Venice Food & Restaurant

Cuttlefish and its ink is trademark of Venice food. Specialties of food in Venice include polenta, made of corn meal; risotto with cuttlefish ink sauce. This intense black ink serves as a sauce and ingredient for polenta (corn meal), risotto (rice), and pasta. Some noted nutritious and delicious foods in Italian words are "nella seppia" (in cuttlefish), "alla seppia" (in the style of cuttlefish), or "nero di seppia," (black of the cuttlefish).

One interesting fact concerning with Venice restaurant is that to save money at lunch you should eat in standing up position. As you sit at a table prices usually double. Visitors should know that restaurant prices are subject to IVA (value added tax) at 10% and additional 15% service charge is also usually added to the bill at the end. Few words in Italian for restaurant are Ristorante, Trattoria and Pizzeria. Ristorante indicates a more upmarket establishment with some pretensions, while a trattoria is a more humble, traditional eatery serving local people with simple filling dishes. Both offer a traditional Italian pattern based around pasta, meat and seafood dishes. A pizzeria serves pizzas.