Backstory: People keep saying that "one cannot have a bad meal in Paris" or "thanks for your suggestions, but we were tired after the Louvre and tumbled into a great place." Of course I discount all such stories and would never do any such thing, but..........
Bar Autorimessa is that place on the garage side of the Piazzale Roma, the bus station on the entrance to Venice, you've seen a million times that announces itself as a "bar pizza cafe restaurant" and when I bussed in from Mestre today to meet Colette at one of my favorite places, the Fiaschetteria Toscana, I had such pain going down the ramp to the vaporetto stop I realized there was no way I could walk a half a kilometer from the Ca d'Oro to the resto, so I cancelled and limped over to this well-seen joint expecting the worst. I called Colette, sat down, ordered up some wine and started to work on a huge bowl of chips. When Colette arrived she decided to order a pizza disavowal, which when we sampled it, was spicy and perfectly good. We both went with gelati, on her side, a panna cotta, on mine, a pistachio. Again it was an unexpected surprise. Our bill, with a bottle of water and one of wine, a grappa and two espressi, was 65.40€.
Da Tura is the restaurant we ate at yesterday that Colette said we should return to on our last night in Italy, and so it was. Tonight though she had the sea bass grilled with lemon and olive oil and I ordered a Caesar salad but got a mixed salad, which was fine by me. We had the same waiter, who looked strikingly like Jean Dujardin and between him and the meal we were quite content. Our bill with bottles of water and wine, no coffee but a grappa and tiramisu, was 59.85€
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