The best restaurants Veneto

On the outskirts of Soave, in the romantic setting of a former ^16th-century convent, this restaurant offers the finest traditional Venetian dishes. The menu features a selection of dishes from the sea (gnocchi with shrimp and tomato, shellfish platter...) and the land (beef tartar, carpaccio with sauce...). Of course, Soave wines go with every dish. Attractive summer terrace. Four tastefully furnished double rooms serve as a B&B. Excellent breakfast.

Welcome to this restaurant of all superlatives, rewarded by a loyal clientele. Nine tables in a décor of brick and Murano glass. This is the basis of Gianni Bonaccorsi's work to make you spend a delicious moment. Add to that top-of-the-line products, some dishes as curious as sophisticated, such as sole with endives and bergamot, scallops with carrots and smoked black tea, turbot with juniper berries, mandarin and chicory, and hazelnut and pumpkin confit shortbread... Enjoy your meal!

Antique atmosphere in the oldest osteria of Padua, located in a 15th century workshop. A small room with grandmotherly decor, with walls covered with portraits of dressed cats, decorated plates and old paintings. The menu, written by hand, changes daily. It is linked to the seasons and to the products that arrive in the morning from the market stalls in Piazza della Frutta. The traditional cuisine is tasty and the wine list is well stocked.

One of Verona's most famous restaurants. Located in a palace of the eighteenth century, he draws his name from the 12 merchants (and not apostles) who in 1750 used to be here to speak business before a dish of pasta e fagioli (pasta pasta) and a glass of Valpolicella. The same recipes are repeated today, of course more sought-after and refined. Since 1968, the literary prize of the same name has been awarded to the best writer every year. A gourmet address for well-filled portfolios.

Ideal for a romantic outing in Venice, the Anice Stellato has more than one trick up its sleeve to seduce Venetians and visitors alike. First of all, its location, along the Sensa Canal, far from the tourist hustle and bustle. Then, the candlelight that illuminates the small tables set up on the water. Finally, there is the courteous service and the traditional cuisine that does not lack creativity, even when it comes to pizza. Some dishes are downright excellent. This is the case of the polenta with squid ink, but also the sabayon, on the dessert side.

Since its opening some 40 years ago, Righetti's has always been much more than a self-service restaurant. A warm décor with wood panelling, a beautiful terrace and a family atmosphere are the backdrop to this downtown "canteen", which is very popular with the locals and especially with the workers around. Here, one is always sure to have a good meal, at a lower cost and without unnecessary waiting. Behind the display cases, cooks who love local products do their best to offer a wide choice and satisfy your appetite.

At Francesco's, the cichetti are different from one day to the next as the imagination of the owner seems infinite. With castraure (local artichokes), moscardini (small octopus), smoked salmon, melon ham and more, the choice is endless depending on the season and the market arrivals. The goat cheese crostini (small sandwiches) are simply delicious and the prosecco never alters your desire to keep tasting everything. Most certainly one of the best cichetti addresses in the city.

Here's an osteria where we don't hesitate to add a pinch of boldness to every plate. The sweet sensation of tuna and dried fruit tagliatelle will stay with you for a long time, and the cheese platter, delicately served with a dab of homemade jam, is a pure delight. But you can also just nibble at the bar with a glass in hand, or dream of acquiring one of the 300 labels on offer. The room, with its exposed beams and brickwork, offers an informal yet elegant setting.

The hotel's eponymous restaurant serves elegantly prepared and presented local cuisine, which is lighter than grandmother's recipes while retaining a beautiful local flavour. Perfect to try out speciality dishes such as zip-line canederli (large balls of bread combined with milk, eggs, speck, cheese, spinach) or apple strudel. Excellent gourmet coffee. The decoration is quite unexpected: it is certainly a mountain chalet, but as its name suggests, it is decorated in a nod to American westerns.

A restaurant overlooking the small square of the port, serving excellent cuisine based on fish from the lake. You can choose to sit in the pretty interior room with its vaulted ceiling or in the pleasant, shaded interior courtyard. On the plate, you will find fish, of course, but also spaghetti with clams, not to mention well-stuffed pizzas just waiting for a little bit of spicy oil. A warm and welcoming atmosphere from a charming owner who often thanks her customers with a small glass of digestif offered.

It's probably the most famous restaurant on the east bank of the Garda. It offers typical dishes in an elegant, refined and Michelin-starred atmosphere. Suggestions include various menus with flavours of the land or the sea, at very high prices of course, but this gastronomic cuisine is akin to culinary art! In the plate, privilege the gastronomic routes dedicated to fish (from the lake or the sea). Magnificent terrace with a view of the lake. A unique place, where it is good to treat oneself to the pleasure of luxury.

