Do Eat Better Experience runs the Rialto Market food tour with cicchetti stops, a smaller-group format with a focus on the morning market vendors before the bacari crawl.
Route: Rialto market food and cicchetti tasting tour
Tip: Morning tours only. Max 8 in the group. Includes 5 tastings and 3 wines.
Context Travel's Hidden Venice food tour is led by historian-led guides through bacari and cicchetti spots, with a strong focus on Venetian food-history context.
Tip: Small-group format (max 10). Tour run by academic-trained guides; better for the food-history interested than for crawl-style drinkers. Starts in Dorsoduro.
Monica Cesarato's tour is run by the Venetian cookery teacher and food writer, the canonical local-guide cicchetti crawl with a deep dive into bacaro etiquette.
Tip: Book direct via Monica's site. Private and small-group options; ask for the Dorsoduro-leaning route, less touristed than San Polo.
Urban Adventures runs the Cicchetti and Wine tour with three to four bacari stops, the more budget-friendly cicchetti crawl operator with public-group sizes up to 12.
Tip: Larger group than Devour or Context; better for solo travellers who want company. Includes 6 tastings and 3 wines.
Walks of Italy runs the canonical Venice food tour with a Rialto Market stop and San Polo bacari crawl, 9 tastings, 5 drinks across 6 stops and morning market access only on AM tours.
Tip: AM tours include the Pescheria stop; PM tours are bacari-only. The tour is now operated through Devour following their 2023 merger.
Devour Tours runs the Cicchetti Tour Venice with hidden bacari stops, seven tastings and a gelato finish, the canonical bacari-crawl food tour with a local guide.
Tip: Evening tour only. Five locally owned stops, seven tastings, four drinks and a final gelato. Book on Devour's own site; the operator has merged with Walks.
Avventure Bellissime's private Venice food tour combines hidden Rialto-side bacari with a Pescheria market walk, run by a small local-only guide team.
Tip: Private only, max 6. Book at least a week ahead. Best in the morning to catch the Pescheria.