"Behind exposed brick arches and well-worn wooden furniture near the Rialto bridge, I discovered Osteria Giorgione da Masa’s unexpected fusion: chef Masahiro Homma uses local ingredients to produce authentic Japanese dishes with a Venetian twist, with highlights including raw hay-smoked catch of the day, shrimp dumplings, homemade noodles with tuna and seaweed, and mix plates of Japanese cichetti that make for a fun nippo-Venetian mash-up." - Anne Hanley