Best place for baked items and lunch! Great vegetarian and vegan food. This is the only place I eat…read morebecause it is the best!

They have really good vegetarian and vegan food. They also have a great bakery with pastries and…read morethings like that. They also have some special teas and coffees as well. Service is excellent and when I was there, there was a person who spoke excellent English and could explain all the options from the menu.

Our cruise ship diverted to Ravenna for a day and we chose Al Rustichello as a lunch spot. A block…read moreoutside the old city walls, we could not have been happier with our choice. We chose two pastas and some wine and shared it all, easily done as the pasta is served in the skillets in which they were prepared. The portions were ample but not overwhelming and the flavors were so satisfying. Reasonable prices, especially after having been gouged at all the touristy restaurants for the previous 10 days. Friendly service, relaxed vibe. Possibly the best lunch on our Mediterranean trip.

Absolutely incredible, every time. It's a little bit off the beaten path but the service, ambience…read moreand food are spectacular. Two fun pieces of the experience are that they just tell you the dishes and you don't need to read a menu, and secondly they serve everything in pans. It's INCREDIBLE, you must try this place! Thank you, Trattoria Ristorante Al Rustichello!!

Fantastic vegan restaurant in Ravenna's city center!…read more My friend and I came here for lunch, after arriving from Milan close to noon. The inside is cozy and the color palate is warm and inviting. There were already a lot of patrons when we arrived, but we were able to seat ourselves by the window. My friend was able to try a vegan version of cappelletti in (vegan) ragu. She was convinced it was real meat, but it's an all vegan and vegetarian restaurant, so she was pleasantly surprised! I was craving something warm and flavorful, so I got "noodles alla giapponese" which came with thick udon noodles soaked in a yellow coconut curry with tofu, mushrooms, and sesame seeds. It didn't look like a lot in my bowl, but it was absolutely filing and delicious! With coperto, my meal was 14 euros. Not too bad for lunch out at a moderately-priced restaurant featuring vegan specials and vegan takes on traditional cuisine! Highly recommend coming here if you are ever in Ravenna.

Intro: After exploring Bologna to the fullest, we made our way to Osteria Broccaindosso for dinner…read more Located outside of the heart of Bologna, despite being away from the center of the action, the restaurant was almost full. They didn't have any tables outside so we were seated inside. Service (3.5/5): No WiFi unfortunately which isn't great for an international traveler like me. Standard European service. Not terribly friendly and not terribly efficient but I would say they were a bit more attentive than the norm. They did hook us up with some complimentary limoncello shots which was a really nice touch. Ambiance (3.5/5): A little quieter since it's off the beaten path which I like. A pleasant, homey restaurant. Drinks (4.5/5): We shared a bottle of wine. And the aforementioned limoncello shots. Food (4/5): We went with their pasta for two deal where each person gets three different types of pasta that you choose from six or so options. I love getting a variety of dishes so this was a nice way to do it. Not huge portions given the price but still delicious. The dishes were served to us quickly and we got to try some pastas we had never heard of. Overall: When in Bologna, Osteria Broccaindosso makes for a fine choice. It's a 15-minute walk or so from the center of town.

The food was the best we've had in the 4 days we've been in Italy. Some of us ordered the 3 pasta…read moresampler; some ordered the 2 pasta sampler, and we didn't regret it! All of the pasta choices were super tasty and very much enjoyed dinner. We tried 3 different wines and they were all also very good. Our main courses ended with tiramisu and apple cakes, which were also delicious. The staff was friendly and spoke enough English to communicate with us. Food came out hot and fast and we very much enjoyed every bit. This restaurant is highly by a group of foodies from Seattle!

Delicious! Worth checking out. It's very local so either get there right when it opens or have a…read morereservation. Prices are affordable. If you are looking for something different. Menu changes daily. Vegan options. A nice change of pace for those of us who also eat meat but want to finally limit it. Also the way it works is that you order ahead and pay and then the food is brought to your table. Service isn't exactly warm but they are quick and efficient with your meals.

