Trattoria da Remigio — Restaurant in Venice

Venice is a heartbreakking city, as you will see right afterwards : One thing is to discover a place, and another to return : In February of 2018, I photographed some of the cooks (just for pleasure), and now in May 2018 I brought along the pictures. I was eating two times at Remigio, being served subsequently by both owners, quite some caracters. The five pictures of the cooks, taken after "mercoledi delle ceneri" are a wonderful piece of theatre, like a gift. Great ! If you would - hypothetically - be sentenced to go to a punishment camp somewhere and you have some last free time, go to Remigio ! It is an extraordinary atmosphere, the waiters usually wearing white jackets. It is like on a ship. One of the owners is wearing extraordinary ties, explaining that he has just 110. Have some Venezian starter, and you can also have fegato, or delicious fish. When I left, the kitchen crew waved to me. What like you more to have in Venice ? And, Castello, where the trattoria is located, is a place remembering Canaletto. I was taking a picture of the Campanile from the rear side, and if you look very carefully, you will see that the Campanile (tower) is hanging to the right side. Very good sign of orientation if you walk around, and look - on the picture - on the wonderful sky. Canaletto ! +++++++++

It is very surprising that the comments on the restaurant (or the trattoria) are of such different nature, going from deception (which seems hardly justified, but everybody is his own judge) to five stars attributed. We have been passing two days of a long - and very rainy - weekend in Venice to shoot difficult photographs of buildings in Venice. I used an old and very powerful Rolleiflex true film photo camera. Also: We went to two other restaurants well rated in Michelin (sure a reference), Anice Stellato and Vecio Fritolin, an institution in Venice. After a lot of rain, you need a really decent restaurant, and the other two places treated us absolutely nicely ! On the last evening and for the lunch before leaving I went to Remigio, at the recommendation of my nearby hotel, and I was very positively surprised by the level of the food, the choice offered by the menu list and the quality of the waiters. There was a lot of politeness, and it was very nice to see that this is still a restaurant of "old quality" (and not of "fast Money"). ++++

Finally, another memory : It is not too easy to find Remigio, and the best starting point is on the water front, close to Zaccaria and Arsenale, at Gabriele Sandwirth. Your orientation can be (see photograph) a memorial plate on Franz Kafka, writing a letter to his fiancé Felice Bauer. Certainly, Franz Kafka is one of the greatest writers (indded) of XX. century, but - for many reasons - he had not a happy life, starting with his father and ending with tubercolosis - and other. But, from the corner of the Hotel, you go on and use brigdes, coming along (important) a farmacia, and you will find the restaurant. And have another look at the church tower, and the Canaletto sky. I went back to enjoy Remigio. +++++ July 2018 : Understanding Pictures - including photographs - is a delicate matter. On the Sunday I went first to Remigio it was literally rainig "cats and dogs", and we were forced , soaked - to take aperitiv at 10.30 in the morning, before lunch. Here are some of the rain photographs. Without all that water coming down (the rain photographs are great) the picture of the church would have not been possible. Enjoy rain photographs.

+++ Photographs, considered again, even after time, contain secrets : Take again a look at the photographs of the kitchen staff, left hand please ! Astonishingly enough, on the beginning, you think that there are four (4) persons on the photographs, but there is one hand on a shoulder too much ! Only, after going through, you will find the fifth person. Remigio is not only, as it is said, a restaurant for Commissario Brunetti (Questura is not far away), but also most likely for Maigret ! Enjoy the...

An unforgettable experience, that I wish I COULD forget.

First of all, we had the unfortunate situation of arriving at 11 am at this restaurant at the hope of at least serve some coffee and breakfast before eating lunch. The waiter told us that they are a restaurant and not a coffee shop and that they will open at 1 pm. Despite this first interaction we did as told and we came back later that day.

Secondly, when seated at the table in the old restaurant that has the air of old Venice but without any allure or charm , we had ordered an appetizer and a main course , the crab and grilled scampis that were 24 euros!. I ask the waiter if the main portion is enough for an adult and he said yes.

The food that arrived in front of us was an absolute joke. The appetizer crab had more meat and overall size than a main portion grilled scampis. Not only that but the crab had solid pieces of shell that you could break your teeth into. I have eaten all over the world Scampis and as you can see in the photos, I had to pick put the meat out of these sad attempts with my index finger.

We let the waiter know of our dissatisfaction of the whole situation and after some time the old waiter ( most likely owner) came to us and gestured in typical Italian fashion that the crab is freshly caughy and the scampis are a normal portion for adult and that no sides were needed for such a thing and literally just turned around and LEFT when we told him it wss not okay.

We paid the bill and left, ate at another recommended restaurant where we ate half a lobster pasta for 20 euros and actually had a blast. Would not reccomend this place to...

BEWARE - Rude staff and hidden charges.

Wife and I came for lunch and we came across the rudest waiter in all of our dining experience ever (and we have travelled throughout asia, europe and US). The whole menu was in Italian, so we asked for help with translating and recommending dishes. The old waiter was very much brushed our queries aside and very much said "in Venice we eat seafood....so order seafood", and was very pushy in getting the order from us. We politely told him to give is a few more minutes, so that we can decide on what we want to have and make an order later. He left and start talking loudly in Italian to his colleagues and pointing to our table, which I am guessing (and very confidently sure) that he is making negative / racist comment about us. He only stop when both him and his colleague saw that I am staring straight back at the two of them. From then on, another waiter (seem to be his supervisor / manager) took over our table and served us very nicely & professionally...which resulted in him receiving a handsome tip from us after our meal, just so that the 1st waiter can see what he is missing out on for being such a rude person in the hospitality industry.

The food - average to just below average. However, the hidden charges and their "special of the day" with market price is ridiculous. $45 for a plate of spaghetti with scampi..wtf. We don't mind paying for food & services, but not the way this restaurant operate....purely a scam that...