Restaurant La Caravella

La Caravella is the Hotel Saturnia restaurant but has a separate entrance.
It can be entered directly from Calle larga XXII Marzo, a major shopping street close to St.Mark’s Square, right behind the famous La Fenice Theatre .
La Caravella restaurant is within easy walking reach of the most famous places of interest in Venice: St.Mark’s Square, with the city’s most well-known monuments, the Rialto Bridge area, with its typical shops on the bridge itself, Palazzo Grassi or the amazing Accademia Galleries, one of the main museums in Italy.
La Caravella restaurant is easy to reach: just take the Line 1 vaporetto going along the Grand Canal, get off at the Santa Maria del Giglio stop and then head in the direction of St Mark’s Square.
The restaurant is less than five minutes’ walk from the vaporetto landing stage.

Until the 60s, La Caravella restaurant was a famous bar with live piano music, Ciro’s bar, which numbered many European artists and intellectuals among its clients.
Since the early 60s La Caravella restaurant replaced the famous bar to offer to Hotel Saturnia’s guests a more complete service, giving Venice an elegant and sophisticated restaurant at the same time.
Like the famous Ciro’s bar, La Caravella restaurant, which had a Michelin star for a decade during the 80s, is known throughout Venice for its high quality cuisine, unique atmosphere and for the friendliness and professionalism of its staff, a major selling point of this Venetian restaurant.

The Venetian culinary tradition has always been linked to the unique produce of the Lagoon area that have been enriched over the centuries with new spices and tastes coming from overseas.
A classic example of this is the famous Venetian “saor”, a marinade where typical local products, like fish, are mixed with “exotic” elements, like pine nuts and raisins, giving birth to a sweet-and-sour taste.

At La Caravella this antique Venetian culinary tradition is highlighted by the Chef’s proposals that vary according to the seasonal produce available.
La Caravella restaurant has a menu with the typical fish dishes of the Venetian cuisine, like sarde in “saor” (marinated sardines), delicate spider crab with lemon sauce and extravirgin olive oil or the typical Venetian fish soup.
The clients who do not like fish, can also find special dishes with meat and game of the estuary area.
The game is often served with the typical seasonal vegetables, cultivated along the lagoon or the Venetian shores. An example are the “castraure”, a delicious type of small violet artichokes that grow in the gardens of the Sant’Erasmo island.

La Caravella restaurant is one of only a handful of restaurants in Venice to propose flambé dishes, offering its guests an authentic example of culinary skills (during the winter season only).

Finally the restaurant can boast a wonderful wine list with more than 220 labels of foreign and Italian wines, coming from all the most important wine production areas in Italy.
The types of wines offered at La Caravella restaurant are personally chosen by the sommeliers and by the owners.