Rustic and welcoming atmosphere inside this old mill where you can experience a cuisine where local products are honored (red radish and mozzarella gratin, tagliatelle with duck ragout, rabbit with boletus). Its vast terrace overlooking the river is a real haven of peace where it is good to lounge in the sunny days. The location in the heart of an important wine-producing region is a must: the cellar is very well stocked. Excellent reputation. The establishment also has 13 bright and relaxing rooms.

Dark green walls, retro design furniture, posters from the 1950s... The intimate and enchanting atmosphere (only 25 seats) of this osteria combines perfectly with the green setting that surrounds it. The menu follows the market arrivals, offering regional specialties of meat and fish finely cooked, such as bigoli with clams, gnocchi with scallop ragout or grilled eel. Delighted by the products you have just tasted? You can buy them in the next door store managed by the same family.

This rovigoise tavern welcomes you as if you were at home, true to the codes of regional hospitality. It has a wooden counter and shelves full of bottles. The restaurant is proud to be listed in the Michelin Italy guide and owes its reputation to its authentic Venetian cuisine. On the menu are emblematic dishes such as risotto with radicchio (chicory), bigoli of sardines and anchovies, fried fish and beef ribs, not to mention the desserts with exquisite shortbread tarts with jam or fruit(crostate).

Sheltered from the crowd, you can enjoy every moment of your meal at Quaranta Ladroni (the forty thieves). This small neighborhood brasserie seduces as much by its small romantic tables with candles along the canal as by its simple and tasty fish cuisine. You can see the Venetians (the real ones) parking their little boat to come here for dinner. And if you have to wait a long time for a seat, it is on the small bridge next door that you will wait, with a first glass in your hand, contemplating this timeless setting. Admit that there are worse things, right?

Since 1890, the Rizzo house has been delighting young and old with its wood-fired pizzas. This address takes care of the cooking and selects products from the Italian soil. Result: the pizzas are fine, crisp and well topped, and people love them. Great and famous pizza classics are invited to the counter with vegetables, raw ham, mushrooms, bufala PDO, ricotta cheese or fresh tomatoes: all ingredients prepared with love. If you're still hungry after that, there are also salads and bakery specialties.

In the Dorsoduro district, this small gay friendly restaurant adjoining the hotel of the same name serves typical Italian cuisine in a trendy and trendy setting. Ideal for a romantic meal in the evening, the restaurant is also suitable for lunch at lunchtime or for breakfast (served from to).

Cheap price, even if the pizzas are slightly more expensive than elsewhere thanks to the quality of products. Large restaurant with 100 seats, elegant, with a beautiful terrace in summer. Quite mushroom based dishes, radicchio rosso, asparagus and fish.

The ultimate in luxury... The latest addition to the 5* Excelsior hotel. On a terrace open to the sky and the sea, this Mecca of Venetian and Mediterranean gastronomy offers you a gentle journey between the flavours of the land and the sea. Selection of very good exceptional wines. A lunch or dinner at a certain price, but an idyllic setting for a moment to be enjoyed between lovers. Open your eyes, there's a strong chance of running into people!

The Ostaria Boccadoro is a typical Venetian restaurant, away from tourist tours, in a quiet small place in the old town. The chef serves traditional cuisine using only fresh fish selected in the morning to fishermen. All dishes are freshly prepared, especially homemade pasta went chitarra (a utensils of the culinary tradition of Abruzzo), and seasonal vegetables are picked up every day by the chef himself, with the help of his son, just as passionate by the restoration. They harvest fruits and vegetables to obtain excellent healthy, natural and organic products, allowing to taste the taste of the land and the sea. The restaurant offers a friendly and friendly atmosphere that makes it ideal for a romantic dinner, a family meal or a business dinner. For those who want to impress their partner by offering them a special evening or for those who want to celebrate a birthday, the Osteria organizes candlelight dinners in its charming private courtyard. It also has its own wine cellar.

Nestled under the arcades in front of the Duomo's baptistery, with its air of an old café from the end of the century, Il Gancino is a warm place with an authentic spirit. Recognizable by its old wooden front, this friendly locanda serves very good quality espressos, but also savoury snacks to be tasted on the spot, in a wooden decor with comfortable armchairs. The home-made pizzas are delicious and inexpensive. Large choice of bruschette and other panini and tramezzini of all kinds. Nice selection of teas, herbal teas and coffees.

Follow the path into the Caves of Caglieron and follow the course of the river. You would think you were in a tale of Tolkien, but it is actually reality: at the end of the promenade leads to a small clearing where is a former mill now brasserie. Meat and fish dishes, but it is mainly the setting that is worth the detour. 

Although very tourist, this restaurant-pizzeria deserves the visit especially during the summer evenings. This th century building has been restored in a somewhat kitsch way and yet eating a pizza on its terrace that overlooks Prato illuminated in the beautiful season will leave you with excellent memories. 

