Venice Dining

You will find variety almost everywhere, but do avoid the obvious tourist places on the main campi. Venice is famous for fish, but almost every restaurant also has non-fish-based pasta, risotto, pizza, etc. What do you like to eat, Melanie? A new favorite of ours is La Zucca, but a reservation is imperative, and you might even want to make that reservation before you leave home. Not overly expensive, but very good food. It's a little hard to find, but if you Google good walking directions, you'll find it. Where are you staying? Oh, and be sure to do a pub crawl for cichetti. Rick Steves lists some great options in his book. We liked Ca' D'oro, Bancogiro, and Cantina Do Spade. You can each select what you desire, some items being a bit more adventurous than others.

Laurel's answer covers it pretty well. Rest assured you can get different types of pasta anywhere as well as pizza. Venice is also big on sandwiches, including simple white bread with tuna or mozzarella and tomato. You can eat quite well in Venice just grazing at cafes and bars. Your husband can try various seafood appetizers and small plates at the same time.

Take a look at Rick Steves pub crawl in Venice. Its a lot of fun and you can try many different things.

Most places post a menu outside so you can see what they have. Get a recommendation from locals at your hotel about where their favorite places are. DH and I love to just wander until we find something that has the food we want, and the prices we want. Not a sophisticated approach, but we have met some wonderful people, gotten great service, had some fantastic reasonably priced food, and have never been disappointed. Venice was awesome and easy to find delicious food I could eat. What is it you are being cautious about? Do you have dietary issues? Imagine going to Italy being dairy-intolerant and gluten-intolerant. Oh, and I don't eat meat, either! If I can find good food, anyone can. To me one of the best parts of travel is sampling the local cuisine. When in Rome, eat like the Romans! (This has worked for us everywhere except China, where after a few days, we could not choke down the piles of greasy fried breakfast foods!) Good luck!

Avoid any restaurant with someone outside who's trying to get you to come in. If they're good, they don't have to do that.

Yes, Trattoria Fiore just a few steps from St. Stefano church will wow you. It is a neighborhood type restaurant with a bar that seems to be a local hangout attached. It was so great I ate there twice in 6 days. The wait staff was personable and brought me a little desert (fruit one night and cookies another visit) although I didn't actually
order desert. The prices were very reasonable.