Trattoria da Roberto

Tourist rip off! Lobster spaghetti was just pasta in tomato sauce with a lobster on the side — a total mess to eat since the lobster came in its shell. Be aware that you will also get charged a cover charge and a service charge, which the waiter will refuse to remove. Avoid!

The Ryanair of dining, hidden charges, quick turn service and poor quality food. Not recommended.

While wandering the back streets behind Piazza San Marco and the Grand Canal stumbled on this quiet little corner trattoria. Quiet, relaxing and moderately priced we thoroughly enjoyed the pizza al fungi, the pasta with seafood and the waiter. Solid food; limited but adequate wine list. Went the next night across the street to Ninos and wished we hadn’t !

The Best pasta pesto ever, la migliore pasta Al pesto, la mejor pasta al pesto de mi vida

This is a fine (and romantic) restaurant with beautiful linens and an extensive wine list. It serves grilled fish entreés as well as what I found was an excellent pizza. The prices are reasonable considering the location (close by St. Mark’s), the service (couldn’t be better) and how well appointed the tables are (only freshly ground pepper will do). There is no house wine, so we enjoyed a very acceptable Rosso in a perfect 375 ml size. (Duca Del Frassino Valpolicella, 13.50 euros)
Now, what did I find so exceptional? Fish soup… priced at an eye-​widening 23 euros. I expected a huge tureen, and got instead a reasonably sized bowl. Then I tasted — WOW! Very little salt, and so flavorful with a restrained herb seasoning. It had a single shelled shrimp, an entire unshelled prawn, what tasted like a big chunk of crab, and then some very mild, light, almost puffy (maybe breaded) white fish (similar to Japanese fish cake). Normally I hate unshelled anything in soups as I think shells give an unpleasant taste, but this prawn must have been fresh. I’ve had fish soups and stews in Hawaii, Seattle, San Francisco, throughout Mexico, New Orleans, Florida, Boston, and a few places in Europe, but this was the best I’ve ever had. Now I know you’re rolling your eyes at that overused expression (BIEH), and I hate to use it, but this soup was just so awesome.
My poor husband was underwhelmed by his grilled sea bass. In fact, he wasn’t sure it was really sea bass, but it was acceptable, and properly cooked, so he ate it without further complaint. It’s been my experience that many restaurants substitute when they run out of a particular fish. It’s just easier than suggesting another choice. 95% of their patrons probably wouldn’t know the difference. There’s no way to know, and it’s even possible that there are taste variations in sea bass from different world regions. What we should have done is ask our waiter if he could recommend the sea bass. This is the kind of place you could do that.

Found this place while looking for a quiet place. Food was decent; wine menu was very limited. We had to go with whatever they had on the glass. Waiters started to walk around when we were close to finish our plates. On one occasion, my wife was asked 5 times if she had finished. Finally one of the waiters took her plate without asking. Don’t get me wrong; we didn’t stay very long, all this happened in a few minutes. They were obviously pushing us out.

On our first full day in Venice, Gayle, Erin, Jim, and I had just came back from Murano Island and were ready for Lunch. We decided to wander a bit inland to avoid the St. Marks Square crowd. At some point, we encountered Da Roberto and not knowing «right from wrong» dining choice-​wise, we took a seat at an outdoor table. This Tavern is situated on Riva degli Schiavoni and serves a fairly tasty pizza. We also enjoyed chatting and relaxing with our favourite adult beverage and watching the Venice world go by. Service was friendly, attentive, and relatively quick.

