One Hundred Miles

A real secret, this family restaurant run by four brothers - three waiters and the chef - moved from Treviso last year to its present site a short walk from the Fish Market. As you would expect, seafood features prominently on the handwritten and therefore somewhat unintelligible menu. But the real treat is the beef, the restaurant's speciality - order it 'al sangue' (very rare) as a starter or go the whole hog and take the succulent, monster-sized main course option. No mad cows in here, just plain good eating.

Opened last month the furniture museum is a fascinating place. Set in its own beautiful 18th-century mansion, the exhibition focuses on Russian work - especially the intricate work by serfs in the 18th and 19th-century - but also has a wide collection of modern furniture, from a stool shaped as Salvador Dali's ear to a chair with an elbow rest shaped as Nostradamus hand holding a magic ball. Other highlights are a chest of drawers that turn into a writing desk and a sofa with a zipper dedicated to President Clinton.

It is a rare event for a living photographer to have personal retrospective at the National Gallery of Modern Art, but Fosco Maraini is worthy of the accolade. The 120 photographs on display reflect the Italian photographer's prevailing interest in anthropology. Six decades of Maraini's work are covered, from 1930s' mountaineering expeditions in Tibet to contemporary street life in India. The exhibition, however, favours striking juxtapositions rather than mere chronological or geographical presentation. A separate display of recent photographs of Kyoto and Florence is at the nearby Institute of Japanese Culture.