Ristorante Da Fabio In Bologna

Just incredible, everything, fantastic.

Good, intimate, and traditional. It was a great discovery from Fabio. There will be 20 seats or a little more, so it almost has a speakeasy atmosphere. We ate mixed appetizers, tagliatella with meat sauce, and a dessert buffet. Let's start with the appetizers: those alone are more than enough to fill you up for two days. The thing that struck me most about the appetizers is that they are very simple, but delicious: all the products are of high quality, with little processing. Courgettes, peppers, Nvidia, etc., all things cooked in the oven with perhaps a pinch of salt and oil, but really delicious. Amazing goulash (always appetizer😂) The tagliatelle had a very good ragù. Finally, the dessert buffet: they are all excellent, and you will be sick by how many you can eat. Ice cream with Sperlari cherries, tenerina with mascarpone, meringue with melted chocolate, brown glaces, caramel cream, jam tart. Inside is a different experience from other trattorias, very welcoming. Dinner was offered to me, I don't know the price, but it is definitely worth coming for some special occasion. I highly recommend :)

Words are not enough to describe Fabio, since the first owner, and then with Alessandro (the nephew) I went there with my first wife, with international photographers, with TV presenters, and the Righeiras in the 80s I brought Chinese and Asian visitors there ,Americans, I'm going there again with my great love, secret place, very small, very exclusive, food, recipes, and way copied by many, a multitude of appetizers with mozzarella arrived from Campania, giant cutlets to share with Bernese sauce, Frigione, crazy Goulash, vegetables at will, Pathe of unique goose liver on hot bread, and of course much more, then......you can order (if you can do it) the first course, I love spaghetti alla Bottarga which is brought from Sardinia, but the variety of choice is truly abundant, or a second course too, an embarrassment of riches in choice (difficult to get there) at the end there are lots of desserts including the ice cream made by them, fruit coffee...... in my opinion it should have at least 2 stars.

Trattoria deliziosa. Personale molto gentile. Responsabile super competente. Antipasti ottimi, anche se a mio parere troppo abbondanti. La cosa importante è lasciare posto per i dolci… Li avrei mangiati tutti!

Dopo due anni ci sono ritornata apposta, si mangia tanto e benissimo come sempre. Il titolare troppo simpatico. Spero di ritornarci ancora.

Incredible experience. Food was incredible and of great quality. The ragu was specially fantastic with a special mention to the ice cream. Absolutely loved it. We went there on a company dinner, and we all came out full and happy. 100% would reccomend. Just beware, no menu, no control over the dishes they bring you. Just enjoy the bolognese experience.

Fantastic dinner to say the least. Exceptional product quality, fantastic service and intimate setting. Stunning and delicious

We dined at a 4.5 yesterday which didn’t even compare. This experience is so nice, so fun, and just different. Remember - save room for dessert 🤣 - you won’t know what’s happening. But all the rest before was also such a lovely experience! Def price for value but its a bit more expensive than the normal restaurant but again it’s an experience so enjoy!

When people say 'business travel is overrated', then mostly they are right. The response tends more to the positive when the travel destination is Italy. The food, oh, the food. Eating at Da Fabio is proving the quote wrong in all aspects. At Da Fabio you forget business, you forget travel and forget rating. You simply eat! You sit down, order your wine and the staff will fill the table with food. Then you enjoy! For antipasti we had about 8 dishes on the table. Each dish simple* with tasty ingredients. We skipped the primi plati (to save apetite for the dolci). As secundi ate rabbit. The dolci had a similar setup as the antipasti: a table full of choice. I've been to many restaurants in Italy, I've never had an experience like Da Fabio. When I return to Bologna, I'll try to squeeze in another visit. (*) simple: meant as a compliment :-)