Specifically for the evening of our arrival. We will probably be quite tired and I'd like someplace near our hotel. Preferably a small/casual local type place with options other than seafood (I know it's the specialty in Venice, but we are not huge seafood fans/are particular about it).
We are staying at the Hotel Le Isole which is just a bit east of the Doge's Palace.
I ate here a couple times, lunch and dinner. Good, casual food. https://ristoranti.rossopomodoro.it/venezia-b7927c480a78
While you’re there, go across the street to the glass shop on the corner. She sells Murano glass that’s better than most tourist shops and she’s very nice.
You have to go across the grand Canal, but this restaurant has no seafood on the menu. We are planning on eating there when we return in June. I will give you a link.
La Bitta VENEZIA
+39 041 523 0531
https://maps.app.goo.gl/67PauFevFcT7266PA?g_st=ic
Thank you both! I'm looking into both of them!
When I google mapped the directions for walking, it says we have to take a ferry to get to La Bitta Venezia. That doesn't seem right to me, aren't there bridges you can walk over on the Grand Canal?
I think there are just four bridges across the Grand Canal. Two of them are up near the train station and Piazzale Roma. One is the Rialto Bridge near the Rialto Market. The fourth is the Accademia Bridge near the Accademia Museum. That last one is sort of between your hotel and La Bitta, so it would be potentially usable if you wanted to go from your hotel to La Bitta. The tricky part is that there are not sidewalks along the full length of the Grand Canal, so it's not a trivial task to find your way from the hotel to the eastern end of the Accademia Bridge and then from the western end of the bridge to La Bitta. You won't be able to just walk along the canal until you come to the bridge, or from the bridge to Calle del Tragheto.
Aside from the bit about getting across the Grand Canal, you will come to many small canals along the way if you walk; it looks like seven small canals before you cross the Grand Canal and three afterward. Getting to a bridge you can use to cross each of those small canals requires time and navigation. I really enjoy that sort of thing, but such walks should be considered excursions of unpredictable length. That's probably one reason Google is coughing up directions involving vaporetti.
After you've been in Venice a short time, you'll have a good understanding of the situation.
We liked:
Trattoria da Jonny.
Not too far from your hotel. Excellent meal.
Now for seafood-I have never been fond of clams or mussels (other seafood I like). The mussels and clams in Italy are so different from what we have here, I ended up ordering one or the other any number of times on our trip! You never know what travels will bring. I still won’t order them here.
Please plan on making a reservation for whatever restaurant you choose, even if it’s for earlier in the evening!
Cross the Academia bridge
Turn right, go for about 200 metres
You hit a canal
Turn left
Cross the first bridge on yr right after 20 metres
Go straight ahead on Fond. Toletta, past the bookshop on your right, restaurant Ai Artisti on yr left after the drinking fountain, and crossing another bridge.
Arrive in Campo San Barnaba
Turn left along Calle Lunga San Barnaba
La Bitta is on your left, 50 metres.
Thanks all for the additional restaurants and detailed instructions/directions. I showed my husband google maps and he's all "Oh easy peasy". It will be an adventure, and that's what we're going here so it will be fun!
