Our sommelier since 2011: Rodolfo Introzzi
Bottegone del vino is a restaurant and wine bar on Via Magatti in Lugano, a stone’s throw from Piazza della Riforma. The daily menu and the wines, by the glass too, are written up on two boards, and since 2011 the dining room has been in the hands of Rodolfo Introzzi, a sommelier with the Swiss federal diploma.
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Rodolfo Introzzi, head sommelier and maître d’ at the Bottegone.
- 2005Best Swiss Sommelier finalist.
- 2011Joins the Bottegone’s dining room.
- 2016The Swiss federal sommelier diploma.
- 2025Back in the running for Best Swiss Sommelier.
- 2025From September, president of ASSP Svizzera Italiana, the Ticino sommeliers’ association.
The kitchen.
In 2022 RSI featured our thyme-crusted pike-perch fillet on the Ticino Gourmet Tour; in 2023 we won the title of Ticino risotto champions.
What guests write about the people who serve them:
“The dining-room staff… exceptional, professional and courteousIl personale in sala… eccezionale, professionale e cortese”
“The wait staff is a well-oiled machine, ‘dancing’ together all evening with playful banter”
Where to sit.
The dining room
Red leather chairs, wooden tables, the bar and the boards.
The winter garden
Glass-walled, on the street.
The terrace
Outdoors, under the tree.
We’re on Via Magatti, a stone’s throw from Piazza della Riforma.
“Above all, we focus on wine and on other niche products, such as cheese.”
Closed now · we reopen tomorrow at 11.30am