Osteria da Ugo

Osteria da Ugo – A Delightful Lunch in Verona 🍷🍝✨ We stopped by Osteria da Ugo for lunch on a Saturday without a reservation and were warmly welcomed by the friendly staff. The place has a charming and relaxed atmosphere, perfect for a leisurely meal. We ordered a glass of red wine, which turned out to be exceptionally good — smooth, fruity and full-bodied, a lovely surprise. For food, we had: • 🍝 Little Maccheroni with Octopus Ragù and Black Olives – rich, flavorful, and perfectly cooked • 🦆 Bigoli with Duck Ragout and Summer Truffle Powder – hearty and comforting with a touch of luxury • 🍰 Pistachio Tiramisu – creamy, balanced, and a great twist on the classic Everything was well-priced and high quality. Good food, good wine, good service — we highly recommend this place if you’re in Verona and looking for an authentic, satisfying Italian meal.

Lovely restaurant a little away from the main tourist area. We were able to get a table without pre booking. Staff were friendly and offered excellent wine recommendations to go with our meals. The food was delicious! Perfect portion sizes, tasty and well presented. Would definitely visit again.

What a hidden gem! 💎 I didn't plan on going here but glad I did. Delicious food, welcoming waiters and great atmosphere. The place felt cozy, authentic and it was not too noisy/overcrowded. Bigoli was absolutely delicious, wine recommendations met expectations. It's a great choice and definitely worth a visit.

One of our favourites. Lovely atmosphere with incredibly kind and professional staff. White Ragu was phenomenal!

It was the best food I had in Italy. Duck ragout pasta was just outstanding, such a delicacy. We also had a goose thump which was so tender. All the dishes we had were perfectly seasoned and I would Strongly recommend dining here

Very considerate service (I said we would share our food, and without asking they split everything onto two plates before bringing it to us), very nice interior and ambience, and great food

This is hands down the best restaurant in Verona! I tried the cuttlefish with polenta, and it was absolutely incredible. The tiramisu was on another level—easily one of the best I’ve ever had. A solid 5 out of 5, highly recommended!

Nice restaurant and location but the food was just okay. All the food needed salt and the tiramisu was creamy but flavorless. Also not much for non-meat eaters. There was one pasta dish and a soup. We’d try it again but disappointing.

Although in the historic center near the so-called "Juliet's Balcony", it was recommended by our host. Their menu had many of the dishes were had read about, and the ratings were very good. This restaurant was more than "very good," it was the one of the very best. We ordered the Tortelli de Ugo, a ravioli-type dish which was highly addictive. We wound up ordering some ravioli variation at every dinner while we were in Italy. We also ordered Gnocchi Funghi, which had chanterelle and porcini mushrooms in a seasoned cream sauce. The gnocchi in this region is smaller and deeply flavored, not the usual unseasoned potato-based lumps one sees in the USA. The service here was impeccable. Due to an insignificant problem, the waiter effusively apologized and brought us free appetizers. I disagree with Yelp's €€€ rating. We spent about 25€ each, including wine. Perhaps others did what the table next to us did - ordered appetizers, primis, and secundis - which is WAY too much food.

Osteria da Ugo was a recommendation from a friend who lives in Verona so we had pretty high expectations--that said, it absolutely did not disappoint! We sat outside and the ambience was comfortable while also seeming slightly more upscale. The service was attentive, friendly, and speedy. Based on the recommendation of our waiter, we ordered two bottles of wine and a slate of appetizers that included pate and bread with cheese + prosciutto. For my main dish, I ordered the horse--a unique offering to the region where Verona is situated--and we all split a rather large Florentine steak. The horse was absolutely incredible! Try not to let the fact you are eating horse stop you from trying this dish because it was flavorful, perfectly cooked, and quite filling. The Florentine steak was impressive and cooked nicely, but it could have used a bit more flavor. While the steak was still quite good, the horse was definitely my favorite.

Food was excellent, fresh home made pasta dishes, service was very good. The atmosphere was pleasant and well presented with many tables filled with satisfied customers. We will be back again soon.

This was our favorite meal in Verona. I would like to personally thank Gabrielle (sp?) for being the best waiter we've ever had! I forgot my visa and he chased me 200m when I left to catch up and give it to me. This was after the delicious lamb chops, the Prosecco, and the complimentary sorbet after the meal. All at a great price. I would like to reiterate that Gabrielle (sp?) made it such a VERY nice experience. Thank you so much, Gabe.

Within two weeks of being at Italy, this is the best Italian food I ever had so far. I had a recommendation from my hotel, and it did not disappoint me at all. I had the Vongole and the lamp chops.

