PICNIC Burano — Restaurant in Venice

The quality of the “cicheti” is far below the local standard and generally far from being acceptable. For €3, I was served a slice of low-quality bread, with some low-quality melted cheese on top (which was sold as “pecorino”), a slice of low-quality cured ham, and a low-quality dried tomato. Guess what? It resulted in low-quality “cicheto”. Similarly, also the spritz was particularly poor. I left both things nearly untouched on the table and the waiters didn’t even care to ask whether the food and/or beverage presented any problem.

So, just carefully...

Spent a lovely hour here in the late afternoon over coffee with close friends in August waiting for our reservation at the nearby (and excellent) Trattoria al Gato Nero. Our waitress/barista was lovely as well and patient and the view out over the archipelago expansive. I enjoyed walking down among the fishing and clamming boats and seeing the leaning tower of Burano (Église Santa Maria delle...

Very rude waiter! We waited for over 20 minutes and even after asking the waiter that we would like to order twice we got ignored provocatively. The guy just stood there and looked at us. We got told that they will only serve us drinks because they will close soon (17:10?) but other people were ordering food and drinks so apparently that was not a problem. I have never been treated in a...