Italian Restaurant
Pizza Place
Wine Bar
The "Venezia Club Italian Restaurant & Winery" is owned and runs by Italians with a long family tradition in home cooking culture; our recipes are simple but tasty, some of our dishes are directly passed down within our family from a long time.
In 1902, an Italian settlement was located in Tianjin, in the city center, along the river Hebei; after the Second World War, the Italian residents of this area returns to his homeland, leaving empty the citadel Italian. In 1999, the Tianjin Municipality has decided to cooperate with Italy, creating the first area in China dedicated exclusively to the development of tourism, culture, architecture, and the Made in Italy; the project took shape in 2002 and started with the renovation of the buildings. Shortly before the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Mr. Renato Pegoraro, an Italian coming from Veneto\'s generations (region of northern Italy) and resident for many years in China, after the constant insistence of many local friends who love Italian style, he decided to create a small oasis of traditional Italian flavors by calling it the place Venezia Club Italian Restaurant & Winery located in the Italian Style Town and until today still is the only one restaurant in the city of Tianjin with the Italian owner.
The restaurant is located in the heart of the Former Italian Concession Area, in the middle of the main road, in a completely renovated building that recalls the Italian Liberty and the Italian Art Deco architectural style of the early 1900s; inside every room has differently enviroments in the classic Italian style, with ornaments, photo and objects rare and unique.
The menu includes many dishes of traditional Italian home cooking: homemade pasta, pizza, grilled meat, stews and roasts, as well as having a wide selection of cold-cuts and cheeses imported from Italy. The wine list includes a wide range of wines from many Italian regions, from the most precious Barolo, Barbaresco and Brunello di Montalcino to the most popular Chianti and Lambrusco.
The Venice Club Italian Restaurant & Winery has got the "Ospitalita\' Italiana" Quality Certification issued by the Italian Chamber of Commerce for the real and traditional Italian food and beverages, for the original imported raw materials, and for the Italian Style environment; moreover it was the first foreign restaurant in Tianjin certificated by the Chinese Government with the "Three National Diamonds" for the high quality of the food, the security and the cleaning of the place; this recognition has allowed to be enabled as qualified restaurant to host important local political figures; in the 2016 the restaurant increased the score to the maximum achievable of “Four National Diamonds”.
In 2012, it was open the second Italian Restaurant in Bestown, a small ancient town close the Tanggu\'s seaside area.
In 2016, the Tianjin Quanjian Football Club has chosen the Venezia Club as the official supplier of food products and as a consulting and training service of the kitchen staff; the Tianjin Quanjian is trained by Mr. Fabio Cannavaro, FIFA world champion with the Italian Team and Golden Ball in 2006; the Tianjin Quanjian has moreover important international football players as Luís Fabiano, Júnior Moraes, Antony Modeste, Alexandre Pato and Axel Witsel that Venezia Club has always a pleasure to have them like guests.