Where Venice welcomes you to the table.
Half a century at the gateway of the city — a romantic room of bare brick and quiet candle-light, opening onto a terrace that watches the church sleep on the far bank of the canal. Homemade pizza, fresh pasta, the morning's catch from the market. Pull out a chair, lift a spritz, let Venice unfold slowly.
A kitchen faithful to the lagoon.
A few quiet steps from Piazzale Roma and the Santa Lucia station, we are — for many travellers arriving by bus, by car or by train — the first true Venetian table of the journey, and a candle-lit refuge to return to once the day is done.
The cooking is honest and unmistakably Venetian: homemade pizza pulled hot from the oven, fresh pasta tossed by hand, and seafood we choose ourselves at the market each morning — the way it has always been done here. Beside it all, a beautiful selection of spritz, raised slowly under the afternoon sun.
The morning's catch, unhurried on the plate.
Vongole, cozze, scampi and the sweet shrimp of the Adriatic — chosen each morning at the Rialto market and brought straight to the kitchen. A bright, generous broth, tomato pulled into the sauce, parsley and a single wedge of lemon to finish.
Beside it, homemade pizza, hand-tossed pasta, and a quiet glass of Soave from the hills behind Verona — the cooking of the lagoon as it has always been.
Moments from our table.
Clams, prawns, the morning's catch
Spaghetti allo scoglio
Half a century, one room
Fifty years of stories held in walls of bare, romantic brick — a candle-lit room for forty, and a terrace where the church gazes across the canal.
A table for every traveller
A wide and generous menu, drawn to welcome guests from every corner of the world — flavours that find a friend in every palate.
All of Italy, in the cellar
A carefully chosen selection of fine wines, gathered from every region of the peninsula — from the Alps to Sicily, in a single list.
"There is no city in the world that asks you to slow down quite like Venice — and no better way to do it than across a long, candle-lit dinner."
— Gambero Rosso
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Address
Fondamenta dei Tolentini, 187
Santa Croce, 30135 Venezia
Telephone
+39 041 710112A few steps from
Chiesa dei Tolentini · Piazzale Roma · Stazione Santa Lucia
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Candle-light inside, the church across the water, and the slow hush of Venice all around. Every reservation is confirmed by hand, the same day.