Osteria Bartolini

I ate here for the first time with my husband and his family (unlike me, they go once almost every year). The place is well-decorated. The food is tasty, I enjoyed it. The staff are friendly, the prices are moderately high, but still reasonable. The service was very slow: a good two hours for shared first courses and shared fried foods. In the meantime, we’d asked for information once, only to be told that our dishes were arriving. Meanwhile, they’d served two tables near us who’d arrived after us and had ordered the same dishes as us.

It's over hyped and food was just okay. The fried fish had no flavor and the pasta was mid range. I was really disappointed with this experience. Its a nice atmosphere but thats it. You can get way better food at the mercato!

Without the tree, it would be a nice restaurant. With the 200 year old Plataan it is has an amazing atmosphere. Nothing more special about it? Well, the food was good, very well made seafood. I think you can order everything there and not be disappointed. The white wine was well presented and kept cold at the table. The water was a bit too warm and the pieces of bread at the beginning should have been thrown to the pigeons. They were cut way too long before. The whole bread experience in every restaurant was a disappointment. Not just here. No olive oil, salt or nice butter anywhere. The staff was doing well, except one grumpy guy we ho should look for a different career.

Nice location, seating area in and outside. Waiters are kind and give you advice for the selection of meals. Meals are delicious.

Good place if you need to eat salt-free and spice-free food. Our fried fish dishes lacked flavor, but they felt healthy. The staff were super friendly, though.

Great place with great Seafood, outside seating and friendly, attentive service . Also a great wine list...

This experience was excellent from the very beginning. Booking a reservation is very easy and you get a confirmation that it has been seen by the staff and accepted. The actual dining experience was phenomenal! The menu was small and easy to navigate and our server was very happy to make recommendations. The atmosphere was pleasant and quiet without feeling pretentious. We split the Fresh Tuna and it was divine. The flavor was explosive but not overpowering and the panzanella was extremely fresh and refreshing. After I got the grilled sea bass with vegetable and I was in heaven. The fish was perfectly cooked with a crispy top. The skin was not crisp but I like the skin to be soft. The vegetables were seasoned very lightly if at all but tasted like they had just been picked minutes before. My wife got the fried calamari. They are not shy with the portion here. The calamari was soft and not even a little chewy. The breading was crisp as if it was tempura fried and packed full of flavor. We finished with the terrine of fresh cream with zabaglione. They brought this out with a candle for my wife's birthday which I had forgotten I mentioned while making my reservation. It was something so small that made the evening even more special. This dish is something I will remember for the rest of my life. It ruined my palette with how extraordinary it was. Creamy and soft, sweet yet mildly savory. And perfectly sized for the two of us. I cannot recommend Osteria Bartolini enough. The staff are knowledgeable, friendly and excited to be there. The venue is beautiful and welcoming. The food is mind blowing and even more mind blowingly affordable.

What a great place! We loved the fresh seafood platter on the dish of the day menu. The fish was so fresh you could taste the mild sweetness from the flesh, doesn’t need any salt or condiment. As for the main course, we got pasta and risotto, both are beautifully flavored with deep umami from the sea. The only regret was that because it rained in the afternoon, we couldn’t sit in garden and the garden looked elegant and chill. Thank you for a lovely evening!

Not sure why the reviews here are average. The food was very tasty, price was spot on 50 euro for two people with one drink each, ambiance was amazing. Loved this meal. The service was very straight and to the point. So maybe people here want more friendliness. I thought they did their job. Recommend by the Michelin bib gourmand

We were very excited to procure a reservation for New Year's Eve at Osteria Bartolini, awarded a Michelin Bib Gourmand; a restaurant providing excellent dining at a reasonable price. Certainly, the stylish, villa like entrance exceeded all expectations. The interior is bright and airy, with high ceilings and casual place settings. Expectations must be lowered when having a holiday set menu. The kitchen is preparing dinner for a mass implosion of diners. Culinary artistry is most often shoved aside for expediency. Osteria Bartolini was no exception on this New Year's Eve 2020. The food was a bit bland and disappointing. However, the wonderful nature and kind disposition of the servers, greeters, and kitchen staff made the evening very enjoyable. The staff was marvelous. When I strolled into the kitchen to give the kitchen workers a tip, their smiles lit up the room. My favorite dish of the evening was the first, Crustacean soup. The weirdest dish of the evening was cold shellfish served in styrofoam. The seafood was tasteless, as was the styrofoam. However, for 80 Euros per person, including a lousy bottle of white wine and an inexpensive bottle of bubbly, it was a good deal. Most places were charging 150 Euros per person. It was fun, and that's all I ask for New Year's Eve.

