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💡 The Short Version: For a first food walk, book the Street Food Tour with a Local Guide and Tastingsad: from €45.60, 2.5 hours, 3,032 reviews. For a long evening, the Sunset Walking Tour with Food and Wine Tastingsad is from €88.48 for 3 hours, with 14 or more tastings in 7 places. For a class, the Pasta and Tiramisu Cooking Class with Fine Winead is from €48.19 for 3 hours. The fish market is closed on Sunday and Monday. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices and move with the date.
The tours and classes, compared
| Experience | Operator | Length | GetYourGuide from | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Street Food Tour with a Local Guide and Tastingsad | Food Raphael Tours and Events | 2.5 hours | €45.60 | Rialto Market to Campo Santa Margherita, 3,032 reviews |
| Cicchetti Street Food and Sightseeing Walking Tourad | Francesca Tours | 2.5 hours | €46 | Market lanes and bacari, 188 reviews |
| Cicchetti Walking Tour with 10 Tastings and Winead | Savor Italy | 2 hours | €58.09 | Four bars, 112 reviews |
| Eat Like a Local Food Tour with Wine and Spritzad | Intrepid Urban Adventures | 2.5 hours | €75.65 | Cannaregio to Rialto with a traghetto crossing |
| The Ultimate Food Tour with Wine and Spritzad | Do Eat Better Experience | 3 hours | €74.76 | Up to 10 people, 4 or more stops |
| Sunset Walking Tour with Food and Wine Tastingsad | Savor Italy | 3 hours | €88.48 | 14 or more tastings in 7 places |
| Food Tasting Tour with Cicchetti and Winead | Savor Italy | 3 hours | €89.36 | 15 tastings in 6 to 8 places |
| Rialto Market Food and Wine Lunchtime Tourad | Food Raphael Tours and Events | 4 hours | €98 | Market, an 18th-century osteria and tiramisu |
| Jewish Ghetto and Cannaregio Food and Wine Tourad | Food Raphael Tours and Events | 4 hours | €119 | Six stops in Cannaregio and the Ghetto |
| Pasta and Tiramisu Cooking Class with Fine Winead | Cooking Italy | 3 hours | €48.19 | Fettuccine, ravioli and tiramisu in Dorsoduro |
| Venezia: Award-Winning Chef’s Pasta and Iconic Tiramisu Classad | Cook & Walk | 2.5 hours | €50.73 | Ravioli and fettuccine near the Ghetto |
| Home Cooking Experience with Unlimited Winead | Timonfaya Travel Lanzarote | 2 to 3 hours | €69 | A host’s kitchen on the Giudecca |
| Cooking Class with Tiramisu and Pasta Makingad | ‘MORE di Nicolò Gemin | 3.5 hours | €71 | A 16th-century palace |
| Cooking Class with Pasta Making and Spritz Masterclassad | Savor Italy | 2 hours | €75.97 | Pasta and two spritzes |
| Rialto Market Tour, Cooking Class and Lunchad | Timonfaya Travel Lanzarote | 4 hours | €119 | Up to 8 people, market then a chef’s home |
Street food and cicchetti walks
Prosecco and cicchetti on a canal wall. Photo: Monika Ďuríčková, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
Street Food Tour with a Local Guide and Tastings
From €45.60 · 3,032 reviews · 2.5 hours
Venice: Street Food Tour with a Local Guide and Tastingsad is run by Food Raphael Tours and Events in English. The guide meets you at Campo San Bortolomio in San Marco, crosses the Rialto Bridge to the market, walks on to Campo San Polo and the Basilica dei Frari, and ends at Campo Santa Margherita in Dorsoduro. It includes several tastings and drinks, with cicchetti, buranelli biscuits and gelato among them. It is not suitable for wheelchair users or vegans. It is free to cancel up to 24 hours ahead.
Sightseeing Walking Tour with Cicchetti Street Food
From €46 · 188 reviews · 2.5 hours
Venice: Cicchetti Street Food and Sightseeing Walking Tourad is run by Francesca Tours in English and also starts at Campo San Bortolomio. The guide takes in the Rialto Market, Campo Santa Margherita and the Grand Canal, with stops for pastries, cheeses and cicchetti. It is not suitable for wheelchair users.
Cicchetti Walking Tour with 10 Tastings and Wine
From €58.09 · 112 reviews · 2 hours
Venice: Cicchetti Walking Tour with 10 Tastings and Winead is run by Savor Italy from Campo San Giacomo di Rialto: four typical bars, 10 tastings and wine at one stop, in a small group, with the menu changing with the season. It is wheelchair-accessible.
