Venice Restaurants
 

Can anyone recommend some restaurants in Venice?

I highly recommend Hostaria da Franz:

http://www.hostariadafranz.com/

any other recommendations?

Get the book "Chow Venice"...great restaurant reviews. All of them dead on! I can't find my copy right now...I think I loaned it out. Trying to remember names...Tavern San Travosa; great pizza place at the foot of the Accademia Bridge (can't remember the name, it is next to Hotel Galleria); Casin dei Nobili (at there several times...prob my favorite) - off Campo San Barnaba; Trattoria San Toma'

Lots of good food there, and much of it inexpensive. BUT...lots of expensive, bad food out there as well!!

""Lots of good food there, and much of it inexpensive. BUT...lots of expensive, bad food out there as well!!""

Yes, that does seem to be a problem. I'm looking for good food with atmosphere at a reasonable price. Can anyone recommend a favorite winebar?

Here are three, all in and around the atmospheric Campo San Giacometto-with the ancient church that has the huge clock face (I believe this church is the oldest one on Venice), a new vaporetto stop (but doesn't run at night) that stops right in front of the Rialto fish and vegetable market:

1. BANCOGIRO-great cichetti, my favorite (Statia's too!) tables right on the Grand Canal, lovely and romantic at night-with candles on the table, very well priced, and popular with locals and tourists alike 2. Right around the corner, on Campo Cesare Battiste, very popular with the locals (and a certain American ex-pat I know) AL MERCA-excellent cichetti, very crowded always 3. CANTINA DO MORI-on the Calle do Mori (only open until 8:30pm)ancient atmospheric, copper pots, but a bit expensive, -a nice place to go during the "aperitivo" hour

One more: also located just in back of Rialto vegetable market, but a modern one, very popular with the 30 something crowd-MURO VINO E CUCINA-the food is good here, but somewhat expensive, they have an upstairs dining room, that looks out on the busy campo, but everybody gathers outside for drinks.

All recommended for a bacaro tour-Campo San Giacometto is a great evening destination.

whatever you do, don't eat at restaurants in the squares. they are tourist traps and can be very expensive. any restaurant off the beaten path is usually a local haunt which means its great and cheap!

For good food at a reasonable price try
Agli Artisti da Piero at 4835 Rugga Giufa, just outside of Campo S. Maria Formosa. Great bruschetta, good sized menu, good house red. We've eaten there several times and really enjoyed it.

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Enoteca San Marco is near the tourist meccas but I have had some excellent meals there.

Aqua Pazza can be a bit strange but we had some good fresh veg/salads there and it's fun to eat in the campo (San Stefano I think).

La Zucca is first on my list for next time.

hmm. no, Tiny, I wouldn't say that at all; Venice is not Rome, and while I would generally avoid the restaurants located on the grand piazzas of Rome-Navona, Pantheon, Spanish Steps, there are excellent small osteria in and around the Campo dei Fiori in Rome, for example.

Venice is structured very differently than Rome, and there are in fact excellent osteria to be found in and around the smaller campos-particularly in the San Polo area, and the winebars I referenced above are Venetian institutions-Do Mori, and Do Spade, another winebar, have been there as drinking establishments for centuries.

But SBeard, one of the most romantic and best choices for an authentic Venetian trattoria I can think of, with excellent seafood and friendly staff is TRATTORIA SEMPIONE, located right there in San Marco, about a 5 minute walk from the Piazza San Marco on your way to Rialto. I found a picture of this trattoria on the web-it gets photographed a lot because it's located on a pictuesque canal just next to a bridge (the bridge closest to the trattoria is not in the picture).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbonney...n/photostream/

If you get one of the window tables on the canal (which you can see in the picture) , you can reach out and touch the gondolas as they float by-a highly recommended place, that Venetians frequent, located on Ponte Berreteri 578, reservations are recommended obviously if you want a canalside table, and very reasonably priced around 30-50 Euro:

Here's a map of how to get there:

www.alsempione.com/mapuk.htm

There's a great recent thread on Venice restaurants. Click on my name and scroll down to "Your personal experience with these Venice restaurants" Not the one that says "help with Venice restaurants" There are more than 75 replies to the post, with tons of great recs for affordable, excellent places to eat in Venice.

In Dorsoduro I like the wine bar Gia Schiavi. Excellent baccala mantecada and other snacks. Friendly.

Fondamenta Nani, #992. Opposite San Trovaso.

Osteria da Carla. It's very near, but not on, San Marco. It's in Rick Steve's book on Venice-he gives very good directions. He called it a hole in the wall but it isn't.

Also, if it's an odd hour (e.g. if you need lunch at 3 pm like we did) don't hesitate to eat at Piccolo Martini (via Sambughe 130). It's causal and inexpensive. Our food was pretty good and I'm still trying to reproduce at home the roasted eggplant and zucchini we ordered.

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We loved Alla Zucca.

We went to about 10 restaurants in Venice, and of those the best was Sole e Luna in Dorsodoro. Every meal at our table was incredible and the service was great.

http://ristorante.topcities.com/