Ostaria Santa Fosca — Restaurant in Venice

Positives: busara with mussels was super tasty. I was impressed with whoever cooked it. Spritz was perfect. Service was kind. Eggplant parmesan was nice, if a little different to what I'm used to. Nice quiet spot away from the crowds and next to a canal. Negs: toilet area smelled strong. Many mosquitos in the evening but of course not their fault. When the tide goes down in the evening the canal is a bit strong smelling; again nothing they can do about such a thing, you forget it after some minutes. For Venice I think it's a nice spot to eat. They should give you some little bowl of chips or something with the Aperol. Venice is expensive and these businesses make the bulk majority of their annual earnings in a few months of the year. Doing vernice on a budget will always require some planning and in my opinion it is not very expensive for Venice in respect to food. I don't drink €47 bottles of wine, so I can't comment on the wine pedigree and cost. The food when we had it just yesterday was very very nice and the spaghetti busara at 14€ in Venice, a...

Not tourist friendly - avoid unless your Italian When we arrived, we were shown to a room in the back with four empty tables. Once seated we were given menus that only had Italian (I understand that we were in Italy but every other restaurant we visited had the menus translated to various languages). The staff appeared to be friendly and translated the menu for us; we placed a simple order of three main courses. As we waited for our food the other three empty tables were filled. As time went on all three tables received food plus additional bread; I assumed that the other tables had ordered starters hence the reasoning for them to get food before us. It was only when our food arrived and I could see that each dish we had ordered had actually been served to the other tables. It is my opinion that all other three Italian speaking tables had been prioritized before us. To be clear; we waited over 1 hour for our food and there was zero apology from staff for the delay. Also it is important to note that the food was not...

We went there twice. The first time was exquisite. The second time the clams had a taste of detergent and my partner had a headache all day long. No refund. Dangerous. EDIT: After two years, reviewing my reviews, I added one star because I remembered the first time was great. After having seen the owner reaction, I went back to one star. Let me also add that the prices you pay don't match those indicated on the menu. And yes, the clams had a detergent taste, I myself tried one, I can confirm my partner's impression. It is their word against ours. Maybe their palate is broken, which would explain. The portion of clams being so small, no wonder already two thirds were already finished. And yes, sometime you need time to realize there is a problem. This kind of defensive reply shows a lack of humanity and...