Italian restaurants in The Veneto
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Trattoria Da Renato
Affectionately known as Da Vittorio (a reference to the owner), or good-naturedly as Il Lento (the Slow One - some say service can be tardy, largely because he prepares the food when you order it, not the night before!). You are unlikely to eat as well for this price in many other Venetian eateries. There is no pretence at gastronomic adventure, just tasty pasta dishes and decent second courses.
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Hotel Mentari
Restaurant in the hotel.
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Zí Teresa
A popular and cavernous place, 'Auntie Teresa' offers a big range of succulent pizzas and a chunky seafood risotto that tastes of the sea.
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L'Anfora
A good-natured place where locals crowd the bar for a wine or two and perhaps a few snacks. Or you can sit down for a hearty meal. Fancy some tripe?
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Per Bacco
Try the tagliatelle alla norcina con tartufo nero (pasta with black truffles), a classic of Umbrian cuisine and a long-standing favourite here.
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Trattoria San Pietro
Venice meets Milanese influences behind these kitchen doors, but the results are pure Padua: think Venetian artichokes with Milanese veal, or saffron risotto with seafood. Reserve ahead.
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Al Bersagliere
This is a traditional osteria where you can eat cicheti (snacks) at the bar or proceed to the cosy little tables for seasonal cooking. It's big on sausages cold and warm.
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Osteria al Bacareto
Take the simple option and go for a plateful of cicheti with a glass of wine. Some people will tell you that the fried sardines are the best in Venice. You can also sit down to a full meal.
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Ristorante Alle Beccherie
This historic central eatery offers a mostly local menu. Take a seat in the hushed dining room, where you will be swiftly served at linen-draped tables. The owners claim that tiramisu was invented here!
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Osteria Ale Do Marie
Hidden deep in the back alleys of Castello is this simple, welcoming eatery. You can grab a reasonable set lunch (around €20); otherwise, order from the menu - a range of pastas, and fish and meat mains.
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Antica Casa della Malvasia
Purveyor of wines since 1200, when Malvasia wine was imported from Greece by Venetian merchants. Today the menu covers 80 wines, including prime Italian Malvasia, plus 100 types of grappa grown just up the road in Bassano del Grappa.
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Banco Giro
A convivial place that once served simply as a bar and snack stand for market workers, it buzzes in the evening with a young set in for an evening of beers and light meals. In the warmer weather take a seat outside by the Grand Canal.
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All'Antico Pallone
Duck down and alley for this hole in the wall. Wine and cicheti form the backbone of offerings, but a limited selection of pasta and main courses are also on offer. Grab a tiny timber table in the conspiratorial penumbra and huddle.
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Trattoria da Ignazio
Dapper waiters serve simply prepared grilled lagoon fish and pasta made in-house (‘of course’) with a proud flourish, on tables bedecked with yellow linens and orchids. On sunny days and warm nights the neighbourhood converges beneath the garden grape arbour.
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Antico Guelfo
This culinary hideaway is a hit with slow foodies for its inventive daily market menu, making the most of local specialities in such dishes as Amarone risotto or buckwheat crepes with Bastardo di Grappa cheese. The chef is a specialist in gluten-free cooking, and adapts dishes to any food sensitivity.
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Il Desco
Join the well-heeled Veronesi and savvy gourmet travellers at beautiful Il Desco, rated one of the best restaurants in Italy and awarded a Michelin star. This is a refined dining option for meticulously prepared local cuisine, with a wine list to match. It's not cheap, but it's hugely memorable.
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Ristorante La Bitta
The daily menu is presented on a miniature artist’s easel, and the rustic fare looks like a still life and tastes like a dream: gnocchi is graced with pumpkin and herbs, and guinea fowl wades in mascarpone sauce. Wine isn’t offered by the glass, but they’ll cut you a deal on a half-bottle. This place takes cash only.
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Enoteca Valpolicella
Foodies flock to the town of Fumane, just a few kilometres north of San Pietro in Cariano, where an ancient farmhouse has been converted in a rustically elegant restaurant. The chef keeps flavours pure – puree of asparagus, risotto with wild herbs, game with polenta – so as not to compete with 700 Italian wines on the menu.
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Osteria Dal Capo
Rub elbows with locals – literally – over dinner at tiny tables precariously piled with traditional Venetian seafood, local wines by the glass, and a few inspired novelties, such as caviale di melanzane con bufala (eggplant caviar with buffalo mozzarella atop crispy wafer bread). Reservations and a sociable nature advised.
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Al Portego
Beneath the portico that gives this bacaro its name, Al Portego is a walk-in closet that somehow manages to distribute cicheti and wine to overflowing crowds in approximate order of arrival. Reservations are necessary to secure a tiny table for sit-down meals of pasta with scampi or swordfish with a drizzle of aged balsamic vinegar.
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Aciugheta Enoteca
Never mind the pizza menu: why choose just one dish when you could go for a range of mini-pizzas, meatballs, crostini and other cicheti with a good glass of wine? You can stand at the marble bar with the locals, or if you come early or late enough, you might grab a designer seat in the exposed-brick back room amid the throngs of regulars.
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Casin dei Nobili
Like dining at the home of an indulgent, eccentric aunt, dinner here is served on a patio packed with wacky art and spoils you for choice. The wide range of options from pizza to steak is a boon for families and indecisive diners, but quality does vary – housemade gnocchi, seafood pastas and chocolate soufflés are the strong points. Book ahead.
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Al Cicheti
Train or plane food would be an anticlimactic way to end your culinary visit to Venice, so stop by this bàcaro near the station to toast your trip with a glass of prosecco and the €5 menu of primi of the day – warming pasta e ceci (pasta with chick peas) or aromatic asparagus risotto if you’re lucky.
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Pane Vino e San Daniele
Artists can’t claim they’re starving any more after a visit to this wood-beamed trattoria that’s a favourite of art students and professors alike. Settle in to generous plates of gnocchi laced with truffle cheese, Veneto game such as roast rabbit and duck, lavish appetisers featuring the namesake San Daniele cured ham, and Friulian house wines made by the Fantinel family owners.
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Trattoria al Gatto Nero
Once you’ve tried the homemade tagliolini with spider crab, whole grilled fish, and perfect house-baked Burano biscuits, the ferry ride to Burano seems a minor inconvenience – a swim back here from Venice would be worth it for that decadent langoustine risotto alone. Call ahead of the steady stream of visiting dignitaries and star chefs, and plead for canalside seating.
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