Risi E Bisi appears as a signature dish in 1 Italy cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Risi e bisi · Venice
A risotto-soup hybrid of rice and fresh spring peas, traditionally served to the Doge on St Mark's Day (25 April). Loose, soupy, never stiff.
Risi e bisi is the canonical Venetian Republic dish, traditionally served to the Doge in the Doge's Palace on the Feast of St Mark (25 April) using the first peas of spring. The texture is risotto-but-looser, somewhere between a soup and a risotto, made with the pea pods reduced to a broth (the canonical version uses both pods and peas). It is on the menu at every spring carte from Vini da Gigio to Anice Stellato, and the proverbial Venetian saying goes that it should be ne troppo brodoso ne troppo asciutto (neither too soupy nor too dry).
Where to eat in Venice:
- Vini da Gigio
- Osteria Anice Stellato
- Trattoria alla Madonna
- Osteria alle Testiere
- Bistrot de Venise