Highly recommend! My brother and I came here for dinner and this place was perfect! The food was…read moredelicious, the vibe was on point and mostly our servers Antonio and monir were the best and made the whole experience top notch!

If you're lucky enough to have decided to stay in Dorsoduro during your stay in Venezia, then you…read moreneed to top off the experience with a meal at Al Vecio Marangon. This is my second time here and it was even better than the first. I was able to secure an early dinner reservation by texting the restaurant a week in advance using WhatsApp. The space is intimate and charming, with some outdoor tables. I noticed more tourists dining here on this second visit, but I also saw that there was still a good number of locals. The menu is robust, and everything we ordered was fabulous. The service is beyond expectation. Do not miss this gem.

On our last morning in Venice, we were looking for somewhere to have breakfast and we found Riva…read moreRialto. Of course it is located right on the canal so the best part is the atmosphere, but we were excited to see they were serving breakfast and had many good options. Our server was absolutely wonderful and showed us how to get the most out of our meal because some dishes came with a glass of champagne. We all had cappuccinos and eggs with pancetta and really enjoyed it. Its a great place to stop and have a bite.

I wish we had more time to relax and enjoy this wonderful restaurant. The location at first made me…read moreworry we were heading into a tourist trap. But that was not the case. The owner was very attentive and he helped us choose a better wine. We ordered several appetizers to share among the group and everyone raved about the quality. The service was top shelf and the pricing was reasonable. Next time, I'm going to block out enough time to more fully enjoy Riva Realto.

After visiting the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute nearby, we walked past this restaurant and…read moredecided to stop in for lunch. When we got there, the main entrance was dead and the outdoor seating just inside the courtyard area was empty, which made us think this wasn't a very popular place. But when we went inside, they were packed! They have two large indoor dining rooms and both were packed! Service was quick and friendly. Their menu is loaded with all the typical, appetizing Italian food. Prices are very fare too. We started with a salad that was incredibly fresh and very tasty... We simply dressed it with salt & pepper and EVOO & balsamic and that was perfect! Next up, we split their Linguine with Genoese Pesto and their Baked Lasagna and both were outstanding! The creaminess and deep flavor of the lasagna was so good and heart warming! Last up was to enjoy some desserts - they have a great selection of sweets here. Highly recommend stopping in, but you might want to make a reservation, they seem to get quite busy.

Found this restaurant because it was so close to our hotel. They had the best Branzino dish for 2…read more They cook the fish whole, then bring the cooked fish to your table and show you the fish and then they filet the fish and split it for 2. The fish melted in your mouth like butter. Served with vegetables that were very tasty and had a great sauce on it. It is a very large dish and more than enough for 2. This dish was so amazing, We went back a second time just to finish off a great vacation with an amazing dish. All the dishes we all tried were fantastic. The staff were very nice and fun when they had time to slow down, they even got into playing around with everyone at the table adding to the enjoyment of the evening. They have lots of space. Lots of room to accommodate everyone but best to have reservations on busy weekends. Would recommend this restaurant to anyone at anytime.

We had two dinners here and loved it! The seafoods and pastas were fantastic in very comfortable…read morerooms and warm staff. Nice place for a party.

Absolutely loved this place. So glad we went for dinner on the first night because we were able to…read morego for lunch on the day we were leaving having tried two other restaurants in Venice that were highly rated and recommended and were left underwhelmed. We knew this place would certainly serve us well. It is a cute little restaurant, very cosy. Some might find it tight as my chair did bump into the patrons behind but nothing major. It would have been amazing in the summer as they also have outdoor seating but obviously with it being January, we preferred to be inside. The food here was spectacular. My partner has the shrimp and mushroom pasta, and i had the Turbot which was from the specials. I also had the spaghetti Bolognese and my partner the paccheri with scallops. All were delicious. The Mancini pasta was cooked to perfection, and the flavours in the sauces were bursting with flavour. A real delight on the taste buds. I don't normally eat bread but they were definitely needed to swipe up all the sauce from the plate at the end. Finally, the menu was incredibly well priced. Extremely good value for money. 100% recommend this place to anyone.

Beautiful patio dining, excellent food and wine. The perfect place to end our Venice vacation.read more

