Intrepid Urban Adventures · Cannaregio to Rialto
A small group walks from Cannaregio along the Strada Nova, crosses the Grand Canal standing in a traghetto, and eats through the family-run bacari around the Rialto Market. Pick it for the full bacaro routine: seven cicchetti, a dessert, four wines and a spritz, explained by a Venetian.
Intrepid's Venice food walk starts at the round church in Campo de la Maddalena, in Cannaregio, at lunch or dinner time. You walk the Strada Nova, then cross the Grand Canal on a traghetto, the standing gondola ferry Venetians use. The listing is honest about it: a three-minute crossing, not a sightseeing ride. On the far side you eat around the Rialto Market, cross back over the bridge, and finish with tiramisu and a sparkling red in Campo San Bortolomio.
The sample menu reads like a bacaro primer: seafood from the market with prosecco, a tramezzino and an ovetto with spritz, baccalà, prawns in saor and a meatball with chardonnay, meat or cheese with red wine. Guests count five stops and say they skipped dinner. The walk is about 2 km at a slow pace, and many guests mention taking business cards and going back to a bar on their own.
The 4.8 from 2,275 reviews is earned, with one blemish worth knowing: in September 2026 a guest waited 20 minutes in the rain and nobody came. Another found the brand names confusing at the meeting point. Save the operator's number from your confirmation, and look for a guide with Intrepid or Urban Adventures branding.
Meet in front of the Maddalena church in Cannaregio. Lunch and dinner start times.
Through the residential lanes, with a first stop for food and wine.
Stand up in the gondola ferry like the locals. In bad weather or high water it may not run, and the guide walks you round instead.
Seafood, saor and cicchetti with wine at family-run bars in San Polo.
Over the bridge and a final stop with tiramisu and a sweet red in Campo San Bortolomio.
★★★★★We had five stops on this tour. Each stop we had wine and a different style of Venetian food. By the third stop I was stuffed! [...] We all got business cards for each stop so we could go back if we’d like.
★★★★★Overall, it was a wonderful experience and a great introduction to how to order at the baccaros.
★★★★★It allowed us to try out items that we probably would not have ordered ourselves, get questions answered on what to do and what not to do, and get great recommendations on where to go post-tour on our own.
★★★★★Olympia was amazing. Even though it was pouring when our tour started, it was still the best experience
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No. It's a traghetto, the gondola ferry across the Grand Canal, and the listing says the crossing takes about 3 minutes. For a 30-minute ride, see our gondola price guide.
Seven cicchetti and a homemade dessert, with four glasses of wine (white, red, prosecco and a dessert wine) and a spritz. Guests say it replaces a meal.
It starts at Campo de la Maddalena in Cannaregio and finishes in Campo San Bortolomio, at the foot of the Rialto Bridge on the San Marco side.
The traghetto may not run in bad weather or acqua alta. The guide then takes an alternative walking route and the rest of the tour carries on as planned.
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Seven cicchetti, a dessert, four wines and a spritz, plus a traghetto across the Grand Canal, in a group of ten at most.
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