Wine Bar 5000 — Restaurant in Venice

We ate here for lunch today and enjoyed it so much! After coming from touring Doge’s Palace, we were looking for a quiet, scenic spot to eat and get away from crowds - and this was perfect! Just saw it on Google maps and it had good reviews, so we sat down to give it a try. The cicchetti platter was delicious, as were the meatballs. We got glasses of wine after asking the waiter for recommendations, he was very helpful. He also brought extra non-fish cicchetti to our table after hearing that my friend wasn’t a huge fan of seafood (unlike me)- very sweet of him and it was also on the house which was extra generous. We watched a painter by the canal making lovely art and enjoyed our peaceful lunch tucked away in the canals. We were the first people at the restaurant for the day (arrived just after 12pm), but so many people sat down in the time we were there or took cicchetti to go, seemed like many locals. Can’t...

We arrived at the venue and no one seated us. Then they seemed surprised that we were sitting down. At first, they didn’t know whether we were allowed to stay, but eventually let us sit. That’s fine, although it felt a bit chaotic.

We ordered prosecco and wine, but they seemed confused that we weren’t ordering food. They didn’t know if that was acceptable but eventually acted like it was. Again, if the place has certain rules, that’s okay—but guests should be informed. The name of the establishment doesn’t suggest that ordering food is required.

Then they brought us water, but the rest of our order never arrived. The staff openly ignored us. The table next to us also had issues with their order.

The only positive thing was that, after we complained, they gave us the water for free. But I’ve never experienced sitting in a wine bar and only being...

Ordered Moscow Mule but sadly there was no Ginger beer. Tasted plainly like vodka, when asked if they have added Ginger beer they said yes, however, I explained that it tastes bad and asked more ginger beer. Waiter asked to take a seat and she will bring it - then she brought both ginger beer and ale, asked for beer. When the bill came I was charged for the ginger beer. Only again after explaining that the cocktail was really bad she went in and came back to say that I do not need to pay for the ginger beer. In short: for safety - do not...