Adriatico Mar is a street-food stop in Venice.
Adriatico Mar on the canal at Calle Crosera is the architect-run contemporary bacaro where San Polo meets Dorsoduro, with a wooden dock for waterside.
Tip: Order the egg cicchetti and a small-producer natural wine Cash typically expected.
Address: Calle Crosera 3771, San Polo, 30125 Venezia VE, Venice
Cantina Do Mori in Venice's San Polo is the city's oldest bacaro, open since 1462 near Rialto, with a counter of francobolli sandwiches and ombre poured.
Try: Cicchetti and ombre at the counter
Tip: Walk-in only. Order ombre (small glass of wine) plus a francobolli sandwich. Counter pours stop hard at 19:30; arrive by 18:30 for the best cicchetti choice.
Osteria All'Arco near Rialto Pescheria in Venice's San Polo is the Francesco and Matteo Pinto father-and-son bacaro, the local benchmark for cicchetti.
Try: Cicchetti, polpette and sarde in saor
Tip: Walk-in only. Closes after lunch; arrive 11:30-13:00 for the fish-market cicchetti at their best. Sarde in saor and baccala mantecato are obligatory.
Cantina Do Spade in Venice's San Polo near Rialto is one of the city's oldest bacari, mentioned in Casanova's memoirs and now run with a counter of fried.
Try: Cicchetti, fried lagoon fish
Tip: Combines a stand-up bacaro counter with a small dining room. Try the fried moeche when in season (spring) and the polpette al sugo year-round.
Bacareto Da Lele in Venice's Santa Croce near Piazzale Roma is the canal-side bacaro the students fill on the Tolentini church steps, ombre and panini.
Try: Mini panini and ombre
Tip: Walk-up window only; sit on the church steps with your panino and ombra. Most ombre are €0.80 to €1.50, panini €1 to €2. Cash only.
Al Merca in Venice's San Polo is the tiny walk-up window in Campo Bella Vienna near Rialto where locals stop for the canonical ombra and a mini crostino.
Try: Spritz, ombre, panini and crostini
Tip: No interior space; everyone stands on the campo with their drink. Open early evening for aperitivo, closes hard at 20:00. Spritz €3.50, crostini €1.50.
Osteria al Squero in Venice's Dorsoduro is the canal-side bacaro across from the Squero di San Trovaso gondola yard, where you stand outside with spritz.
Try: Cicchetti by the canal
Tip: Sit on the canal-side bench across the rio from the gondola workshop. Spritz €3.50, cicchetti €2.50. No tables, no bookings.
