Fast food, Italian-style

Rosticceria Teatro Goldoni restaurant in Venice

A rosticceria is basically a tavola calda (literally "hot table,"a sort of cafeteria with excellent pre-prepared dishes) that also serves roast chicken. This joint behind plate glass windows near the Rialto may look modern, but it's been around since 1950, and really goes far above and beyond the call for a rosticceria with a vast array of choices, plenty of seating, and a particularly ample tourist menu. It comes with half a dozen choices each for both primo and secondo—meat-filled canelloni alla bolognese, pasta and beans, lasagne, one quarter of a roast chicken, breaded veal cutlet alla milanese, mixed fish fry, pork chop—along with a salad, fried potatoes, or veggies, bread and fruit or cheese, and coffee.

San Marco 4747 (at Ponte del Lovo on Calle Teatro, a five-minute walk south of Rialto Bridge toward San Marco)
Tel. 041-522-2446
Closed Wed