The Places · Italy
Venice
Made By profiles 10 places in Venice, spanning modern venetian fine dining, hotel, modern italian fine dining — each tied to the people and producers behind it.
01.Hotel
Aman Venice
Venice, Italy
Aman Venice occupies Palazzo Papadopoli, a Renaissance palace on the Grand Canal in the San Polo sestiere. With just 24 rooms, Michelin 3 Keys recognition, and one of the only private gardens fronting the canal, it sits in a category apart from Venice's other converted-palace hotels. Ranked 79th on the World's 50 Best Hotels list in 2025 and awarded 97.5 points by La Liste in 2026.
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02.Modern Venetian Fine Dining
Glam Restaurant by Enrico Bartolini
Venice, Italy
Inside Palazzo Venart on the Grand Canal, Glam holds two Michelin stars under resident chef Donato Ascani, working within a framework established by multi-starred Enrico Bartolini. Two tasting menus divide between Venetian-rooted dishes and Bartolini's signature canon. La Liste awarded 90 points in both 2025 and 2026. Arrival by private water taxi is possible, which fits the setting precisely.
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03.Modern Venetian Fine Dining
Ristorante Quadri
Venice, Italy
On Piazza San Marco, Ristorante Quadri occupies one of Venice's most scrutinised dining addresses, where chef Sergio Preziosa applies contemporary technique to lagoon-sourced ingredients, fish from the shallow waters, vegetables from Sant'Erasmo island, seasonal shellfish and game. A Michelin star, a La Liste score of 83 points in 2026, and membership in Les Grandes Tables du Monde place it in a tight comparable set of modern Venetian fine dining.
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04.Hotel
Londra Palace Venezia
Venice, Italy
A Relais & Châteaux member since 2012 and Michelin Key holder, Londra Palace Venezia occupies a neoclassical palazzo on Riva degli Schiavoni with 53 individually decorated rooms and a direct view across the San Marco basin to San Giorgio Maggiore. The hotel has operated for nearly 170 years and houses two distinct dining formats, LPV Restaurant for fine Venetian cuisine and LPV Bistrot for lighter, lagoon-terrace lunches. Rates start from around $708 per night.
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05.Modern Italian Fine Dining
Local
Venice, Italy
A Michelin-starred address on Salizada dei Greci, Local places lagoon-sourced ingredients inside a modern Italian framework that stays grounded in Venetian tradition. Ranked #352 among Europe's top restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it operates a deliberately constrained schedule, closed Tuesday and Wednesday, that signals intent as much as capacity. The format rewards advance planning and attention to the city's tidal rhythms.
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06.French-Mediterranean Fine Dining with Greek Influences
Palais Royal Restaurant
Venice, Italy
The Venetian outpost of Paris's award-winning Palais Royal, set inside the Nolinski hotel in the former Palazzo della Borsa, brings a cross-cultural tasting menu format to the lagoon city. Greek chef Philip Chronopoulos, whose kitchen career includes time with Joël Robuchon and Alain Passard, builds menus around Mediterranean seafood, French technique, and Italian ingredients, served across two tasting menu formats in an elliptical, mid-century-inflected dining room.
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07.Traditional Venetian Seafood
Osteria alle Testiere
Venice, Italy
One of Venice's most consistently recognised small-room restaurants, Osteria alle Testiere began as a bacaro on Calle del Mondo Novo and has since earned a Michelin Plate and Opinionated About Dining recognition for its market-driven Venetian seafood. With very few tables and a menu that changes with the Rialto catch, reservations must be secured well in advance.
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08.Modern Italian Fine Dining
Dama Restaurant
Venice, Italy
Inside Ca' Bonfadini on the Cannaregio canal, Dama operates from one of Venice's more spatially intimate formats: just three shared wooden tables, ten seats total, and a kitchen led by Lorenzo Cogo working in a register that balances regional tradition with genuine creative ambition. A Michelin Plate holder in both 2024 and 2025, and ranked in Opinionated About Dining's top 500 European restaurants, Dama earns its place in Venice's mid-to-upper creative dining tier.
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09.Modern Venetian Fine Dining
Zanze XVI
Venice, Italy
On a quiet canal in Santa Croce, Zanze XVI sits at the point where the bàcaro tradition and creative contemporary cooking meet. Chef Giovanni Regoni draws ingredients from lagoon producers and the best local markets, producing dishes that hold Venetian culinary identity up to the light rather than simply reproducing it. A Michelin Plate holder in 2024 and 2025, and ranked #460 in the Opinionated About Dining Europe list for 2025.
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10.Authentic Venetian Seafood
Al Covo
Venice, Italy
Among Venice's mid-range trattorias, Al Covo occupies a distinctive position: a family-run room in Castello that treats the Venetian lagoon's seafood as a serious subject rather than a tourist formula. Holding a Michelin Plate and ranked in the Opinionated About Dining Casual Europe list, it sources vegetables from its own garden on Sant'Erasmo island and pairs that produce-led ethos with a tightly considered wine list.
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