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Restaurant · Venice, Italy

Antiche Carampane

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  • Today 12:30-14:30, 19:30-22:00
  • Venezia-Murano-Burano
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Official Review

Written by RuinMyTrip Editorial from published research and official sources, not from a personal trip. It is not a traveler review and is never counted in the community rating. How we research.

What it is

A small fish restaurant in the lanes of San Polo, Venice, serving the day's catch across about a dozen tables, with no tourist menu and no pizza.

Why travelers eat here

Because it is the antidote to everything wrong with eating in Venice: it is small, hard to find, cooks what the boats brought, and refuses the entire tourist-menu apparatus.

What is genuinely good

Day-boat fish cooked simply, a tiny dining room, a kitchen that has been consistent for decades, and a location that filters out passing trade.

Downsides

A 35 euro per person no-show charge. A time limit on the early seating. Very hard to find. Books out weeks ahead and shuts for a summer holiday.

Best for

Anyone who wants one serious meal in Venice, and anyone who has been burned by a menu turistico already.

Consider eating elsewhere if

You cannot book ahead, or you want a canal view. This has neither availability nor a view.

Practical advice

Book weeks ahead and confirm, because the no-show charge is real. Allow twenty minutes to find it and expect to get lost anyway. Take the second seating if you want an unhurried evening.

Prices and reservations

A la carte. Booking required, with a 35 euro per person penalty for a no-show or late cancellation. The 7:30 p.m. seating runs until 9:30 p.m.

Getting there

Vaporetto to San Silvestro or Rialto Mercato, then ten minutes through the lanes of San Polo. Follow the address rather than the general direction.

Where it sits

Rio Terra delle Carampane in San Polo, in the dense lanes behind the Rialto market, well away from the San Marco crowds.

How long to allow

Two hours, or the length of your seating.

The RuinMyTrip verdict

Book weeks ahead, allow time to get lost, and take the later seating. The best fish in Venice and the least interested in tourists.

Sources
  • A penalty of 35 euros per person applies to a no-show or late cancellation. source
  • Tables booked for the first evening seating at 7:30 p.m. are held only until 9:30 p.m. source

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Official Review

Written by RuinMyTrip Editorial from published research and official sources, not from a personal trip. It is not a traveler review and is never counted in the community rating. How we research.

★★★★★

Thirty-Five Euros a Head if You Do Not Turn Up

Antiche Carampane charges a no-show and late-cancellation penalty of 35 euros per person, and tables booked for the first evening seating at 7:30 p.m. are held only until 9:30 p.m. Those two policies tell you exactly how the restaurant runs. It is a small fish restaurant hidden in the lanes of San Polo, so hard to find that its own sign reads that you do not arrive here by chance. There is no tourist menu, no pizza…

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