Hot breakfast in Venice

A lot of hotel breakfasts include ham, hard-boiled eggs, and cheese (often these items are for extra price from the regular free breakfast offered, and they are not hot). It might be worth it to get a hotel that includes a breakfast with a lot of items, rather than have to hit the pavement each day in search of sustenance. I haven't come across any places that serve typical American style hot breakfasts, in Venice or any where else that I have been in Europe. Perhaps others have? I would suggest your husband should try to make it to lunchtime as best he can, and then have a nice big lunch.

Not a good time to change where we are staying as we will be leaving in a few weeks time.

You're really out of luck for the typical hot American ham and egg breakfast. You can find this, as we did, in the new Hilton Molino Stucky across the Giudecca canal and the Hilton in Florence, but we didn't find it in the smaller hotels we stayed at anywhere in Italy. Breakfast consists of breads, rolls, capuchino, cereals, capuchino, yogurts, assorted cheeses, hard-boiled eggs, sliced lunch meats and of course capuchino. No Denny's or IHOPs. And, for the most part, no hot breakfast except for toast and of course, capuchino.

I noticed a lot of restaurants and some hotels in the tourist center advertising "full English" breakfasts. So it shouldn't be hard to find a hot/hearty breakfast if your hotel doesn't already offer it.

Thanks Larry and Michael. Your comments are much appreciated. I'll look for those "english breakfast" places, hit the market, and bring some emergency energy bars. We have done extensive travel all over northern europe where good breakfasts can be easily found in private inexpensive pensions, but this is our first time to breakfast meager Italy. Most folks would kill to have such an efficient metabolism, but it can pose some problems. The only person, other than my adult daughter, that can live on heavy Czech meals with beer for a couple of weeks a year & not gain a single pound. I don't want a repeat of our Paris trip, when we had to stop in the middle of site seeing by 10am every day to feed him again. The crousants, coffee and juice for breakfast only kept him going less than 2 hrs. I do not want imagine how it would be with only a expresso, juice & pastry.

Italy is going to be your biggest breakfast challenge so far, it makes French breakfasts seem sumptuous. The Italian concept of breakfast is way different from ours. As others have said, you ought to be able to locate places that cater to American and Brits taste for the big breakfast, but it will take some effort in Italy.

Many Italians get their breakfast at a bar, which is not like an American bar serving mostly alcohol. An Italian bar serves, in addition to alcohol, espresso drinks, soft drinks, juices, pastries, and sandwiches. The sandwiches are available from early A.M. onwards; and the choices almost always include some meats and cheeses. There's your protein. Note: the prices are very reasonable and are lower if you stand or carry out than if you sit at a table. In commercial areas there are usually several bars on each block.

You will typical find big American style breakfasts, buffets, etc. in high end hotels that cater to Am tourists BUT you will pay for that breakfast. Typical European breakfasts are much lighter. And don't carry away extra food from the breakfast -- that is frowned upon.

It's not very convenient for you but the Brek restaurant on Lista de Spagna near the train station serves hot breakfasts.

Will your hotel have kitchen facilities you can use? Perhaps you could buy slices of pizza or a sandwich the night before and he could eat that first thing in the morning.

Otherwise, stock up on other non-perishable but slightly heartier items like protein bars or nuts.

Why not ask your hotel for some recommendations as they should know the area. If anyone should know it will be them. Buy extra pastries in the morning and take them with you as you tour.

"It's not very convenient for you but the Brek restaurant on Lista de Spagna near the train station serves hot breakfasts."

That was my first thought as well!

This would be such a pleasant morning, if you take the vaporetto to the train station first. Then, if you pretend that you are walking out of the train station, you turn left and walk straight down that main street in to the Canareggio neighborhood. Look on the left side for the Brek sign.