Great attention is paid here to the satisfaction of the five senses: colours, materials, furniture, fragrances, Venetian and Tuscan cuisines revisited, kindness and quality of service, intimate and warm atmosphere. Carpaccio from radicchio to pecorino, raw fish, chocolate foam in khaki sauce, a cellar of 90 labels of good bottles from Piedmont to Sicily passing through Sardinia: the foot! The house is provided by stars, such as the butchery Tozzetti Di Mercatale, Via di Fsip (Firenze), or Dario Cecchini from Panzano (in Chianti), the butcher, the usual master of the Dégustation tasting dinners. Chef Iacuzio Domenico sets a different menu every season and it is a treat. The hotel also has a Bed & Breakfast.

This family-run restaurant, located on the road to the Arsenale, offers good risotti alla marinara, spaghetti at dry, bigoli, Sardinian in saor, etc. In sum, the whole range of typical Venetian dishes but at very affordable prices. There is not much room, but in summer you can be served in the small interior garden.

Nice address halfway between a trattoria and a wine bar. Its terrace overlooking the river and its picturesque wooden mill are, together with the (wood) oven, the stars of the house! Venetian fish specialties: seafood spaghetti and baked turbot with roasted potatoes. But here, people come above all to succumb to the delicious pizzas, warm and authentic, with wood-fired cooking of course, for the purists! A quality address, full of charm, perfect for a tasteful stopover between two villas.

Fresh and fresh cuisine at a very reasonable price in a pleasant setting. The card changes every day. The smile and the home act prevail here.

A trattoria pizzeria of good quality. Here you will find typical dishes of Italian and Venetian cuisine. Good pizzas. For lunch, do not hesitate to choose the generally rich and cheap «turistico menu». In the beautiful days you can enjoy the terrace.

Since 1960, the restaurant of Hôtel Wildner reconsiders the traditional venetian cuisine in a unique setting: veranda on Riva degli Schiavoni and the island of Saint-Georges in the background. One travels across the lagoon, the fish and the tasty vegetables come from the local Rialto market. This search for raw material is inscribed in a approach to safeguard the small production of quality. Stylish service, products worked in finesse and dishes with character.

This small restaurant in Casteletto di Brenzone, a small, friendly and characteristic village of the lake, has become an institution of the place. Known to all, it has existed since the beginning of the last century, continuing its vocation from generation to generation. Located in front of the charming small tourist port with a few boats, it is easily spotted. This position is an asset that owners have been able to highlight thanks to their very beautiful veranda: a real pleasure to be patient between the dishes by tasting a delicious wine, another strong point, because the cellar is well-dressed. In short, an address to the local specialities where the freshness of the products and the quality of menus combine with the panorama and the sympathy of the reception to make it a very pleasant stopover.

A neighborhood brewery as we like it, in the heart of the historic center of Soave. As soon as the aperitif is served, the good mood is in the air around the wooden counter where the regulars crowd to sip a good glass of local wine and to munch on bruschette and appetizers of all kinds. At the table, authentic and generous cuisine: polenta, bigoli in sauce, baccalà mantecato, but also fresh pasta with truffles, juicy beef ribs, and a trio of polenta that you won't soon forget.

A small café-restaurant located in Piazza del Duomo, where it is good to stop between visits. Its great added value is, without hesitation, a charming inner courtyard with a very pleasant shaded terrace. Around a small fountain, sparrows come to chirp, while you enjoy a good cappuccino with a brioche or a lunch on the go. Sandwiches, pasta and large salads are on the menu. The regulars come here to sip a little black cheese seized at the counter, and then meet there in the evening for a spritz.

Rôtisserie with typical Venetian cuisine. Enjoy on the thumb (or take away) all truly Venetian dishes, from baccalà (try the tris of baccalà con polenta) in the fish Risotto.

One of the city's oldest osterie, this little neighborhood canteen is in the pure Venetian culinary tradition. It's best to reserve in the evening, as the three charming little indoor rooms fill up quickly. No terrace in summer. Follow your desires and affinities and let yourself be carried away. It's a sure bet for quality and authenticity. And if you've never tried baccala (salt cod in cream sauce), you can go there with your eyes closed. Ciccheti are also very popular.

Vegetarian recipes, here is among other things what awaits you at the table of this modern osteria located in a lively district. In total, about thirty seats between the room and the terrace. The menu changes regularly and is mostly creative. You will have the chance to see the chef working in his open kitchen before savoring the gourmet dishes he has prepared for you, all made from vegetables and fruits. The pumpkin(zucca), emblem of the restaurant, is without surprise one of the king products of the menu.

