Al Colombo

Bad food. I’m really disappointed. The setting looked nice but the food wasn’t good, the fish was ra ally skinny and honest we spend € 143 on 1 half bottle of wine and and fish for two which was 2 pieces of grilled prawn each. Half a trout, half monk fish and half Seabass.
Honestly if throwing up on the table would get me a refund I’d do it

Came for after dinner drinks and tiramisu with some locals.
We were greeted and seated quickly. Service was always with a smile and we were made to feel so welcome.
My rating is clearly a bit higher than others here but I think that is based on something else. It always helpful to know well connected locals. Not sure about the dinner choices but our tiramisu was on point and the wine… I’m sitting here dreaming of it.
I’ll be stopping in again on my return.

Visited Monday July 20, 2015 at 10.30pm
Restaurant sucked! Overpriced! Service mediocre. And free show!!!
Empty inside and 3 tables with people outside. We decided to go inside (for the AC) ha! A joke! We split carbonara spaghetti: gooey. !! Bland!
Free show: Owner’s wife comes out of a room the restaurant with a stroller and stops by the bar and starts fighting with him. We are the only people inside. Hello? You have customers !
0 class !! 0 customer service and overpriced!!!
Spaghetti 22 euros!!!? !!
And $ 8 cover charge ???
Oh! Cover charge is: having linens/​wine glasses/​wAter glasses) what???
No no no!!! Do NOT go there… Especially when you’re hungry eat and you’re tired of waking. RUN!!!

… So let me start off by saying the reason I’m giving them 3 stars is because they were very expensive. Some of the items were very good but other things were just flat out over priced. Our bill was 296 € !!! My husband and I have been together for 3.5 years and married 1 month and we have never spent $ 300 on a meal. Let’s just say I like to spend money and even I was in ahhh when that bill came out. My husband and I ate here during our honeymoon. At first glance the restaurant looked quiet, romantic, nice white table clothes, with nicely dressed staff. It definitely was a nice experience and I felt the romantic night time dinner vibe being with my hubby so that expectation was met. We started off with bread and salad… OHHHHH did I almost forgot to mention the salad that wasn’t anything special was 24 € alone. I was like wwwwhhhhaaaatttt! OK so I just wanted to put that out there. Anywho, next we did a first course meal of lasagna, which wasn’t great but wasn’t bad. A little bland but it was filling. Next I had a fish dish that I didn’t eat because I was full and it alone was 42 €. It wasn’t bad but not good enough to be 42 € alone. That’s a meal for 2 in the states including fish as 1 persons dinner choice, but we were in Italy so … *shrugs*. My husband got lobster that was 96 € alone. However the lobster was damn good and I don’t even like lobster. I just picked off his plate. It was definitely enough for 2 people. I guess 96 € is not to far of a stretch because I’ve seen a lobster plate in the states that was $ 75 alone so I will give them a pass on that and it was good. We also had wine that wasn’t bad. … Oh we also had some broccoli. It was seasoned well and cooked good. That’s one thing I did notice about Italians they can cook broccoli (I know weird right, when they are known for pasta). I had the broccoli in some other cities besides Venice (we went to Rome, Florence, Milan, & Venice) and it was the
at every restaurant I tried it at. Overall I would say this place is good for a one time experience of splurging, but if I was ever to visit Venice again I wouldn’t eat here again.

I’m just going to simmer on that name for a moment. Colombo.
I was really hoping my server would be a Peter Falk look-​alike that spoke past a shriveled cigar while wrapped in a rumpled raincoat.
So here’s the story: if you opt for the optional night excursion with the Globus tour, you take a water taxi down the Grand Canal near St. Mark’s Square. From there, you squeeze and meander through narrow roads (they call them roads, apparently) until stumbling into the fenced off serving area of al Colombo. It was there were our group found our seats.
Reviewing Colombo will be difficult considering we enjoyed a fixed menu with complimentary wine. Complimentary. Wine. That gets an extra point right there. I can’t even remember what I ate. I needed to look at pictures. I didn’t get horizontal drunk, just slightly diagonal, which can get slightly disorientating given most of Venice looks askew. The food was simple: prosciutto, risotto, pasta – all the standard staples of Italian cuisine… or rather the staples of clichéd Italian cuisine. I was honestly getting tired of it by this point. Thankfully, it wasn’t bland, just not extraordinary. The question is, what would I rather have, bland cuisine and free wine, or good food? The answer of course, is good food. If I want wine, I’ll buy it. This was yet another nail in the coffin on Globus and their included meals. Colombo was slightly above average in this regard.
But this was not really an included meal, it was a paid optional excursion. In that, I cannot recommend it. For the price paid, one could easily walk to Colombo and just order an unquestionably better meal. Alas, unlike the hotels, Colombo isn’t mentioned on the Globus itinerary, so there isn’t really any way for someone to take this warning and save themselves the excursion price.
Oh, there’s just one more thing…(yes, I went there) a plaque greeted us at the entrance of what I believed to be an explorer. Yes ma’am, Colombo is named after Christopher Columbus.
Food: ³⁄₅
Service: ³⁄₅
Presentation: ³⁄₅
Value: –/​5
Recommendation: ³⁄₅

This restaurant is a complete rip off and definitely takes advantage of tourists in Venice. We ate here for $ 110 USD per person for mediocre food and terrible service. Avoid this restaurant at all costs.
Be careful when choosing restaurants in Venice or you will end up at a place like this.

Un service de qualité, une carte avec du choix. Vous pourrez manger en salle ou en terrasse dans un quartier calme proche du Rialto
Il propose un menu pour un tarif raisonnable.
Je vous déconseille de prendre l’apéritif puisque vous n’aurez pas d’amuses bouche.
A vous de découvrir les saveurs italiennes.