Ombra

Cicchetti—the cold and room-temperature snacks common in Venetian bars—dominate the menu at this restaurant, which resides in what used to be the second dining room of Acre. They’re meant to be eaten casually alongside drinks, but the setup here (booths, servers) is too restauranty for that. Thus the snacks are inevitably given too much attention, and they don’t hold up. So make sure to have in front of you the baccala frittole (well-fried balls of salt cod), or a few oysters, or the sweet roasted onions, or the “eggs tonnato” (hard-boiled eggs atop a smooth tuna puree) or the creamy pork liver pâté—dishes pleasant enough to clear the palate of boring bites of mushroom-pesto panino.