Osteria a la Campana

A locals' trattoria hidden in plain sight in the heart of the Venice tourist zone

** Osteria a la Campana
Calle dei Fabbri 4720, San Marco (on the main street leading north out of Piazza San Marco toward Teatro Goldoni)
Vaporetto: San Marco or Rialto
tel. +39-041-528-5170
Closed Sun

Sights nearby
*** Piazza San Marco (square)
Museo Civico Correr (museum)
Bacino Orseolo (gondola parking lot)
*** St. Mark's Basilica (church)
*** Palazzo Ducale (palace/museum)
* Campanile di San Marco (bell tower)
* Rialto [bridge]
*** Grand Canal (sight)

Other places to eat nearby
*** Bistrot de Venise [meal]
Rosticceria Teatro Goldoni [light meal]

Hotels nearby
Hotel Palazzo La Scala [cheap]
Hotel alla Campana [cheap]
Residenza Ca' San Marco [cheap]
Reid Recommends * Hotel Ai Do Mori [moderate]
Reid Recommends Hotel Caneva [super-cheap]
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It just says "Osteria" in the window, and from the door you can see only the bar. The wood-paneled dining room next-door has curtains in the windows, almost as if to keep the tourists who wash up and down the busy street just a few blocks from St. Mark's Square from discovering this budget eatery buzzing with Venetian dialect from its tightly-packed, tiny wooden tables.

There's no menu, they just rattle off the day's pre-prepared dishes when you sit down (come early before the good stuff's gobbled up).

They operate under a true home-cooking mentality: if the rigatoni's tomato sauce is ragued with tuna, then the fried polpette (meatballs) will be tuna as well. Dishes change daily: perhaps pasta with prosciutto and peas, bocconcini of veal cooked tender in milk, or batter-fried fish.

The table wine is a sfuso (wine on tap) from the Friuli, and if soccer is on, so's the TV up in the corner.

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