How to Eat Like Venetians (And Where): Cicchetti

Nov 29, 2021 503

Restaurants in Venice are notorious for serving average food at exorbitant prices, but there’s a way to escape that, and mingle with locals while you’re at it: cicchetti bars. Cicchetti are small snacks or side dishes, typically served in traditional bàcari (cicchetti bars).

Common cicchetti include tiny sandwiches, plates of olives and vegetables, halved hard boiled eggs, deep-fried cheese, calamari, artichoke hearts, small servings of seafood, meat and vegetable ingredients laid on top of a slice of bread or polenta (classics include baccalà mantecato on top of white polenta and sarde in saor e polentina). All accompanied by little glasses of wine.

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SOURCE: https://www.italymagazine.com

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