Antica Bottega Del Vino

Verdict

If you want a serious wine list and somewhere to eat or drink past midnight in Verona, Antica Bottega Del Vino is the clearest answer in the city. Compare it to a full dinner at Casa Perbellini 12 Apostoli or Il Desco and you're looking at a very different experience: those rooms close early and cost significantly more. Antica Bottega operates daily from 11am to midnight, serves lunch and dinner at a $$ price point, carries a 4,700-selection wine list with 22,000 bottles in inventory. For a special occasion that doesn't require a 9pm last-orders scramble, this is the booking to make.

About Antica Bottega Del Vino

Antica Bottega Del Vino has appeared in the Opinionated About Dining Casual Europe rankings in both 2024 (no. 572) and 2025 (no. 554), which is a meaningful credential: OAD's casual list is crowd-sourced from frequent diners and independent travelers, so consistent placement there signals that repeat visitors keep coming back rather than just a single impressive press cycle. The wine program is the reason to book. Wine director Simone Isoli oversees a cellar with particular depth in Tuscany, Piedmont, the Veneto, which makes practical sense given the address, but the list extends seriously into Burgundy, Champagne, Bordeaux. With 4,700 selections and pricing described as $$ on the list, this is a cellar that can serve a serious collector and a casual drinker in the same sitting without price-gouging either.

The food operation runs under Chef Luca Dalla Via, with General Manager Luca Nicolis overseeing the room. The cuisine is Italian, priced at $$ for a typical two-course meal, which puts it well below the €€€€ tier of Verona's fine-dining rooms. The sommelier bench; Simone Isoli, Davide Lucido, Pietro Campara, Lodovico Badariotti; is unusually deep for a casual venue, which matters when you're working through a list this size and want someone who can actually move through the depth between a Barolo and a Valpolicella Superiore rather than just reading you the highlights.

For a special occasion, the combination of serious wine, a full kitchen running through to midnight, a $$ food price point is genuinely hard to replicate elsewhere in Verona. If the occasion calls for a long, unrushed evening where the second bottle conversation doesn't get cut off by a closing kitchen, this is where to book. The ownership under Famiglie Storiche adds institutional continuity: this isn't a place that reinvents itself seasonally on a whim, which works in its favour for celebrations where you want predictability alongside quality.

The address at Vicolo Scudo di Francia, 3 puts it in central Verona, walkable from the main hotel district and within easy reach of the Arena.

As a late-night option, Antica Bottega fills a specific gap that the rest of Verona's quality dining doesn't. Venues like Iris Ristorante or Al Capitan della Cittadella are solid choices for an earlier dinner, but if you're arriving late, leaving an opera at the Arena, or simply want somewhere that won't rush you out by 10:30pm, Antica Bottega is the practical answer. The 11am opening also makes it a workable lunch stop before an afternoon in the city.

For context on how this wine program compares in a European frame, the depth here sits in credible company alongside operations like 40 Maltby Street in London or 4850 in Amsterdam, though the regional Italian depth at Antica Bottega is the distinguishing factor. If Italian wine cellars at the serious end of the spectrum are your frame of reference, Enoteca Pinchiorri in Florence is the obvious national comparison, a different category entirely in terms of formality and price, but the same commitment to cellar depth. Antica Bottega operates at a fraction of that cost and with considerably less ceremony, which is the point.

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How It Compares

See the comparison section below for how Antica Bottega stacks up against Verona's other key dining options.