The Restaurant at The Gritti Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Venice

"Just three of the first-floor suites have breathtaking views over the canal, but vista-deprived guests can console themselves with a terrace table at the hotel restaurant"

"The hotel’s ground-floor Bar Longhi, which takes its name from the paintings by 18th-century Venetian master Pietro Longhi that hang within, and its adjacent restaurant, Club del Doge, have been glam gathering places for decades, not just for their cuisine and cocktails but for their Grand Canal views and chic clientele"

"If you enjoy chef Daniele Turco's locally influenced menus at one of the Grand Canal–view restaurants, you can tour the Rialto Market and take a private cooking class with the master himself"

"We’d love to see a slightly more relaxed lunchtime menu at the canal-front Club del Doge restaurant, but after feasting on a faultless lemon, black pepper, and Parmesan linguine at dinner, it’s gauche to complain"

"Service is meticulous and a meal at the waterside restaurant is highly recommended"

"Guests can create a memorable meal by enrolling in the first-class cooking school, or dress for dinner and be wowed at the refined Club del Doge restaurant, and wind down with a treatment (or two) at the sleek, guests-only spa"

"Dignified, even reserved, the staff goes to great lengths to satisfy even the most demanding clients, and when the concierges put their heads together, they can come up with the answer to any question or get a table at any restaurant"