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Bistrot de venise
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Travellers' Choice
2024
MICHELIN
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Bistrot de Venise first opened in 1993 and has since become a hangout and meeting place where the figurative arts, poetry and culture combine, simply, with Food and Wine....1999 saw the start of our research into Rare Wines and Historical Venetian Cuisine, strengthening our concept of applying culture to local and regional Gastronomy and Wine. ...our hard work still continues today... Gastronomy & Wine…extensive research on the history of venetian Cuisine and Wines, from its noble origins to the present time. The Historic & Renaissance Venetian Cuisine revised and suggested by our Chef Mario Missese and his young team. Our House, unique in town, offer a gastronomic trip back to the past glories of Venice following its history & tradition. ”Award winning” wine list, for the quality and variety of the selected rare wines from the Veneto Region and the North-East of Italy. Professional wine tasting (free) all year round. "..exciting Wine List" .. (see Michelin Guide 2012) specialized in the research of many Rare Wines, a truly unique selection purchased directly from small producers with the help of Istituto Sperimentale di Viticoltura di Conegliano. More than 60 options by the glass and a wide selection of the most prestigious italian vineyards. Prized Wine List by Italian Sommelier Association for best 15 in the Veneto Region at Vinitaly 2010.
MICHELIN Guide: Good cooking
Diners will enjoy the lengthy wine list (available by the glass) and "historical" cuisine at this restaurant in a location known for its atmosphere.
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CUISINES
Italian, Wine Bar
Meal types
Lunch, Dinner, Drinks
Special Diets
Vegetarian friendly, Vegan options, Gluten free options
FEATURES
Accepts Credit Cards
Dog Friendly
Free Wifi
Full Bar
Outdoor Seating
Private Dining
Reservations
Seating
Serves Alcohol
Table Service
Wheelchair Accessible
Wine and Beer
Location
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Does this restaurant allow dogs or considered pet friendly?
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"Unbelievably good food. Quality, presentation, care in preparation"
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"11/10 if it was possible."
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"Amazing, elegant and a tremendously gracious and helpful staff."
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Hours
Closed now
• Opens at 12:00 PM
Sunday
12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.6:45 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Monday
12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.6:45 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Tuesday
12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.6:45 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Wednesday
12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.6:45 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Thursday
12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.6:45 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Friday
12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.6:45 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Saturday
12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.6:45 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
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EricaTripad
Rome131 contributions
Feb 2024 • couples
We had dinner 2 nights in a row at this restaurant. Thanks to The Fork's 20% "late dinner" discount, we spent around 115 euros for two per evening. The prices are not very low, but for the quality of these dishes we were happy to spend them. The service is excellent, the guys in the room are really professional and take care of their customers... we even asked to be moved to the sofas and we were satisfied after a short while. The food is excellent: the bread, the linguine, but also everything else satisfied our palate.
Written March 28, 2024
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Agnès G
Strasbourg90 contributions
Oct 2023 • friends
We took the menu with the “historical” recipes and enjoyed all our dishes: beautiful presentation, good ingredients and subtly spicy! The servers make the effort to speak French and carefully describe each dish. The food and wine pairing allows for some great discoveries, the sommelier is keen to make people appreciate the wines of the region. We feasted !
The price (150€ per person with wines) is justified by the quality and originality. A very nice experience!
Written October 26, 2023
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pesca256
Germany12 contributions
Aug 2023 • family
A classy restaurant with a classic Venetian interior. The prices are high, but you get perfectly balanced dishes, some of which are based on historical Venetian recipes and made with the finest ingredients. Simply exceptional! The service is very attentive, the explanations of the ingredients and the wine advice are excellent. If you speak a little Italian, the evening becomes even more welcoming. If you want to spend a special culinary evening far away from the usual "mass offerings" in Venice, this is the place for you!!!
Written August 8, 2023
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Юрий С
Sochi193 contributions
Mar 2025 • couples
A very cozy restaurant. Lots of friendly workers. The menu was uploaded via the Internet in their own language - a very large selection of languages. The waiter is fluent in English, all staff speak English, many words speak Russian. After the order came a very delicious compliment. Quiet music, nice atmosphere. Cons: the table overlooking the canal was not allowed to be taken because it was for four and there were two of us, the tables are very close together, there is no privacy at all. The Aperol Spritz drink has a lot of alcohol and little fruit. Dishes served quickly, with beautiful decoration, but portions are light in weight. The shrimp and fish are very delicate. The dessert was disappointing - the caramel crust is very thick, bit like a caramel lollipop, the crème brûlée is rough, must be much tenderer. The staff literally "licks" the customers, but the kitchen needs to tighten up. Particularly disliked the courtesy fee (such text was given by the translator) - 8.6 euros, apparently for "licking".
The restaurant prices are considerably high.
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Written March 15, 2025
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KamK7581
Loughborough133 contributions
Jun 2024 • couples
For our wedding anniversary, we chose Bistrot de Venise, nestled in a charming alleyway off the beaten track. The drink and wine selections were delightful, setting high expectations for the evening.
