Trattoria Al Vecio Portal Laguna e Oltre

Came here with a group of friends on vacation (6 total) and had an amazing, memorable meal. Our waiter Alvise was kind and so fun to talk to, making our experience in the beautiful garden space even better. We loved everything we ate including the tartares, red sauce pasta, lamb chops and gnocchi. The chef is Sicilian and has created wonderful dishes in addition to the Venetian cuisine. Truly the best sorbet (rosemary and strawberry) and cannolis of our lives! Come here and you’ll be taken care of.

Beautiful presentation of the food. Quiet street off the beaten path. Homemade everything. We had the potato gnocchi with scallops and shrimp and the spaghetti with tomato and basil. Appetizer of grilled octopus with potato and honey onions was fabulous. Get a street table for lunch as the interior garden is too sunny. If I am ever back in Venice I would come in the evening and ask to sit there. Cost is worth every penny. We did not add drinks to our estimate.

Excellent food, beautifully plated! Kind and knowledgeable staff. Great wine selection and the interior garden is beautiful and peaceful

This is a place my wife and I went to in 2023 for our honeymoon and have thought about coming back to constantly. I took a picture of our food here, forgot to save the places name, and therefore spent over an hour scouring images of restaurants just to find this place and come back! And I was successful! The service is so friendly, and it truly feels like a place where you only see the locals go, and they know what’s up. They seem to change the menu frequently, but if you get lucky enough to have the octopus as a started, then go buy a lotto ticket. The gnocchi were literally the softest we have ever had in our two trips through Italy. I don’t mean like soft and gummy like- I mean soft like you are cutting into ?pillows? Kind of texture??? The sauces are perfectly seasoned, and the portion for the prices seem really fair for the quality and freshness of the ingredients

Excellent price to quality ratio. Simply great quality local specialities, with creative modifications. Very comprehensive wine list. When you're looking for solid good food in less casual than Bistrot de Venise environment. Really friendly service.

The food was really good, however depending on the dish the portion was really small. My friend got ravioli and the fish contained only 6 ravioli for 20€. They brought a nice Sicilian appetizer: caponata with bread. I got gnocchi with capesante and mazzancolle and It was really good.

Excellent menu and food. Very professional and friendly service. Mostly local patrons but the house treated us as if we were. I’d come back here many times !

Was recommended by hotel but it was a terribly experience, particularly compared with other local Trattoria we’d been to. Host was not welcoming (which we put down to poor English skills which seemed strange based on other places) and the mains were terrible. We had lamb and a pork main off the standard menu. When they arrived they were the wrong way round and we said that, but they could distinguish between the two ! We did based on taste. The mains were no better than canteen food and no way worth the 25 euros for lamb and 18 for the pork. It was a very disappointing evening. I’m sure if we were Italian it would have been much better.

We had dinner here our last night in Italy and it was wonderful. Hardworking family - father, mother and son take great pride and care. We had the mussels - the absolute best! My husband had the eggplant ravioli and I had the spaghetti with tomato and basil. Good, simple, good full of flavor.

This was not our choice to have lunch but they were accommodating and very friendly. The Service was good except for when he gave us a mosquito repellant spray so I was a bit distracted that may be the reason why I can't remember my dish.

Do not fail to go to this restaurant if you are in Venice. My tattoo artist, a Venetian resident, recommended this place unsolicited. She said it was popular with Venetians because the food was very good and the prices were very reasonable to moderate. It is a few blocks off the popular tourist tracks and well worth the steps. My wife had the pork tenderloin with a rosemary cream sauce....Lovely sauce that I need to try to emulate at home. Pork line was tender and cooked masterfully. There was a polenta type potato side that will cause a delightful swoon. My gnocchi with shrimp and scallops was stunning. As was the second plate of tuna in a Rosemary mashed potatoes. Our wine was a Dolcetta d'Alba for only 30€ and is a bargain by American measures. The place has a pleasantly amusing ambiance, and very good and inexpensive pizza for the kids. My children are everything put in front of them.

