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Off-menu spider crab pasta…expensive, mis-sold and not very good 🙁

ANOTHER nice sunny day. We have no set itinerary so we decide to take a walk eastwards past the Arsenal.

Being Saturday the area around St Marks is mobbed but the crowds thin out the further we go.

We find a nice cafe for a snack – spinach arancini for me and mushroom and sausage lasagne for Margaret…all washed down with Aperol spritz.

It’s late afternoon when we get back to the hotel, have a nap then look for somewhere for dinner.

We trying to watch the dosh and consider pizza – Margaret finds a place called Trattoria Pizzeria da Gioia not far from the hotel.

It’s a nice wee place BUT…the waiter recommends we share an off-menu pasta dish with spider crab which Margaret – knowing I like that kind of thing – suggests we have.

Spectacular, but nothing to write home about and not Margaret’s taste.

When the bill comes we’re in shock. One-hundered-and-sixty euros for the crab pasta and a a total of €250 for the meal (including a bottle of wine). Fuck me gently.

I can’t argue – we stupidly didn’t ask the price. Lesson learned…and although not technically a rip-off, it feels like it to me. When a dish turns out to be three times the price (per person!) of the most expensive item on the menu I’d expect the waiter to be a little more forthcoming and upfront about the price.

Margaret’s upset and furious. I fight the temptation to go back and give the guy a doing and put on a brave face.

I calm down a bit before I post a Tripadvisor review warning.

We find a bar and drown our sorrows and empty the budget with an other bottle of wine…

More pix from today here.

We finish our evening…and bottle of wine…at a table outside a closed restaurant on St Mark’s square,

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