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Venice: Rialto Market & Cicchetti Food Tour with Gondola Ride

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Duration2h 30m

GroupUp to 6

LanguagesEN

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Three Cicchetti Stops & a Gondola Ride Through Venice's Working Market

You meet your guide at the Rialto Fish Market and spend 2.5 hours moving through three cicchetti bars with prosecco tastings, watching locals at the market, then riding a gondolino across the canal for a final tasting and gelato. The group stays at six people, so you're never lost in a crowd, and everything — food, drinks, transport, guide — is included in the price.

2h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Meet guide at Rialto Fish Market
Explore market and watch locals bargain
Taste cicchetti and prosecco at two bars
Ride gondolino across canal
Enjoy final cicchetti stop in Venetian style

The Experience

Someone's pointing at a pile of squid you've never seen before, asking the vendor a question in rapid Italian, then turning to translate. That's your guide at the Rialto Fish Market, the UNESCO-protected heart of Venice's food culture for centuries. The market opens early and fills fast — locals haggle over sea urchins and spider crabs, and you're standing right there watching how a city actually eats. This isn't a museum version of Venice; it's the real market where fishmongers still work the same stalls their families have worked for generations. The 2.5-hour tour keeps the group to six people, which means you can actually hear what's happening and move through the narrow aisles without getting swept along by a crowd.

After the market, you walk into the narrow streets and stop at two cicchetti bars — the kind of place where locals stand at the counter with a small plate of finger food and a glass of prosecco, not sitting down, just eating and moving on. Cicchetti are Venice's version of tapas: tiny croquettes, marinated vegetables, seafood on crostini, things you'd never think to order but taste exactly right. The prosecco is cold and sharp. Then comes the part that feels like cheating — you hop into a gondolino (a smaller, working gondola, not the tourist kind) and ride across the canal to the third cicchetti stop. By then you're not thinking about being a tourist anymore. You're just hungry and the city is moving past you on the water.

The tour wraps with one more cicchetti tasting and your choice of gelato or dessert. The whole thing takes 2.5 hours and includes everything — the guide, the food, the drinks, the gondola ride. You don't have to figure out which market to visit, which bars are real, or how to get across the canal. The guide handles the logistics and the introductions; you just show up hungry.

What’s included

Professional local guide.
entry to the Rialto Fish Market.
three cicchetti tastings at authentic Venetian bars.
prosecco at each cicchetti stop.
gondolino ride across the canal.
final cicchetti tasting with gelato or dessert.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPublic transport nearby

Operated by LivTours

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to eat like a Venetian without spending the morning researching which bars are real or figuring out how to cross the canals — the guide and the small group size mean you're learning the city's food culture instead of navigating it.