Iconic dish · Damplo Marghera
Schiacciamo — Pane Carasau Ricostruito in Sedici Strati
The world's thinnest bread, made the world's most complex.
Carasau is Sardinian shepherds' bread: thin as paper, crispy, ancient. Ciccio took it, crushed it with a lava stone press and rebuilt it in sixteen alternating layers of Ragusa salted ricotta cream, cold-concentrated San Marzano tomato extract and private vineyard extra virgin oil. Each layer is pressed individually and the whole is served warm, with a Venetian cuttlefish ink sauce — because in Marghera, says Ciccio, "the sea is at work, and the bread must work too." The name came from his sous-chef's comment during testing: "So, shall we crush it?" Ciccio said yes. The dish remained. The sous-chef got a raise.
"Every time I prepare it, I cry a little. It's a form of quality control."
Booking
By request only, with at least one week of emotional advance notice.
Notice
Ciccio accepts no liability for existential crises or reassessment of one's relationship with food.
