Trattoria Da Rino

DO NOT EAT HERE!!!
This restaurant doesn’t even deserve one star.
Horrible service. The waitress took forever to take our order and then took half an hour to give us our food. The food itself was overpriced. The menu has a lot of fine print and hidden charges. DON’T DRINK ANY SOFT DRINKS. They charge 5 € for a single coke can.
After your meal the waiting staff make you wait half an hour before giving you the bill.

Horrible tourist trap! Wish I could undo this experience. My boyfriend and I ended up eating dinner here because we saw a couple tables open and knew we wouldn’t have to wait.
First, the waiter who seated us was pretty rude and then took about 20 mins until he took our order (even for drinks).
My boyfriend ordered the beef with arugula and I chose to opt for the cheapest thing on the menu because I needed to watch my budget. The cheapest thing surprisingly was linguini with lobster (12 euro), so I assumed there was a piece or two of canned lobster in there.
The food… Mediocre at best. The pasta at the Cheesecake Factory is better than this. But it was edible and I was very surprised that there was a half lobster on the plate! Yes, small… but still a half lobster! I was shocked at what an amazing deal this was for the price! (Yeah right!)
However, then the bill came… 2 dishes, a bottle of water and a beer ended up costing 85 euros! Turns out my lobster dish was 36 euros! Confused, we asked the servers who informed us that on the BACK SIDE OF THE MENU, they state that the lobster dish (listed for 12 euros) is per 100 grams! Oh, and it’s written in ITALIAN, nothing in English.
Don’t get me wrong, I know lobster is pricey, but writing 12 euros without any further explanation and expecting customers to look for any hidden terms and conditions in Italian on the BACK SIDE of a menu is ridiculous!
I wouldn’t even be that upset if it had been good. But it wasn’t even tasty.
Horrible!

We had just been rude to at a much higher end restaurant that our hotel recommended so walked around and found this place. We didn’t have a reservation but they found us a table and took our drink order. We ended up ordering three dishes to share between the two of us. The food was really good, the carbonara was out of this world!!! The front of the house staff was mostly a female and two brothers, all three spoke at least five languages. They made us feel right at home. I would high recommend this place.

I had the ravioli with cheese sauce– the sauce was really, ummm… unrefined…it was like spackle really… if you were finishing your bathroom and ran out of grout, you could use this sauce. If you needed to patch a tire, this sauce is your friend. If your boat springs a leak, fear not!, order the ravioli with cheese sauce.
My wife had the spaghetti. She liked it. She’s easy to please and really, how hard is it to eff up spaghetti? Oh wait… I just remembered my aunt’s spaghetti…
The thing is, the place was empty and that should have been clue one. The food was just mediocre, no one came to check on us ever and when we got the bill, there was a service charge of 4 euro which was fine (not really, but we’ve come to expect a wide range of ‘service charges’ in Italy). I paid the check but then the final receipt showed the 4 euro charge AND a 12% «city tax». When I asked the waitress what city was taxing us, she said it was because we were sitting there. Eating. Using utensils… and such. Ummm oookay. So we left feeling like we had been screwed again and quite frankly, unless someone is giving me a happy ending at one of these goofy Italian places, I’d like it to stop. Or at least tell me up front that I’m going to pay an extra 12 euro (in addition to the cheese-​induced Montezumas Revenge) and I’ll be fine. Best to avoid.

I ordered a pasta that I’ve never had before it had pasta made fresh in house and a sweet onion and anchovy sauce. A great choice it was very good. The fried fish plate was ok it could have used a few larger pieces of calamari or fish. They claimed to have air conditioning but it wasn’t working when we were there, but they had a lot of fans that moved the air surprisingly well.

We dined here tonight because it was open late and we saw the 4 star TripAdvisor sign posted. I was leary because the place was empty, but we were pleasantly surprised in the end. Our waitress, Stella, gave excellent recommendations. I had the lobster pasta, small serving (which was more than enough), and it was no where close to 50 euros as another reviewer commented. It was about 20 euros and worth every bit. My friends had vegetable lasagne, scampi, and shrimp pasta and we split the bruschetta. Stella was very attentive. She happily answered our questions about Italian dining etiquette and gave a great local perspective on Venice. She displays great pride in being Venetian and telling the fascinating story of this restaurant’s past. Eat here.

Not even worth a star! The waitress was so rude, the food was mediocre and not filling — the grilled pork chop’s portion was so measly and pathetic. Definitely a tourist trap and I certainly do not recommend anyone visiting.

My cousin and I stumbled upon this place after being really indecisive about what to eat. Boy, was that a mistake! We were seated quickly, but it took the waiter almost 15 minutes to come and bring us menus. I ordered the baked scallops, and SPECIFICALLY asked if they were fresh, because their menu specifically states that they substitute frozen fish if fresh is unavailable, and the waiter assured me they were, but when I ate them, they were tough and dry and not good– I have to assume they were not fresh. I also originally ordered the scallop appetizer, but the waiter told me it wouldn’t be enough food (as if he knows my eating habits) and insisted I order something else. So I went with what he suggested– the scallops with pasta, and it was nasty, as I said before. My cousin had the chef salad which she said was fine, nothing special. It’s a tourist trap. DONT GO.

Went to this restaurant because it was close to where we were staying and had the choice of a fixed price for a two course meal. The fixed price was 18 euro.
I pointed to what I wanted on the menu for the first course and was brought what what I thought my wife ordered, but she told the waitress she wanted what I ordered and we were served something else. We ate it and said nothing.
This first dish was gnocchi with a meat sauce and it was ok. Nothing special. The 2^nd course was fried seafood and it was again mediocre at best. We ordered drinks as well.
When the bill came, there were additional charges on the bill of 4 euro «coperto» and 12% service charge. Which added 12 euros to the bill. Our waiter pointed out the fine print at the bottom of the menu. This was the first time we encountered these charges at any restaurant or bar. SO BEWARE OF THE FINE PRINT!!! I would not have eaten at the restaurant but for the fixed price.

One of the best places in Venice. Food was authentic and scrumptious even better the next day! Shrimp and zucchini pasta dish is amazing, flavorful, and good sized portions. Stella the hostess was very accommodating, friendly, knowledgable and her English is outstanding, which was very helpful. The chef… I can’t say enough about. So helpful with packing suggestions ;) I love this place and will definitely be the first place I go when I go back.

Mediocre food. The pizza felt like it was not fully cooked. Crust was still white and doughy. Seafood didn’t seem exceptionally fresh or delicious. Seafood soup did not include any fish, which was a disappointment.
The area around our table also had a strange smell — kinda damp. Perhaps it was from high tide flood of the day being dragged in by customer after customer.