The Best Restaurants in Venice—in Every Neighborhood

Pietro Rusconi is the son of the late, legendary Natale Rusconi, who ran the Gritti Palace and Hotel Cipriani before helping shape what is now the Belmond collection. He grew up surrounded by, as he puts it, “great hotels, remarkable tables, and people for whom service was considered a true art form.” Now managing partner at Barnes International Realty, he knows this city’s tables as well as anyone. For coffee, he gravitates to Moro Café inside the Neo-Gothic Palazzo Franchetti, with a garden shaded by green parasols, a canal-facing restaurant, and, for the Biennale, Gold Tower, one of Dale Chihuly’s three glass sculptures along the Grand Canal.