Osteria da Ugo, while not as grand as a ristorante ( think all white linen and formally dressed wait staff) is at the top end of the next level. The main menu changes with each season in the Italian style of emphasizing ingredients that are fresh and peak flavor. An internal dining area is matched with a smoking allowed, outside, dining area. Each holds about 16 x 4 person tables. Dining noise, in the European custom, is minimal. Children are welcome. It gets 5* for succeeding completely at what it is trying to do. We were greeted cordially and offered a viewing of each seating area. Menus in both Italian and English were presented promptly and graciously and questions sought and answered in both English and Italian. We made reservations on a summer Saturday night while an Alpini festival was going on in Verona but wouldn't have needed them. Although recommended by a local and opening at 7:30 to suit the foreign trade, it didn't fill until 9:00 PM. The menu follows the Italian custom of division into 5 Antipasti choices, 8 pasta or primi piatti, 10+ meats or seconding piatti including chicken, rabbit, pork, calf's liver, duck, 5 beef options, tuna, and calamari and 4 vegetable and salad choices. They also offer two different, fixed price, four course, tasting menus for 35 and 30 euros each that, if paired with house chosen wine compliments, cost 40 and 45 euros. As expected, the wine list is heavily tilted towards the wines of the Veneto with 8-10 each of Valpoicelli Superiori, ripassi, and amarone. We had a wonderful Tedeschi Ripasso for 22 euro that opened nicely and kept us at the table another 20 minutes to finish it, after dessert was cleared. An "amuse bouche" of a thin slice of a vegetable fritatta was presented prior to the first course. We started our ordered meal with chicken liver pate with onion balsamic compote and marinated salmon carpaccio. The pate was two, flavorful, triangular, slices that were 2" square, when combined, and 1/2" thick. It was smooth with the texture and a hint of the flavor of butter. The compote was a tablespoon of thin sliced onion densely pickled in balsamic vinegar. This was served with 3 inch long half rounds of 3/4" thick, sliced, grilled, coarse crumb, white, toast. The salmon had 7-8 thin slices that were 1/16 of an inch by 2 inches by 6 inches with a house made mayonnaise and 6 x 1/4 inch thick de-crusted triangles of a fine crumb toasted white bread. We split a plate of torelloni da Ugo ( if you don't recognize this, think of ravioli with 3 times the filling. ) It was stuffed with a paste of cheese, egg plant, almonds, and herbs and was served on separate plates for us in an herbed butter sauce. We then split a salad Nicoise that was about 2 cups of mixed greens with 4 tablespoons of Italian tuna, a quartered hard boiled egg, 10-15 small Nicoise olives, 3-4 x 1 inch mozzarella balls, cut in half, 8 tomato slices, and 2 tablespoons of grated carrot with a vinegrette dressing. A pepper and a salt mill were at the table as well as bottles of aged balsamic and a fruity olive oil. The dessert menu doesn't rotate with the seasons except those desserts featuring fruit are only offered in their season. We had a tiramisu ( literally "pick me up" ), and a lighter than air white cake with chocolate cream and blueberries between 3 layers. Our total bill, with wine included, was 82 euro.

Verona is such a beautiful city. A treasure, with its scenic Old Town, bicycle trails, majestic parks, cobbled roads, architecture and the Valpolicella wine region and Lake Garda near the outskirts of the city. This restaurant serves delicious pasta, with savory meat and fish dishes, with impeccable service, a great selection of wines, and delicious desserts. And a perfect location.

I definitely enjoyed the food. The restaurant concept/ambiance was pretty straightforward and the service was good. It was easy as an English speaking tourist, the menus had good English translations and a staff person was able to answer questions. I got the Osteria Tasting Menu. We all started with an amuse bouche, which was one of my less favorite parts of the meal. It was a thin vegetable wrapped around a cheese or something, and just seemed like it could have been more flavorful. The appetizer, toasted bread with blue cheese, was one of my favorite things. It was a sweet bread and the combination with the salty melted cheese was delicious. The first course was an artichoke ravioli, which definitely had distinct and tasty artichoke flavor, which can be easy to overpower so I thought it was well done. My favorite part was the beef main, which was cooked well and had a delicious, subtly sweet wine sauce. The one low point was the desserts were all a little disappointing. Some of the folks I was eating with got the traditional tasting menu, which wasn't as good as the osteria menu.