Eat Like a Local Food Tour with Wine and Spritz
From €75.65 · 1,114 reviews · 2.5 hours
Venice: Eat Like a Local Food Tour with Wine and Spritzad is run by Intrepid Urban Adventures in English, in private or small groups. It starts at Campo de la Maddalena in Cannaregio, crosses the Grand Canal on a traghetto, tastes seafood from the Rialto Market, a risotto of the day and fried fish, and visits family-run bacari for a tramezzino, baccalà, prawns in saòr and a meatball. It finishes at Campo San Bortolomio. It is not suitable for children under 6 or wheelchair users.
The Ultimate Food Tour with Wine and Spritz
From €74.76 · 486 reviews · 3 hours
Venice: The Ultimate Food Tour with Wine and Spritzad is run by Do Eat Better Experience in English or Italian, for up to 10 people. It serves a spritz, Prosecco and a Bellini, cicchetti and crostini, warm dishes and artisanal gelato across four or more stops. The meeting point is near the statue in Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo. It is not suitable for people with mobility impairments.
Sunset and long tastings
Sunset Walking Tour with Food and Wine Tastings
From €88.48 · 1,808 reviews · 3 hours
Venice: Sunset Walking Tour with Food and Wine Tastingsad is run by Savor Italy, with guides in English, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. It lists 14 or more tastings across 7 bars and restaurants, 6 wines or other drinks and a sit-down meal in a restaurant, and passes the Rialto Bridge and what the listing calls the oldest church in Venice. It is wheelchair-accessible.
Food Tasting Tour with Cicchetti and Wine
From €89.36 · 597 reviews · 3 hours
Venice: Food Tasting Tour with Cicchetti and Winead is also run by Savor Italy, from Campo San Giacomo di Rialto. It crosses three districts and lists 15 tastings in 6 to 8 bars and restaurants, with wine at each stop. It is wheelchair-accessible. Savor Italy sells three similar walks; this and the sunset tour are the long ones, and the 2-hour cicchetti tour above is the short one.
Markets, lunch and the Ghetto
Rialto Market Food and Wine Lunchtime Tour
From €98 · 392 reviews · 4 hours
Venice: Rialto Market Food and Wine Lunchtime Tourad is run by Food Raphael Tours and Events in English. The guide meets you outside San Giacomo di Rialto, walks through the market and takes you to an 18th-century osteria known for its cicchetti. Marco Polo’s house and Casanova’s haunts at Campo San Bartolomeo follow, and the tour ends with tiramisu and coffee at Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo. The fish market is closed on Sunday and Monday.
Jewish Ghetto and Cannaregio Food and Wine Tour
From €119 · 124 reviews · 4 hours
Venice: Jewish Ghetto and Cannaregio Food and Wine Tourad is run by Food Raphael Tours and Events in English, from Calle Ghetto Vecchio. It stops at six places for tastings, among them Jewish-Venetian dishes such as sardines in saòr and artichoke bottoms with kosher wine, a coffee roaster and a bakery for zaeti and buranelli. It is not suitable for people with mobility impairments, vegans or people with gluten or lactose intolerance. The Ghetto’s synagogue tours and museum are closed on Saturdays: see the Jewish Ghetto in Venice.
Cooking classes
Three listings with near-identical titles, pasta and tiramisu, are different classes from three operators. Pick by reviews, length and place rather than by title.
Pasta and Tiramisu Cooking Class with Fine Wine
From €48.19 · 1,414 reviews · 3 hours
Venice: Pasta and Tiramisu Cooking Class with Fine Winead is run by Cooking Italy in English, in a restaurant in the Dorsoduro area. You make fresh fettuccine, ravioli and tiramisu, then eat them at the table with wine, limoncello and coffee. The listing has three meeting points, depending on the option, and asks you to tell the operator about any dietary needs when booking.
Pasta and tiramisu in a palace
From €71 · 174 reviews · 3.5 hours
Venice: Cooking Class with Tiramisu and Pasta Makingad is run by ‘MORE di Nicolò Gemin in English, on the top floor of a 16th-century palace that is the chef’s family home. Guests work in pairs at stations, making the pasta dough and the tiramisu, while the chefs handle the cooking and the sauces. The meal has two pasta dishes, tiramisu, a bottle of wine for every three guests, an olive oil tasting with focaccia, espresso and limoncello.