Unfortunately, the experience did not live up to its fine dining promise. Despite the elegant presentation, the food took over 45 minutes to arrive and was cold when it finally did. The service was merely adequate, lacking the attentiveness one expects from a high-end establishment.
The menu, predominantly seafood-based, offered only two vegetarian options, which felt limiting. At £300 for the meal, the price felt exorbitant given the overall experience.In summary, while Bistrot de Venise has a lovely setting and an impressive drink selection, the food and service fell short, making it difficult to recommend for special occasions.
Written June 20, 2024
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xVIIImax
Vancouver222 contributions
Jun 2024 • couples
This place, like many in Venice, is quite simply an overrated tourist trap. Ambiance is fine, quite lovely and intimate in fact. However, the food ranged from barely okay to good. There’s a heavy reliance on fried onions, which turned up in several dishes. Labelled as caramelized, they were rather very lightly sautéed and still had too much body and a raw flavour. They were present in the traditional dish of shrimp in saor, a supposedly sweet and sour Venetian recipe. My shrimp weren’t properly cooked, but rather barely warmed through and completely raw in the centre and had none of either sweet or sour flavours that should balance the dish. Heaps more onion appeared on my partner’s liver dish, which was much more like your grandma’s version and not the way we’ve had before, slightly crisp with a good dose of wine snd a touch of sugar to balance the acid. Greyish slices of liver were plunked atop a crusted-over an overly-salted plop of polenta.
Scallops were quite good, and lamb well-cooked but served with a tasteless “ carpaccio” of pumpkin, basically just thin slices of raw squash. They were served with the top bone in place, making it impossible to extract the meat from the tiny chops.
Our waiter started out being attentive, but we noticed service slipped to the point we changed our minds about ordering dessert. We had to pour our own water from the very heavy bottle. The delightful busboy did most of the waiter’s work.
Frankly we were insulted when our server basically intimidated us into tipping beyond the 10% stated on the menu, so we gave him another 10% for his “service”.
We would not dine here again, nor would we recommend the place.
Written June 2, 2024
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carla m
Turin113 contributions
Apr 2024 • couples
I have been to this restaurant several times in the past, finding it quite good.... now I wonder if it was a coincidence, given the disaster of today's evening. I arrive and discover that the table assigned to me is positioned outside.....it's April even though today it was very sunny! I wonder... can you force us to stay outside? On past occasions there weren't any tables outside, ergo.....you have to point it out that you're putting me out. Only following a harsh recrimination, with the threat of leaving, did I get to be placed inside. I order a shrimp in saor and a linguine with scampi according to an ancient Venetian recipe. The dishes are both quite expensive, but I knew this, knowing the bistro. If I eat well I have no problem paying. Quality comes at a price...everywhere and even more so in Venice. I receive a prawn with little flavor, not very clean and with Chinese pine nuts... super cheap compared to the classic ones, which are used in a cuisine worthy of the name. And that's fine.....I'll leave it alone! But then I get the pasta. ...saying it's overcooked doesn't make me feel disgusted when I eat it. Absolute rubbish, at times nauseating if you add that you could feel the crunch typical of dirty crustaceans under your teeth. Evidently the scampi had not been cleaned at all or adequately. I leave the pasta, because it's really inedible.
I pointed this out to the waiter, who continued to pass by, looking at the plate and remaining silent. Following my complaint, heated but legitimate because it concerns errors, so to speak, unforgivable for a certain type of restaurant, the maitre d' arrives. Surprise of surprises, instead of apologizing for ruining my evening he scolds me because "my young colleague was about to cry". Ridiculous and incompetent.....they took about 30 euros for pasta off my bill, but I don't care. I would have preferred them to apologize for the infinite level of the evening they made me spend and pay for the pasta, than to receive the discount from those who, with the arrogance of those who make a living from foreign tourists to whom you can serve up anything that is always " very good", he claimed to be right until the end. I'm sorry but I will never go back and I say more....I think they don't mind, because I think they prefer foreign tourists who are not accustomed to eating well and who, probably, will never come back again, to the more critical Italians and who, above all, if you fool them once they never come back and they give you a lot of negative publicity.
Written April 14, 2024
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JeanJean
Cuxhaven5 contributions
Dec 2024 • couples
A very nice place. Some Baroque-inspired ambience, waiter in classic black suit. Everything very well maintained, attentive. The kitchen: We ordered the Venetian menu, four courses plus a greeting from the kitchen in the form of a broth with cabbage and sausage strips. Like grandma. That means something. The fear of getting out hungry after the four courses was unfounded. Magnificent food based on ancient Venetian recipes were served to us. Nice also the wine recommendations of the sommelier, who liked to tell a bit debauched about the, notabene very good wines. The food was in danger of getting cold.
