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Top food to try in Venice

6 dishes to eat in Venice, what is in them, and where they belong.

Last updated 2026-08-08

1. Cicchetti

Cicchetti
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Small bar snacks on bread or skewers — baccalà mantecato, sarde in saor, folpetti — eaten with a glass of wine.

2. Sarde in saor

Sarde in saor
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Fried sardines marinated with onion, pine nuts and raisins — a sailors' preserving method turned into a classic.

3. Risotto al nero di seppia

Risotto al nero di seppia
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Risotto blackened with cuttlefish ink, a lagoon dish rather than a general Italian one.

4. Baccalà mantecato

Baccalà mantecato
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Salt cod whipped with oil into a pale cream, served on grilled polenta.

5. Fritto misto

Fritto misto
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Mixed fried lagoon seafood in a paper cone, best from a bar near the fish market.

6. Spritz

Spritz
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Prosecco with Select, Aperol or Campari and soda. Select is the Venetian original.

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