Da Fiore Dinner

We were in Venice to celebrate our 25th Wedding Anniversary, and our daughter Hannah very kindly organised for us to have dinner at Osteria Da Fiore, which is a Michelin starred restaurant.  We opted for the tasting menu, and decided following on from our great experience at Passage 53 not to choose our courses, but have the chef surprise us.

 

The bread and bread sticks were delicious

Fried Baby Shrimp with white polenta

Local shrimp marinated in citron with celery puree.  Scillian tuna Carppacio with capers, rosemary and scillian olive oil, with roast pumpkin marinated in lemon.  This was my favorite course - it was delicious

Local shrimp wrapped in celophane thin bacon fat and "gratinated" in the oven. With tomato and bruchetta bread, and deep fried rosemary.  This was dish was unusual, but full of flavor and delicious.

Homemade papdelle pasta with oysters, speck and fresh Iranian saffron with an oyster consume sauce.  We'd only ever seen dried saffron, so this was very exotic for us.

Softshell crab from Murano in tempura batter with white polenta, green salad and orange segment.  The softshell crab tasted like honey and was juicy and delicious.  The white polenta was pretty bland (as it was in the previous course that used it).

Balakala Fish cooked and served in a glass mustard pot (the waiter serves it out at the table), served with white polenta.  Apparently the fish is cooked for 3 hours with milk and low temperature - this is a really odd tasting dish and I think must be an acquired taste.

A small slice of cheese (with truffle inside), with pear, honey, walnuts and bread.

Tangerine Sorbet - mmmmmm (the orange segment had been dehydrated, and looked a lot like a stained glass window)

Warm chocolate cake with Rhum - yum

Fried pastries for Carnivale

We were very lucky to get one of the two tables by the canal :-)

Osteria Da Fiore from the bridge over the canal - it was the perfect place to celebrate our 25th Wedding Anniversary together :-)