Hence also "only" 4 stars., also because the Chef de Service - presumably at the same time owner of the restaurant - showed a somewhat put-on friendliness. But overall a highly recommended place if you are willing to spend for 2 people around 400€
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Written December 9, 2024
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Anthony P
Somerset121 contributions
Jan 2025 • couples
We have eaten here on previous visits to Venice and delighted to find it has maintained its very high standards. The welcome is warm and gracious. There are a number of small dining rooms so it feels quite "intimate". There were just 5 tables in the room we were in. Service is friendly, professional and very efficient. Sometimes in restaurants at this level there is an air of pretentiousness. Not a hint of that here. It is very relaxed but with a slight air of formality. The menu has good choices and the food is delicious. Best scallops we've had for a long time. Duck and lamb cooked perfectly and presentation is just right. Tarte Tartin was excellent. The wine list is extensive - from reasonable to eye watering - with also a good selection by the glass. We had a glass of white with our starter and a bottle of red with mains.
It is on the expensive side but the best dinner we had in a week in Venice and amongst the best we've had in the last 12 months. We will definitely eat here again on our next visit to Venice. Highly recommended.
Written February 2, 2025
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alibN2865FB
9 contributions
Mar 2025 • solo
Wandered in on Friday night (21st March) without a booking and found staff to be both warmly welcoming and very polite. I ended up ordering the creamed codfish, ravioli and bergamot dessert. All were interesting and thoughtful, beautifully presented and, most importantly of course, delicious. Plus there are a few extra surprises for each diner :). Well worth asking for wine recommendations from the very knowledgable staff or following the pairings advised on the menu. As a solo diner I felt very welcome and service was attentive without being ‘too much’/intrusive. A really lovely experience I thoroughly enjoyed, and a highlight of my stay.
Written March 24, 2025
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claudie t
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes79 contributions
Jan 2024 • family
Very pleasant surprise, upon arrival at the restaurant, we sat on the terrace (smokers required) for an aperitif served with cordiality. Then we entered the bistro made up of several warm rooms and decorated in a romantic way without bling bling, very cocooning. The dishes followed one another very refined for the 6 guests that we were and according to the advice (in French) detailed and very appropriate. The bill is very reasonable for the meal, aperitif and drinks. The icing on the cake: 20% off the bill after 9:30 p.m.!!!! We will definitely return.
Written January 9, 2024
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Renate K
Rome21 contributions
Nov 2024 • solo
It is a very elegant restaurant, dear I think it has a Michelin star. Pacts are taken from the Venetian cuisine of ancient times and cooked in the way of our times. I had Tagliolini with white truffle, tuna veal and a Tarte tartin. They do not spare to use butter for me a little heavy. I drank a Prosecco and a glass of Amarone water and coffee. The very attentive staff explain everything how to match the wine to the dish and much more.
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Written December 5, 2024
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Julian
Felton71 contributions
Feb 2025 • couples
After being soaked to the skin we found this delightful, opulent almost decadent jewel not far from Piazza San Marco.
Warmly greeted by the best waiters you could wish for we thoroughly enjoyed a very special lunch of recipes that had been resurrected from as far back as the seventeenth century.
Incredible presentation and unusual combinations, created a memorable dining experience .
Highly recommended should you ever visit this magical city !
Written February 26, 2025
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ShuggMcGlummfer
Edinburgh75 contributions
Jun 2024 • couples
We were seated outside, as requested but our time there was spoiled by the typical noisy American brat shouting off, not the restaurants fault.
We tried the Historic Tasting menu which looked interesting but the promised eel with a crispy skin turned out to be soggy eel, very disappointing.
We were not impressed with the sommelier, as we discussed at length how we wanted a low abv red only for him to suggest x wine at 12.5%. Ages later, and only after I reminded the waiter of our lack of wine, the bottle arrived with an abv of 14.5%! Sent back and replaced with something more drinkable. He did eventually come over to apologise for his error.
Overall, we were disappointed with this restaurant as the food remained bland, never mind the soggy eel. It was difficult to get hold of staff throughout. Oh, the other thing was the terrible music which incorporated every cliché of awful musak.
Written June 7, 2024
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Ernesto Sotgiu
17 contributions
Apr 2024 • couples
It's like the concept of customer loyalty... in Venice it doesn't apply, it mainly applies to the inxxlation of the tourist... because, especially if they're foreigners from afar, it's difficult for them to return. I had been convinced for over 10 years that this statement did not apply to the bistrot de Venise, which I met 16 years ago on the occasion of my 40th birthday and have never forgotten every time that, in the last seven appearances in Venice, I have been their customer. This evening I unfortunately have to change my mind. Firstly, one of the owners wanted us to eat outdoors when no one at the time of booking let us choose the table or at least whether to eat outdoors or not. In early April it is unusual to say the least. Only under threat of leaving the table were we moved inside. After we sat down I had the feeling, but obviously it remains so, of being less welcome than the other guests. The chef de rang was even servile to the diners at the nearby tables, to us, hasty, sufficient, essential. Let's leave aside the sand in the prawns and the Chinese pine nuts (in a 28 euro dish) and get to the tasteless and overcooked pasta that my wife got. We acknowledge that the dish was deducted from the bill, but perhaps the sentence at the beginning of the review is unfortunately true. The foreign tourist eats, doesn't understand, and pays like no one else. We Italians are all gourmets. From now on I will leave the bistro cuisine to foreigners. I will go to other beaches to look for real Venetian cuisine.
Written April 14, 2024
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