When the canal in front was covered over in the early twentieth century, it was created as a tavern in a typical Venetian cavàna, or boathouse, and has maintained its original structure with an ancient porch on great supporting arches in brick and hefty mooring rings, which gave access directly from gondolas. One of the oldest and most famous places in the history and gastronomic tradition of the Sestiere Cannaregio, in 2006 it became a very elegant restaurant with the best in traditional fare, loved also by the queen consort Silvia of Sweden.