Gritti Palace restaurants: Club del Doge, the terrace on the Grand Canal and Bar Longhi, with prices

Club del Doge is the hotel’s restaurant on the Grand Canal, open for breakfast from 7.30am to 11am, lunch from 12.30pm to 4pm and dinner from 7pm to 10.30pm; its page prints those hours without closing days. Executive Chef Alberto Fol has run the Gritti’s kitchens since September 2023; in his own words he starts from the region’s produce and adds little-used ingredients such as high-altitude herbs. Lunch is the more informal meal, with dishes to share. At dinner the lights are lowered, and Marriott’s page for the hotel gives the dress code as formal.

The tasting menu, «In Essence», is 7 tastings of the house’s signature dishes at €205 a person, for at least 2 and for the whole table, with last orders at 9.30pm; a pairing of 5 glasses adds €115 a person. It runs from veal carpaccio with zucchini and sea urchin through raw amberjack, the risotto, barbecued scallops and grilled wagyu to a crème brûlée and the Gritti’s tiramisù. À la carte, the risotto «Hemingway-style», with raw and cooked scampi, lemon gel and parsley oil, is €55; raw scampi with panzanella and burrata cream €60; fried artichokes from Mazzorbetto with goat’s cheese and mint €42; pasta e fasioi with lobster and Lamon beans €51; line-caught sea bass with oysters €60; and a baked turbot for 2, €145. The tiramisù is €30 and a vanilla soufflé €40.

2 more set menus sit beside it. «From Our Vegetable Gardens to the Table» is a 5-course vegetarian tasting drawn from the hotel’s lagoon gardens: the artichoke fields on the island of Mazzorbetto and the Orto Giardino of the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer. For 2026 there is also a 3-dish menu, «Il Silenzio. Il Contrasto. La Tensione», made for the «In Minor Keys» theme of Venice’s cultural year: salt cod with potato mousse, grey mullet in saor in a lightly smoked steamed bun, fermented tomato with strawberry kombucha. At the end of that menu’s description the English page prints «650 per person» and the Italian «650 a persona», with no currency sign and no word on what the figure covers; on the English page the 7-tasting menu beneath it is «€ 205 per person». We cannot tell what the 650 buys: ask before you book it.

From April to October, weather permitting, lunch moves outside to the Gritti Terrace, along the canal with the Punta della Dogana and the Salute opposite, from 12.30pm to 4pm. Its menu is plainer: creamed cod with stewed leek and potato at €42, spaghetti with carpet-shell clams at €49, egg tagliatelle with lobster and friggitelli at €59, a «scartosso» of fried fish from the Rialto market at €58, Venetian-style calf’s liver with red Ottofile polenta at €55 and a Milanese veal cutlet at €68. In the evening the same deck is laid as Club del Doge’s outdoor dining room, from 7pm to 10.30pm.

Bar Longhi is open from 11am to 1am, with a Martini trolley and the bar manager’s wild-fennel variation on the Martini; the Riva Lounge is its deck on the canal, designed after the polished wood and stainless steel of 1950s Italian yachts. The bar’s all-day menu is served from midday to 11pm: a toasted ham and cheese sandwich at €22, penne all’arrabbiata at €32, a Caesar salad with grilled chicken at €37, the club sandwich and the Piedmontese beef cheeseburger at €40 each, a beef fillet with green pepper at €54 and a classic tiramisù at €25. Cicchetti, the Venetian small plates, are offered for sharing late in the evening.

The Gritti Epicurean School is a country-style kitchen inside the hotel, open to visitors as well as guests. The Monday class is 3 hours of cooking and a 3-course lunch for €310 a person; Saturday’s fresh-pasta class, for 2 to 4 people, is €320; and from Tuesday to Friday a half-day class begins at the Rialto market and a bacaro at 9.15am and ends at 2.30pm, for €395. The chef’s table, a 7-course dinner hosted by the chef from Tuesday to Friday for 2 to 10 guests, is €395 a person without drinks. Wine tastings start at 5pm, from €90 for 3 glasses of Italian sparkling wine to €180 for 3 of Amarone.

Guests divide by room. A party delayed by a flight in June 2026 found their table on the terrace kept for them and praised the food, the staff and the view; an Italian diner at lunch in March 2026 called the prices proportionate; and a French guest who dined in January 2026 called the dinner perfect. At Bar Longhi a visitor in July 2026 ordered «what Hemingway drank» and praised the Martini in its chilled glass. Against that, a family with a booking for the Riva Lounge in June 2026 was told it takes none; French-speaking visitors in March 2026 were refused a table on the bar terrace at about 3pm with 3 outdoor tables occupied; a diner writing in German in December 2025 waited a long time for drinks; a reviewer writing in Turkish in June 2026 says the restaurant told them it was taking nobody from outside and turned them away; and a guest in September 2025 paid $60 for a club sandwich that arrived soggy.

Belmond’s Hotel Cipriani has Oro, a Michelin-starred restaurant under the culinary direction of Massimo Bottura. Aman Venice opens Arva to non-residents from noon to 10pm and serves a Sunday brunch from 11am to 4pm. At The St. Regis Venice, Gio’s cooks from Puglia and the Veneto on the Grand Canal and closes from 7 to 29 January.