Best Luxury Restaurants In Venice | Top 10
Italy is the place to be for a gourmand and Venice will give you all you want. These are the Best Luxury Restaurants In Venice | Top 10.
Here, almost any restaurants cooks with today’s catch and most of the dishes are based on fresh fish and seafood. So, if you are into that, this is heaven for you!
Most of them offer traditional Venetian food, which is amazing, but if you feel like trying something else one night, there are plenty of sushi and international places.
Come check out these restaurants:
10Fortuny
This classy restaurant is located in the luxurious Hotel Cipriani.
The hotel is located four minutes by private launch from San Marco, on the tip of Giudecca Island. Why is that a wonderful location? Because the landscape is formed of the lagoon and Doge’s Palace and it all looks amazing.
And the restaurant is one of the most luxurious dining venues in the city.
You will understand that when you will see the amazing architectural details, the amber colored mirrors or the delicately blown glass.
The wonderful views and the food will guarantee you an amazing day.
9Fiaschetteria Toscana
Close to Rialto Bridge and located in the heart of Venice, this venue has the advantage of a great position.
The menu is mostly made of traditional fish-based Venetian cuisine and all of the dishes are prepared with quality ingredients.
If you want to make the best of this place you should try the home-made pasta and the deserts. Actually, one of their desserts called “rovesciata di mele al caramello” was featured on the front page of the American magazine “Bon Appetit” in January 2006. And you will want to try it too!
If you are a wine lover, you have nothing to worry about because around 600 wines chosen from some of the most renowned cellars in Italy. They are ready to satisfy any taste.
8Antico Martini
Here is where you come for Venetian and international food in style.
Located very near La Fenice opera house, this place started way back in the 1700s when it was a café enjoyable to artists and intellectuals. So, they like to make use of its location and say that the restaurant is the stage on which their food plays the leading role.
Well, you have to admit that is creative and I respect that. So, if you are preparing for a play at the theatre next to it, first come in and enjoy the flavors and colors of Venetian cuisine.
To give you an idea, you can try their fresh fish, such as king prawns and scampi, or traditional meats like Venetian-style liver accompanied by fresh seasonal vegetables.
7Mirai
Japanese food isn’t really easy to find in Venice and that’s why I want to take a close look to this particular restaurant.
Mirai is bringing the sushi restaurant in Venice and we could say that it is starting a new trend. The top sushi chef Norio Nishibori is really bringing a creative approach to sushi that is based on a new and old way of assembling diverse ingredients and traditions.
If you love sushi you will feel like you are in heaven, hence the fish they use is really fresh and qualitative. They don’t just do sushi, they do incredible sushi!
There is always a specialty of the day and you can choose to take away your food if you like to eat if in the comfort of your home.
6Osteria Alle Testiere
For someone that is looking for an intimate and delicate place, this is a dream come true!
Serving excellent sea food, this venue located near Santa Maria Formosa seats just 22 people in a single, soberly elegant dining room.
It appears in the Michelin Guide since 1997 and it has become a haven for artists during Art Biennale and the Film Festival. All that because of its hidden location that offers a little break from the camera.
But that is not all the good you will find here. The food that Luca, the sommelier, and Bruno, the chef cook is absolutely amazing. Get ready for super fresh sea food that is prepared in the best conditions.
Everything that is tasty and fresh at the fish market, you will find it here!
5L’Alcova
You come to Venice for the Grand Canal, right? Of course that hotels and restaurants know that and they make use of it.
This is one of the places where you can dine next to it.
It is places inside the Casagredo Hotel and they also have a bar with the same panoramic view.
Even though the views are a great feature of the place, the food is also amazing. Chef Michele Potenza really believes in preparing natural dishes. The “Natural Flavours Philosophy” is based on a cuisine made of fresh ingredients and characterized by a strong “Back to Nature” concept.
With a wonderful location, fresh and healthy food, this place has worth its place in this list!
4Antiche Carampane
This fine restaurant located next to the Ponte Delle Tette has been for a long time the favorite place of celebrities and politicians.
Let’s discover why they like it so much. Maybe it is because it’s one of the city’s oldest trattorias. It serves authentic Venetian food with traditional cooking, fresh wild fish, handmade sweets and biscuits.
The interior is beautiful and the gracious outdoor terrace offers a great atmosphere if you want to dine outside.
Some of the celebrities that have visited this place include Yoko Ono, Bill Murray, Monica Bellucci, Natalie Portman, Salma Hayek, Audrey Tatou, Timothy Dalton, Brian Ferry and many more.
3Locanda Cirpriani
Just 30 minutes from the center of Venice, this place is located on historic Torcello island and it was opened in 1938.
It was created by Giuseppe Cipriani, the man that also founded Harry’s Bar, another popular venue in Venice. It is still owned by his family and it is only getting better.
He originaly transformed it in an inn –locada actually means inn- and it was the place where the amazing Ernest Hemingway wrote ‘Across the River and Through the Trees’.
After that, it pretty much became famous and know specializes in specializes in rustic, traditional cuisine. Paul Newman and Queen Elizabeth II are other famous people that were attracted to this place.
2Osteria Boccadoro
With a dream like location and wonderful food, this place is going to steal your heart.
Located away from the tourist trail in a quiet Venetian square, it is a traditional Venetian restaurant that uses only the freshest and best ingredients there are.
The wine cellar is also very well equipped and if you don’t know what to choose, just ask the resident sommelier that will happily advise you.
The food is amazing, the fresh fish, homemade pasta and all of that, but what you should definitely try is their luxuriant mousse with six kinds of chocolate. That is what I call a treat!
1Quadri
This new restaurant in Venice is considered to be the best one at the moment.
Since it was taken over a few years back by the Alajmo brothers, it started to change a little bit the gastronomic experience of Venice.
Chef Massimiliano is the one that made it all possible by cooking with only the best quality ingredients. With a table that has a view over the piazza and adorned with stucco decor, Murano glass and fine fabrics, this place will make you fall in love and come again.
The menu is traditional and there are plenty of dished from which to choose. Try the dill-flavored tagliolini with spider crab in a sauce of sea urchins and Venetian clams or one of their great desserts and you won’t be sorry for choosing this place.
This place will really offer you a Venetian atmosphere!
Where will you dine in the romantic Venice?
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