172 - Venice Food & Wine Tour

Highlights

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

• Sip a glass prosecco as you discover the famous Venetian cicchetti snacks

• Enjoy a tour with a local guide who will bring Venice to life with cultural anecdotes

• Glide across the canal on a traditional gondolino for lunch

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

Summary

LivTour’s Venice Food & Wine Small Group Tour is great for food lovers! You will start off in the oldest fish market in Venice, admiring the fresh displays and bustling local life. Your local expert guide will start to teach you all about Venice and its food culture as you stroll past fishmongers whose families have owned the stalls for generations. As the city can get crowded, experiencing it in a small group of a maximum of six people, is an invaluable way to navigate the narrow winding streets, as well as enabling you to connect with your local guide, giving you an unforgettable experience.

Along with your experienced tour guide, you will visit two different local bars to savor the famous cicchetti, Venetian snacks, while enjoying a glass of local prosecco, sparkling white wine. After your pre-lunch snacks, you will hop on a gondolino, a small gondola and glide across the canal for a spectacular lunch of traditional local foods. This small group tour is the perfect way to discover Venice through its food and local life!

Description

Your Venice Food & Wine Tour starts at the famous Rialto Fish Market - located in the oldest and perhaps most beautiful part of the city. The market, though still slightly off the standard tourist route, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is well worth seeing first hand. The sights and sounds from this local market is a glimpse into local life that has existed for centuries.

After you have finished admiring the plethora of fish and seafood at this canal-side market, it is time to enjoy the famous cicchetti culture of Venice. Cicchetti are traditional appetizers of fish, meat, or veggies that are normally accompanied by a drink and eaten in bacari bars. This variety of finger food is eaten throughout the day by locals from mid-morning onwards and usually consumed while chatting over a glass of wine or prosecco while standing up. Your local foodie guide will accompany you to two authentic cicchetti bars each with their own distinct feel.

Now it is time to make your way to lunch Venitian style - in a gondolino! This small gondola is the perfect way to cross the canal in style as you make your way to your wonderful sit down traditional Venetian lunch. The local cuisine is largely seafood coupled with polenta or rice with typical dishes including squid ink pasta or squid ink and polenta, creamed codfish and polenta, fresh catch of the day and veggies or a fish risotto.

Your Venetian lunch will be the final stop on your Venice Food & Wine Tour and it is the perfect end to a foodie tour! 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!