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Antica Trattoria di Sacerno is a restaurant with a long tradition, that over the years has been able to adapt to the demands of its customers. Just outside the town, housed in a classic country farmhouse, Antica Trattoria offers its dishes in an elegant and informal environment.
In the winter months the center of the restaurant is the main room, made warm and welcoming by the furnishings and the high wooden ceiling. If you want, it is possible to dine in the more cosy little room on the upper floor, that with its few places can accommodate small groups in total privacy, for private or business events.
In summer the heart of the restaurant moves to the green outdoor area, where guests can choose to dine under the parasols or under the stars.
The soul of the kitchen of this restaurant is Mario Ferrara, a chef of Lucan origins who, after consolidating his training in different cities of northern Italy, together with his brother Enzo, in 1987, founded Scacco Matto and brought to Bologna innovation and the cuisine of his homeland, Lucania precisely, then almost unknown under the Two Towers. The experiment was a great success and, since then, Scacco Matto began its continuous evolution. Today, although the gastronomic roots are kept, Mario and his staff bring forward the idea of a kitchen on the move, always open to newness, to experimentation, which has its strengths in genuineness, in the excellent quality of the raw materials used and in the seasonal shifts of the products used. Therefore, a very rich and varied menu, combining products of the sea, earth and meat, always in new and exciting combinations, accompanied by the search for more and different cooking methods that enhance the original flavors of the ingredients. Then, from appetizers ranging from their soppressata lucana to raw fish, to pasta dishes of fresh pasta, homemade or from the best Italian pasta producers, ranging from the most valuable meats and fish. Savoring the dishes of Scacco Matto, you can appreciate creativity, but you always feel a strong bond with the land, with the strong flavors of an ancient tradition. Mario is a master in the use of vegetables: in most of his dishes, whether of meat or fish, or in the starters in themselves, you will always find a seasonal vegetable that can enhance (or contrast) the raw material. At Scacco Matto vegetables, molluscs, crustaceans, mussels, tuna, corzetti pasta, paccheri pasta, cavatelli pasta, pigeon, duck, veal dishes are made with no more than two or three ingredients, treated with expertise by a wise fire and never combined to sacrifice but only to exalt each other. The seduction is of the palate, but we do not forget the eye. The presentation of the dishes is almost always eye–catching and artistic. Desserts conclude with a gran finale by highlighting this tasting path in the round, never banal or predictable, and always a service of class, kind, caring and confidential. Enzo and his staff in the room are always ready to advise on the best pairings and propose the many extra–menus of the day... But, magically, familiarity reigns supreme in this place and at a high level you almost feel... at home... in a warm and spontaneous, never cold and rigorous, environment.
The wine list includes more than three hundred labels, from all regions of Italy, carefully planned and balanced in quality, price, novelty, and more valuable labels.
Not to miss, champagne and Italian sparkling wine.
The menu of the restaurant varies according to the season and gastronomic research and every day is further enriched by different extra–menu.
First courses are strictly prepared with pasta made by hand, carefully pulled with the rolling pin by the 'sfogline', whose flagship are the delicious 'Tortellini' in capon broth. The menu of the main courses includes many types of meat, including the traditional rabbit out of the bones at the mill made with a hot marinate in balsamic vinegar meticulously prepared by Alessandro Rizzi. Less rich but worthy of note is the proposal for small sea food always fresh, which varies in successive seasons, however, always including the continuous raw seafood. How worthy setting for this gastronomic scene a wide assortment of sweet production that supports the demands of the most gluttonous palate. Try the tasty ice cream with balsamic vinegar, prepared by your main host, Maurizio Finelli. To the extent, the house has a wine card of over 230 labels of all vintages of the best vineyards. The carefully selected details is the main feature that distinguishes this restaurant: the spirit of welcoming and friendly owners and staff, who during the dinner care about the wellbeing of their customers and always try to meet their needs and put them at ease. Another key aspect is the environment, because this is a rustic but sweet and refined place at the same time. This is the atmosphere in every corner of the restaurant, from the room devoted to Scottish Clan style, since this is also a restaurant known for its spirits, whiskey and rum, to the large room located upstairs best for a convivial evening , for a party or a dinner. Situated in an ancient village, but very easy to reach because located just minutes from the heart of the city but at the same time close to major road arteries of communication, the Da Sandro al Navile Restaurant is a place that aims to satisfy every need. Right for this reason an evening tasting is the next goal that the two owners want to achieve. In the summer season it is very nice to eat in the veranda that will make the dishes even more delicious.
Marco Fadiga is considered one of the greatest chefs of Via Rialto.
