#icecreamshops

Organic food/health shops with vegan products ... we tried two of these and have three more in our notes:

La Serenissima Bio is an organic supermarket with a large product range: plenty of fruit, veg, soy products, rice/oat milk and the like, flour, cereals, instant meals, spices, a large refrigerated section, wines, cleaning agents – everything the heart desires.

Opening times: Mon–Sat 9am–7:30pm, Tue+Thu closed between 1pm and 4:30pm

Location: Corte Coppo, San Marco 4350 – some 200m northwest of the northwestern corner of Piazza San Marco; from the middle of Calle della Locanda turn south into a side lane. See also the map at the shop's contact page

Homepage: http://www.laserenissimabio.com

Naturalia is a health and food shop with cosmetic and health products in the front room and an extensive grocery department in the back room. They stock many products labelled as vegan, including croissants, cake and everything listed above, except for fresh fruit and veg.

Opening times: Mon–Say 9:30am–7:30pm

Location: Fondamenta del Gafaro, Dorsoduro 3525 – southeast of the corner with Calle della Misericordia

Rialto Bio is an organic supermarket which, according to Happy Cow, stocks food and natural cosmetics, including refrigerated and frozen products, faux meat, tofu, rice yoghurt. According to their own homepage, there are two branches; the former seems to be the larger one:

Opening times: Mon–Fri 8:30am–8pm, closed Sun, no information about Saturdays

Location: (1) Calle della Regina, S. Croce 2264, right next to Pal. Gozzi (2) Campo delle Beccarie (west side), S. Croce

Cibele is a small shop with organic food and health products, including soy milk and the like, vegan spreads and more (we only pressed our noses against the shop window).

Opening times: 8:30am–12:45pm and 4pm–7:45pm (probably valid for Mon–Sat)

Location: Campiello de l'Anconeta, Cannaregio 1823 – in the south east corner, opposite the side road Calle del Pignater

Baldrocco Frutta e Verdura is an organic food shop with fresh fruit and veg, as the name says.

Opening times: Mon–Sat 8am–1pm, 5pm–8pm

Location: Rio Tera de la Maddalena, Cannaregio 2000 – at the eastern end of the bridge over Rio di San Marcuola 

We also bought fresh fruit at the farmers' market in Rio Terrà San Leonardo, Cannaregio.

Restaurants/ice cream shops

Le Spighe Di Presotto Doriana is a vegetarian bistro and deli shop that offers takeaway food, 75% of which is supposedly vegan. We only managed to take a look from the outside because our plans for cooking were large and stomach capacity was limited. Le Spighe is located in the rather quiet workers' neighborhood Castello, where the tourist density abates and a couple of parks (Giardini Garibaldi, Giardini Pubblici, Giardini di Castello) invite the visitor to stay.

Opening times: Mon–Sat 9:30am–2:30pm and 5:30pm–7:30pm

Location: Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, Castello 1341 – corner Calle Schianova

Grom is a chain of ice cream shops offering vegan flavors (mostly sorbets). These are clearly marked on the noticeboard in every branch, and at the chain's homepage.

Opening times: daily 11am–10pm or 11am–11pm

Location: (1) Campo San Barnaba, Dorsoduro (2) Strada Nova, Cannaregio – corner Calle di Ca' d'Oro (3) Campo Del Frari, San Polo

On the internet: branches in Venice – Ingredient listing