On the way through Venice my fiancé and her sister and I had spotted this joint and I took the namesake as an omen that we should entertain the notion of noshing here. We had two days in Venice and passed by it on the first day after cavorting around the side streets and canals (It is off one of beaten path to get to the sites of Venice (San Marco Piazza, Rialto, et cetera).
We dined here on the way back in the evening on day 1. We were really wanting to dine at a joint just West on the other side of adjacent canal bridge called «Trattoria alla Rivetta» that is tucked against the bridge and canal. The wait there was too long by time we decided to eat (and after reading reviews it did not seem to fare much better than Trattoria Da Roberto).
Of course this review is subjective to our experience: We were hustled fairly aggressively by the waitstaff when we were just wanting to review the menu and see if it tickled our fancy. This is typical of many joints no matter what country you are in, especially in tourist areas — even in San Diego, CA where we hail from. We asked for a moment and the waiter seemed pretty peeved. I was not hungry and only wanted a Spritz Campari. My fiancé and her sister were starving so we sat down.
We were presented our menus, no drink menu. We had to ask for the wine & apéritif menu and they seemed further annoyed. My fiancé had seen someone with shrimp and pasta — and after reviewing both the Italian and English menu had thought the shrimp scampi was this dish — it was not. 30 Euro later on that dish and she is presented three mediocre sized prawns split in half, cooked in the traditional scampi sauce. No pasta. It was not so much of the fact that what was brought out but that they could charge 30 Euro for three prawns. Either way we were not excited.
The clam and pasta dish that was ordered by my fiancé’s sister was enjoyed more thoroughly.
A waiter came by and asked if we wanted a digestif or any dessert — we were full and turned off and very politely declined. I turned to speak to my fiancé and heard a loud «bang» on the table to my right. It sounded like the waiter had slammed his fist into the table but I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he had stacked the three menus in a rather rude and aggressive way in his hands against our table. Regardless of his action it was extremely rude.
Spend time looking elsewhere. Honestly there were a lot of personal and charming places way out to the East on Via Guiseppe Garibaldi that I wish we would have tried… Take a walk, its one of the most open streets in Venice on the East side near the large park green that you dead end at when you walk along the South side of the main islets.
We asked for the bill, and paid and left. I took my wine glass that the Spritz Campari came in due to my annoyance and feeling extremely slighted with both food and service.
This was also one of the first places I experienced a «covered seating» charge — chalk that up to experience. Its laughable however when you sit inside our outside they charge this. A very Ryan-​air esque way of tacking on things to the bill — especially when the place was not packed with patrons.

Typisches Touri-​Restaurant, sehr zentral in Venedig gelegen.
Vom Markusplatz aus sind es ca. 3 – 5 Gehminuten, die Vaporetto-​Haltestelle San Zaccaria ist ebenfalls nur wenige Minuten entfernt.
Das Essen ist in Ordnung, haut einen aber wirklich nicht vom Hocker — fast jedes durchschnittliche italienische Restaurant in einer x-​beliebigen deutschen Kleinstadt bietet da ähnlich gutes Essen.
Das Ambiente ist nett, gepflegt und gediegen, gefällt mir sehr gut.
Der Service ist aufmerksam, extrem freundlich und spricht teilweise hervorragendes Deutsch.
Die Preise sind wie eben in diesen Touristenrestaurants in Venedig üblich horrend hoch, das Preis-​Leistungs-​Verhältnis kann man hier vollkommen vergessen. Zwischen 30 und 50EUR pro Person muss man hier _​mindestens_​einplanen, selbst wenn man sich extrem zurückhält — isst und trinkt man normal so kommt man leicht auf 100EUR/​Person, je nach Weinkonsum, Vor– und Nachspeise usw.
Hinzu kommt immer noch die Italien-​typische Gebühr für das Essen am Tisch (5−6EUR), eine Service-​Gebühr von 12% sowie das weiterhin erwartete Trinkgeld.
Tipp: Wenn man lange genug vor der Tür zögert, sich die Karte ansieht und vom Kellner (einer steht immer vor der Tür und wartet auf Gäste) bequatschen lässt, zückt dieser irgendwann einen 10%-Nachlass-Gutschein ;)
Damit hätte man dann zumindest die 12% Servicegebühr schon fast wieder ausgeglichen.

My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed our meal here on a recent trip to Venice. We wanted something a little off the beaten path but not too far from our hotel near St. Mark’s Square. This did the trick.
Unlike some of the other establishments in Europe, service here was surprisingly speedy and attentive (and our waiter looked like he was straight out of the Jet Set), and the prices weren’t too bad. We each enjoyed a glass of Prosseco (when in Venice…) and split a cheese pizza and a serving of lasagna. I agree with the previous poster that the pasta trumps the pizza. The lasagna was simply excellent.
As a side note, the restroom was incredibly clean. Always a plus.

Pretty comprehensive menu for the pastas and the pizzas, but I would suggest sticking with the pastas. The pizzas were mediocre in my opinion but my spaghetti carbonara was on point, I very much enjoyed it.
It’s a decent spot for al fresco dining in Venice that doesn’t have too much foot traffic. Service was friendly.