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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstWhatever the lagoon and the Adriatic gave up that morning, sea bass, turbot, sole, scampi or eel, grilled strictly over wood embers. It comes to the middle of the table to share, and the first question is always which fish came in today.
Venetian · Burano lagoon seafood · Burano, Venice
Via Baldassarre Galuppi 221, 30142 Burano, Venezia
Four generations of one Burano family, now Anna and Rossella, keep this trattoria a boat ride across the lagoon. The fire is the point: fish grilled over wood embers and nothing else.
The proof, in the house's own words
Technique
Strictly over wood embers, in the house's own words.
“rigorosamente alla brace di legna”
We'd add
Our runner-upRisotto cooked in a broth of goby, a small lagoon fish
Burano's own rice, made with the gò, a small lagoon goby that has grown rare. The house is famous for it, and one pot for the table is the way into the meal.
Same plate, other kitchens
Trattoria Da Romano and one other kitchen in Venice all lead with it. What sets each apart, and who it suits:
Trattoria Da Romano
This kitchenBurano · Menu checked Sep 2026
The house that made the dish famous: the family has cooked it since 1920, with the gò simmered for broth and never served, and a wood-ember grill for the second plate.
Pick it if you want the original in an art-lined dining room, at lunch.
Burano · Menu checked Sep 2026
The Buranella version from Ruggero and Lucia Bovo, who research the island's old recipes — homemade pasta and island-grown vegetables around it.
Pick it if it's the special lunch of the trip and you want a serious wine list, booked ahead.
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