Numbers are limited to 12 on this small-group tour, ensuring personalized attention from a guide.
Highlights
- 3-hour Venice food walking tour with a food-loving local guide
- Visit five of the city’s best cicchetti bars, famous for their Venetian tapas-style dishes
- Savor small plates of local specialties like marinated seafood with polenta
- Hop aboard a gondola and glide across the Grand Canal to Rialto Market
- Enjoy regional wines and sparkling prosecco with the food
- Small-group tour with a maximum of 12 people ensures personalized attention
What You Can Expect
Learn about food and wine in Venice from an expert guide!
Different to the typical pasta and pizza cuisine that so many associate with Italian food, true Venetian gastronomy takes its influences from the coast and the plains that surround the city. The carb of choice is polenta – yellow cornmeal served grilled or wet – and seafood is an almost permanent fixture in many meals.
Chat with your guide about Venice and its food while snacking on small plates of juicy plump olives and marinated seafood served on wedges of creamy polenta. Then, continue your stroll to Strada Nuova, a busy street in the neighborhood of Cannaregio, to visit an 18th-century bar famous for its plates of polpette (spicy fried meatballs). Sample some of its popular varieties, and then hop aboard your gondola for a quick ride along the canals.
Cross the Grand Canal, Venice’s major water-traffic corridor, and cruise into the Rialto area, stopping at Rialto Market for a glimpse of local life. Many Venetians buy their produce here, and the market’s bustling stalls are filled with fresh seafood, as well as vegetables and fruit.
Browse the wares, and then stroll to a bar in the center of Venice for more wine and cicchetti, sampling regional wines and sparkling prosecco. Continue to a couple of nearby bars to try their specialties, and then finish your tour on the steps of Rialto Bridge – an iconic Venice attraction.
Customer Reviews
Diane D
Australia
February 2014
I love doing food tours and this has been one of my favourites. Every place that you went to was authentic - in fact sometimes we were told that we would need to 'elbow' our way in like a local, to get through all the locals having their ombre and cicchetti.
January 2014
Good tour, it is difficult to navigate Venice and find good local places to eat and drink. I do not remember the name of our guide (She was originally from France), but she showed us parts of Venice only known to the locals. Im not really a wine drinker but I enjoyed all 5 wines and 5 chicchetti.
