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What to do and see in Venice, Veneto: The Best Food & Drink
With its gondolas, canals, amazing restaurants, and unforgettable romantic ambiance, Venice is definitely a city for one's bucket list. Waterfront palazzos, palaces, and churches make drifting down the Grand Canal feel like cruising through a painting. To really experience Venice you must go to the opera or to a classical music performance, nibble fresh pasta and pastries, and linger in the exhibit halls of an art gallery. Label lovers will drool over the high-end shopping in Piazza San Marco.
Restaurants in Venice
1. Venice Urban Adventures
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5.0 based on 1,595 reviews
Small group tours to discover the insights of Venice! From Food & Wines tours like our classic "Cicchetti & Wine tour" to Aperitivo by boat watching the sunset passing by walking tours of the local neighborhoods or half-day trips to Treviso City and its Prosecco Wineries. We can organize your experience in a share or private tour mode. Tours in English, other languages on request too! Join us!
2. Maria's Cookery Course - Cooking School Venice
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5.0 based on 49 reviews
For more than 10 years, for lovers of Italian food, we have been offering a unique opportunity to participate in small groups in a hands-on cooking experience in the peace of an historic Venetian Villa of the 15th century. Meeting point is in Venice: Piazzale Roma, Tronchetto Parking or at the airport. The local women of Veneto will share Countess Maria's cooking philosopy, her traditional techniques, special ingredients, and family recipes. And you'll enjoy your creation "a tavola" for lunch, together with the best Italian wines of the region. We use fresh products like the vegetables of our garden, the eggs of our chicken for making pasta, and the best products of the day that we find on the local market. Programs are offered from March to December. Our daily classes begin at 10:30 and end at around 14:30, including lunch with d.o.c. Italian wines. In the afternoon, you can enjoy food and wine traditions of Veneto taking part in our optional excursions and wine & food tasting tours. Our programs are flexible. We can customize them according to your wishes and the activities you prefer. Send us an enquiry to get your program and rates.
3. Tour Leader Venice
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5.0 based on 342 reviews
We do organise tours in venice, from cultural to off the beaten path! Now we do organize virtual tour via zoom with live chats, showing the beauties of venice.
4. Food Tours of Venice
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5.0 based on 533 reviews
Food Tours of Venice is a team of local tour guide that love their city and its tradition. We want to share our passion for the food, wine, the monuments and the art of the most beautiful city in the world, ours!
5. Private Tours of Venice
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5.0 based on 206 reviews
We are a team of local licensed tour guides that live in Venice and love their city. We designed special itineraries for you, in particular customized tours of the less beaten areas of the city.
6. Borgo Stajnbech
7. Acquolina Cooking School
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5.0 based on 234 reviews
Marika's warm, functional kitchen equipped with the most modern technology, you will have the pleasure of preparing both typical venitian dishes and more, using the fresh herbs grown in the garden of the beautiful old venitian villa: villa inespartecipate actively in the preparation of ravioli, tagliatelle, risotti, local specialty of fish and meat, vegetables and dessert.each class last for 4 hours and finished with tasting of the menu prepared. Maximum 10. Folder with recipes is given to each partecipant
Reviewed By mdmockbee - Potenza, Italy
My mom and I took two of Marika’s cooking experiences in her beautiful open kitchen, where culture meets food and tingles all your senses, tastes and textures. Her catering, events and cooking experience company is called Acquolina. In Italian one of my favourite phrases is ‘acquolina in bocca,’ meaning mouth-watering, and that is exactly the flavors and smells that ensue when spending time in Marika’s Kitchen. Diving into the rhythm of cooking, we experienced creating a Michelin star quality meal in a matter of 4 hours. The first meal we made was Milanese, Ossobuco with Saffron Risotto. Marika said that it is one of the only dishes in Italy where the primo and the secondo come together. She moves fast, giving us lessons in cooking, technique and her personal connection to the cuisine. I had never made risotto, used saffron, nor had any idea what ossobuco was. Marika said it’s a perfect winter Milanese dish. The technique involved toasting rice in wine and constant stirring. As Chef Marika said, ‘that is why you let the guest wait for the risotto, and not the risotto for the guests.’ For the second meal we cooked was an explosion of pasta varieties. More than the technique, Marika explained how pasta and Italian cuisine are rooted in season, regionally and in the home. Together we prepared two fillings for ravioli: asparagus with leek and Spinach with ricotta. The first sauce to accompany the asparagus and leek ravioli was made with butter sage and Parmesan with asparagus tops. The second sauce was a salsa simplice with little tomatoes, olive oil and garlic. We also made a basil pesto with spinach infused tagliatelle. And finally pillow-like potato gnocchi. It was all overwhelming in a way that we couldn’t even believe the quantity of different types of pasta we had made. The technique of which takes consistency in practice and a lifetime, which we realised very quickly as Marika effortlessly showed, and as my mother and I fumbled our way through laughing. Even the shapes and how you make each pasta is founded in different locales of Italian cooking. Marika’s stories of cooking with her grandmother when she was a young girl in Milan, and her connection to the rich agriculture that comes from the regions of her grandfather in Puglia further South came together as we rhythmically prepared our meal together. This day was just my mother, myself, Tonia Marika’s sous chef and Marika. At the end, my mother and I ate together enough pasta for ten, and the meal was one that no restaurant in Venice could compare.
8. Venice Bites Food Tours
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5.0 based on 910 reviews
We are here — we have made it our mission — to prove to Venice visitors that once you get away from the maddening crowds around Piazza San Marco, and we get you into the real, living, Venetian neighborhoods, thriving with restaurants and caffes without the dreaded “menu turistico”, you will be enchanted by this city and stunned at the beauty and variety of the foods we eat here!
9. Poli 1898
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5.0 based on 2 reviews
10. From Venice To Wine
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5.0 based on 2 reviews
I'm Venetian by birth and a professional sommelier. I offer private small group day trip for passionate wine lovers. With only one hour drive You'll be warmly welcome from the wine producers in their cellar and learn all you always wanted to know about wine from them. From Venice or Verona spend the day among beautiful vineyard and fascinating cellar of Valpolicella tasting Amarone famous wine. Buy wine and ship all around the world. True Italian experience.
