Venice cafes or restauants reasonably priced?
May 14th, 2007, 07:15 AM
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Found a NY Times article about cicheti (prounced with a hard k as in chiketti?) and one of the places featured is Bancogiro:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/tr...rtner=USERLAND
So is it mostly seafood? Interesting that the first cicheti were anchovies and the suspicion is that a lot of cicheti have Spanish, Greek and Middle Eastern influences, reflecting the cultures which moved through Rialto.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/tr...rtner=USERLAND
So is it mostly seafood? Interesting that the first cicheti were anchovies and the suspicion is that a lot of cicheti have Spanish, Greek and Middle Eastern influences, reflecting the cultures which moved through Rialto.
May 14th, 2007, 07:23 AM
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On my last trip (about 4 years ago) we enjoyed the ciccheti at these three places; curious what you Venet-o-philes think of them. All this food talk is sparking a desire to return; I loved the food in Venice:
Alla Vedova (great sarde en saor..)
Alle Botte
Alle Rampa (facing Rialto market vegetable area)
Alla Vedova (great sarde en saor..)
Alle Botte
Alle Rampa (facing Rialto market vegetable area)
May 14th, 2007, 12:22 PM
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scrb-"Cichetti" spelled typically in Venice with two "t's" (and yes, with hard "k"
is mostly seafood-sarde en saor (my favorite) granceola (crab mixture) baccala mantecato -dried cod mixed into a patty like substance-tasty, my absolute favorite- octopus salad with celery and olives (can eat this all day and night) grilled vegetables, grilled rolled sardines, I can go on and on-there's usually about 20 different casserole dishes out there, and you pick and choose one or two or three, (or like me, at ai promessi sposi, 7 or 8) and you have a great dinner-howevery normally Venetians come in, they have a spritz and a couple of cichetti at the bar, chat, and then move on.
Campo San Giacometto in San Polo, behind the fruit and fish market, is great for this in the late afternoon, but also Cannaregio, at the various little bars in and around the Strada Nova, everybody out drinking their orange colored "spritz" flavored with aperol and chatting-Venice is quite parochial that way.
Scrb-that NY Times article-is that the one that mentions ai promessi sposi? Because if it is, the owner showed me a NY Times article with a huge spread about his place, and it seemed it was in 2004.
Ek-Alla Vedova is good, however, it has been written about so much that all you see there are tourists-and if you just go down the Strada Nova to Osteria da Bomba or Promessi sposi you can get the same or better cichetti and full meals in a lot more inviting and authentic atomosphere-however nothing wrong with it-it's just too touristed for me, because it's right off the Ca d'Oro vaporetto stop-across from the Strada Nova.
Alla Rampa-I've not been there, but any bacaro in the area of Rialto fish market is good-there's not a one that isn't-some are better known than others, like Do Mori, but the Venetians don't seem to go there that much anymore (Do Mori-they tell me) because the owners are not as friendly and they have hiked the prices-so they go to others-it is more expensive than Bancogiro.
Al Marca-very near Bancogiro, is an excellent very popular bacaro/cichetti place that I highly recommend as well.
is mostly seafood-sarde en saor (my favorite) granceola (crab mixture) baccala mantecato -dried cod mixed into a patty like substance-tasty, my absolute favorite- octopus salad with celery and olives (can eat this all day and night) grilled vegetables, grilled rolled sardines, I can go on and on-there's usually about 20 different casserole dishes out there, and you pick and choose one or two or three, (or like me, at ai promessi sposi, 7 or 8) and you have a great dinner-howevery normally Venetians come in, they have a spritz and a couple of cichetti at the bar, chat, and then move on. Campo San Giacometto in San Polo, behind the fruit and fish market, is great for this in the late afternoon, but also Cannaregio, at the various little bars in and around the Strada Nova, everybody out drinking their orange colored "spritz" flavored with aperol and chatting-Venice is quite parochial that way.
Scrb-that NY Times article-is that the one that mentions ai promessi sposi? Because if it is, the owner showed me a NY Times article with a huge spread about his place, and it seemed it was in 2004.
Ek-Alla Vedova is good, however, it has been written about so much that all you see there are tourists-and if you just go down the Strada Nova to Osteria da Bomba or Promessi sposi you can get the same or better cichetti and full meals in a lot more inviting and authentic atomosphere-however nothing wrong with it-it's just too touristed for me, because it's right off the Ca d'Oro vaporetto stop-across from the Strada Nova.
Alla Rampa-I've not been there, but any bacaro in the area of Rialto fish market is good-there's not a one that isn't-some are better known than others, like Do Mori, but the Venetians don't seem to go there that much anymore (Do Mori-they tell me) because the owners are not as friendly and they have hiked the prices-so they go to others-it is more expensive than Bancogiro.
Al Marca-very near Bancogiro, is an excellent very popular bacaro/cichetti place that I highly recommend as well.
May 14th, 2007, 12:53 PM
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rialtogrl- My favorite was hard boiled egg sliced, with tomatoes, on white bread. Yum... roasted vegetable was not too shabby either. I'd usually spring for sitting at a table and get a little carafe of white wine to go with it!
May 14th, 2007, 01:12 PM
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If you go through that NY Times article, there are 3 pages.
At the bottom of the second page is a heading for Banco Giro. But the text of the description about the place is on page 3. There is even a picture.
What about crostini?
Also, do these places which serve cichetti have menus? You know like a lot of tapas places in Spain will have picture menus showing price and what exactly is in them?
At the bottom of the second page is a heading for Banco Giro. But the text of the description about the place is on page 3. There is even a picture.
What about crostini?
Also, do these places which serve cichetti have menus? You know like a lot of tapas places in Spain will have picture menus showing price and what exactly is in them?