For a restaurant with years of experience, coming out of a pandemic, and desperate, as all restaurants are, for a return to normalcy, they are approaching this problem strangely. The food, most importantly, is not bad, especially the warm octopus salad. I think the ambiance might have been interesting, but no indoor seating allowed, so I'm not really sure. The service, however, may need some work. A few more experienced severs excepted, there appeared to be no oversight of the lower skill level servers. Their lack of attention - not just to detail, but in general - was disturbing to both the locals and tourists sitting around me on the outdoor patio area. Lots of little mistakes can become overwhelming. Even something as simple as apologizing for at least one small mistakes goes a long way. The service was not bad enough to make me walk out. It just needs a bit of work before I return. 2021 09 13. M0.

One of the best restaurants of Bologna. The staff was very accommodating and pleasant. Lunch was delicious. Will definitely comeback and try dinner menu.

Beautiful setting and wonderful food. We went for dinner on recommendation from our tour guide from a food tour (and the food was great so we knew we wouldn't be led astray). Ambiance and that giant tree is gorgeous. There were so many dishes I wanted to try but I ended up with the fried seafood and boy did I make the right choice. So many different seafood items and fried veg! I took the strategy to eat all the "prime" pieces, but there were so many I ended up eating so much more than I meant to. Salad was very fresh as well and we had a very enjoyable dinner. Highly recommended.

Con mia moglie e un nostro amico decidiamo di provare questo ristorante Entriamo alle 19:50. Ordiniamo subito un fritto e tre primi. Il fritto arriva dopo un paio di minuti. E quello sbagliato (ci mancherebbe, può capitare). Il cameriere dopo altri 2 minuti ci porta quello giusto. Alle 8:20 il cameriere ci porta via i piatti. Aspettiamo... 40 minuti dopo, verso le 9:00 il cameriere si scusa dicendo che c'è stato un piccolissimo sovraccarico in cucina ma che i nostri piatti stanno per uscire da li a 2 minuti. (Può capitare.......invece arrivano 20 minuti dopo... dopo aver aspettato quasi un ora. Il cameriere si giustifica dicendo che volevano far uscire tutti (tre) i piatti insieme. Il polpo ordinato da mia moglie non aveva alcun sapore ed era un po' gommoso. Nemmeno le patate avevano alcun sapore. Il mio piatto al ragù bianco di pesce era salatissimo e immangiabile. Ora premetto che non ricordo di aver mandato un piatto indietro negli ultimi 10 anni. Ma sono stato costretto a farlo con entrambi. Il cameriere si è offerto di rifarli ma noi a quel punto avevamo perso l'appetito. Ho chiesto di poter parlare con il manager per poter spiegare la situazione. Il cameriere è tornato dicendo che che il manager era troppo impegnato per poter parlare con noi, ma ci avrebbero offerto i dolci. Noi abbiamo gentilmente declinato. Una volta arrivati alla cassa il manager ci ha fatto la cortesia di presentarsi chiedendo se era andato tutto bene. Ho iniziato a spiegargli cosa non fosse andato bene, e lui in maniera maleducata e canzonatoria ha iniziato a dire che non era vero che avevamo aspettato quasi un ora ma al massimo solo mezz'ora, che era assolutamente impossibile che il polpo non fosse buono e che, a quel punto, certo si "scusava" (in maniera estremamente infastidita) ma che quella situazione in quel ristorante non era MAl capitata (concetto ribadito svariate volte). A quel punto ha sottolineato che, visto che non ci stava facendo pagare i due piatti che abbiamo mandato indietro (bontà sua). non avevamo più niente da dirci. Ho molto rispetto per chi lavora, e avendo molta esperienza nel campo della ristorazione sia in Italia che a New York, capisco bene che una serata può andare storta. Ma in 37 anni non ho mai visto posto gestito in maniera così incompetente, arrogante e disinteressata alla cura del cliente, partendo dal servizio offerto e terminato con la qualità del cibo davvero scadente.

This restaurant has an outdoor seating area high above the street under an huge, ancient tree and a rather plain interior seating area. While it was lovely to sit outside (whatever they built the platform of, it wiggled and our table wiggled with it every time someone walked past), our meal was a mixed bag. The server was very nice and attentive and we ordered a lovely bottle of organic white wine from Emilia. The starter of fried sardines with cherry tomatoes and caper was lovely. The salad was a surprise - very fresh and with the usual tomatoes, carrot strips, radish, and sprouts - but we got a few slices of a sweet apple and 2 pickled cherries, which really brightened it up and put this salad over the top. Of course, the olive oil and vinegar of Modena they brought to the table to dress it was superb. Unfortunately, my order of fried seafood (no shells) was underseasoned and overcooked. Even the addition of salt didn't help. The vegetables were tasteless, the shrimp rubbery. After having had a fritto misto (no seafood) at La Traviata, I was expecting the vegetables to be superlative. Alas, no. My husband order the tagliolini al ragu bianco and enjoyed that, although it was too fishy for my taste and was dominated by long pieces of octopus. Great salad, nice sardines, but the rest we could have given a pass.