We went on a whim because I saw it on a stroll through town and hoped it wasn't a tourist trap…read more definitely not a tourist trap! It's a very cosy small place with a great sense for tradition. You can sit out front to look at the lake or in the back on the street and engage in some quality people watching. The menu is very rich with anything from cheese plates to great traditional pasta dishes (my dad was in love with the carbonara). I found plenty of gluten free options on the menu and had beef filet with mashed potatoes. Sounds simple but tasted amazing! They also have a very good wine list and a very good house wine! If you want traditional Italian cuisine in the middle of the old town then you can't go wrong with this place.

Hard to imagine a more spectacular location for a restaurant. We ate overlooking the water on one…read moreside and a castle on the other. Food was spectacular, the service was great and everyone had a great time. I was thrilled they were able to accommodate our large party of 13 family members at one table.

The location and food quality are both excellent. We felt fortunate to wander in and get seated…read morewithin view of the waterfront --most of the tables were reserved. The seafood is highly recommended, especially the tuna tartare appetizer.

Best Pizza I had in my one week stay on Lake Garda! Service was fast and friendly. The view is just…read morebreathtaking from up here. We could recommend this restaurant. For two starters and a Pizza and a Meat Dish we paid 51 Euros which's a bit more pricey than other restaurants surrounding it but still reasonable!

Outstanding food, service and what a view when the sun is setting across Lake Garda…read more Would recommend this to any one in the area.

The perfect trattoria in THE PLACE where the cult Italian movies "Peppone e Don Camillo" were…read moreshot... Brescello di Reggio Emilia. The place is family owned and run according to the best Italian tradition for trattoria. Super friendly and smiling people all over giving you any advice about the super delicious traditional food you are going to order. Starter with prosciutto, culatello, salame and pancetta is a must. Deliciousness for your taste buds and wow, how good was that piece of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese..... wooooooo!!! My first main dish was Tortelli di Zucca (pumpkin kind of ravioli) served with a very local soffritto sauce. Woooooooooooooooo!!! The capelletti were also super good and really like my mother's.... Yesssss!!! I stopped here but the second dishes were all super ones. Ok, nothing dietary or vegetarian, but this is all about super traditional tastes and super comforting northern Italian food. Like being on a Christmas banquet :) Local Lambrusco red wine is the one to drink. Nothing else. Rustic but so fitting the taste. I could not refrain from tasting the dessert and I went for Zuppa Inglese, can.t translate, but if you never got it..... you definitely miss something delicious. Espresso of course and yes, grab the bottle of Nocino to sip this Amaro while you chit chat and end this spectacular dining experience. So, tradition with real care to great tastes enhanced from "you are guest at my home" type of welcoming atmosphere. Not expensive. Book in advance as the place is small and can get crowded. Ohh, I did not mention, all over the walls pictures and posters from the cult Italian movies I mentioned earlier. They are proud of them, and so it should be :)

Superb Breakfast with super friendly staff! Ask them to fix you breakfast and trust them you are…read moreunlikely to be disappointed.

This restaurant is in beautiful Bologna and is a little on the casual side, but the food is great…read moreand priced very reasonable

Amazing service! Amazing ambiance! Amazing food! Ristorante da Umberto is a gem in Lake Garda's…read morecrown. We enjoyed a typical Italian meal (i.e. 2+ hours) during a long weekend in Brenzone sul Garda, one of many picturesque towns on the lake, just a few minutes up the road from Umberto's. We started with the Gran Frito Misto. Even though it was listed in the menu as a secondi, our waiter humored us and let us have it as an antipasti. The assortment of fried seafood and veggies was delish! I loved the calamari and shrimp. Even the sardines weren't bad! After that, we moved on to antipasti and secondi. My sister and I ordered the lasagne because it's a minimum 2 person dish. My hubby ordered the steak because... well... men like red meat? Y'all. I need to wax poetic about this lasagna for a minute. It was super creamy, bubbly and hot. Layers and layers of fresh noodles with a savory meat ragu sauce on top and prosciutto cotto and mushrooms sprinkled throughout. All served in a GIANT cauldron, easily enough for four people even though it was billed as a two person dish. The steak was good, too. And, we also enjoyed the sautéed potatoes. But seriously. Get. The. Lasagna. If you are still reading at this point (why aren't you on your way to Lake Garda for the lasagna?!), I suppose my last anecdote is that the house red wine was delicious.

This classic location lives up to expectations. Excellent food. Calm and cool service. Outstanding…read morewine. Come at a time when it is not so crowded, maybe mid afternoon.