Disappointing Valentine's Day dinner. Comically bad service, slow to the point of exhaustion, with…read morean oddly careless, unfriendly server who was largely AWOL except to repeatedly misdeliver the same cuttlefish pasta no one at our table asked for. It took half an hour for our server (slow in every sense of the word) to take our orders and of course he got several things wrong. Fine, just let it go, we're enjoying ourselves on vacation. If only we could. The interminable wait made the meal impossible to enjoy. Took an hour after ordering for the first courses to arrive, with one of our party not getting his starter for another 20 minutes. The agonizing wait, inattentive service (e.g, taking away forks and not replacing them until asked 15 minutes later) and casual incompetence overshadowed all else. Out meal became a fricken prison sentence. What saves this from being a one-star review is that the food on the whole is actually quite enjoyable when it manages to arrive. I ordered the Menu Veneziano which started with an overly sour sardine and pickled onions appetizer but progressed to a nice squid ink pasta followed 45 minutes later by my main course of sautéed calves liver and onions. Some pieces of liver were underdone and rubbery (raw inside) but most were properly prepared and overall I 'm glad I tried this dish. My dessert of tiramisu was a generous portion and a merciful end to a poorly paced meal. Our bottle of Prosecco Veneto was fine--fizzy and not oversweet. The bill (which took another half hour to arrive) was 210 euros for four diners (one of whom ordered only pasta). A fair amount less than what we'd expect to pay in Los Angeles but this joke of a restaurant wouldn't last three months in LA.

We took our air bnb host's advice, for great local eats:…read more Best meal I have ever eaten in Venice. I was nervous looking at the large menu, but we ordered the chefs choice checceti and it was amazing. We also had two different pastas with cuttlefish and one with octopus sauce. Looking around many in the restaurant were ordering a beef dinner split for 2. Looked amazing as well! To finish off we also ordered dessert which completed the meal nicely. If you are in the area, well worth it!

Lamenting together the fact that Italian restaurants in Venice are not as good as Italian…read morerestaurants in other parts of Italy, the hotel staff member with whom I was having this conversation agreed, then gave me the names of a couple nearby places that he'd recommend. This is how I wound up at Muro Venezia - Frari my first evening in Venice. Arriving to what looked like a full restaurant, I was happy to be seated al fresco along with everyone else who'd heeded the message to come here. Service, food, and ambiance were all quite good. Over beer, wine, a shared starter of assorted meatballs, and a shared pizza I found nothing to dislike. In fact, by the end of my 5 night stay I was almost ready to return here rather than risk having a mediocre meal elsewhere. You'll walk by a million restaurants in Venice, most looking almost identical to one another. Muro Venezia - Frari looks similar but it has a different, better energy. It's busy for a good reason. Stop, and see if there's a table for you.

Full service restaurant on one of the main walkways in Venice. Nope couldn't find it again without…read morethe map app. The food is good and wine list comprehensive. We did not get a meat platter but from the small and sizzle, I would do it next time. Small tables are along the canal beside Osteria del Lovo. My dish was gnocchi with blue crab, a traditional dish.

The balcony has great views but unfortunately for us it was just too chilly when we visited Venice…read more The waiters were really friendly and accommodating with our little one. We were seated immediately without any wait and were served bread. I remember I really needed some veggies at this point and the salmon dish came with some and also helped myself to the pasta. The pasta was fine, the salmon was fine. Definitely a charming spot I just wasn't wowed by the food.

What a magnificent experience we had at Laguna Libre. The ambience, the view, the service, the…read morefood, and the live music were out of this world. While exploring Venice we stopped because of the music. We noticed that a band was setting up, and it so happens that the restaurant was sponsoring a Jazz Music Festival. The group playing was the Balkan Trio with magnificent vocals, a guitar player, a drums. We got a table right in front of the band - a huge plus since the possibility of live music was the main reason we stopped in the first place. We ordered two bottles of wine, which were incredible. Then three of us ordered the three-course meat plate, and the other ordered the Lasagna, which was out of this world. One of the many things that really surprised me was the fact that while seated I read a plaque on the wall of the restaurant building that highlighted the fact that from 1743 to 1744 that building in particular had served as the French Embassy, and that Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the French Enlightenment philosopher himself had lived and worked as the secretary for the embassy during that time period. We could imagine him peering out the windows and looking into the Venician canals; walking through those doors, while writing the great ideas that would inspired the American Revolution not long after and would eventually lead to the French Revolution itself. This was an experience like no other. We were the last ones to leave. We said good night to a happy staff, at that point of the night, seated by a table ready to close their own days, and made our way down the narrow alleys and waterways of our Venetian summer! Highly recommend it!

I wanted something simple (not spicey, not fried) like fish, and our concierge recommended and made…read morereservations for us at Laguna Libre. We were immediately greeted and seated in a small cozy room. I ordered the sea bass fillet in paper with potatoes, onions, and tomatoes, and my husband ordered the home pasta with tomato sauce, celery, onion, and long cooked carrots. My dish was exactly what I was hoping for, tender, healthy and hearty; cooked to perfection. Everything was tender and delicious. My husband was happy with his pasta dish. I tried his too, it was delicious. For dessert I had the Parfait with Toasted Almonds and Dark Chocolate. It was mind-blowing! Hopefully the picture does it justice. It was amazing! My husband had the cheesecake with strawberries and lime smoothie. He loved it. If we are lucky enough for a return visit to Venice, we will definitely be repeat customers.