Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Venice
This list collects Venice restaurants in our guide whose wine program is exceptional. Sommelier-led starred rooms on it include Glam Restaurant by Enrico Bartolini in Santa Croce, which holds two Michelin stars, plus Ristorante Quadri and Palais Royal Restaurant in San Marco, Oro Restaurant in Giudecca and Agli Amici Dopolavoro on Isola delle Rose. Those other starred rooms hold one Michelin star, each with a sommelier-led exceptional program.
Cellar sizes stated on the list include 600-700 natural wines at Estro Vino e Cucina in San Polo and over 500 Italian labels at Vini da Gigio in Santa Croce. Trattoria Do Forni in San Marco holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Bistrot de Venise in San Marco pours a by-the-glass selection and leans toward Italian rarities.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a deep wine list, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Acquerello Restaurant
Deep wine list
Acquerello Restaurant occupies the grounds of San Clemente Island, a former monastery in the Venetian lagoon that places it in an entirely different spatial register from the city's canal-side dining rooms. The island setting reshapes the logic of a meal here: arrival by private boat, a medieval cloister as backdrop, and the particular stillness of water on all sides. For Venice's premium dining tier, the address alone changes the terms of engagement.
Agli Amici Dopolavoro
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
On Isola delle Rose, a private island in the Venetian lagoon accessible only by boat, Agli Amici Dopolavoro serves two tasting menus built entirely from what the island and its surrounding waters produce. The LagunAmare menu draws on lagoon fish; the Giardino delle Rose is vegetarian, rooted in the restaurant's own kitchen garden. Both hold Michelin Plate recognition for 2024 and 2025.
Anice Stellato
Deep wine list
Anice Stellato sits on a quiet fondamenta in Cannaregio, serving Venetian seafood in a format that OAD has ranked consistently since 2023, reaching #693 in its Casual Europe list in 2024. The kitchen draws on lagoon-sourced ingredients without the tourist-facing gloss found closer to San Marco, placing it in the same honest, ingredient-led tier as Osteria alle Testiere and Al Covo.
Bistrot de Venise
Deep wine list
Positioned steps from St. Mark's Square, Bistrot de Venise holds a Michelin Plate for its approach to Venetian cuisine that moves between historical recipes and contemporary reinterpretation. The wine list leans toward Italian rarities, making it a natural stop for those who treat the bottle as seriously as the plate. It sits in the upper tier of Venice's formal dining circuit.
Chat Qui Rit
Deep wine list
A Michelin Plate-recognised contemporary restaurant steps from St. Mark's Square, Chat Qui Rit blends the lagoon's larder with Asian-influenced technique across generous, produce-led dishes. The wine list reaches into rare and collectible vintages, and the tiramisù has earned a reputation of its own. At the €€€€ price point, it competes with Venice's Michelin-starred contemporary tier.
Estro Vino e Cucina
Deep wine list
A wine-forward Dorsoduro address that has been updating Venetian cooking since 2004, Estro pairs a 600-label natural wine list with market-driven plates sourced directly from the Rialto. Two consecutive Michelin Plates (2024 and 2025) recognise the kitchen's consistency at a price point that sits well below Venice's starred tier. The mood is cosy and unhurried, making it a reliable counter-programme to the city's more ceremonial dining rooms.
Glam Restaurant by Enrico Bartolini
2 Michelin stars · Deep wine list
Inside Palazzo Venart on the Grand Canal, Glam holds two Michelin stars under resident chef Donato Ascani, working within a framework established by multi-starred Enrico Bartolini. Two tasting menus divide between Venetian-rooted dishes and Bartolini's signature canon. La Liste awarded 90 points in both 2025 and 2026. Arrival by private water taxi is possible, which fits the setting precisely.
Lineadombra
Deep wine list
A Michelin Plate recipient sitting on a raft-like platform at the edge of the Dorsoduro waterfront, Lineadombra frames the Giudecca canal with an outdoor dining space few restaurants in Venice can match. The kitchen leans heavily on fish, with a modern Italian approach and occasional creative departures.
Oro Restaurant
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
Oro Restaurant sits inside the Belmond Hotel Cipriani on Giudecca island, holding a Michelin star since 2024. Chef Vania Ghedini draws on both the Venetian lagoon and her broader culinary background to produce a menu that moves between Northern Italian tradition and Mediterranean influence. The round dining room frames views across the lagoon toward the Lido, making the setting as deliberate as the cooking.