Intro: On our first full day in Verona, we were looking for a lunch spot before our reservation at…read moreJuliet's House. Osteria del Bugiardo was located in a good area so we made our way over to this wine bar. Service (2.5/5): Confusing system. There was a wait for a table but no hostess outside. We eventually talked to someone and she said that while there's no list, she will remember our faces and let us know when a table is ready. Not the most efficient system but we waited about 10 minutes to be seated at the bar. Our waiter took care of us pretty well after we got in. Ambiance (3.5/5): Your typical wine bar. Nice ambiance. The only downside for me is that seating at the bar consisted of bar stools. Without back support. Which I have always hated and which hurts my back. It's also pretty tight in there when they're at capacity. Drinks (4/5): Since this is a wine bar, you know what to order. We had glasses of rose. Not the heaviest pour but the price was solid. If you're not looking for wine, they also have things like Aperol Spritz. Food (4/5): You won't find hearty fare here but you will be able to munch on a lot of small plates. I'm talking things like mini sandwiches, croquettes, meatballs, salads, etc. Which is exactly what we did. We shared a couple of tapas between the two of us. It was filling and did the job. I wasn't stuffed but it was good and on the healthier side. Overall: Osteria del Bugiardo is one of the most popular restaurants on Yelp in Verona and it's located in the heart of the city.

Highly recommend - a must if you are in the area, and honestly worth the drive if you are not. A…read morebeautiful spot with kind and attentive staff and a wonderful chef, who prepared a special meal for our young son and spent as much time with us as our waiter. The food was outstanding and the restaurant itself was charming, with a beautifully appointed dining room and open fireplace where they also cook meats over the fire. A true gem, with a great wine list! Don't miss the limoncello!

Outstanding! We had the most fresh prosciutto paired with an awesome local wine, delicious ravioli…read moreand deserts. Really excellent.

La Roccia - The trap of tourist traps: We stayed at Hotel…read moreAlveci (which actually is a really nice place), about 300m from the historic gate / draw bridge to old town Sirmione. Upon check-in we were handed a small card with a few of "their" restaurants - where we would get 10% off as guests of the property. Growing up in the Alpine region of southern Germany, and therefore having visited Lake Garda dozens of times before, we normally would have never dined at an establishment located so central in such a high tourist traffic area. But I guess we spent a bit too much time at Jamaica Beach (very northern tip of the Sirmione peninsula) and basically were just looking for a place to have a halfway decent meal on our walk  back to the hotel. So we remembered that little card issued by our hotel, checked the restaurant reviews online and decided on La Roccia as the supposedly best option. Boy, were we wrong. We ordered beef tartar to share, gnocchi with meat sauce, and pizza capricciosa. The tartar dish was the worst we have ever had. Not only totally blant, but also not diced/cubed, and the connective tissue not removed. The result was an extremely chewy dish of large chunky pieces of skirt steak (at best) covered in raw egg. Yuck. The pizza....well, any - even supermarket frozen / domino's /pizza hut - that we have ever had before, was better than this soggy, leathery piece of barely cuttable dough. A disgrace to Italy's national dish. And the gnocchi... never arrived. Despite blue tooth/.. POS devices used by the wait staff. "There was a mistake in the kitchen". Or the order was never put in. When it was time to pay we were directed to the register inside. We took out the 10%-off-card from the hotel (should have been 100% off) and presented a major credit card to pay for the disaster dinner What followed then was a classic Italian scheme from the 1990s tourist rip-off playbook: the POS wifi/blue tooth connection for payments conveniently failed at this very point in time (so the charge can not be disputed later). For some reason the connection seemed still to be working fine on the waiters' devices. Our only options were to either pay cash or wait indefinitely until the credit card payment pad may or may not come back online. The floor manager's command of English (who was able to perfectly seat and attend to guests from various contries before) all of a sudden ceased to exist and therefore was unable to understand what we tried to address. All he did was to show us a print out that the 10% off he took supposedly was the rate of state imposed taxes on food that he had to cover. Not our problem, if the incentive given by their partner hotel does not work out for your business, please don't offer it. Or make our guests feel bad about it. Especially not about a 60 Euro bill for a sub-par meal. The burden is shared, we also pay an annual fee and possibly interest rates to use credit cards. And yes, despite everything we left a 10% tip for our waiter. However, since we were really exhausted at that point late in the evening, and did not want to wait indefinitely, we ended up paying in cash: Win tourist trap. For a relaxed and tasty dinner experience just avoid this place. Yep, they did pull a fast one on us. Apparently the old rule still applies: "when in Rome - or Italy in general - do as the Romans do. Or at least research and eat where the locals eat.

Came to this place for two meals while on a short trip. Both the inside and outside seating areas…read moreare super cozy. The first time, I got a seafood mix. It was super fresh and extremely tasty. I got some kind of almond semifreddo for dessert and it was perfect. Light, sweet, but not too sweet. So good. The second trip included pizza and salad. The salad was tasty, but the pizza was one of the best I've ever had. Really great place.