Category Archives: Venice
We Don’t Eat Here
One of the many reasons to travel to Venice with us is finding the “real Venice” away from the tourist traps where the authentic Venetian cuisine is found. A side perk: none of our customers has ever been put in the hospital by a waiter.
For the record, violence of ALL kinds in Venice is exceedingly rare and this event probably qualifies as a lightning strike type incident, but needless to say knowing where to not eat is as important as anything you’ll decide on your trip to Italy. Don’t waste time on bad food and tourist traps! And not to victim blame, but you don’t go to Venice for the steak any more than you go to Lubbock, TX for the sushi.
Che Bruta!
This is the ugly reality for Brugnaro’s Venice–floating cities roiling the lagoon waters and eating away at Venice’s threatened foundations. It needs to stop.
Linguine al’Astice
At one of our favorite places in Venice. Craving this right now. Bet your dinner doesn’t look this good :). Is that rubbing it in? Come get a plate with us! We have never had a client come here who failed to record this as one of their best meals ever, bar none.
Linus Roache Nails It
Come explore the mystery with us.
Craving Some Cicchetti
And if you knew how good the smoked swordfish wrapped robiaola, pickled herring, and olive oil and herb soaked artichoke hearts were here, you would be too! Nothing beats a cicchetti bar off the beaten path a bit in a quiet Venetian neighborhood for a pre-dinner snack and bicchiere di vino!
Come find this place with us.
Acqua Alta!
Found on the Guardian, a century of pictures of Venice during high water periods. For the record, no, don’t go swimming in Piazza San Marco during high water. Please. Putting aside the microbial soup you’re swaddling yourself in, it’s not much more respectful of the place than the tourists who’ve been spotted camping in tents in piazze, locking padlocks on bridges, carving their names into monuments, or doing some of the even more unmentionable things tourists have done to behave badly in Venice of late. They put those temporary footbridges up for a reason!
Che Schifo! Bad News For Venice.
The idea that not allowing cruise ships into the lagoon will damage the Venetian economy is predicated on the false premise that it’s helping in the first place to let them in. The backbone of the Venice we know and love is found in the small merchants, boutique hotels, and fine restaurants that hordes of cruise ship tourists don’t patronize in the slightest. Buying fake Carnival masks made in China at tourist trap shops around the corner from San Marco is not what’s going to save Venice.
Cruise Ships And Elections
Death In Venice Filming Locations
Very cool:
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