Independent editorial guide
Best Seafood Restaurants in Cannaregio, Venice (2026)
Where should you eat seafood in Cannaregio?
Trattoria Misericordia, Hostaria Venetika and Ai 40 Ladroni are our starting choices for a seafood-focused meal in Cannaregio. Misericordia suits a first taste of Venetian classics; Venetika ranges from cod and saor to a named seafood menu; Ai 40 Ladroni offers seasonal shellfish, grilled fish and dishes to share. Choose Algiubagiò for a lagoon-facing terrace when weather and availability allow, or DAMA for a more elaborate dinner with seafood choices within a broader mixed menu.
A shortlist for different kinds of seafood meal
These are ten of our best seafood-dining choices in Cannaregio, selected for the food, setting and ordering style they offer. The seafood-focused starting choices above are joined by alternatives for wine, seasonal cooking and special occasions. Some restaurants also serve meat and vegetables; DAMA is included for contemporary dining with seafood options. The recommendations compare practical fit, rather than customer scores or a tasted-quality league table.
Cannaregio seafood at a glance
| Restaurant | Seafood style | Location and setting | Ordering format |
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| Trattoria Misericordia | Venetian mixed starter; squid-ink gnocchi; cuttlefish and polenta | Rio della Misericordia, 2515 | À la carte; telephone for more than ten diners |
| La Colombina | Seafood risotto, octopus pasta and sesame tuna | Cannaregio 1828 | À la carte; €3 cover charge listed |
| L’Anice Stellato | Seasonal salt cod, anchovy pasta, sardines and prawns | Fondamenta de la Sensa, canal-side | À la carte; Merenda is a separate afternoon service |
| Hostaria Venetika | Cod, saor, spaghetti with scampi alla busara and cuttlefish | Cannaregio 1424 | À la carte or Bucintoro seafood menu |
| Algiubagiò Restaurant | Sole and mixed fried seafood | Fondamenta Nuove; lagoon-view terrace in suitable weather | À la carte; request the terrace, subject to availability |
| Vini da Gigio | Lagoon fish, stockfish, crab pasta and wine by the glass | Calle Stua, Cannaregio 3628A | À la carte; direct contact for same-day bookings or more than four |
| DAMA Restaurant | Contemporary fish dishes within a mixed meat-and-fish menu | Ca’ Bonfadini, Fondamenta Savorgnan 462 | À la carte or whole-table tasting; not exclusively seafood |
| Osteria Ai 40 Ladroni | Seasonal seafood, saor, shellfish and grilled fish | Fondamenta de la Sensa 3253, Sant’Alvise | Shared starter and selected mains; first courses labelled minimum two |
| Da Rioba | Squid-ink and citrus risotto; Venetian fish preparations | Fondamenta Misericordia 2553 | Risotto €23 per person, minimum two, stated 19-minute wait |
| Paradiso Perduto | Changing fish-market dishes and fried fish with white polenta | Fondamenta della Misericordia 2540 | Day’s menu by direct enquiry; music is date-specific |
The restaurants and what to order
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Trattoria Misericordia
A first meal of Venetian seafood classics
Trattoria Misericordia is a useful starting point if you want several familiar Venetian preparations in one meal. Its mixed Venetian starter combines sardines and prawns in saor, creamed cod and octopus salad. Follow it with squid-ink gnocchi, lobster tagliatelle, cuttlefish with polenta or mixed fried fish with vegetables and polenta. The address is Fondamenta de la Misericordia 2515, on the Rio della Misericordia. The restaurant accepts online reservation requests for up to ten people; larger parties should telephone.
View Trattoria Misericordia on TRP
Sources: Trattoria Misericordia — menu, Trattoria Misericordia — address and reservations
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La Colombina
Seafood pasta and contemporary combinations
At Cannaregio 1828, La Colombina pairs Venetian ingredients with more contemporary combinations. Choose from seafood risotto, mussel spaghetti with bottarga and tarallo crumbs, or paccheri with octopus ragù. Creamed cod comes with black-polenta toast and potato cream; sesame-crusted tuna offers a different main-course style from fried fish. The published menu lists seafood risotto at €20 and the house fried fish at €25, plus a €3 cover charge. This makes it a practical option for diners who want individual dishes rather than committing everyone to a tasting menu.
