Venice café grossly overcharges visiting tourists

Telegraph.co.uk reports that three months after a group of British holidaymakers were charged €64 (£54) for four ice creams in Rome, a bunch of Italian tourists were horrified to be charged the equivalent of £85 for four espresso coffees laced with liqueurs in Venice. The visitors from Rome were handed the whopping bill after sitting down to enjoy the coffees in a café in Venice’s St Mark’s Square. They had ordered four tiny espresso coffees which had a shot of ‘amaro’, an Italian aperitivo, added to them. Read article