Venice Restaurants and Food

From: Venice Links

ABOVE: Pizza may not be traditional Venetian cuisine, but it's a bargain for tourists on a budget.

Venice Food Articles and Restaurant Reviews veniceforvisitors.com
A collection of articles on dining in Venice, along with reviews that give prices and street directions.

Gelato in Venice veniceforvisitors.com
Italy's version of ice cream may be the best gastronomic bargain in Venice. Read my gelato-buying tips and mini-reviews of famous or favorite gelaterie.

Chow! Venice veniceforvisitors.com
Book review: Shannon Essa and Ruth Edenbaum have written a lively, informative guide to scores of Venetian restaurants and bars. The book also includes tips on how, when, and what to eat in Venice.

Café Life Venice veniceforvisitors.com
Book review: This "Guidebook to the Cafés and Bacari of La Serenissima" may be the best new Venice book of 2008. It's also an irresistible gift for Venetophiles.

Antico Martini
This highly regarded 257-year-old restaurant has expanded its bilingual site to include menus, recipes, photos, history, a hotel map of the Piazza San Marco area, and special promotions for Internet users.

Le Bistrot de Venise
Chef Ivano Frezza offers two menus: "Venetian classic cuisine from popular local traditions" and historic Venetian cuisine from the 14th Century. You can read the menus and book a table online.

Caffè Florian
The Piazza San Marco's most elegant café has served the cognoscenti since 1720. The prices are breathtaking, but where else can you share a dining room with the ghosts of Casanova and Balzac?

Martini Scala
The piano bar of the Antico Martini (see above) is open from 10 p.m. until 3:30 a.m., which makes it a lively oasis in a city that isn't noted for its night life.

Osterie e Dintorni
This guide uses an interactive map and an alphabetical index to help you find traditional Venetian bars (some of which are also restaurants). In Italian; translate with AltaVista.

Philip Greenspun: Venice Restaurants
Greenspun's comment that "Venice is famous for bad restaurants" is just plain silly, but his mini-reviews are useful for upscale travelers.

S. Aponal, Sole e Luna
The first of these restaurants is in San Polo, near the S. Silvestro vaporetto stop; the second is on the Zattere, overlooking the Giudecca Canal. (Note: This page can be very slow to load.)

VeniceBanana: Food and Drink
If you're looking for a specific restaurant, this list of addresses and the nearest vaporetto stations will be useful. Don't miss the list of gelato parlors.

Venetian Pub Crawl Dinner
Travel writer and tour organizer Rick Steves describes an inexpensive six-course "stand-up progressive dinner" in local bars and gelato parlors.