Antico Dolo
Fish tavern in Rialto of Venice

As a function of this, that is to be able to refresh the customers tried by the performances just consumed on the upper floors, the Antico Dolo was opened in December 1434 (the exact date we could not define it) offering its customers meats, cheeses, but above all the one that for centuries has always been the real specialty of the house: the Brawl Tripe: different types of offal boiled according to an ancient recipe that is still offered in the restaurant today. At the counter it was possible to taste a dry white wine coming from nearby Dolo, a splendid town located on the Riviera del Brenta between the provinces of Padua and Venice, on the banks of which the Brenta flows, the primary river of our region, which is ascended daily by the boats that transport in the by river for hundreds of years enjoying the view of the splendid villas of Palladio that line its banks.

Thus that Chardonnay Bianco arrived at Antico Dolo, proposed, today as then, both for a simple shadow among friends and to accompany the delicacies that the kitchen baked at all hours.
With the fall of the Serenissima Republic and the subsequent Austrian domination, the vitality of the market did not diminish and on the contrary it offered more and more employment so that in those years the people employed in the wholesale fish and vegetable market were in the thousands; all forced to wake up at two in the morning and consequently hungry as wolves already in the middle of the morning: tripe for everyone!

Between the 1960s and 1970s, following the exodus to nearby Mestre which, with the advent of the Porto Marghera industrial center, certainly offered newer but objectively more desolating accommodations, Antico Dolo experienced a dark period until in the summer of 1989 when my family took over it, committing with the owner to maintain the same wine and food line, otherwise Mr. Piero would never, ever give it to us.
The continuous maintenance in the furniture, in the choice of dishes, to keep it as it has always been over the centuries are for us a precise commitment, aimed at maintaining that Venetian style made up of small and great traditions absolutely to be jealously preserved and handed down to Giulia and Camilla, my little daughters who for the moment prove to be “de boca bona”.

Since the early nineties we have become a point of reference also for those tourists who love the typical Venetian cuisine and want to find a refined and elegant setting for their Venetian nights, being able to choose not only from the à la carte menu, but also from the many daily offers proposed. from the kitchen.