Sources: La Colombina — menu, La Colombina — restaurant location
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L’Anice Stellato
A short seasonal menu on Fondamenta de la Sensa
L’Anice Stellato’s October 2026 menu gives this canal-side address a clear food identity: Venetian creamed salt cod with fennel, anchovy-and-onion spaghettone, fried sardines with wild-fennel mayonnaise and local prawns with herbs and sweet-and-sour pepper. Meat and vegetable dishes share the menu. The salt cod and spaghettone are each listed at €22; cover, bread and water cost €5 per person. The website lists Tuesday–Sunday opening, with a separate Merenda snack period from 14:15 to 18:30. Ask for the full-meal service time when reserving; that snack window does not establish continuous lunch service. A November holiday notice has no year, so its dates need confirmation.
Sources: L’Anice Stellato — opening and reservations, L’Anice Stellato — October 2026 menu
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Hostaria Venetika
Venetian fish dishes or a named seafood menu
Hostaria Venetika at Cannaregio 1424 offers a broad Venetian seafood selection: creamed and seasoned cod, sardines and prawns in saor, clam spaghetti, spaghetti with scampi alla busara and cuttlefish in black ink with white polenta. Its Bucintoro menu centres on shellfish and the day’s catch, followed by Venetian biscuits and a glass of Verduzzo, at €39 per person. À-la-carte cuttlefish and mixed fried fish are each listed at €25; the menu separately lists a €3 bread and cover charge. The operator gives Wednesday–Sunday lunch and dinner service. Choose it for the traditional preparations or ask about the Bucintoro format when booking.
Sources: Hostaria Venetika — menu and Bucintoro, Hostaria Venetika — location and service
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Algiubagiò Restaurant
Seafood with a lagoon-facing terrace
Choose Algiubagiò for the combination of seafood and an open lagoon outlook. Its Fondamenta Nuove address, Cannaregio 5039, has a terrace that the operator makes available in summer or when temperatures allow. Request that dining space specifically; an outdoor table is subject to weather and availability. The seafood mains page lists sole with mountain pine and zucchini, and fried prawns, scampi, calamari and vegetables, each at €36. A separate fish heading and its description conflict, so ask which species is actually being served if choosing that dish.
View Algiubagiò Restaurant on TRP
Sources: Algiubagiò — seafood main courses, Algiubagiò — restaurant and terrace
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Vini da Gigio
Lagoon cooking with a substantial wine choice
Vini da Gigio is the wine-focused choice at Calle Stua, Cannaregio 3628A. The family-run restaurant describes lagoon fish and vegetables as central to its cooking and offers a daily selection by the glass. Its currently linked menu includes creamed stockfish with polenta, spider-crab tagliolini, cuttlefish with polenta and grilled eel with caponata. MICHELIN’s current listing highlights both fish and meat dishes and the wine choice. Online reservations exclude same-day requests and parties larger than four; telephone for those bookings. The operator lists Wednesday–Sunday lunch from 12:00 to 14:30 and dinner from 19:00 to 22:30. Ask for the current menu, as the linked PDF has no service date.
Sources: Vini da Gigio — cooking, wine and reservations, Vini da Gigio — currently linked menu, MICHELIN Guide — Vini da Gigio
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DAMA Restaurant
A contemporary special-occasion dinner
DAMA at Ca’ Bonfadini suits a more elaborate dinner, with contemporary Venetian cooking in a room furnished with tables made from restored lagoon navigation posts. The hotel lists its entrance at Fondamenta Savorgnan 462. Its October 2026 dinner menu offers Piccolo Capriccio and Gran Capriccio tasting menus, served only to the entire table, plus à-la-carte dishes such as cod ravioli, lobster with roasted Carnaroli rice and stuffed red mullet in mussel-and-clam stew. The wider menu includes meat, and Gran Capriccio includes duck and foie gras: a tasting menu here is not an exclusively seafood promise. DAMA is listed in the MICHELIN Guide. The hotel gives dinner service from 19:00 to 21:30; its café is a separate service.
