Cheapest here2,954 reviews
2.5 hVenice: Street Food Tour with a Local Guide and Tastings
★ 4.8 · 2,954 reviews
- 2.5 hours
- Local Guide and Tastings
- Cheapest here
- Free cancellation
$50$20.00 / hour
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Venice food tours: all of them compared, from $50
Venice has a reputation for feeding visitors badly, and it is not entirely undeserved: the restaurants with photographs of the food outside are not where the city eats. A food tour is somebody walking you into the bàcari instead. This page is what those tours actually do, what they cost, and which of them is worth your evening.
Quick answer
A walking food tour of Venice starts at $50 and runs two and a half to four hours through the bàcari — the small wine bars where Venetians eat standing up. The cheapest is also the most reviewed, with 2,954 ratings at 4.8. The ones that concentrate on cicchetti and wine rate 4.9, and the Rialto market tour at $107 is the only one that builds the afternoon around the market itself.
Venice food tours, at a glance
- Cheapest
- $50street food with a local guide, 2,954 reviews
- Highest rated
- 4.9–5.0across the cicchetti and wine tours
- Typical length
- 2.5–3 hoursfour hours for the market tour
- With a gondola
- $89ten tastings and a thirty-minute ride
- At sunset
- $931,607 reviews at 4.9 — the best-reviewed evening here
- The market tour
- $107four hours, rated 5.0 across 390 reviews
- What you eat
- Cicchettismall plates on bread or skewers, at the counter
- What you drink
- An ombra, or a spritza small glass of wine, or the Venetian aperitivo
- Market days
- Not Sunday or Mondaythe Rialto fish hall is closed both
- Cancellation
- Freeon every tour on this page
What a Venice food tour actually is
Four bars, eight bites and somebody who knows which counter
Standing, walking, small plates and small glasses. Not a meal — a route.
The format is remarkably consistent across the tours on this page, and it is not a restaurant meal. You walk. A guide takes a group of eight to fifteen people through three to six bàcari — small wine bars, standing room, a counter with plates on it — with something to eat and something to drink at each.
What you eat is cicchetti: single mouthfuls. A slice of bread with creamed salt cod on it. A skewer of grilled squid. Half a boiled egg with an anchovy. A fried sardine in onions and vinegar that has been eaten in this city for six hundred years. They cost a couple of euros each at the counter, and the point of the tour is not the saving — it is that you would not have found four of these six places, and would have walked past the good one because it looks like nothing.
What you drink is an ombra, a small glass of wine, or a spritz. The spritz is Venetian, not Milanese, and in Venice it is usually made with Select or Aperol rather than Campari, which is a distinction people here care about more than you might expect.
And you walk between them, through lanes you would not otherwise turn down, which in practice is half the value of the evening.
Every trip, current fare
Every tour, cheapest first
All nineteen, including the monument tours, so you can see where the food tours sit. The column to read is what each one includes: tastings, tickets, or both.
| Tour | Length | Price | What is included | Cost per hour | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venice: Street Food Tour with a Local Guide and TastingsStreet food with a local guide, and the lowest price here | 2.5 h | $50 | Tastings | $20.00 | 4.8 · 2,954 |
| Venice: Cicchetti Street Food and Sightseeing Walking TourCicchetti and the back lanes, rated 4.9 | 2.5 h | $50 | Tastings | $20.00 | 4.9 · 164 |
| Venice: Rialto Area Street Food Tour and SightseeingThe Rialto market area on foot | 2.5 h | $52 | Tastings | $20.80 | 4.8 · 10 |
| Venice: Guided City Highlights and Street Food TourCity highlights and street food in one walk | 2.5 h | $52 | Sights + tastings | $20.80 | 4.9 · 146 |
| Doge's Palace Skip-the-Line Guided TourThe Doge’s Palace with the queue skipped | 1–1.25 h | $75 | Palace ticket | $66.18 | 4.4 · 905 |
| Venice: 1-Hour The Doge's Palace TourOne hour inside the Doge’s Palace | 1 h | $75 | Palace ticket | $75.00 | 4.4 · 98 |
| Venice: St. Mark's Basilica & Doge's Palace Tour with TicketThe Basilica and the Doge’s Palace, our top pick | 3 h | $79 | Both tickets | $26.33 | 4.7 · 3,913 |
| Venice: The Ultimate Food Tour with Wine & SpritzWine, spritz and a long list of tastings | 3 h | $82 | Tastings + wine | $27.33 | 4.9 · 460 |
| Venice Food Tour: 10 tastings with a 30 Minute Gondola RideTen tastings and a thirty-minute gondola ride | 2 h | $89 | Tastings + gondola | $44.50 | 5.0 · 1 |
| Venice: Sunset Walking Tour with Food and Wine TastingsA sunset walk with food and wine | 3 h | $93 | Tastings + wine | $31.00 | 4.9 · 1,607 |
| Venice: Food Tasting Tour with Cicchetti and WineCicchetti and wine, unhurried | 3 h | $94 | Tastings + wine | $31.33 | 4.9 · 559 |
| Doge’s Palace, New Prisons & St. Mark’s Basilica Guided TourThe palace, the New Prisons and the Basilica | 2–3 h | $97 | Both tickets + prisons | $38.80 | 4.7 · 950 |
| Venice: Eat Like a Local Food Tour with Wine & SpritzEat like a local, away from the Piazza | 2.5 h | $97 | Tastings + wine | $38.80 | 4.8 · 1,095 |
| Stroll The Halls of Doge's Palace on a Guided Tour in VeniceThe halls of the Doge’s Palace, guided | 75 min | $99 | Palace ticket | $79.20 | New |
| Venice: Rialto Market Food and Wine Lunchtime TourThe Rialto market at lunchtime | 4 h | $107 | Market + lunch | $26.75 | 5.0 · 390 |
| Venice Secret Food TourThe places most tours do not reach | 3 h | $111 | Tastings | $37.00 | 5.0 · 9 |
| From Milan: Venice Full-Day Guided Tour With Boat RideVenice as a day trip from Milan | 12.5–13 h | $164 | Transport + boat | $12.86 | 4.7 · 315 |
| Venice: Private Walking Tour with Gondola RideA private walk with a gondola ride | 3 h | $317 | Private + gondola | $105.67 | New |
| Venice Highlights: Private Tour with Doge and St. MarkPrivate, with both monuments — and the highest price here | 4 h | $380 | Private + both tickets | $95.00 | 5.0 · 3 |
The cheapest food tour on this page is also the most reviewed one: $50, 2,954 ratings at 4.8. Paying more here buys wine, hours and a smaller group — not better food.
