British tourist claims he and his parents were duped into running up a £463 lunch bill in Venice
Luke Tang, 40, claims the waiters in a restaurant near St Mark’s Square took advantage of the fact he and his parents did not speak Italian
A BRITISH tourist says he and his elderly parents were duped into running up a £463 lunch bill by waiters in Venice.
University lecturer Luke Tang, 40, claims the waiters in a restaurant near St Mark’s Square took advantage of the fact they did not speak Italian to rip them off.
He said: “They said they’d sort out lunch for us — we just wanted a few small starters and then some spaghetti.
“The next thing I knew we were being served 20 oysters, which I thought was a bit odd as we hadn’t asked for them and my elderly parents don’t eat shellfish.’’
Luke, of Birmingham, said they were then served other expensive items they had not ordered such as lobsters.
He added: “When the bill came I almost had a heart attack. We were in a rush to catch the plane so I just paid but I felt we were conned.”
Luke has sent a letter to Venice’s mayor complaining about the Trattoria Casanova, which gets poor TripAdvisor reviews.
A spokesman for the mayor said yesterday: “’This doesn’t really have anything to do with us.’’
A manager at Trattoria Casanova said: “They got what they ordered. There was no suggestion of tricking them. The prices are all on display.”
