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 ...
...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 as it was lunch we had booked to eat at another restaurant that evening so we chose spaghetti.

We ordered the house wine, red, nice light and enjoyable for mid day, ... more

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 as it was lunch we had booked to eat at another restaurant that evening so we chose spaghetti.

We ordered the house wine, red, nice light and enjoyable for mid day, 3 went for the spaghetti opa and one lasagne. To say I was looking forward to this dish was an understatement and would like to say I was not disappointed, but I was. Although it was nice, it seemed to lack something, which I put down to the restaurant; it was not Tre Spiedi, though the meal was passable. I think also they had left it in the kitchen a while before it was served to us as the spaghetti was cool, as was the plate, although the lasagne that Steve had was o.k. and he enjoyed it.

The restaurant was very nice and clean and busy, but if we went again I would have to forego the opa and try another dish.

Worth visiting if going off the beaten track.

 

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