Fegato Alla Veneziana appears as a signature dish in 1 Italy cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Fegato alla veneziana · Venice
Calf liver sliced thin and slow-cooked with onions in butter and white wine. The canonical Venetian secondo, served on polenta bianca.
Fegato alla veneziana is the Venetian Republic's answer to the Roman frattaglie tradition: thin-sliced calf liver, melted onions, butter and white wine, served on white polenta. The dish appears in 14th-century Anonimo Veneziano manuscripts, and the onions-and-liver combination was a way to use the offal of the cattle slaughtered for the Republic's salumi trade. The polenta bianca (white corn) is the canonical accompaniment, not yellow. It is still on the menu at every traditional Venetian trattoria from Vini da Gigio to Antiche Carampane.
Where to eat in Venice:
- Vini da Gigio
- Trattoria alla Madonna
- Antiche Carampane
- Bistrot de Venise
- Osteria Anice Stellato