Advantages: Happy, friendly and very welcoming. Disadvantages: Food not too hot when arrieved at the table.
Trattoria alla Nuova Speranza, can be found by walking to the Arsenale area of Venice Island. We had almost give up finding anywhere to eat in the area we had ventured off the main drag, boulevard Garibaldi which was once a canal but has now been covered over to make the widest street on Venice Island.
One of my favourite dishes is spaghetti opa, which is plain cooked spaghetti tossed in oil, garlic, chillies and parsley. This dish which I have eaten at a restaurant called Tre Spiedi many times, which I am sad to say has in the last year changed hands. I had yet to find it on another menu, so when we found the Trattoria and it was on the menu I thought great.
The trattoria is small and a little dark on the inside, had a warm welcome and a few locals eating or waiting to eat, always a good selling point.
The menu was varied but ...
Advantages: PRICE and GOOD LOCATION Disadvantages: STAIRS AND ATTIC ROOM
LOCANDA NOVO is a small Hotel , they describe it as an Inn, located on the main Island of Venice.
We Quatro Fontanas (Fountain Travel Group) have stayed there once, and would consider it again.
For the price this Hotel is very good but there are some limitations that might put you off if you have dodgy knees.
First the location, OK it is not St Marks but you are not paying St Mark's prices. If you look through
WWW.HOTELSCOMPARISON.COM site you will find offers of less than £50 per night for a double room with breakfast.
The Hotel has its own web site WWW.LOCANDANOVO.IT which is quite good, but you will get a better price booking through other sites, but it does show you the official rate ...
We actually stayed in the Anex of Hotel Colombia that is called LOCANDA REMEDIO.
You use the checkin of the Colombina, then they take you thru the back yard, DO NOT LET THIS DETER YOU.
You then enter the Anex climbing a stone stairway that opens into a Beautiful Salon, this is where you will have breakfast, superb compared with small breakfast room in the main Hotel.
The staff come across in the morning and set the tables in the Salon.
The rooms around the Salon vary in size, some quite small (This is Venice) but all encharting.
Location, 100 yards from Saint Marks.
Cost we usually get a Double with Breakfast in March for about £40 to £50 a night.
2008 cant wait. ...
