For a fresh take on Venice's most celebrated craft, head to Le Stanze del Vetro. Housed in a beautifully restored exhibition space on San Giorgio Maggiore, it hosts rotating shows exploring modern and contemporary glass through the work of internationally renowned artists and designers.

Served with passion and locally-sourced ingredients this is a top notch hidden seafood restaurant by Italian chef Cesare Benelli, his American wife, Diane, who handles the desserts, and their son Lorenzo, the sommelier. Purveyors of slow food dining, you can be assured that you are dining on only the freshest foods. 

We get it, you may just want to call in to the Lineadombra for the views, though the food is also equally sensational. Idle over a slow lunch, vino in hand, looking out onto the lapping Venetian lagoon; with the Giudecca in plain sight this is really the Italian dream.