Il Mercante
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EatVenice€€€Reservations help
Hala says
A 19th-century café reborn as a cocktail bar. Travel-inspired drinks, candlelight, no street noise.
Inside a small café next to the Frari Basilica that already had a 200-year history. The menu rotates seasonally around a travel theme (Marrakech, Tokyo, Mexico City) with cocktails built around ingredients from those places. Reservations recommended after 9 p.m.
Good to know
- Neighborhood — Reservations help
- Price — €€€
- Order — whatever the bartender's mixing tonight
- book ahead
- open late
- San Polo
- Cocktail program
From the HALA guide, reviewed August 2026.
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