Suban — Restaurant in Trieste

If you seek authenticity and excellent service this is the place to go in Trieste. It sit up high on the hills above the city. It is considered one of the top restaurants in Trieste and has been the place to go for decades. Our hotel concierge suggested for a meat based restaurant with excellent pasta too. Our taxi driver followed up with how it is the best in Trieste

The setting in from on old elegant building from the last 1800s. The owner has run it since the 70s and he has served three Presidents and the Pope. He was present the night of our meal stopping by each table to chat. Such a sweet older gentleman.

The servers are attentive and very welcoming. Service is fast but relaxed. Their English was good and they did have English menu. The wine selection is large. The menu is diverse but engage the server in providing recommendations as some of the dishes are unique. The goose breast salad and the poached egg on Polenta with artichoke hearts was excellent and the presentation lovely.

Price point is very reasonable, especially for the quality. The meat is cooked behind open glass. The decor is warm and authentic. The space is huge and was very busy on a Monday night. It was mostly locals present during our time there.

We thoroughly enjoyed our meal and the experience as a whole. It makes sense that it has had so many accolades....

High expectations, low outcome. After reading several recommendations online and reviews, we were ready to get amazed by the famous Trattoria Suban. However, it soon turned out to be a more „average“ restaurant near the city.

Our appetizers were pre-made, the poached egg had the typical fridge after taste and the appetizer variation was rather cold than warm and sadly not fresh made. Taste wise it was ok, but nothing extra ordinary. We had the T-Bone steak for the main, which was rather chewy as it was undercooked and not medium rare as we ordered - which we also communicated to the waitress, without real feedback sadly.

All in all, we would say it was rather average for the meals we had on this day - which made us sad, because Italy/Triest has always great...

I cannot recommend this place enough. The food we had (one of each course) was amazing (though the beetroot carpaccio be a little bit more salty and sour according to our taste), the staff was very experienced and friendly and the place was beautiful! We had pre-booked a table and told them about our food intolerances and not only did the waiter know upon our arrival and hearing the booking name that we were the table with intolerances but she could also list them and recommended dishes according to what we could eat or could be amended for us. One of the owners greeted every single table and asked whether everything was alright and the staff is multilingual. Overall we had a great time and will definitely go...