Cicchetti and the bàcari→Before you book
Six things that change what you get
All six are on the listing, and each one changes the evening.
- The hour it starts
Evening tours are better, and it is not close. The bàcari fill from about six, which is when they are worth being in. Between June and September an afternoon tour also means walking in the heat.
- The day of the week
The Rialto fish market is shut on Sunday and Monday. Tours still run and good guides reroute, but if the market is why you booked, check the day before you pay.
- How many tastings, and whether drinks are included
The listings state this precisely. Ten tastings with drinks at $89 and six with two glasses are different evenings, and the second is not worse.
- Group size
A bàcaro is a small room. Eight people at a counter is a conversation; twenty-five is a queue in someone else’s bar. The higher-rated tours here are the smaller ones, and that is not a coincidence.
- Which sestiere it covers
Cannaregio and San Polo are where most of the good bàcari are. A tour that stays around San Marco is walking the most expensive square in Italy, which is not where anyone eats well.
- Whether it is a meal or a tasting
Most of these replace dinner comfortably. The market tour at $107 is explicitly a lunch. Do not book a restaurant for afterwards on your first try.
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The four food tours most people choose between
The cheapest and most-reviewed, the cicchetti specialist, the sunset walk, and the Rialto market lunch.
Rated 4.9Bàcari
2.5 hVenice: Cicchetti Street Food and Sightseeing Walking Tour
★ 4.9 · 164 reviews
- 2.5 hours
- Guided tour
- Mobile voucher accepted
- Free cancellation
$50$20.00 / hour
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1,607 reviewsAt sunset
3 hVenice: Sunset Walking Tour with Food and Wine Tastings
★ 4.9 · 1,607 reviews
- Three hours, Food and Wine Tastings
- Guided tour
- Mobile voucher accepted
- Free cancellation
$93$31.00 / hour
Check availability→ 
Rated 5.0Rialto market
4 hVenice: Rialto Market Food and Wine Lunchtime Tour
★ 5.0 · 390 reviews
- Four hours
- Food and Wine Lunchtime Tour
- Guided tour
- Free cancellation
$107$26.75 / hour
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From $50 to $107, and what actually changes
The extra money buys hours, wine and a smaller group. The food is good at every level.
At $50 you get a local guide, a walk through several bàcari and tastings at each. 2,954 people have rated it 4.8. For most visitors this is the whole product and there is no need to spend more.
Between $82 and $94 the tours get longer and the drinks get more serious: wine chosen to go with what you are eating rather than poured because it is open. The ratings here are 4.9, which is the highest cluster on the page.
At $93 you are paying for the hour. Three hours through the golden part of the evening with food and wine along the way, 1,607 reviews at 4.9. If you are only doing one thing in Venice after dark, this is the one people come back and say was worth it.
At $107 the structure changes: four hours built around the Rialto market, with lunch made from what is actually on the stalls. Rated 5.0. It is the only tour here where the menu depends on the morning.
Common questions
Venice food tours, answered
What is the best food tour in Venice?
For most people the street food tour at $50 — it is the cheapest here and carries 2,954 reviews at 4.8. If you want it slower and with the wine taken seriously, the cicchetti and wine tours rate 4.9. The Rialto market tour at $107 is rated 5.0 and is the most substantial.
Is it worth doing a food tour in Venice?
In this city more than most. Venice has a genuine problem with tourist-facing restaurants, and what you are buying is somebody who knows which counter three turns off the main route is the good one. That is not something a map or a review site solves well here.
How much does a Venice food tour cost?
From $50 for a walking street food tour. Cicchetti and wine tours run $82 to $94, and the four-hour Rialto market tour is $107.
How long do they last?
Two and a half to three hours for most, four for the market tour. That is enough to replace dinner on nearly all of them.
Will I actually be full?
On most of these, yes. Cicchetti are small but a tour visits several bars and stops at each. Booking a restaurant for afterwards is a mistake people make once.
Are drinks included?
Normally yes, and the listings say how many. An ombra or a spritz at each stop is the usual arrangement. The wine-focused tours pour more and choose better.
Can they cater for dietary requirements?
Ask the operator through the booking before you travel rather than on the night. Venetian cicchetti lean heavily on fish and on bread, so vegetarian and gluten-free versions exist but need arranging in advance.
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