We're always very excited to try a 100% vegetarian restaurant knowing we can eat anything we want…read moreon the menu and we were excited to learn that Il Vegetariano existed. It's a bit of a walk outside of the center of Florence but we'd thought we'd see what the Italian vegetarian focus experience was like. It was serviceable, but not as great as we'd hoped. The concept is interesting...the menu changes every day depending on the whims of that days chef, so our experience could have been informed a bit by just what we experienced that day, and might have been completely different on another day. An issue sometimes with all vegetarian restaurants is they specialize in the concept of being vegetarianism, without necessarily specializing in a particular kind of food which can lead to a mish-mash of disconnected offerings which is what we found on the menu here. The night we were there, for example you could get Italian, Indian, and strudel main dishes...all vegetarian, but otherwise not specializing in any particular type of food. We also didn't have a reservation. They were nice enough to seat us, but the restaurant was not at all full in any of its rooms (at any point when we were there) and the person who seated us, made a point of telling us they prefer reservations and then seated us at probably the least desirable table in the restaurant, right next to the cash register and right across from the salads display case which was the most trafficked area of the restaurant with people ordering their food hovering right over our table. We definitely felt like we were being unnecessarily punished with this table, especially when there were plenty of other places we could have sat and the overall demeanor of the person who seated us made us feel like she felt like she was doing us a big favor and she had her limits. So kind of a bummer of an introduction to the place. You order by writing down what you want on a slip of paper they provide you with, and then bringing that to the cashier to pay. That's fine, but it's not exactly "service" like you might get at any other sit down restaurant with servers and a wait staff. The food came extremely quickly...at the same time as the wine...It's hard to complain about quick service, but at most other places we experience in Italy (and the rest of the world for that matter) you get your wine first and can enjoy it a bit before the food shows up. We felt rushed. Also, and I'm sure I'm coming off as awfully picky, but you can see the high scores I typically give in my other reviews so...but the chairs were really uncomfortable to sit on. I typically don't think about the chairs at restaurants...these chairs made me think about them. My wife and I shared a lasagna and a greens-filled calzone-like pastry for our mains. Both of these portions were super-large...we appreciate generosity in portions, but these were just too large for us to be able to finish...both, especially the lasagna were really rich and heavy dishes too. They checked the box for being vegetarian but didn't excel to star dishes in terms of flavor or presentation that we'd want again. The desserts looked amazing but by the time we had eaten as much as we could of the mains, we just didn't want anything else or to hang around. We had many vegetarian-friendly meals at many restaurants in the cities we visited in Italy on this trip. This one was easily the most disappointing. If we lived in town we might come by to try the desserts or to see if it's a completely different experience with an unnecessary reservation and different chef...but otherwise, it wasn't really worth the walk out of the center of Florence to eat here.

Stopped in for lunch after reading good reviews about this vegetarian cafe/shop. We both ordered…read morefrom the lunch special which allowed you to get a pasta, a side and a special. The food was good but a little on the salty side. Still nice to have a vegetarian restaurant option!

Brac is strong in concept but middling in execution. The idea of building your own plate (a 3 item…read morebespoke sampler) is appealing but doesn't overcome the lacking flavor of the individual dishes. The green lasagna and chickpea tempeh were both surprisingly bland despite enticing descriptions. The big winner was the beet salad which I could have eaten three times that night. The service was friendly but the approach to the meal is overly theatric when they should just double down on great food. Right now they're style over substance. But major props for all vegetarian food in Italy!

Classic Little Italian cafe in with seating under a portico excellent coffee, as expected. Pleasant…read moreservers. Recommended

Caffè, and....more So yeah, it's a regular (and very good!)…read morecaffe, which means you'll get the usual selection of coffee, cappuccino, cornetti, and whatnot. But then, they also have middle eastern (and very good!) coffee, Arabic, Turkish, etc. And also other fun food products. So yeah, totally worth the visit!