Enoteca San Marco

Open daily, 11:30 a.m. - 11 p.m.

Enoteca San Marco is the informal accompaniment to Mario Battali and Joseph Bastianich's B&B Ristorante in the Venetian. Located in the Grand Canal Shoppes central square, Enoteca San Marco offers a full Italian menu and an extensive wine collection, all in a charming and informal setting.

Appetizers include hand-crafted salamis and cured meats like prosciutto di Parma, prosciutto San Daniele, soppressata and coppa. Vegetable snackers range from roasted red peppers and balsamic marinated cipolline onions to cauliflower alla Siciliana and sweet and sour beets.

Salads are a speciality at Enoteca San Marco, with artichokes “alla Romana,” radicchio with scamorza cheese and arugula with Parmigiano filling plates with verdure.

Antipasti include asparagus with “due ouvo,” rock shrimp and garbanzo beans and mussels with pepperonata.

Meat entrees include crispy duck with house raisins, hanger steak with radicchio and vinegar, chicken with pignoli and onions and veal-ricotta polpette.

Pastas range from spaghetti alla carbonarra and penne alla puttanesca to bucatini all’amatriciana and fusilli with sausage and broccoli rabe.

Pizzas are also offered in styles such as vongole, marinara, Napoletana, Romana, Margherita D.O.C., pepperoni, four cheese, sausage and sweet peppers and sweet onions with goat cheese.

-- Review by Greg Thilmont