Reviews - Buca San Petronio
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8.8/10
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10
Wonderful place! Delicious food and wine! Nice cameriere!
10
Wonderful choices of regional dishes, welcoming staff providing excellent service, lovely ambiance.
10
perfect place!
6.0
Outdoor ambiance wonderful, great lasagna and attentive service. Terrible lamb chops and even worse octopus.
8.5
Lovely setting in a little backstreet of Bologna. Although it took a while to initially order our food, the food came out quickly and was lively.
10
To me it’s The place to eat in Bologna. Exceptional lasagna - and the location and service never disappoint
10
Cool spot for lunch, good pasta
10
Amazing experience. Great food! Excellent Service! Enjoy a nice meal outside in the heart of Bologna!
10
Great Place! The ragu is amazing!
10
Excellent food. Nice quiet square, nice waiters fine service.
5.5
Tasted good the pasta, but was smal portions and very pricey. Rude staff
10
+1The staff was WONDERFUL. Food was delicious. Pear in Sangiovese was the best dessert I’ve had in Italy. Thank you!!
6.5
The food was okay - restaurant a little touristy and lacking any wow factor. Not a restaurant to return to.
10
Beautiful quiet setting, excellent service, good choice of food and wine. Well presented and delicious food. Highly recommended.
9.5
Romantic atmosphere, excelent food and fine service. Unfortunately high music from nabour restaurant limits total experience! Food tasted fantastic 👌
10
Vibrant atmosphere-delicious local cuisine especially the Ragu, highly recommend
9.5
Location, excellent food and ambience
10
One of my favourite restaurants in Bologna. Visit every year. Steamed octopus is the best. Very friendly staff and front of house
8.5
Food was super good! Service was fast, little bit to fast.. Would love to have had a longer sitdown time. Ambiance was really really good.
6.0
Service not very attentive had to ask for extra drinks and then they forgot the extra large bottle of water. Food portions small. Advertise hamburger but when vines up just the burger near with no bun. The location is lovely but pint of beer is expensive so think you pay for location over food and service. Although asked twice if we had a reservation they also forgot 20% discount
6.5
Food was good, however the service was terrible, wanted to order dessert, took 15 minutes to get the waiter to stop fooling around with the other staff to get the menu, then after a further 30 minutes add our order not being taken, we decided to leave and eat elsewhere, do yourself a favour and don’t go here.
4.0
Food may have been great but we’ll never know. We made our reservation about 7 weeks ago asking for a table on the terrace and followed it up with a visit the day before to confirm our request. We arrived 10 minutes early and noted there were still empty tables in prime positions while being escorted to a table in a gloomy position at the far end next to the kitchen… a huge disappointment. We are given some water but then totally ignored for the next 20 minutes while watching waiters attending other diners. To say we felt forgotten and taken for granted would be an understatement. Finally we’d had enough, got up, explained ourselves to the waitress and reluctantly left. I think she may have wanted to make an offer but after so looking forward to this dining experience we were no longer in the mood. On our way out I noted that some of those prime table positions were still vacant - really annoying given we booked with a special request so long ago.
6.0
Food was okay. but I booked using this site and they seemed like they didn’t know what I was talking about for a while. Luckily I took screen shots of my reservation. After showing them and explaining a little further they let us in and it was okay.
10
We had a lovely and delicious dinner and the ambience in the breezeway seating was just beautiful even though the weather was rainy. Our server was attentive and friendly, he remembered to give us our discount for booking with The Fork automatically. Don’t miss the bruschetta with anchovy or the Franciacorta wine. Such a lovely evening!
10
Buca San Petrino is an excellent restaurant serving Italian food. Staff is helpful and atmosphere of the old building is charming
7.0
The pasta was on the saltier side, service is amazing, but dessert is meh.
7.0
I have already been there in another occasion, I think the food is in the average, the service nothing but well organised and prepared. The vibes are quite good there, however I found the place nothing special and the retro style as for the menu, let me judge nothing more than a 7
10
Excellent upscale local food. Good intown location.
7.0
Fine food. Well placed in the center of Bologna
10
Location bella e suggestiva
8.0
We booked via TheFork for a 20% discount on our food and were impressed by the reviews before we booked. The food arrived quickly and was very tasty. However, the servings were small. Service was friendly and efficient although took a long time for our bill to be given to us. The only complaint is that despite the seating being in a covered area, smoking is allowed and so our meal was slightly spoiled by a chain smoking woman at the next table.
10
Lovely spot . Gluten free pasta was delicious.
10
A restaurant with a special view. My husband said it was the best spaghetti bolognese he’s ever had! We enjoyed just one course but the food being served around us looked very good too & lots of empty plates going back. Not the cheapest restaurant (can’t go back to correct my previous answer) but we were very happy with our choice.
10
+1We booked this at very short notice and must have been the last table to sit down for the lunch service. The staff couldn’t have been more attentive, the food was excellent - significant portion sizes and we ordered salads, pasta and meat dishes, all of which were delicious. A great little find.
9.0
the atmosphere was great, the wait was much more than expected, the food was okay but not great, the service though was superb.
10
Romantic and very cute location. Food was good, service was very fast. Highly recommend it for a nice dinner date. It was very busy .
9.5
Really superb food, efficient service and an enjoyable night
10
The place it’s really nice and in a great location. Service very fast and the food great, grilled grill with nice wine and amazing dessert!!!!!!
10
Every time we go to Bologna, we always come here. Friendly staff, awesome food and always made to feel so welcome. But above all the food is always amazing
10
Very nice ambiance and cool breeze, eating in the middle of the square! Very proactive service! Great tortellini and balanzoni!!
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