This place was simply amazing. In our short stay in Venice, we were lucky enough to try this place out on our first night. The food was to die for We ordered the eggplant ravioli and the lasagna and we couldn't have been happier. The lasagna was so soft and just melted in your mouth. It was the perfect amount of sweet and salty. It felt like I was eating the yummiest cloud in the world. We also got a half bottle of their house wine, which I did not enjoy. The tiramisu for dessert was also great. We came back here on our second night and ordered the same dishes. So good. HIGHLY RECOMMEND. Will definitely be back here next time I'm in Venice!

Had probably one of the best octopus dish im we've ever had! Nicely spiced and amazingly tender - perfectly cooked. The seafood pasta tasted of seafood and just what I had wanted. Overall it was a wonderful experience and we were so happy to have found this gem. Exactly what we had hoped for!

This place rocks. Carbonara was the best I've had in Italy. House wine is great and cheap. They represent their city well!

Hidden behind the main water walkway but this restaurant has some tasty food with homemade pasta that locals love to hang out. We're skeptical at first but have dinner there our last two nights. The price is reasonable compared to restaurants out on the water front.

I don't give many 1 star reviews (in good part to reading other people's great yelp reviews!) but this place deserves it. Food: Have you been to the olive garden? That place is better. We ordered lasagna, which tasted like the frozen stuff from the Super market (but it was made fresh so that is not a good thing), and home made spaghetti with porcini mushrooms and scallops. There were no scallops and spaghetti was not fresh made. Cost: 50 Euros. Rip off for what we ordered (those two entrees and 9 Euro bruschetta) Service: Dinner was 3 hours. Not because we liked the atmosphere, but because of the time it took to get the waiters attention to order and get the bill. God, 1 hour just to get the bill after asking 3 times. The waiter spent a lot of time smoking and drinking on the job - Italian guy that may have been the owner. Other waiters looked sour doing their jobs. We started dinner at 7:30p Tip if you still decide to go: ask to sit in the garden. It has more space and nicer area. Other travel review site (T. A.): Look at where the reviews come from, the UK, how flavorful is their food? :) Final thoughts: please please don't spend your valuable time and money here. My goal of writing this is to help people on vacation right now (my second to last day in Venice). Good eating!

Went here twice during our short stay in Venice. The first night was great, good service and wonderful fresh cooking. I would give it 5 stars, but on the 2nd night I got the preset 18 euro meal, which was good for value but you're better off getting something off the seasonal menu. Their appetizer crouton-like to nibble on while you peruse the menu are delicious as well. If it's available, get the profiteroles for dessert! I would definitely recommend it.

A great place run by owner / waiter / chef Pino, a Sicilian. Great food, very good home made pasta and the best Sardes Al Saor in Venice so far. And it's cheap too. Highly recommended!

If I could give zero stars to this restaurant I would. This is by far the worst restaurant I have been to Italy, and believe me I have been to a lot. The service was horrendous, I have never received worse customer service to when I entered this restaurant. The waiters ignored us every time we tried to get their attention, and when we were finally able to get a hold of one he was rude and had a very unpleasant attitude. When we finally got our food, it was terrible!!! My pasta tasted like something expired out of the freezer aisle from a store. This place was not worth the money and I would not recommend for anyone to come eat here. Please beware of this place.

Great value for our meal here! We got the calf liver and polenta (as it's a Venetian specialty), along with pizza and gnocchi in the best gorgonzola cream sauce I've ever tasted. Might go back to Venice just for this place!

Excellent ambience, friendly staff, great food, good wine, reasonable price. Great night in Venice.

Phenomenal! The lasagna melts in your mouth and it's amazing. All 4 dishes we are were excellent. Highly recommend.

First time in Venice. Browsed our neighborhood for reasonably priced restaurants and picked this one because it was the busier of two with 18 euro dinner offerings. It turned out to be very good; so much so that we went back the next night and were just as pleased. For tourists looking for good food and not being ripped off like many tourist restaurants do, this is what you are looking for.