Though Al Covo is hidden in an alley behind the riva degli Schiavoni, it's very much on the international gourmet map. Its reputation is based on a...

The out-of-the-way location of this authentic Venetian trat helps to limit the tourist hordes: best advice is to get off the boat at Sant'Elena and ask for...

This osteria-bacaro offers good, cheap food and friendly service. All day, the long wooden counter has a cornucopia of cicheti that range from the obvious...

There's plenty of attitude in this lively spot. If you want to hang out over a tasty pizza margherita in a shady garden courtyard with Venice's bright young...

With its wooden decor, this rustic osteria smacks of the mountain chalet. Alongside a big barrel of wine, the bar is loaded down with a selection of...

This busy spot has morphed from bar to full-on restaurant, now with a vast waterside terrace. The menu ranges from seafood, meat, salad and cheese...

This traditional osteria, just five minutes from the station, has recently completed its move from wine-and-snack bacaro to bona fide, evening-only...

Right opposite the jetty on the island of Mazzorbo is this lunch-only trattoria, which serves filling lagoon cuisine. During the hunting season, there's no...

A sort of high-class canteen, this big, bustling fish trattoria with its friendly (though brisk) service and fair-ish prices has been piling in locals and...

One of the cheapest meals-with-a-view in Venice is on offer at this humble bar-trattoria on the Giudecca quay. It's a lunch-only place: the rest of the day...

One of Venice's first 'alternative' trattorias and still one of the best - not to mention one of the best-value. By a pretty bridge, the...

This tiny restaurant is today one of the hottest culinary tickets in Venice. There are so few seats that they do two sittings each evening; booking for the...

The walk-around bar in this friendly bacaro fills up with cichetari (snacking locals) in the hour before lunch and evening meals. Tables take up two simply...

This historic bar-osteria behind tack-filled Strada Nuova reopened in 2006, after painstaking restoration, with dynamic restaurateur and wine buff Alvise...