4 Food Tours with Locals in Venice Worth Booking

1.Eat Like a Local: Venice 3-Hour Small-Group Food Tasting Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 3,137 reviews · 2 hours 30 minutes to 3 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $107Our pick

This 2.5 to 3.5-hour English walking tour begins near Rialto Bridge and visits seven or eight local bars, shops, and restaurants. Expect coffee and pastries, cicchetti, five to six kinds of fish, cured meats, cheese, pasta or risotto, sarde in saor, wine, cookies, and gelato. Guides such as Anna, Marianna, Greta, Carlo, and Sara add local stories and practical dining tips.

“Highly recommended - an excellent tour guide, great food from local shops most tourists wouldn’t naturally find, and a terrific way to discover the city in the process”

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2.Venice: Street Food Tour with a Local Guide and Tastings

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 2,613 reviews · 2.5 hours · from $57

Follow an English-speaking guide through Rialto, San Polo, and Dorsoduro for 2.5 hours of Venetian food and history. You will visit the Rialto Market, enter Basilica dei Frari, sample cicchetti, regional specialties, buranelli biscuits, gelato, and more. Guides such as Tone, Denis, Ana, and Vanessa are known for lively local insight.

“The guide was so friendly and knowledgeable. The shops we stopped at provided great service. I have no changes to offer.”

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3.Venice: Eat Like a Local Food Tour with Wine & Spritz

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 985 reviews · 2.5 hours · from $99

Walk from Campo della Maddalena through Cannaregio and Rialto, stopping at family-run bacari for cicchetti, seafood, wine, Spritz, and tiramisu. Your English-speaking guide, such as Camilla, Georgia, or Olympia, leads a group of up to 10 and includes a traditional traghetto crossing. Expect about 2 km of easy walking and plenty of food.

“Excellent guide, Alissa. Highly recommend. More food. Drink and info. 5 star.”

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4.Venice Street Food Tour with Local Guide with Local Food Market Visit

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 822 reviews · 2 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $53Best value

Start near Rialto Bridge and follow a local guide through Venice for 2.5 hours of cicchetti, regional cheese, cakes, buranelli biscuits, and market sights. Guides such as Tone, Tony, Vanessa, Ana, and Denys bring different personalities to the route. Food is included, drinks cost extra, and groups are limited to 14 people.

“Shantal was the best tour guide! She gave little bits of history into the areas we walked through, pointed out a few notable sites, and was very informative about the traditional foods. Each place she took us to was amazing, we even went back to a few the next day because they were that good. We did another food tour in Rome and this one was far more worth the $, we had several stops with multiple tastings and many different options. One of our favorite nights of eating in Italy!”

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