Osteria da Fiore
Deep wine list
A Michelin Plate-recognised trattoria in San Polo, Osteria da Fiore serves Venetian seafood with an emphasis on seasonal produce and lagoon tradition. The 800-label wine cellar, canal-side terrace, and a reputation built around soft-shell crab season make it one of the more focused addresses for traditional cucina di mare in the city.
Osteria Enoteca San Marco
Deep wine list
On a quiet calle minutes from the Rialto, Osteria Enoteca San Marco operates as a wine-forward osteria in a city where the osteria format has deep roots. The address places it inside the San Marco sestiere, where tourist pressure is high and genuine neighbourhood dining is harder to find. For visitors oriented around the cellar as much as the kitchen, it functions as a useful reference point.
Palais Royal Restaurant
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
The Venetian outpost of Paris's award-winning Palais Royal, set inside the Nolinski hotel in the former Palazzo della Borsa, brings a cross-cultural tasting menu format to the lagoon city. Greek chef Philip Chronopoulos, whose kitchen career includes time with Joël Robuchon and Alain Passard, builds menus around Mediterranean seafood, French technique, and Italian ingredients, served across two tasting menu formats in an elliptical, mid-century-inflected dining room.
Ristorante Quadri
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
On Piazza San Marco, Ristorante Quadri occupies one of Venice's most scrutinised dining addresses, where chef Sergio Preziosa applies contemporary technique to lagoon-sourced ingredients, fish from the shallow waters, vegetables from Sant'Erasmo island, seasonal shellfish and game.
Terrazza Danieli
Deep wine list
Perched above the Grand Canal at the Hotel Danieli, Terrazza Danieli holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition and a terrace open from May through October that frames 180 degrees of lagoon and island views. The menu turns on seasonal, locally sourced ingredients threaded with the occasional exotic spice, a reference to Venice's mercantile history. It occupies the upper tier of Venetian hotel dining, priced accordingly at €€€€.
Trattoria Do Forni
Deep wine list
A long-established Venetian trattoria steps from Piazza San Marco, Trattoria Do Forni occupies a distinct position in the city's dining character: neither the modernist innovation of the lagoon's newer Italian contemporary tables nor the tourist-facing simplicity of the calli's cheaper options. It represents the middle register of Venetian dining where tradition, craft, and location intersect.
Vini da Gigio
Deep wine list
Among Venice's mid-range trattorias, Vini da Gigio occupies a specific position: a Cannaregio institution where locals order the wine and the kitchen leans hard on the Adriatic. Holding a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025, it sits a tier below the premium seafood counters on price while trading in the same regional ingredient logic. The wine list is a particular draw.
Zanze XVI
Deep wine list
On a quiet canal in Santa Croce, Zanze XVI sits at the point where the bàcaro tradition and creative contemporary cooking meet. Chef Giovanni Regoni draws ingredients from lagoon producers and strong local markets, producing dishes that hold Venetian culinary identity up to the light rather than simply reproducing it. A Michelin Plate holder in 2024 and 2025, and ranked #460 in the Opinionated About Dining Europe list for 2025.
Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Venice
- Which restaurants on this list state a cellar size?
- Estro Vino e Cucina, in San Polo, states 600-700 natural wines from sustainable viticulture. Vini da Gigio, in Santa Croce, states over 500 Italian labels. Osteria da Fiore, in Santa Croce, states an 800-label wine cellar. Osteria Enoteca San Marco, in San Marco, states over 300 wine options.
- Which restaurant on this list holds a Wine Spectator award?
- Trattoria Do Forni, in San Marco, holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2026. It is the only Wine Spectator award among the restaurants on this list. The award sits on an exceptional, sommelier-led wine program with an extensive cellar.
- Where do the starred restaurants on this list sit?
- The starred restaurants on this list are in Santa Croce, San Marco, Giudecca and Isola delle Rose. Glam Restaurant by Enrico Bartolini is in Santa Croce and holds two Michelin stars. Ristorante Quadri and Palais Royal Restaurant are in San Marco. Oro Restaurant is in Giudecca. Agli Amici Dopolavoro is on Isola delle Rose.
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