Known also outside the wonderful Bologna, Marco Fadiga has fun with its creative cuisine, that he loves to define "sensual". Modern and amusing, the cuisine reflects both its nature of a Parisian bistro but with the class of the most invigorating Italian way of being, and that for well–prepared products and love for this work.
The Ciacco restaurant is named after the “Divine Comedy” character who speaks to Dante in the Third Circle of Hell, the one that hosts gluttons.
Since 2004, a new staff of professionals has taken over the restaurant and now manages it with the experience each one of them has gained in several historical Bolognese restaurants.
Located in the very heart of Bologna near the Two Towers, Piazza Maggiore, the main hotels and the finest shopping streets, the Ciacco restaurant will also amaze you with its peculiar atmosphere.
The dining hall was originally the cellar of a 17th-century building and the well placed inside its rooms is a trademark of the earliest homes built in the Jewish Ghetto; one of the entrances of the Ghetto was placed just in Via San Simone, although now is no longer visible.
The menu constantly changes according to the availability of fresh foods.
The wine menu offers nearly 400 labels and ranges from classical proposals
to new, small, emerging firms, carefully selected by a trusted professional sommelier.
Our menu is linked to the availability of local and seasonal products, coming from producers and artisans of the region.
The kitchen is directed and prepared by Maria Di Giandomenico, the mother, and her collaborators.
The recipes for the stuffing of tortellini and for the traditional ragù alla bolognese are those of the family and are still prepared by Gino Carati, the father, with his long experience.
Bread, crescenta, breadsticks, pressed fresh pasta, egg pasta and stuffed pasta are prepared daily by us, as well as desserts and ice cream.
«The best restaurant in Bologna» according to the most prestigious food and wine guides.
– Local and creative cuisine
– Menu based on fish
– Well–provided winery with opportunity to visit the wine cellar and buy wines
– Wide selection of spirits
– Banquets and ceremonies
– Facilities for disabled people
– Private car park
From Bologna to the sea along the Via Emilia, the ancient Roman road that is named after M. Aemilius Lepidus. Through the centuries at its edges many buildings and residential and commercial premises were built, and, in particular, almost at the exit of Bologna, there was a rest stop for traders, carters, stage coaches. Around town there is a group called "Il Bitone", for its large wedge shape, appropriately called "Bitto". That coaching station, passed through many hands, was restored by the owners a little more than twenty years ago to make an interesting restaurant, considered by everyone cozy and elegant, out of the city walls, but easily accessible by anyone who wants to find traditional and prepared with care food.
The restaurant is closed on Saturdays at noon, Sundays in the evening and Mondays all day.
It is situated in the green countryside outside Bologna, just fifteen minutes from the city center. Founded in 1985 in an old farmhouse from the nineteenth century, it was carefully restored as "escargottiere" ie a place where you can taste snails, in those days prepared by Loredana and Franco Martelli.
Today, it is run by Deborah Martelli and her husband Alessandro Formaggi.
Deborah is the sommelier and she has the task of choosing and match the wines and to take care of the wine cellar, Alessandro supervises the preparation of dishes, from appetizers to desserts and ice cream, produced at home without forgetting bread, that is baked fresh both at midday and in the evening.
The menu, that the 800 restaurant offers, and that has made it known and appreciated to a wide clientele including foreigners, is based on particular specialties such as snails, frogs, mushrooms and truffles; but there are also dishes of the Bologna cuisine, and puff pastry still pulled by hand, to sfogline pastry.
Over the years the 800 restaurant has obtained reviews in the major food guides, as well as the coveted Michelin star.
Cozy and pleasant place, where to set you in the right frame of unforgettable ceremonies.
It is surrounded by a large garden where in summer you can dine by candlelight in the cool of the countryside.
About 15 kilometers from the center of Bologna, along Via Ferrarese, just before Altedo, Osteria Il Truciolo is located, a warm and romantic venue where as you enter you notice the open kitchen, a guarantee of quality and professionalism of Giuliana Morselli, who prepares in front of the diners exquisite Emilia specialities. In the second room, instead, there is a fireplace, always lit in winter. Finally, along the short corridor you reach one of the most pleasant corners of Osteria Il Truciolo: a few tables, bottles of wine on the walls and a view of the bar–tobacconist, on wood, old style, with fine cigars on the counter and old prints on the walls. The wine list, which here they serve also in glasses, include interesting labels of the Colli Bolognesi Doc.
Maremma is still one of the few places where animals grow in a serene setting and then in a natural way. This is also thanks to the ancient wisdom of the butteri, men who spend their lives on horses between green and herds, cultivating the land with the tradition of their ancestors. With their contribution, in this elegant restaurant you can still find the genuineness of meat, oils and wines of our land.
Among our specialties, we recommend the excellent meat of Maremma and novelties of fish.
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