Eating great cuisine at Zeffrino Ristorante in the Grand Canal Shoppes is as close as a traveller can get to actually eating by the Grand Canal in Venice. The only difference here will be the strange echo of tourists walking through the indoor mall, the American servicepeople, the tight climate control, the prices in dollars instead of Lira, the newness of everything, the sense that instead of walking around on 4,000 years of history, you're eating in a city that thinks 30-year old buildings should be demolished, and the sheer number of drunk men shouting at women. Wait, does that last one happen in Italy too?
Zeffrino Ristorante has imported art, architecture, and furnishings from Italy in order to as closely as possible replicate the experience of being there. They have done a remarkable job. From the stone archways and columns to the open balcony and the staircase, everything in view is elegant and classic.
