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Reviews - Osteria Il Paiolo

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9.1/10

Excellent
1218 reviews
Food
9.2
Service
9.3
Ambience
8.7
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  • Kris Y.10 days ago

    8.0

    Nice seafood and pasta across the street from the Ravenna train station

  • Violet P.4 months ago

    9.5

    Delicious food and great service! Definitely recommend it. Thank you for the great dinner - pasta, desserts, local wine,, lovely service - all outstanding!

  • Kathrynne B.6 months ago

    10

    Very friendly and helpful staff, great menu (seafood, fish and meat) with lots of variety and the food was delicious. All the pasta is made on site and it really shows. The waiter helped us choose our wine and it was delicious. All round - a winner. Would go again.

  • Richard W.6 months ago

    9.5

    Very helpful staff. They also helped me get a taxi back to.hotel as we do not speak Italian.

  • Kim H.6 months ago

    9.5

    The meal was exceptionally delicious! We had the fresh mushrooms fried and sardines as the antipasto. Both were superb! We then tried the spaghetti with prawns and truffles. It was magnificent. For truly wonderful Italian cooking, I would recommend this restaurant to anyone!

  • Antonio S.7 months ago

    8.0

    Very good experience overall. Great food and great service

  • David R.7 months ago

    10

    Wonderful! Highly recommended. Food preparation and presentation was excellent. Staff are dedicated to providing a top quality meal.

  • Dan B.8 months ago

    10

    We had a delicious meal and the surface was excellent a perfect way to be welcomed to Ravenna

  • Marianna K.8 months ago

    10

    The BEST seafood pasta I’ve ever had in Italy. Service was super good. The restaurant is very pretty.

  • Bjorn W.8 months ago

    9.5

    Excellent food and wonderful service. It was a very enjoyable evening

  • Claudia B.9 months ago

    9.0

    Food quality

  • Monique R.10 months ago

    10

    Really enjoyed the delicious warm seafood salad and Trebbiano wine. Attentive, prompt service. Great location right across from the train station.

  • Nathan B.10 months ago

    10

    A wonderful visit to a family-run osteria. Amazing food and service, with terrific consideration for the diners. Highly recommend and we will definitely be going back!

  • Amanda E.10 months ago

    8.0

    Friendly service, fresh fish, honest prices

  • Ramon O.11 months ago

    10

    An excellent restaurant outside of the touristy areas of the city, with awesome food from Romagna

  • Kelly S.11 months ago

    10

    We had a delicious meal at Osteria Il Paiolo. The staff were very helpful and the food was amazing.

  • Rick N.11 months ago

    4.0

    Near the train station . I guess more authentic local food but it was terrible to us. Fish options were bad too salty .menu was limited not enough options

  • chantal n.1 year ago

    9.0

    The food and service were incredible. Wonderful seafood at extremely reasonable prices. Our server was lovely.

  • Patrik N.1 year ago

    9.5

    Great food with personal service. Highly recommended!

  • Aimee F.
    Aimee F.1 year ago

    9.5

    The food was excellent and we were able to try things specific to the region. We do not eat meat and the staff was sensitive to our needs. The service was excellent.

  • Xavier C.1 year ago

    10

    Nice food, very friendly and helpful staff. Highly recommended!

  • Νικόλαος Π.1 year ago

    10

    Excellent food

  • Wendy W.1 year ago

    10

    A great find for our first night ( and my birthday) in Ravenna. Food was excellent and service friendly and efficient. Would recommend highly.

  • Kimon D.1 year ago

    10

    The best Osteria in Ravenna. Every chance I have to visit Ravenna I always go to Il Paiolo. Pure Italian tastes prepared and served in perfection. The best!

  • Nadine J.
    Nadine J.1 year ago

    10

    The staff is genuine and treats you like family.

  • Ognyan K.1 year ago

    10

    Warm and friendly attitude to the costumers. Very delicious food. I definitely recomend the skewers from the fish menu.

  • Gary R.1 year ago

    10

    Friendly and helpful staff. Shot of local Limoncello when we were leaving was an added bonus to a great meal. Recommended wine at E28 was also great. Only problem is they were closed the next night when we wanted to return.

  • Gale G.1 year ago

    9.5

    The food is amazing and our waitress was quite enjoyable! Definitely recommend. The price is very reasonable as well!!

  • Anna Ś.
    Anna Ś.1 year ago

    10

    The food was very tasty, homemad pasta. The service very friendly. Would definitely recommend for a dinner in Ravenna.

  • Kelsey R.1 year ago

    7.0

    Service was excellent.. food was average. The restaurant is not in a great area.. wouldn’t recommend going after dusk.

  • Sean M.1 year ago

    9.5

    Service was excellent, and fast. Food was great, was shared caprese bufola with tomato. Each had a mixed salad with oil and Balsamic, the standard dressing in Itlay. I had the black pork chop, it was probably the best chop I've ever had. My son got a steak with shaved parmesan, he said it was very good. I also had Icnusa beer, from Sardinia, no wine this night. Highly recommend this place, loved it.

  • William B.1 year ago

    9.0

    Excellent unpretentious food. Outstanding pasta. Friendly cheerful service.

  • Christopher M.1 year ago

    10

    This was the perfect restaurant for our one night in Ravenna. The staff was very friendly and the food was delicious. I highly recommend any of their freshly made pasta dishes! We had the rabbit and three different pasta dishes. All the pasta was excellent.

  • Laura P.1 year ago

    10

    food was really good, servers were very nice also.

  • Tsung-Hsien L.1 year ago

    6.0

    Meat was a a bit dry (overcooked maybe) and pasta was okay. Staff were nice.

  • Anastasiia B.1 year ago

    8.5

    The smell of cooking was too much.Also it was covered with plastic outside,probably to avoid the traffic noises.

  • Andrea K.2 years ago

    10

    The food was very tasty, homemade pasta ....., the atmosphere very pleasant and the service very friendly, we would love to come back!

  • Benton W.2 years ago

    7.0

    This rating is based on some things that were beyond the restaurants control and others that were. First I’ll tell what really was not the total fault of the restaurant: Right after we were seated, a young couple with an undisciplined 3 yr old was seated right beside us. Thankfully, after the temper tantrums were calmed by placing an iPad in his face, that drama calmed down, even with occasional outburst screams and yells as he watched the videos. Now on to the food: it was great and it was terrible. The steak tartare was fabulous as an opener. Our two pasta dishes were out of this world. My wife had the ravioli with truffle sauce. I had Tagliatelle with Porcini mushrooms. They were both outstanding. We should have stopped there. We both ordered the fish catch of the day which was a mixed seafood platter. It was tasteless and dry. It seemed like it was way overcooked and sat around in the kitchen before until served. It was terrible. So 5 stars for the appetizer and pastas and a 0 for the main course.

  • Angela C.2 years ago

    9.5

    Excellent quality of food, fine taste. We got the tartare salmon - tuna which was perfect in taste, presentation and assortiments. Also the melon prosciutto and tagliatelle funghi porcini. For those who appreciate fine taste, strongly recommended.

  • Daniel B.more than 2 years

    8.0

    The food was fine and the ambiance was very good--I especially liked how the kitchen and food preparation area was clearly visible from the dining room. Although initially very good, the service became a bit slow once more diners entered. However, I did not feel especially ignored, and the staff was friendly.

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