Eating in Venice

Venice gastronomy has particular tasty dishes. You can begin with the appetizers, the masterpieces of Venetian menu. The “bacari” (the typical taverns) offers to their customers the “cicchetti”, typical Venetian appetizers that must be served with a “ombra de vin” (a little wine). You just have to choose among groceries or fried crab, the typical “soppressa” (a sort of salami) with polenta or half egg with anchovies. Among the first courses, the most know dish is “risi e bisi”, also known as rice with peas, that the Doge’s ate in honour of the Saint Patron of the city on 25th April. In Venice you can also eat seafood: spaghetti with clams or cooked with sepia. In this place an other dish really appreciated is the pasta with beans. To conclude your meal you must choose a second course: inevitable (for people who has a strong stomach…) the liver cooked in the Venetian way, its characteristic is to be cooked with a lot of onion, served with “castrature”, the typical artichokes farmed on the little islands of the Laguna.