Who thinks that Venezia costs so much you are wrong. Or he didn't come across the right places. The recent news of tourists who paid a very high bill in St. Mark's Square for coffee and bitters with a surcharge for live music has created a lot of controversy in this regard, but it is obvious that everything could have been avoided if the "victims" had carefully looked at the menu. It is well known that the locals in Piazza San Marco take advantage of their logistical position (on the other hand it also costs managers to have their business right there), but there are many other more refined and economical places to have an aperitif, for example the "Taverna del Campiello Remer".
For campiello in Venice we mean one small square (field in fact), with the inevitable well, while as the toponym suggests, once the oars of the boats worked here. Located in one of the most magical squares in Venice, the building of the Taverna it overlooks the Grand Canal just in front of the Erbaria. Finding it is easy but it is important to take it calle right in the sestriere of Cannaregio, between the church of San Giovanni Crisostomo and the so-called "bridge of toys". The place fascinates for the brick vault, the exposed stone and the wooden beams as well as for the notes that come every evening from live musicians.
Outside the Gothic mullioned windows of the loggia upstairs make this place truly enchanted and out of time, which is also home to legends. The “Taverna al Campiello del Remer” is a very popular place even if the atmosphere is informal and the prices are really affordable, both for dinners based on local specialties, especially fish, and for buffet lunches. It is a great place to have one romantic dinner but also an evening with friends, because every day from 17:30 to 19:30 there is the best Happy hour in Venice, which offers typical "cicchetti" (canapés and snacks) and first courses (risotto or homemade pasta) sometimes served in the form of Parmesan for 8 euros per drink. Too much for a glass of wine perhaps, but it's worth them all if you consider how much you can delight your palate taking into account that formally it is an aperitif.
Quality is a guarantee, as is the excellent choice of wines, which obviously maintain their standard prices after happy hour. between 3 and 4 euros per glass. The restaurant inside, full of curious and ancient relics, is welcoming in winter while in summer it becomes the ideal place to sip a cool glass sitting on the pier while admiring the Rialto bridge. It is closed on Wednesday and Sunday mornings.
