Osteria All'Arco is a street-food stop in Venice.
Editorially verified May 20, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
Private tour · 1.5 hours
Taste your way through Venice as you explore the Rialto area with a local guide, sampling cicchetti, sweets, and soaking in the city's vibrant charm.
Guided tour · 2h 30m
Enjoy a street food tasting tour in the center of Venice. Follow your guide, learn about the recipes and the culinary traditions of the city, and discover notable city...
Guided tour · 2h 30m
Experience the flavors of Venice on a guided walking tour. Visit the Rialto Market, try tapas, such as "cicchetti," and admire historical highlights along the way, inc...
Address: Calle Arco 436, San Polo, 30125 Venezia VE, Venice
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.
TryCicchetti, fried lagoon fish
TipCombines 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.
TryMini panini and ombre
TipWalk-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.
TrySpritz, ombre, panini and crostini
TipNo 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.
TryCicchetti by the canal
TipSit on the canal-side bench across the rio from the gondola workshop. Spritz €3.50, cicchetti €2.50. No tables, no bookings.
Al Timon in Venice's Cannaregio on Fondamenta degli Ormesini is the canal-side bacaro with a wooden barge for outdoor seating, the locals' canonical.
TryCicchetti, grilled meat skewers
TipThe moored barge in the canal is the seat to claim. Grilled meat skewers and the bar's cured-meat boards run later than the cicchetti window at most bacari.
La Cantina on Strada Nuova in Venice's Cannaregio is Francesco Zorzetto's small bar with thirty wines by the glass and freshly shucked oysters.
TryFresh oysters, cicchetti, ombre
TipStand at the counter; Francesco builds your cicchetti to order. The oyster boards and the smoked-fish crostini are the moves.
