Trattoria alla Nuova Speranza, Venice

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 ... more