"No pizzas, no lasagnas, no tourist menus". The sign on the door announces the color right away... Not far from the Pescheria but off the beaten track, this restaurant claims to be different and functions above all by word of mouth. It is very popular with Venetians who like to meet there on Saturday evenings to enjoy a traditional cuisine made with fish and vegetables from the lagoon and its estuary. The interior of the trattoria is sober, with wooden chairs and white cotton tablecloths. Notice to the gourmets.

Just behind the Rialto, here is one of the best addresses in town to eat a slice of pizza with a lot of filling to munch on the go. About thirty assortments (but only 6 or 7 offered per day), whole or by the slice, thin or thick dough... Make your choice: mushrooms, salami, arugula, buffalo mozzarella, ham, bell pepper, basil... The store doesn't look like much, but the line that forms in front of it every day at noon shows how much the locals like it. On the spot or to take away!

If you are lucky enough to attend a performance at Teatro La Fenice, extend the pleasure by dining in one of Venice's historic restaurants, where both service and cuisine are beyond reproach. Here we enter one of the oldest addresses in Venice, the 18th century style room and the typical Venetian kitchen are a godsend to keep on dreaming. Legend has it that the ghost of the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio wanders between the tables. Perhaps he would like to try the Treviso radicchio risotto or tiramisù?

It's a tiny place and always crowded, in winter as well as in summer, when barrels are used as tables on the terrace. You feel good at the Ruga, it's a nice neighborhood atmosphere, with a lot of young artists as regulars. Then certainly, it is sometimes necessary to play elbows to reach the bar, but it does not matter, one is well received there and after all the hour is with the relaxation, not? We chat, we drink, we tell each other our lives, whether it is for a long meal or just for an ombra (glass of white wine) accompanied by cicchetti.

The very classic setting of this osteria north of Castello, which looks like an elegant bistro, does not leave any surprises on the plate. Here, tradition goes hand in hand with fantasy and creativity; thus the tartar (of tuna and not beef) is presented covered with its raw egg, the red mullet is well grilled and garnished with slices of foie gras, the langoustines served on a bed of black rice. One of the favourite places for the Venetians' gallant dinners.

In the city center, here is Il Vizietto, a good restaurant that manages to bring together in the plate local products that, a priori, were not necessarily programmed to meet in the kitchen. Most of the dishes cultivate the pluralism of flavors, like the local sausage with a Mediterranean risotto, the lamb chops with red fruits or the tuna tartar with burrata. Speaking of cheese, cheesecake is a hit for dessert. Also try the chocolate fondant, a real treat.

Typical restaurant and official representative of Venetian charm 50 m from St. Mark's Square. Its interior with its apparent th century beams and its historical decor will take you to the heart of the romantic city of the ancient city. The restaurant has several rooms which each have their own ambiance and even offer couples a small intimate room, ideal for a meal in mind. The chef surprises each day with his simple and creative cuisine combining subtle and improbable flavours that will not cease to amaze you. Fresh daily products on your plate, meat and fish directly from the Venice market and homemade pasta. The service is excellent and the servers speak French. The map is obviously translated.

A few steps from Ca' Rezzonico, one of the oldest Venetian trattorie, in a setting straight from the 1950s. Here, we know how to make the apology of the fish. There is no shortage of cicheti appetizers, but we'll stay for the grilled sea food, the polenta with squid ink, the spaghetti with clams or the crab in sauce. The chef and the waiters handle the products here with a certain style that always surprises; for example, the carpaccio of raw sea bass, prepared before your eyes, is a performance. An almost exotic address.

This pretty tavern welcomes you with warmth and a real quality of service, under its ceiling illuminated by a dozen lanterns. The menu offers a wide selection of traditional dishes such as gnocchi, tagliatelle, ravioli, pizzas, lamb chops and beef filet with green pepper. Vegetarian guests can also choose from a wide range of gluten-free dishes, based on vegetables or fish. For dessert, let yourself be tempted by the panna cotta with forest fruits or the lemon sorbet.

If you have a few things to do in the area, drop by and taste this wonderful pizza, which has become an institution for Venetian students; you will be served immediately. The dough is fine and the ingredients are of high quality. The owners of the business claim it's the best pizza in the world. Pizza is sold by the slice. If you have an ogre appetite, you can order a whole pizza of your choice. The staff is always nice and smiling, even in times of rush and big panic.

This osteria in Padua's old ghetto has a pleasant atmosphere. It boasts a well-thought-out decor, reminiscent of a brocante world. Young people, especially those in their thirties, are regular customers. They meet here for aperitifs, while the more discerning gourmets come here to enjoy traditional (seasonal) regional cuisine, simple and tasty, such as the excellent fish soup, pappardelle with mushrooms or spaghetti with clams. Efficient service with a smile! Best to book if you're a large group.