Venice Food Tour: Cicchetti and Wine
Overview
- 2.5-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
- Small-group tour with a maximum of 14 people ensures personalized attention
From $153.76 USD
Lowest Price GuaranteeStroll over to the Cannaregio neighborhood and duck into an 18th-century watering hole on the bustling Strada Nuova. Sink your teeth into some of the bar’s famous polpette, or spicy fried meatballs. From here, cross the Grand Canal on a traghetto passenger ferry and stop at the historic, open-air Rialto Market, where many Venetians shop for daily fresh produce and seafood.
Visit three more bars in central Venice, each with unique atmospheres and specialty cicchetti. Taste different varietals of regional wine and toast your Venice vacation with a glass of sparkling Prosecco. At the end of your tour, say farewell to your tour guide and fellow food lovers at the iconic Rialto Bridge.
Reviews
Viator Traveler's Reviews
We had a wonderful time. Our guide,Bea, was very friendly and knowledgeable. If you like food and wine pairings, this is the tour for you! We had lots of dishes we had never tried before. Wines paired perfectly with the foods. Lots of wine. Loved that there were locals at all the bars. We felt like we were living the Italian life!
My guide, Beatrice led me to 6 bacaros, each of where offered a cicchetto and a glas of wine. She is well-known by every barcaro and knows very well what the best at this bacaro. During a tour she explained about Venetian history and current life, like she is a friend of mine since 10 years. A tour is real worth the price.
Cicchetti bars are where the locals eat, drink and unwind. But they can be mysterious and potentially intimidating to new travelers. This tour breaks down the strangeness of them and makes even novices comfortable wandering in and grabbing a bite. We toured on our first day and over the next 4 days took many of our meals in these fun and historic establishments. And saved hundreds of Euros as I could eat my fill for less than 20 euros! If you like food and want to really know Venice then take this tour. Even if not a foodie, take this tour.
The tour guide was great but she was the only positive part of the tour. Wine was terrible and my husband and I left completely starving. It was a 3 hour tour with nowhere to sit for even 2 min. Would not recommend if you are looking for any type of substantial food. I have a feeling most people give this a high review because they got overly drunk on an empty stomach. Eat before or after you go! The price of this tour is very high for how little you get as well.
