A venerable restaurant and inn in Dorsoduro with a vine-covered garden — one of the most pleasant dinner settings in Venice in summer. The menu focuses on simple, honest Venetian cooking with seafood as the perennial speciality: spaghetti alle vongole, grilled sole, baccalà in various preparations. The clientele tends to be older locals and visitors who have been coming for years.
Book ahead. The garden fills in summer; the interior room in winter is equally charming.