Gran Blanco - Venice

Recommended by a friend and I wasn?t disappointed. A very nice bar, perfect for cocktails and apps. Drinks were good, especially the White Negroni. The Espresso Martinis were okay ish. Haven?t had food there yet, but it also looks very good.

We had a reservation for 5 and the waitress (Laurel I believe) refused to get us an additional seat because the other table also had a reservation? No one ever came to use that seat. She was rude and, on top of the bare minimum service, decided to giveherself a 25% tip. We should have custom tipped, but it?s always awkward when they?re rushing you to sign. Awful. Too loud andcrowded, but that?s also the Venice way. Food was pretty decent!

We stopped here when we visited Venice beach. At first glance the place was full of the young and mostly beautiful hip crowd. We are a little older than the typical client. But after initially the male wait staff pointing and laughing at me and my husbandholding hands across the table we seemed to win them over and we had a wonderful time talking to the staff and they were quiteattentive to us. We had a lot of drinks and especially liked the orange wine and the cucumber cocktail. Food was very goodalso. All in all we had a great time here. Fun place and great vibe.

Such a good restaurant. Great ocean vibe, nice people, beautiful Light and background music. I ordered here Octopus, burger and eggplant. My favorite is eggplant with feta, very bright mediterranean taste. It's hard to explain vibe, but these guysdefinately has it. Thanks for your job????

The food was incredible! My taste buds were singing! We got the octopus and tandoori oyster mushrooms and both were perfection! I used to love this spot when it was Bank of Venice, and I always worry about these rebrands and if they'll be good. This mealput all that worry to rest! This is now a new local favorite! Also, the whole wine list is natural and organic. They have somegreat bottles and pours by the glass. The staff is friendly and sharp. The music was fun we were there for Saturday brunchand they had chill house/funk/disco vibes going. We dug it! Overall, it's fantastic and I can't wait to go back!