna with an interesting mix of classical and more modern interpretations of dishes
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Slow cooked egg with jerusalem artichoke parmentier and its ragu, herb breadcrumbs, green oil
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Cured meats and a touch of Bologna - Gianferrari cured meats from Canossa, mortadella and pink salami from artigian quality bologna
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Crescentine
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If my grandmother was thirty - gratin potato gnocc…
One of the most well known restaurants serving cuisine from Emilia-Romagna is Trattoria da Amerigo https://amerigo1934.com/ about 40km outside of Bologna. The drive to it is already great through small streets in the hills around Bologna. The restaurant is celebrating 90 years and has a Michelin star for more than 30 years. Beside the a la carte menu, it also has two shorter tasting menus which might be some of the most affordable one anywhere - and the food, service and ambience is outstanding.…
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 the…
Looking for restaurant recommendations in Bologna. We will be staying in the Cirenaica area and will have a car so also open to any interesting options in other parts of the city or surrounding areas.
Also interested to hear any recommendations for good gelato or lunch/sandwich places
Hi! We are planning a day trip to Bologna and had planned on Da Cesari, but alas they are closed that day. Any other recs?
This restaurant is on just about every list about Bologna and, in my humble opinion, it lived up to the hype. We shared a platter of prosciutto, mortadella and salami.
The plate for two went unfinished by the four of us. I think it was the best prosciutto I’ve ever tasted, so sweet and porky. None of us loved the salami though. Then we decided on four pasta dishes. Ranked in ascending order, they were: tagliatelle al ragù, (basic and classic) tagliatelle with culatello di Zibello (the culatello…
beam
April 16, 2025, 4:50pm
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I have studied those posts. Not too many options that are open on Monday for Lunch.
Oh, that’s a bummer. I’d hoped you’d find something that fits your requirements in at least one of them
Hopefully, some of the previous visitors to Bologna will chime in!
For informal, but relaxing, lunch you could also go to Salumeria Simoni in the city center and also look around the area which has a few shops close by which offer very nice pasta, salumi etc. You just order at the counter, find as seat and enjoy a nice lunch with beer/wine and just sit outside and see life happening around you.
Da Cesari is fantastic and open Mondays for lunch. Very traditional and very local with great seasonal specials.
erica1
April 17, 2025, 8:22pm
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It’s been a while but I think da Cesare was our favorite restaurant in Bologna.
beam
April 17, 2025, 8:40pm
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Maybe not even a full blown restaurant but perhaps Enoteca with charcuterie and cheese options and good seating for 5 people?
tomt
April 18, 2025, 3:26pm
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We had lunch at NOI in the Mercato delle Erbe a month ago. Everything was excellent. So much so that I brought home lardo to make pesto modenese.
Tovaglietta-mercato-apr-25.pdf (937.2 KB)
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beam
April 18, 2025, 3:48pm
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Bingo! This is exactly what we need!
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tomt
April 18, 2025, 4:08pm
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Awesome. We really enjoyed it.
(can’t swear about the Monday thing though)
