At Rosticceria Gilson bistro dishes are heated in the microwave in your presence. But it is a better place to eat at than any neighbouring restaurants where they would do the same but without revealing the fact to customers and would mix into your dish some uneatable preserves on the top of everything asking to pay 3 Euro for table appointments. “Rosticceria” serves really home-cooked food dressed with homely customs.

The right half of the restaurant hall works a la Venetian bacaro: people come in, order drinks and shove their finger into breaded snack balls that are called ciketti by Venetians. Every 20 minutes a stout figure of the cook shows itself out of the kitchen door to check which snacks are running out.

In the left half you can get an adequate dinner after a careful examination of what exactly you are going to order on the counter desk. Here you are to find quite inexpensive set meals with meat, fried potatoes and even salads; there’s a wide variety of sea-food, deep fatted or grilled. 15 Euros will allow a portion of Grilliata Mista – a mixed grill of fish: dorada fish, royal shrimps, small cuttlefish, sardines and familiar salmon. If you win the waiter’s favour he will let you choose the ingredients or your mixed dish.

This place isn’t hard to find though it is hidden from tourist’s eyes behind the scenes of Campo San Bartolomeo. If you come down Rialto bridge towards San Marco and go forward about 20 meters, you will turn on San Bartolomeo Square. Here you’ll see Walt Disney store (the only one in Venice). To the left of the shop there are narrow streets: one, two, three – and the third is just for you to go into. In 5 meters or so you’ll see Rosticceria (by the way, it’s open till 21.30).