Normally, Venice isn’t the kind of place I’d go on a vacation (dense city), but since we had to go there for a conference I was presenting at, we accepted it and made the best of it. Venice is extremely unique: there are no cars, the whole area is basically a bunch of islands, loosely connected via bridges. It has that classic old European twisty, windy road feel, and it’s absolutely wild to walk around in. My favourite thing about visiting such a unique place for such a long time (we were there for over a week) was slowly learning all the neighborhoods, and an area that I struggled to find the first day was a comfortable, easy landmark later in the trip.
To be completely, 100% honest, we found that most restaurants in Venice are just not that great: there are so many tourists and it’s so difficult to bring food in I think it’s easy to just aim for the lowest common denominator. In particular the 10 million restaurants with buskers were extremely mediocre. However, there were a few gems: In general, the more effort you had to put in to visiting the restaurant (advance reservation, difficult to find), definitely the better. Here are my faves:
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