Trattoria Antiche Carampane: This cozy, family-owned restaurant is a Venetian staple. The small restaurant specializes in seafood with menu items such as paccheri with prawns, carpaccio, grilled octopus, and spaghetti with clams. Besides its large seafood selection, it also features a number of non-seafood traditional Italian menu items, including prosciutto and tagliatelle with vegetables.
Al Timon: This casual outdoor restaurant offers a selection of steak, pasta, and Cicchetti, as well as seafood, dessert, and liquor options. It also offers a stunning view of the legendary Venetian Canal.
This restaurant is an institution in Cannaregio, at the Apertivo Hour. People love sitting outside, sipping Spritz's, wine, and Negroni Cocktails.
Antica Trattoria Poste Vecie: Dating back to the Renaissance, Antica Trattoria Poste Vecie is often considered one of the oldest restaurants in Venice. This 1500s-era restaurant serves several seafood and traditional Italian dishes, including tuna tartare, caviar, spaghetti with scampi, octopus, ravioli, lobster, and beef filet.
HARRY'S BAR
HARRY'S BAR ... Harry's Bar is without question, Venice's most famous restaurant. It's amazing, but it's not cheap, and without question, it's out of the budget of many peoples budgets. For those with plenty of cash, it's a must do. The place has great ambience, delicious food, 1st Class Service, history, and a most wonderful vibe.
If within your means, Harry's Bar is definitely worth a special treat splurge. If you'd like to have a meal there. and you're on a budget, but splurging, Lunch is your best bet. Get the prefix all-inclusive Lunch Menu.
The atmosphere of the restaurant, the warm immediacy of it, the company always of people who know each other, the ease of converse, the somehow knowing attitudes of the staff, all these add up to the club like feeling that all the best European cafés possess. Throughout its 93 years' history, Harry's Bar has been the witness of the XX century in Venice. Its importance was also acknowledged by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage that declared it a National Landmark in 2001. No other public place in Italy had received the same award in the same Century.
Harry's Bar - Brief History -
Harry's Bar was opened in 1931 by Giuseppe Cipriani. According to the company's history, Harry Pickering, a rich young American, had been frequenting the Hotel Europa in Venice, where Cipriani was a bartender. When Pickering suddenly stopped coming to the hotel bar, Cipriani asked him why. Pickering explained that he was broke because his family found out his drinking habits and cut him off financially, and Cipriani lent him 10,000 lire (then about $500 US [$7,839 in 2015 dollars]). Two years later, Pickering returned to the hotel bar, ordered a drink, and gave Cipriani 50,000 lire in return. "Mr. Cipriani, thank you," he said, according to the Cipriani website. "Here's the money. And to show you my appreciation, here's 40,000 more, enough to open a bar. We will call it Harry's Bar."
CICHETTI d VINI
This is the Venetian cicchetti wine bar you've been dreaming about: old school and ancient, all wooden accents and crowds of locals.
Do Mori has been everybody's favorite bacaro near the Rialto market since 1462—they say even Casanova was a regular.
They do fabulous tramezzini—those crustless oversized sandwiches stuffed with deli meats, cheese, veggies, or tuna—along with a variety of scrumptious, tapas-like cicchetti.
VENICE & WORLDWIDE