In a quiet alley and slightly off the beaten path, Osteria da Ugo is the perfect escape from the more prominently displayed restaurants of Verona. It features the perfect selection of Italian cuisine, including some dishes which are unique to the Veneto region. We dined at Osteria da Ugo for lunch, so our selection of food was limited. My wife enjoyed the tagliatelle with muchrooms. (the exact name escapes me) Although simple in concept, the execution was perfect. The pasta was lightly sauced which allowed the mushrooms and perfectly cooked pasta to stand out. I enjoyed the donkey meat raviolli. (Donkey is a local specialty) Again, firm, perfectly cooked pasta, filled with richly flavored and finely ground meat, and finished with a light butter sauce. We are looking forward to the next time we visit Verona and can more extensively sample Osteria Da Ugo.

My friend recommended this restaurant to me and since a) this friend has exceptionally good taste and high standards and b) this restaurant happened to be down the street from my Airbnb, I decided to check it out. The chef's speciality, a bruschetta with some divine Italian cheese, raised my expectations for the rest of the meal. I ordered some pumpkin gnocchi with sausage bits and I have to say, I was disappointed. It was nowhere near flavorful nor delectable as the chef's "complimentary" appetizer. I decided not to chance it for dessert and had gelato down the street. Maybe it was just the dish I had ordered, but I don't think I would come back here due to the disappointing dish I had. However, the service is pretty good and it's a nice spot. But still...it wasn't the best meal I had in Italy by far.

Italians pride themselves on meals built around this week's freshest farm produce.  But 95% of their restaurants then feature the same static menu of pasta with tomato meat sauce, or carbonara, or amatriciana. We were thus drawn to Osteria Da Ugo by reviewer's comments about unusual dishes.  But we were pleased to find that these were not limited to horse and burro meat.  Instead, we started with an appetizer of white asparagus topped by two fried eggs. We then had pasta ortiche (nettles?) with rabbit and peas. Followed by superb scotaditto grilled lamb that surpassed any we had in this dish's birthplace of Umbria. Then, OK, we succumbed to  conventional dolces of tiramisu and cheesecake.  Superb friendly service, wine, and (splitting the main dishes) a total price for two of just under 70 Euros.

Definitely one of the best restaurants we have ever eaten! We had pasta as a starter, one with lobster and one with mushrooms, both of them have been great! As a main course we took the beef filet in wine sauce and truffle. It was sheer poetry! Event the wine we ordered was delicious. The stuff is very friendly and prices are fair. I can highly recommend la Osteria da Ugo!

Looks like we saved the best til last. Great recommendation from our Hotel Antico Porto Leoni . The Osteria da Ugo was located only some 200 metres away but in a quiet side street so very convenient to our hotel. My partner and i took the Degustanzione Osteria menu for 37 euros. This included a Set menu of Prima Piatti-Fiori di Zucchini ripieni di Ricotta, Taleggio & Timo, Secondi Piatti of Tortelloni di Ugo, and main course of Lomberta di Vitello al Recipta bianco & Tartufo. Then your choice of one house Dolce/dessert . For 49 euros you would also get 3 glasses of wine chosen by the chef to pair with each course. We thought this was amazing value for money. We decided however to chose our own bottle of wine. There came some moments of wonder! To start came a bouche amuse of tasty spinach pie with white sauce. Then came the Prima Piatti. While Stuffed zucchini flowers are something i love to order but am mostly left disappointed by, these were just wonderful.. These oh so fresh flowers were Generously stuffed with ricotta and talagio cheeses and presented on a bed of marinated tomato and sweet stoned local black olives which balanced the cheeses perfectly...soo delicious! My partner had asked of he could substitute with the Vitello Tonnato and they obliged. Our Secondi was the Tortelloni di Ugo and we both went into raptures, declaring it to be the best Tortelloni we have ever had! By comparison we found the Lombarta di Vitello ( loin of Lamb) pleasant but not exceptional although the truffle sprinkled in top of the lamb was a tasty touch. It was served with chipped oven potatoes and bitter greens. I finished with a lack lustre Panne Cotta that was rubbery in texture and drowned in a too sweet berry coulis. That was the only criticism of what was a great last meal in beautiful Verona and for that reason i give it only 4 stars.. But if you are in Verona you should not miss it!

Sad example of a once fine restaurant in decline. Not even basic dishes are executed well. It is really a shame. Fortunately many other alternatives in the Verona area. Tried it twice this week.

This is great find in Verona. Hidden behind the large FNAC store in Verona, this charming osteria serves up authenic veronese cuisine. The wine list is extraordinary, and the service impeccable. A perfect place to escape the crowds in Verona and enjoy a memorable meal.

A good restaurant in the centre of Verona, near Juliet's house. Don't forget to taste "Pearà", a typical dressing for meats. Very nice!