A perfect dinner

My girlfriend and myself spend a couple of days in freezing cold February 2018 in Venice. She attended an academic meeting, and i joined her for the weekend. On saturday afternoon, we visited San Marco and wanted some cheap but great itealian food. Unfortunately, google lead us to a great pizza restaurant with exiting reviews, but closed in reality for winter season in spite of googles claims. Shivering from cold, and very hungry we had to revise our plans. An un-deserved portion of exciting luck lead us to Algiubagio, only a few steps away. I did a very quick check to the menu and decided to be capable to spend a budget of 3-4 pizzas tonight. It was one of the best decisions ever in my life. We opened the door and entered a place of pure delight. The restaurant is a piece of cutting-edge art and style, a 1:1 replacement of tuescan art transformed with a golden hand into the 21th century. The restaurant is a large room, formerly used for some kind of hands-on busines, decaorated with a superp sense of decoration. We were more than happy to win an intimate tale for two, without prior reservation. I fell inlove with tartar of tuna first, and some local italian beef (rare done). My girlfriend decided to stay vehetarian, something with aubergine an mozzarella. Based on the gorgious decoration, i lowered my expectation regarding the kitchen. Only to be surprised in the best way: All the food was excellent, best ingrediends you can expect, and cooked by experts. Every portion exceeded my expections by far with respect to taste, quality of indegriends, and expertice of the chief. When receiving the main course and taking the first bite, my first impression was to ask for salt. After a second, i realized the pure and original taste of the best quality of meat. Perfect meat. Adding of salt or any other spaces would be a sacrilege.

This experience contienued. After first and second cause, we were delighted by the quality, but feeled slightly dissatisfied with the amount of calories, and unable to order dessert. We asked the totally supportive waitors it would be possible to get some cheese, helping us to empty the wine before dessert. Just expressing our intention, we received a small but exciting selection of local cheese, escorted by a spoon of aromatic local honey and relish. This helped us to empty the wine and get prepared for dessert.

My girlfriend's choice was a cream of strawberry cream, my choice a classic tirami-su. Once again, a was overwhelmed by the absolute quality of the products. Mascarpone cream with 180% fresh taste, lacking all the ordinary taste of cheap almond liquor, offered the best tirami-su ever tasted.

My only mistake in this evening was the wine selection. Beeing a unconvincable fan of chianti whine, i rejected the waitors recommendation of local valpolicella whine. The wine was ok, but neither a good chianti nor a good acompany to the menue. Next time i will stick to the waitors recommendation.

To summarize: It was an exciting evening, great service, absolute exciting performance of the kitchen, very nive location, 1000% recommendation. We spend 180€ for two, which i rate as a good value for a perfect 2 course menue, a bottle of wine, water, and dessert.