01/09/2024: The food is very good, the dishes are refined and the wine selection is top notch.
A little disappointed by my primi piatto (paccheri al ragu) hence the 4 stars on the Cuisine: the dish was not very generous but I am too used to gray pasta dishes perhaps
27/08/2024: We had dinner at Estro as a couple during our stay in Venice. Small but well-kept place, with a modern look with many Venetian and nautical details such as the counter made with briccole and blown glass lamps. The shelves surrounding the room immediately highlight the wide selection of natural wines.
The service is excellent as is the food served. Interesting, never banal combinations and excellent raw materials. Honorable mention goes to the broths, fish and saffron in the fregola, mushrooms in the tuna, truly delicious. Perfect cooking of the fish, as well as perfect cooking of the rice. Among the favorite dishes of both there are certainly seafood fregola and grilled amberjack with grilled spring onion where the light bagna cauda cream combined with balsamic vinegar gives a strong boost of flavour.
I don't feel like giving 5 full stars for three reasons:
1. Starter replacement. The starter, which included a salad with grilled cuttlefish and celeriac cream, was replaced with prawns, as it was previously finished, and replaced the cuttlefish. We were clearly notified in advance of the change on the menu. To our unpleasant surprise, the replacement consisted of four prawns without their shells removed. It is easy to understand how this choice made the meal uncomfortable as the celeriac cream was concentrated in the heads of the prawns and the salad made cleaning them inconvenient. The plate, inclined towards the outside, made everything even more complicated not knowing where to leave the waste. In short, in our opinion the dish didn't work, perhaps it was better not to propose it in this variant. However, another story left us even more perplexed. At the table next to us (who arrived and ordered after us) the same appetizer was served but with cuttlefish, certainly a more appropriate substitution).
2. Bread. We did not find the same quality of dishes in the bread served. Served hot it quickly became hard and dry. From a place that serves dishes of this quality I would perhaps expect artisanal sourdough bread.
3. The bill. Although the restaurant offers a tasting menu with starter, first course, second course and dessert for 60 euros, we opted for the à la carte menu to try more dishes. Some of the prices made us turn up our noses a little, especially given the quantity of the dishes: the risotto costs 20 euros and the amount of rice, I imagine, was 40/50 grams. Amberjack with spring onion 32 euros, perhaps a little too much. I consider the price of the tasting adequate unlike the menu. Total bill for two people (everything shown in the photo) with a glass of Manfredi white wine (8.50 euros), 158 euros.
To conclude, it was a very positive experience and I hope to return soon. See you soon!
In the photo, in order
-Amuse-bouche with fried sage, watermelon gazpacho, focaccia with butter and sage
-Traditional Venetian fish starter (creamed cod with polenta chips, fish croquette with pepper cream, scampi in saor)
-Shrimps with celeriac cream
-Courgette cream risotto with red prawns, tapenade and salted lemon
-Seafood fregola with fish broth and saffron
-Grilled amberjack with grilled spring onion and light bagna cauda
-Slice of local tuna with snow peas and mushroom broth
-Carrot sorbet, carrot cake and Greek yogurt
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