When visiting Venice I tend to at least keep my distance from the main tourist traffic jams. So Piazza San Marco, and the surrounding streets, are usually off limits for me. Yes, during the cold winter months, when things quite down, I regularly head to Florian. But in the summer, when the normal crowds are joined by Biennale visitors, I try to stay as far away as possible.

Still, if I do find myself in the shadow of St. Mark’s lions, I know there is one extremely dependable place I can sit down and enjoy two of life’s greatest pleasures: a spritz and an anchovy pizza.

OK. I bet you didn’t see that coming. A spritz maybe. But an anchovy pizza? But this is what Aciugheta is known for. Most cicchetti bars have one or two things they are known for, in terms of snacking, but Aciugheta takes the fame of their small anchovy pizzas so seriously that their restaurant is named after it.

This last summer, after a long long long day of looking at art at the Biennale Emma and I were very happy to stop by here for a pair of Spritz’s and one very perfect little pizza. If you’re feeling very Venetian you can ask for your Spritz to be made with the local bitter Select, but I’m a Campari girl through and through (and never really even consider Aperol).

But whatever you drink (and Aciugheta has a fabulous selection of wines by the glass) do have a pizza. Or two. It’s the perfect antidote to too much art and/or too many tourists and just filling enough to provide ballast for the Spritz but light enough not to interfere with dinner plans.

Sometimes life can be very simple.

Although I usually stop here for a pizza and spritz, they also have a very good, simple restaurant. They are also owners of Il Ridotto, a michelin starred restaurant on the same small piazza".


Elizabeth Minchilli
source: http://www.elizabethminchilli.com/2016/03/aciugheta-venice/

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