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 Traghetti (Traghetto) 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 a Traghetti (Traghetto) 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
April 2014
We had a wonderful evening on this tour. Our guide, Iole, was very informative, friendly, accommodating and entertaining! The other members of the group were lovely (five couples in total) which made the evening even more pleasant. The actual wine and cicchetti offered was noteworthy - all the wine was wonderful and the cicchetti was varied and tasty and, although possibly not to everyone's taste, it was good to try local fayre. We enjoyed it all, though!! The servings weren't stingy, either - a good size glass of wine and small serving of food at each serving - I think we had six servings over 4 ostaria!! We learnt a lot and enjoyed it immensely! A good way to visit parts of Venice which perhaps you wouldn't find independently, too. All in all, thoroughly recommended and thanks again to Iole!
April 2014
Really enjoyed this tour. Claire and Sarah our tour guides were brilliant. Met some great people and visited local bars you would never of found. Got introduced to some local wines including "Raboso" and had a real great night. - Recommended.