Sources: Ca’ Bonfadini — DAMA restaurant and separate café, DAMA — October 2026 dinner menu, MICHELIN Guide — DAMA Restaurant
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Osteria Ai 40 Ladroni
Seasonal seafood and clearly marked sharing dishes
Ai 40 Ladroni, at Fondamenta de la Sensa 3253 in the Sant’Alvise area, is a useful choice for a shared seafood meal. The menu includes creamed cod, sardines in saor and shellfish, with moleche, raw fish and razor clams marked seasonal. Its mixed starter is €20 per person for at least two diners; the seasonal mixed grill and seabass are each €60 for two. An individual grill and fried-fish dishes are also listed. The first-course section is headed minimum two people, and both fish risottos explicitly repeat that requirement; ask how it applies to your pasta order. A €2.50 cover and service charge is listed separately.
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Da Rioba
A shared squid-ink risotto on Misericordia
Da Rioba at Fondamenta Misericordia 2553 is the specific pick for cuttlefish-ink risotto with citrus. Its menu prices that dish at €23 per person, with a minimum of two diners and a stated 19-minute wait. Other choices include creamed cod with potato cream and fried polenta, clam spaghetti, nut-crusted monkfish and grilled turbot. The day’s baked fish is priced at €9.50 per 100g, so agree the fish’s weight and total before ordering; the raw-fish selection also varies in price. The menu separately lists a €3.50 cover charge. Pick the shared risotto for a known ordering format rather than assuming all fish has a fixed portion price.
Sources: Da Rioba — menu, Da Rioba — contact and reservations
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Paradiso Perduto
An informal osteria with a fish-market tradition
Paradiso Perduto at Fondamenta della Misericordia 2540 suits an informal osteria meal. Its own description centres on a menu shaped by the Venice fish market and gran fritoin: fried fish with white polenta. Choose it for that traditional fish-market approach rather than a fixed tasting sequence. Telephone for the day’s menu and table arrangements. Music is part of its history, but the old event archive does not establish a current concert programme; arrange a particular performance separately from dinner.
Sources: Paradiso Perduto — osteria and seafood tradition, Tripadvisor — current Paradiso Perduto listing, Paradiso Perduto — event archive
Choose the meal before choosing the table
For a first encounter with Venetian seafood, compare Misericordia’s mixed starter with Venetika’s cod, saor and cuttlefish dishes. For more contemporary combinations, compare La Colombina’s octopus pasta and sesame tuna with L’Anice Stellato’s short seasonal menu. These are different menu styles, rather than a claim that one kitchen is universally better.
For a special dinner, decide between a view and a tasting format. Algiubagiò’s terrace offers the lagoon outlook when weather and table availability allow. DAMA offers a contemporary dining room and whole-table tasting menus that include ingredients beyond seafood. Vini da Gigio is the alternative when the wine list is central to the evening.
For two people happy to share, Da Rioba has an explicit risotto order, while Ai 40 Ladroni offers a mixed starter and selected mains for two. For a solo diner or a group wanting different dishes, begin with the à-la-carte options and avoid assuming that a two-person dish can be ordered as one portion.
Sources: Trattoria Misericordia — menu, Hostaria Venetika — menu and Bucintoro, La Colombina — menu, L’Anice Stellato — October 2026 menu, Algiubagiò — restaurant and terrace, DAMA — October 2026 dinner menu, Vini da Gigio — cooking, wine and reservations, Da Rioba — menu, Ai 40 Ladroni — menu, location and sharing rules
Canal-side dining, lagoon views and quieter routes
Misericordia, Da Rioba and Paradiso Perduto give you three seafood stops on the same named waterfront. Compare their menus and atmosphere before reserving one meal; they are alternatives, not an instruction to eat at all three. L’Anice Stellato and Ai 40 Ladroni move the search to Fondamenta de la Sensa, with Ai 40 Ladroni toward Sant’Alvise. Those addresses offer a way to plan beyond the main station-to-Rialto route, but do not guarantee a quiet table.
