Market & Cicchetti Venice Food Tour | Small Group

Duration:

3 hrs

Offered on:

Tues, Thurs, Sat at 11:30AM

Meeting Point:

Campo San Giacometto

No wait in lines!

All our prices include tickets and reservations

Market & Cicchetti Venice Food Tour | Small Group

Visit the oldest fish market in Venice for a true taste of lively local life

Sip on prosecco as you discover the famous Venetian cicchetti snacks

Have an expert local guide bring Venice to life with unique antecedents

Go for a short ride in a traditional gondolino across the canal to lunch

Enjoy a delicious sit-down lunch and taste the best of Venetian cuisine

LivItaly’s Market & Venice Food Tour is perfect for curious foodie travelers. Start off at Venice’s oldest fish market, marveling at all the freshly laid out displays and the bustle of local life. With your local expert guide with you, you will start learning all about Venice and its food culture as you walk past fish mongers whose families have been in the trade for centuries. Visit two different local bars and enjoy the famous cicchetti, Venetian snacks, while sipping on a glass of local prosecco. After your traditional pre-lunch snacks, hop on a gondolino, a small Gondola, and glide across the canal for a lunch. Enjoy a traditional lunch, tasting some of Venice’s favorite local foods. A day of discovering Venice through its food and local life!

WHY BOOK LIVITALY’S SMALL GROUP VENICE FOOD TOUR?
LivItaly’s small group sizes are a maximum of 6 people, offering a semi-private experience in one of the most beautiful cities in Italy. Venice can get quite crowded as it is a hub for tourism, so seeing it in a small group makes it easier to navigate the narrow winding streets and easier to get to know you guide and vice versa so that you experience a truly personalized and personal tour. Travelers are guaranteed a small group of no more than six people, ideal for bustling city sightseeing.

ABOUT YOUR MARKET & CICCHETTI VENICE FOOD TOUR
Your Venice Food Tour starts in the oldest part of the city, and perhaps the most picturesque – at the famous Rialto Fish Market. Declared part of the UNESCO patrimony, this is absolutely a sight worth seeing which is still somewhat off tourist’s radar. The glisten of the morning sun peaking through the canal porticos mixed with the sounds of morning market talk among Italian locals offers an extremely unique experience and a glimpse into local life from centuries ago till today.

Being a city on water, seafood is a huge part of Venetian cuisine. This ancient fish market is important in supplying the city with fresh seafood from the lagoon as well as from other parts of Europe. Look out for many different types of seafood, fish, prawns, octopus, crabs, mussels, squid, you name it!

After exploring the market it’s time to enjoy the famous cicchetti culture of Venice. Cicchetti are traditional Venetian appetizers that are served in bàcari bars. They are typically small side dishes or slices of bread topped with veggies, fish or meat, typically accompanied by a drink, most likely Prosecco. Venetians eat cicchetti from mid-morning, throughout the day. You will see a variety of these finger foods on display at many bars, where locals usually stand while chatting over a glass of vino. Stroll through the charming city with your local guide, learning about its interesting history as the taste of Prosecco lingers on the palate. You will be visiting two authentic cicchetti bars, each with their own special charm and both very different from each other to give you a feel of what bàcari are like.

After you cicchetti tasting, you’ll make your way to lunch in the best way possible, in a gondolino! A gondolino is a small gondola, and the most fitting way to travel to your final stop in Venice, the city on the water. Hop on a beautiful gondolino for a short ride across the canal to your lunch spot. Enjoy a wonderful sit-down lunch filled with traditional Venetian foods. The genuine cuisine of Venice, being on the lagoon, is largely seafood coupled with polenta or made in a risotto. Typical dishes include squid ink pasta or squid ink and polenta, creamed codfish and polenta, fresh catch of the day and veggies or a fish risotto. Let your local guide bring Venice and it’s foodie delights to life for you!

RIDE ACROSS TO LUNCH IN A BEAUTIFUL GONDOLINO
A gondola is a traditional Venetian rowing boat you will notice the moment you arrive in Venice. Centuries ago, these boats were essential modes of transport in Venice, but nowadays, Venetians get around by ferry or motorboats, making gondolas primarily used for tourism. one of these is a must. That is why almost every visitor makes a point of going for a ride.

On this food tour, you will make your way to lunch in the best way possible, on a gondolino, basically a smaller version of a gondola, still used by locals to get across the canal quickly, making your tour even more authentic, arriving for lunch in true Venetian style.

Lunch will be your final stop on this market cicchetti tour. It is the perfect end, as you enjoy a local meal while chatting about everything you have just discovered. You will have seen and tasted your way around Venice with your local expert guide, and should feel a little more in touch with what it’s like to be a true Venetian. You are guaranteed to finish this tour with big smiles, lots of pictures, and most importantly, a full stomach!

ABOUT OUR 6 PEOPLE SMALL GROUP POLICY
When you book a LivItaly Small Group Tour, you are guaranteed one tour guide per group of 6 people. Please bear in mind though that in order to accommodate traveling families and friends, we do on rare occasion make the exception of adding an additional one to two guests in order not to split groups who are traveling together. On that same note, you may find yourself on tour with less than six people. As we accept bookings in multiples of six, math doesn’t always work in our favor to help accommodate individual travelers and their families when on the same tour, so we hope you understand and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

PLEASE NOTE: Lunch is included in the price, and is not accompanied by a guide.

SAFETY REGULATIONS
LivTours’ group size of max 6 participants is and always has been based on sustainable travel and especially in these new times, we are proud to be at the forefront of the innovation, changes, and challenges that are presented to us during this post-pandemic time. At the moment, due to COVID-19 safety regulations, the museums and sites visited on this tour require wearing a mask while on the site. Please bring one for every participant over 6 years of age.

Enjoy an afternoon of learning all about Venice's food scene with your small group.
Build up your appetite while seeing all of the fresh fish in Rialto's famous fish market.
Enjoy the“cicchetti”, Venetian snacks, while our guide tells you why they are famous.
Visit the second cicchetti bar and hear stories about how Venice's food scene has developed.
Make your way through Venice's quaint streets full of canals towards a Gondolino.
You and your small group will head to lunch in style, in a Gondolino!
End your afternoon with a delicious bowl of traditional Venetian food.

Price Explanation

Each participant

Adults

18
and over

... 99€ 158.4$ 89.1£ 118.8$

Students

18-26
with valid Student ID

... 94€ 150.4$ 84.6£ 112.8$

Teenagers

13-17

... 89€ 142.4$ 80.1£ 106.8$

Children

3-12

... 84€ 134.4$ 75.6£ 100.8$

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Offered on:

Tues, Thurs, Sat at 11:30AM

Meeting Point:

Campo San Giacometto

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All our prices include tickets and reservations

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Duration:

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Offered on:

Tues, Thurs, Sat at 11:30AM

Meeting Point:

Campo San Giacometto

No wait in lines!

All our prices include tickets and reservations

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