Acqua e Mais
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A hole-in-the-wall window in San Polo serving fried lagoon seafood in paper cones: Venetian street food at its plainest. €5 to €10, eaten standing in the calle.
Campiello dei Meloni, near Rialto. Chef Alvise (a former fine-dining cook who reset to do this) fries to order: small whole anchovies, calamari, shrimp, sardines, baby octopus, plus a slab of grilled polenta at the bottom of the cone to keep everything hot. The scartosso is the Venetian word for the folded paper cone. There's no seating; the nearest campo has a fountain. Cash easier than card. Closed Sundays. Phil Rosenthal filmed here for Somebody Feed Phil.
- Neighborhood — Stand and eat
- Price — €
- Order — a scartosso of fritto misto + grilled cuttlefish
- walk in
- takeaway available
- San Polo
- €5–10 per cone
From the HALA guide, reviewed August 2026.
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