The 16 Best Restaurants In Venice, Italy 2024

"We applaud Trattoria Al Vecio Portal for serving Sicilan food in Venice—you might know about the fierce rivalry between the Italian north and south. Turns out, the dishes are so good, that they could dish up plates of caponata with extremely good bread at some random point in the Mediterranean Sea and it'd still be worth the visit. Any seafood dish coming out of the kitchen (whether that’s the garganelli with clams, tagliolini with shrimp, or tuna tartare with soy, capers, and chives) is going to be excellent. Come for dinner, get a bottle off the natural wine list, sit in the huge garden in the back, and always save room for the chocolate mousse and sorbet." - gillian mcguire