guardian news Venice authorities step in after four tourists charged £1,000 ($1,400) for meal

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Quartet of Japanese tourists ordered steak, grilled fish and water and were charged €1,100 in restaurant

 

Mon 22 Jan 2018 18.18 GMT

Jon Henley, European affairs correspondent

 

 

 

Piazza San Marco in Venice, where only 1% of restaurants are owned and operated by locals

Photograph: Getty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/22/venice-authorities-step-in-after-four-tourists-charged-1000-for-meal

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Venice restaurant that hit tourists with £1,000 bill faces £17,000 fines

 

Official checks find Osteria da Luca breached safety and food description rules, reports say

 

 

Thu 25 Jan 2018 13.23 GMT

  Jon Henley

 

 

 

The Osteria da Luca in Venice, where four visitors received a bill for €1,143 for four steaks, grilled fish, two glasses of wine and mineral wate

Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/venice-restaurant-overcharged-tourists-fines-osteria-da-luca

 

 

umb's note: Good that there's a pic of it...To be avoided like the plague!!!