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Centrale Restaurant & Lounge

The bar and restaurant near Teatro La Fenice eschews typically fusty Venetian ambience in favor of spider-web metal chairs, a chameleon-hued backlit bar, and a loud sound system. Dinner and after-theatre snacks are served until 2 a.m.

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From Travel + Leisure , SEP 2004

Just 100 feet from La Fenice opera house, Centrale Restaurant & Lounge is open for dinner—try the black squid-ink pasta with raw shrimp—and serves after-theater cocktails until the very un-Venetian hour of 2 a.m. Visiting fashionistas and celebrities such as Vittorio Missoni and Spike Lee linger for hours in the lounge, which favors spiderweb metal chairs, a bamboo screen, and a backlit crystal bar over fussy fabrics....MORE>>

– T+L Reports: Salute to Venice

Last updated September 2004