Venice Guided Food Tour with Traditional Cicchetti and Wine 2018

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Taste your way through the backstreet bars of Venice with this delicious food and wine tour. Follow your local guide to five different ‘enotecas’ (wine bars) to discover where local Venetians go to drink and mingle. At each stop, sample regional wines and Prosecco served alongside plates of the popular Venetian appetizers called ‘cicchetti.’ Group size is limited to 14 to ensure a personalized experience.

Highlights

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

What You Can Expect

Learn about food and wine

This 2.5-hour tour provides a great introduction to the distinct flavors of Venetian cuisine. Make your way to Campo de la Maddalena to meet your guide and the other members of this small-group tour. Your first stop is a nearby bar that occupies the former site of a charcoal store. Soak up the historic character and sample cicchetti such as marinated olives and polenta wedges topped with seafood.
Stroll 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.

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jjazzyr

5 star rating: Highly Recommended July 2018

Excellent tour! We took this tour on our first night in Venice and it was a great way to get the lay of the land early. Our tour guide Claire was wonderful! She was very personable as well as knowledgeable about Venice and all its history. The group consisted of 12 people, a perfect size for this tour. No head phones to deal with. We went to five different restaurants and enjoyed a wine tasting and specialty
food from all five. I would highly recommend this tour!

vanessadody

5 star rating: Highly Recommended July 2018

Our guide couldn't have been better! Betta was superb! She gave us a lot of useful information while taking us to dome great little places to try. There was time to ask questions and enjoy the small group.

michael.paul.teter

5 star rating: Highly Recommended July 2018

Our tour guide was great. She gave us some great information about Venice and how to get around. The wine and the food were all fantastic. Our guide even wrote down a list of other bars to visit in the city. It was definitely a fun night.

Tracey

5 star rating: Highly Recommended July 2018

An Amazing tour of some off the beaten track wine bars in beautiful Venice. Our tour guide Bette was so knowledgeable on the history of these wine bars and also on everything Venice. The food (Cicchetti) was delicious and the wine, particularly the Rabiso was excellent. We would thoroughly recommend this tour.

Nicholas D

5 star rating: Highly Recommended July 2018

Claire was an excellent guide. She provided a lot of history for the area as well as the restaurants we visited. She also offered suggestions about different venues along the tour for us to consider at another time. We went to one the places she recommended for dinner the next night. Well worth the price.