Fratelli la Bufala, Italian restaurant in Mestre, Italy
Fratelli la Bufala is an Italian restaurant in Mestre, the mainland district of Venice, focused on Neapolitan cuisine. The menu features wood-fired pizza and pasta dishes built around buffalo mozzarella and ingredients from southern Italy.
The chain was founded in Naples in the 1990s and then expanded to cities across Italy. The Mestre location is part of that push into northern Italy, where Neapolitan-style cooking had less of a presence.
Fratelli la Bufala is part of a chain born in Naples that has since spread across Italy. The menu centers on buffalo mozzarella sourced from Campania, used across a range of dishes from pizza to appetizers.
The restaurant is located in central Mestre and easy to reach on foot or by public transit from the train station. Booking ahead is a good idea, especially on weekends or in the evening.
The word "bufala" in the restaurant's name refers to the water buffalo, the animal behind buffalo mozzarella, but in everyday Italian it also means a hoax or a fake story. This double meaning gives the name a playful edge that most non-Italian visitors miss entirely.
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