Award-Winning Chef’s Pasta and Iconic Tiramisu Class
From €50.73 · 129 reviews · 2.5 hours
Venezia: Award-Winning Chef’s Pasta and Iconic Tiramisu Classad is run by Cook & Walk in English from Calle Ghetto Vecchio. You make ravioli and fettuccine with two sauces and a tiramisu, with two glasses of wine and a Prosecco or soft drink. It is not suitable for children under 4 or people with gluten or lactose intolerance.
Home Cooking Experience with Unlimited Wine
From €69 · 141 reviews · 2 to 3 hours
Venice: Home Cooking Experience with Unlimited Winead takes place in a host’s kitchen on the Giudecca, where she welcomes you with Prosecco, shows you how to make fresh pasta and a sauce, and serves a baked dish of vegetables and fruit, tiramisu and gelato with local wine. The listing has two meeting points, depending on the option.
Rialto Market Tour, Cooking Class and Lunch
From €119 · 162 reviews · 4 hours
Venice: Rialto Market Tour, Cooking Class and Lunchad is a group of up to 8. The guide meets you at Al Mercà on Campo Bella Vienna, walks the Rialto Market, and takes you to the chef’s home to make tiramisu, a tomato sauce, handmade pasta and a fish, parmigiana or risotto course by season. Wine and water are unlimited, and you receive digital recipes.
Pasta Making and Spritz Masterclass
From €75.97 · 49 reviews · 2 hours
Venice: Cooking Class with Pasta Making and Spritz Masterclassad is run by Savor Italy, with instructors in English, French and Spanish, from Campo San Gallo. You make fresh pasta and two types of spritz, and eat the pasta with the spritzes. It is wheelchair-accessible.
How to choose
- The cheapest walk: the Street Food Tour from €45.60, or the Cicchetti Street Food and Sightseeing Walking Tour from €46.
- The most reviewed: the Street Food Tour, with 3,032 reviews, then the Sunset Walking Tour with 1,808.
- The most food: the Food Tasting Tour (15 tastings) and the Sunset Walking Tour (14 or more), each 3 hours.
- A short crawl: the 2-hour Cicchetti Walking Tour with 10 tastings, from €58.09.
- The smallest groups: the Ultimate Food Tour is limited to 10, and the Rialto Market Tour with cooking class to 8.
- A class: Cooking Italy’s from €48.19, or the palace class from €71, in a 16th-century palace.
- A market day: the fish market is closed on Sunday and Monday, so a tour that walks through the Rialto Market sees only the produce stalls on a Monday.
Il Fatto Quotidiano reported on 2 April 2025 that bar owners and Confesercenti’s vice-president said many venues do not want organised bacaro-tour groups, often stag and hen parties, but cannot stop them. The bars on the lists are in cicchetti and bacari in Venice and where to eat in Venice.
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Common questions
How much is a food tour in Venice?
From €45.60 for the 2.5-hour Street Food Tour and €46 for the 2.5-hour Cicchetti Street Food and Sightseeing Walking Tour, €58.09 for 10 tastings and wine in 2 hours, €74.76 to €89.36 for the wine and spritz walks of 2.5 to 3 hours, €98 for the 4-hour Rialto Market lunchtime tour and €119 for the 4-hour Ghetto and Cannaregio tour. These are GetYourGuide's lowest prices.
Which Venice food tour has the most reviews?
The Street Food Tour with a Local Guide and Tastings, from €45.60 for 2.5 hours, with 3,032 reviews on GetYourGuide. The Sunset Walking Tour with Food and Wine Tastings has 1,808 and the Eat Like a Local Food Tour with Wine and Spritz 1,114.
How much is a cooking class in Venice?
From €48.19 for the Pasta and Tiramisu Cooking Class with Fine Wine (3 hours, 1,414 reviews), €50.73 for the 2.5-hour class with ravioli and fettuccine, €69 for the home cooking class on the Giudecca and €119 for the 4-hour Rialto Market Tour, Cooking Class and Lunch.
Are the pasta and tiramisu classes the same class?
No. The three listings with similar titles come from different operators: Cooking Italy runs the 3-hour class in a Dorsoduro restaurant, 'MORE di Nicolò Gemin the 3.5-hour class in a 16th-century palace, and Cook & Walk the 2.5-hour class near the Ghetto.
Do the food tours go to the Rialto market on Sunday and Monday?
The fish market is closed on Sunday and Monday and the produce market on Sunday. On a Monday only the produce stalls are open, so check the listing for the day you book.
Are the tours small groups?
Some say so: the Ultimate Food Tour is limited to 10 people and the Rialto Market Tour with cooking class to 8. Bar owners have said they do not want large organised bacaro groups.
