Exploring Venice by Gondola
If you get the chance to come to Venice, Italy please give yourself more than a day and if possible at least a week for your stay. We spent a week, a full seven days, and I plan to return when we can at least double that. This city is that beautiful, has that many amazing things to see and do, and it has that many delicious restaurants to try!
I was watching the Bravo “reality” show, The Real Housewives of New Jersey recently and the group of families spent one day – one day – in Venice, and by the tone of their arguments in the gondola they should have taken a few more days to enjoy the city. Exploring Venice and eating a meal at a restaurant like Corte Sconta, with its classic Venetian menu will put a smile on anyone’s face.
The Castello area of the city borders San Marco with the famous Doge’s Palace. If you are staying in a hotel along the canal like the Hotel Danieli or exploring the small streets behind the Piazza San Marco, it is worth finding this gem of a restaurant. Corte Sconta or “hidden courtyard” is a restaurant that typically gets filled by locals. It has simple wooden bistro tables. They have a classic seafood menu with a dishes like clams sauteed in ginger and ink pasta.
They offer a seafood antipasti that is perfect with their house wine, a prosecco without gas. It is the ideal restaurant for experiencing the real Venice. The prices are moderate, the tables can be noisy but the service was fast and the food delicious. We love finding places like this because it couldn’t be any further away from the restaurants that cater to tourists. And don’t worry, you can do what I like to do and hide your Italian dictionary in your lap for those tough but important words to know like zabaglione [a deliciously decadent famous Italian custard dessert].
Calle del Pestrin
Castello 3886
Venice – Italy
+39 041-522-7024
Closed Sunday and Monday
Photo by Sharon Castellanos