Algiubagiò is the lagoon-facing option on Fondamenta Nuove. DAMA is at Ca’ Bonfadini on the Cannaregio Canal; the hotel’s waterside bar description does not guarantee that a restaurant reservation includes a canal-side outdoor table. Ask for the exact dining space if the view is the reason for booking.
Sources: Trattoria Misericordia — address and reservations, Da Rioba — contact and reservations, Paradiso Perduto — osteria and seafood tradition, L’Anice Stellato — opening and reservations, Ai 40 Ladroni — menu, location and sharing rules, Algiubagiò — restaurant and terrace, Ca’ Bonfadini — DAMA restaurant and separate café, MICHELIN Guide — DAMA Restaurant
Prices, dietary needs and reservations
Use the linked menus as dated examples, then check the menu offered for your visit. Individual plates, two-person sharing dishes and a whole-table tasting menu are different purchases. For fish sold by weight, agree the weight and total. Cover charges and drinks can be additional: La Colombina and Venetika list €3 covers, Ai 40 Ladroni €2.50 and Da Rioba €3.50; L’Anice Stellato lists €5 per person for cover, bread and water. These examples do not establish the cheapest restaurant or a comparable full-meal total.
Tell the restaurant about specific allergies before booking. Seafood dishes here can also contain nuts, sesame, dairy or wheat; a dish name or rice batter does not establish gluten-free preparation or cross-contact controls. Confirm adaptations with the kitchen. For a terrace, group booking or music event, obtain the particular arrangement rather than relying on general opening hours.
Sources: La Colombina — menu, Hostaria Venetika — menu and Bucintoro, Ai 40 Ladroni — menu, location and sharing rules, Da Rioba — menu, L’Anice Stellato — October 2026 menu, Algiubagiò — seafood main courses, Vini da Gigio — currently linked menu, DAMA — October 2026 dinner menu
Seafood dining questions
Which is the best seafood restaurant in Cannaregio for a first visit?
Trattoria Misericordia is our first pick for a meal of Venetian seafood classics. Its mixed starter combines sardines and prawns in saor, creamed cod and octopus salad; cuttlefish with polenta or squid-ink gnocchi are useful next choices. Hostaria Venetika is an alternative if you prefer its named Bucintoro seafood menu.
Sources: Trattoria Misericordia — menu, Hostaria Venetika — menu and Bucintoro
Are there good seafood restaurants in Cannaregio away from the busiest tourist routes?
Look along Fondamenta de la Sensa: L’Anice Stellato offers a short seasonal menu, while Ai 40 Ladroni, toward Sant’Alvise, has seafood starters, grilled fish and sharing dishes. These addresses let you plan beyond the main station-to-Rialto route. They do not guarantee a quiet table, so choose by menu and setting as well as location.
Sources: L’Anice Stellato — opening and reservations, L’Anice Stellato — October 2026 menu, Ai 40 Ladroni — menu, location and sharing rules
Which Cannaregio restaurant suits a more refined seafood dinner?
DAMA suits a more elaborate dinner, with contemporary dishes such as cod ravioli and stuffed red mullet, plus à-la-carte and whole-table tasting choices. Gran Capriccio includes duck and foie gras, so it is not a seafood-only menu. Choose Algiubagiò instead when a lagoon view matters most, subject to terrace availability and weather.
Sources: DAMA — October 2026 dinner menu, Ca’ Bonfadini — DAMA restaurant and separate café, Algiubagiò — restaurant and terrace
Where should I start for authentic Venetian seafood in Cannaregio?
Start with Trattoria Misericordia for a mixed Venetian starter or Hostaria Venetika for cod, saor and cuttlefish with polenta. L’Anice Stellato’s October menu offers a shorter seasonal alternative. These recommendations reflect published preparations, rather than a tasting score.
