I've searched the forums fairly extensively and seen lots of delicious suggestions, but most of them either don't include the prices (ah, to have the money to just enjoy food without regard to how much it costs), or do, but they're somewhat on the high side. For a student dining alone for 10-20 euros (preferring to be on the lower side, but I'm open to splurging), what restaurant in Bologna would you recommend (don't need to include wine in the price; doesn't mean I won't get any, just that it's not fair to compare, given the variety of prices of wine).

You can find some more budget friendly options here:

http://www.slowtrav.com/italy/restau...Emilia-Romagna

Here's an even better guide. If you click through the pages, you'll come to budget options:

http://www.footprintguides.com/Bolog...d-Drinking.php

Buon appetito!

Grazie! Now I just have to pick only one, hmm. Oh well, that's a good problem to have.

We won't tell if you eat two lunches in Bologna.

Hi G,

>For a student dining alone for 10-20 euros .....<

That is a very generous lunch budget.

Try Tamburini, Via Caprarie, 1

It's a terrific deli and cafeteria.

ira: I'm a student, but I'm not broke (not yet, at least), and since I figure I'll be eating cheap food for most of the rest of the trip (Vienna not sure about, but Prague, Berlin, and Munich are cheap, especially considering how much I like bratwurst and doener), I may as well eat well every once in a while.

Hi grsing, I hope you enjoy Bologna and the food there as much as I do. Imagine you will find the city, the food and the people to be wonderful. You do not have to spend a fortunate to eat well, probably because Bologna has so many students attending the various universities. Have fun!!

If I were headed to Venice, I'd want a great meal before I got there. Pickings are slim in La Serenissima, especially for the budget traveler.

Hi GR,

If you want to splurge on a lunch, here is from my trip report:

Lunch was on the terrace of Da Cesarina, across the piazza from San Stefano. This was a lucky find.

The intense flavor of the cantaloupe with prosciuto still lingers in memory. We shared a mixed antipasto - Cantaloup with prosciuto, bruscheta with another kind of prosciuto, mortadella.

My LW had the seafood salad: calamari, shrimp, prawns, octopus, and cured salmon over tomatoes and onions with extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar, and I had the tagliatelli Bolognese.

The ragu had that almost burnt flavor that comes from long, long browning of the meat.

Dessert was a generous cup of blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and ribes. This last is a little, grape-like thingy that we had not seen before and which turned out to be a kind of currant.

The family also owns the Cesarii vineyards from which they produce a very good Trebbiano di Romagna and a Sangiovese.

About 50E with wine.

nessundorma: that was my general feeling too, plus I can grab some good produce from Bologna for dinner that night in Venice.

Tamburini is far more than a deli with a cheap lunch. It is one of the food landmarks of Europe and seeing this place is one of the real treats of any visit to Bologna. The self-service lunch served there between about noon and 2pm features a selection of hot and cold foods sold in the shop and it is of very, very high quality. If you eat there, notice the Time magazine full-page article about the place that is framed and hung on the wall of one of the eating areas. You can read more about this, and about other restaurants in Bologna, with prices, in the report I wrote after my trip in January.

Tamburini sounds great, from the comments on this forum, and from googling it. Tamburini it is, thanks everyone!

You will love the food at Tamburini; just make sure to get there way before they close at 2pm so you will have the largest selection. I just looked at their web site; they have a list of many of the typical food offerings in the section about their "bistro". Two of us had lunch for about 10 Euro or so; you can order half-portions of the pasta dishes.

Good to know about the being early; my train gets in around 9:30 am, so that shouldn't be a problem, and after whatever my Florence hostel gives me for breakfast, I'm sure I'll be hungry early.