Looking for restaurant recommendations in Venice. Prefer if it’s really good food and not touristy. I don’t know if that possible in Venice. Maybe something that is more authentic? Thank you!
Posted by
Bay Area, California
1713 posts
According to Rick, there is no more non-touristy restaurant in Venice. If you do a search in this forum, you'll find plenty of results.
Posted by
Forest Grove, OR
11957 posts
Here are all the results from this Forum in the last 6 months. https://search.ricksteves.com/?button=&date_range=6m&filter=Travel+Forum&query=Venice+restaurant+&utf8=%E2%9C%93
Posted by
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Just came back from Italy visiting Rome, Florence and Venice. The food in Venice was by far the most interesting and authentic. Far better than food in Florence for example.
My advice for Venice is to get away from the tourist crowds, for example go farther into Dorsudoro area, where you’ll find plenty of local restaurants with actual local italian diners.
Secondly don’t focus just on pasta/ pizza, those are mainly for tourists. Venice had amazing seafood, try that instead.
A couple of places that were great for us:
- Codroma (seafood)
- Osteria Ca’ Del Vento (seafood)
- La Bifora (cichetti)
Hope this helps
Posted by
Bendigo, Australia
1336 posts
Two favourites for us.
La Bitta in Dorsoduro.
Ai Mercanti in San Marco
Posted by
5 posts
Gatto Nero in Burano! Thank me later :)
Posted by
new york
389 posts
Adding: AI GONDOLIERI in Dorsoduro.
There are certainly no tourist-free restaurants in Venice. The number of Italian residents has been falling for years; it's too expensive and too crowded.
If you want great food at lower prices and very few tourists, take the train across to Mestre for en evening.,
Example:
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Posted by
Atlanta
5413 posts
In the Rialto Bridge area consider Trattoria Da Marco Valla Fava on Calle Stagneri. It is definitely pricy so you might want to do lunch there rather than dinner. Some of the best sea food ever!! Try to eat inside rather than outside. The place has been around at least 50 years so they must be doing it right. Also in the Rialto area (on the other side of the Grand Canal) when walking to Piazzale Roma is an out of the way place named Pane Vino e San Daniele on Calle Dei Boteri. Definitely a local place, good food, good house wine, and not expensive at all.
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We loved Osteria Ca' del Vento. It's not touristy at all.