Now some suggestions on where to go and overall where to eat and drink!

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Santa Croce, this is the Sestiere where you decided to stay (and we decided to live) is one of the most typical and most Venitian. Here you can find some of our favourite places to see and favourite restaurants:

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Campo San Giacomo dall'Orio. (Campo is the venitian name for square. Here in Venice we use square only for one: San Marco square. All the others are called Campo.)  This Campo is always full of mothers with babies, old venitians who take a rest in the benches under the trees and dogs running everywhere.

there you find an italian supermarket named Coop (open until 10pm) ; a really nice bar with tables outside, The Prosecco; and just a bridge away, our favourite restaurant in Venice, La Zucca. This nice and small restaurant needs a stop and you had better book a table a day in advance if you don't want to miss it!

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Tolentini. This Fondamenta takes you from our glass shop to the university. Here you can find a very small bar in the corner called Da Lele. Here you should stop for an Ombra de vin and a cicheto (a glass of wine and a  small sandwich).at the end of the canal after hotel Falier there is a nice wine bar called Cantina Arnaldi

Campo della Lana:  has one of our favourite pizzeria, Vecio Pozzo. They served pizza and pasta until late at night, but also beef  is really good with at a resonable prices.

Rio Marin. In this typical venitian Rio (canal)  there is one of the best pastry shop in Venice, where you can relax and have your breakfast in the morning (not so fast : you are in Venice!!) Certainly we will meet there in the morning!

 In the other side of the canal  you fill find one nice and small resturant : osteria Tre Fanti specialized in venician fish cousine, with a great selection of organic and natural wine from small winemaker.

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Cannaregio, this sestriere starts when you cross the bridge of Scalzi, if you came from the railway station is the first you made to come here.

If you don't mind walking in crowded places you can try to cross the Strada Nuova and all its shops. But as Venitian we tell you, we hardly walk that way,It ís necessary only if you want to go to visit the Ghetto. So after the bridge Delle Guglie, turn left and get lost in this magical part of Venice full of history.​

Close by the ghetto there are many many nice restaurants. We can suggest you for sure the Timon, in fondamenta degli Ormesini. Where you can have a special Fiorentina (meat) or simply take a glass of good wine and relax on the tables outside. If you keep walking on that fondamenta you can taste one of the best fried fish in Venice at the Paradiso Perduto. If you decide to seat here (and have the chance to find a seat) you have to be more than relaxed. Itís a place where nobody run. The owner is also the chef and he cooked all day long. I won't be surprise if he came outside with something just cooked and started to offer it to everybody in the restaurant. This is really untypical for Venice as restaurants just want you to eat and go so they can sell your table to someone else!

All the restaurants we are suggesting you have medium cost. They are not expensive but you should know that if you seat and eat in Venice you won't spend less than 30/40 euros per persons. But the good thing is that all this restaurant are also bars. So you can decide to visit them all (but for the Zucca) and just have a drink and some cicchetti, a sort of venitian tapas. And so the price is 8/10 euros including the wine!

If you keep walking you can arrive at the Fondamenta Nuove. From here you can decide to take a boat for the island: Murano typical for the glass blowing, Burano, famous for the lace and the coloured fishermen houses or Torcello, the small one with only a church and some good restaurants typical for wedding parties.

If you stay here only 3 days, I will certainly suggest you to go to Burano. We really love this island with its typical houses, old women who make the laces and chat in the road and overall for its typical biscuit: I Buranelli or the Bussolai. Yellow biscuits you can buy almost everywhere in Burano..so delicious!!!

in this fisheman island you' ll find our preferred fish resturant in all venice: Gatto nero. 

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More we get closer to Saint Mark less we can suggest you. It can seem strange but is not a part of Venice we go often to, sorry!!! Itís always crowded and very expensive! If you want to have a coffee in Saint Mark square you need your credit card gold!!! Obviously is the most amazing part of all the city and you certainly have to go and visit the Doge's Palace, the secret Itinerary, the bell tower.  Do not stop and eat there. Food is not better, itís only more expensive because you are there. You can just walk 10 minutes from there and you will find nicer place to seat and relax.

Campo San Giovanni e Paolo, is one of this places. It ís a big campo just in front of the hospital (the entrance of the hospital it ís an ancient monastery and school of arts , church and they are really nice to see). Here there is another famous pastry shop Rosa Salva. Two minutes walking from this campo the restaurant La Staffa has a wonderful choices of fresh fish that can change every day. Itís really small so you have to be lucky to find a seat (or clever and book it in advance)! Please note that this is not one of the cheapest restaurant in town, but certainly one of the best to cook special fish.

Ok now that you visited all the best thing in Venice you can go and have your first Spritz facing the Grand Canal. Where do we go? But obviously to Rialto!

We call Rialto not only the bridge but all the zone surrounding it. The places where you can relax and drink and you are sure you are not surrounded by tourists but by venitian in the part called Erbaria. This part is the one facing the Grand canal on the side opposite to Saint Mark Square to understand it better. Here in the morning there is the fish market (very nice to see) and the fruit market everyday.​

In Campo Bella Vienna there are 2 of our favourite places: one is the small bar al Mercà ; here you can have the typical Aperitivo called Spritz with real prosecco or choose among the long list of wine they have. One door after, there is La casa del Parmigiano, where you can buy the best  cheese and ham of all Venice. This 2 places are Venitian at 100% and if you tell to both of them that Michele and Giorgia suggested you these places they will treated you also better if it is possible!

Changing completely zone, we go to Dorsoduro. Another Sestiere that in our ipothetical tour is the last in clock order. Here we can say there is the nightlife of Venice: Ok compare to all the other cities in the world our nightlife is really ridiculous...we can say that in Campo Santa Margherita the bars stay open later than in all part of Venice; Here is full of bars where you can have a spritz or a fast sandwich seating outside and not spending a fortune! All the bars are almost the same. We always go to the one on the corner called Bifora.

Walking from the campo you have to go to have a walk (maybe at sunset) to the Zattere. Here you will find The Schiavi , where the number of cicchetti is longer than the list of wine and then the best ice cream in town at the e Gianduiotto da Passeggio made by Da Nico is something specia!!! You can have it and go or you can seated in the terrace over the canal facing the island of Giudecca.