Restaurants in Venezia
Where to eat in Venice: cicheti in the bacari, sarde in saor, baccalà mantecato, moeche, and the Rialto market.
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Eating in Venezia
In Venice you eat standing before you eat sitting: the bacaro is the bar where you order an ombra of wine and a couple of cicheti, then walk on to the next one.
The cicheti
Crostini, half eggs, meatballs, baby octopus, baccalà mantecato on white bread, and sarde in saor — onion, vinegar, raisins and pine nuts, the sailors' preserve that became the city's dish.
The sit-down dishes
- Bigoli in salsa — dark pasta with onion and anchovy, traditionally a meatless dish;
- Risi e bisi, made in spring, loose rather than a proper risotto;
- Calf's liver alla veneziana, with slowly cooked onions;
- Moeche — soft-shell crabs, fried whole. Two seasons a year, and then they are gone.
The market
The Rialto market — the fish hall especially — works early and closes mid-morning: which is why in many osterias the menu changes daily.
Opening hours and closing days change. The ones on the listings come from public sources and may be out of date. Where a restaurant confirms tables with us, the availability you see is the real one.
Other towns in the province of Venezia
For when dinner is a few kilometres away.