Sources: Trattoria Misericordia — menu, Hostaria Venetika — menu and Bucintoro, L’Anice Stellato — October 2026 menu
Which restaurant suits a scenic seafood dinner?
Algiubagiò has a lagoon-facing terrace used in summer or suitable temperatures; request it subject to weather and availability. DAMA offers a contemporary dinner at Ca’ Bonfadini, but the hotel’s waterside bar is a separate service and does not guarantee an outdoor restaurant table.
Sources: Algiubagiò — restaurant and terrace, Ca’ Bonfadini — DAMA restaurant and separate café
Which dishes need two diners or the whole table?
Da Rioba’s squid-ink risotto is €23 per person for at least two diners, with a stated 19-minute wait. Ai 40 Ladroni marks its mixed starter and first-course section minimum two, and selected mains for two; ask about the specific pasta order. DAMA’s tasting menus apply to the entire table and are not exclusively seafood.
Sources: Da Rioba — menu, Ai 40 Ladroni — menu, location and sharing rules, DAMA — October 2026 dinner menu
Can I book Vini da Gigio online for tonight or six people?
No. Its website excludes same-day online requests and parties larger than four. Contact the restaurant directly for those arrangements. Telephone-contact hours differ from meal service.
Does L’Anice Stellato serve a full meal throughout the afternoon?
Its website separately lists Merenda from 14:15 to 18:30. That snack period does not establish continuous full-menu service; ask for the lunch or dinner seating you want. The published schedule has Monday closed, and an undated November holiday notice needs date confirmation.
Will dinner at Paradiso Perduto include live music?
Do not assume a performance is included. The restaurant has a music tradition, but its old event archive is not a current programme. Confirm the performance date and dinner reservation separately.
Sources: Paradiso Perduto — osteria and seafood tradition, Paradiso Perduto — event archive
How we chose these restaurants
Sarah Haddad is responsible for this guide. We compared Cannaregio addresses, seafood dishes, dining settings and ordering formats using operator pages and linked menus checked on 16 October 2026. MICHELIN listings support the attributed recognition of DAMA and Vini da Gigio; a current business listing supplements Paradiso Perduto’s older website. This is an editorial best-for shortlist: food style, setting and ordering format determine the recommendations; the display order is not a universal quality score. The recommendations are based on documented fit, with no firsthand meal or numerical TRP score claimed. Menus and availability can change.
- Trattoria Misericordia — menu — checked 16 October 2026
- Trattoria Misericordia — address and reservations — checked 16 October 2026
- La Colombina — menu — checked 16 October 2026
- La Colombina — restaurant location — checked 16 October 2026
- L’Anice Stellato — opening and reservations — checked 16 October 2026
- L’Anice Stellato — October 2026 menu — checked 16 October 2026
- Hostaria Venetika — menu and Bucintoro — checked 16 October 2026
- Hostaria Venetika — location and service — checked 16 October 2026
- Algiubagiò — seafood main courses — checked 16 October 2026
- Algiubagiò — restaurant and terrace — checked 16 October 2026
- Vini da Gigio — cooking, wine and reservations — checked 16 October 2026
- Vini da Gigio — currently linked menu — checked 16 October 2026
- MICHELIN Guide — Vini da Gigio — checked 16 October 2026
- Ca’ Bonfadini — DAMA restaurant and separate café — checked 16 October 2026
- DAMA — October 2026 dinner menu — checked 16 October 2026
- MICHELIN Guide — DAMA Restaurant — checked 16 October 2026
- Ai 40 Ladroni — menu, location and sharing rules — checked 16 October 2026
- Da Rioba — menu — checked 16 October 2026
- Da Rioba — contact and reservations — checked 16 October 2026
- Paradiso Perduto — osteria and seafood tradition — checked 16 October 2026
- Tripadvisor — current Paradiso Perduto listing — checked 16 October 2026
- Paradiso Perduto — event archive — checked 16 October 2026
Author and corrections
Sarah Haddad is responsible for this guide. Our editorial method explains how we choose places. Suggest a correction if a menu, address or booking condition changes.