San Zulian

Came on a rainy day in Venice & had a nice welcome by the staff. The clam soup was delicious! The breadsticks at the table were a nice touch. As with any other restaurant in Venice, they lure tourist with the fixed price menu. Then once inside, you have to ask for it. Sometimes the fixed price menu is good, sometimes not, depends what you are in the mood for.

The waiter enticing people to come inside is very good at what he does. I am convinced that this place is a tourist trap as I can’t imagine a local visiting once and then returning by choice.
1. San Julian offers a «special» but should alert their patrons that the service size is appropriate for a 7 year old. I would appreciate the honesty and I would simply order more food.
2. The red glass of wine that arrived as a part of the special was ice cold. Horrible!
3. Once the food arrived (a simple pasta plate), it was bland and undesirable.
4. The staff was nice enough but it just didn’t make up for the food.
I would definitely pass next time.

Do not come here. The food is sub par at best, especially for Italian food and service is atrocious. Moreover, they charged us 7 euro over on the bill but wouldn’t take it off. Finally they put a service charge of 2.50 euro per person and then charged 12% on top of that. Do not come here

Expensive and with a tendency to try to take advantage, but at least a solid meal. Waiter pimping the menu outside was a little cringeworthy.
I saw a «Menu Veneziano» including wine that was an okay deal for expensive Venice, do I decided to sit down. He wanted to bring me a different menu though, with pencilled-​in higher prices, including a «Menu Veneziano Tipico» that was € 10 more, included dessert but did not include wine. If I hadn’t looked carefully I would have ordered that. I had to ask him for the posted menu, which he brought out in another book.
The mussels that came with this menu were good, but small and in a small portion. I feel like I’ve had better frozen from Publix. The spaghetti in Venetian soar was solid, also a little small though. Compare Al Nono Risorto’s: same dish, but more packed with pasta. The wine glass, on the other hand, was filled almost to the brim like on that Cougartown TV show where everyone always seems to want to get wasted on some unspecified red wine.
Service was very attentive (to me, a foreign single diner they wanted to efficiently take care of), even excessively so, though the German family sitting next to me complained that they were a little slow. I kept seeing that same waiter draw in every passing tourist family, but the lack of Italians was suspect. It’s okay, but nothing special in my limited experience.

I found this place through trip advisor and decided to try it out since it was near where our walking tour of Venice ended. The main reason I decided to try this place out instead of other restaurants nearby is because of all the glowing reviews of great customer service and what not.
My husband and I decided to start off with the baked scallops appetizer. It was good but a little on the bland side. For our entrees I had the tortellini with ham in a cream sauce and my husband had the lasagna in meat sauce. Both entrees were just meh. The customer service here wasn’t bad but it wasn’t anything to rave about. Our whole dinner including 2 beers was around 50 €.