Fish Shopping in Rialto and Home Cooking in Murano

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What You’ll Experience
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Duration
3 hours
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Number of Guests
1 - 5 guests
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Language
English, Spanish, Italian, German
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Experience Venice like a local! Choose fresh fish at Rialto, ride a gondola, and cook in Murano. Discover authentic Venetian cuisine with a local guide in a canal-side kitchen.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

Don't just sit in a restaurant but be a true Venetian! Let's pick the best fresh fish at the Rialto market, cross the Canal Grande on a gondola and hurry up heading home. Be your own chef at my place in a state of the art kitchen overlooking the canal.

Become a venetian! Fish tastes better when it is fresh, seasonal and local, especially if you personally buy it and cook it at home with the tips of a local guy!


Sample Menu

STARTER
Sundried tomatoes and mixed antipasti
Biological sundried Tomatoes and Italian vegetable antipasti. Spritz, the Aperitivo drink based on white wine and Aperol/Campari/Cynar
MAIN
Spaghetti alla busara (Spaghetti with tomatoes and stewed clayfish)
A tasty recipe, encased in the Venetian tradition. It is considered one of the most important dishes of the Venetian cuisine.
MAIN
Oven-baked seabass with potatoes
Cooking in the oven wil preserve the fresh and original taste of the fish and of the Adriatic sea, enriched by the flavours of fine herbs and spices.
DESSERT
Italian moka brewed coffee & local liquors
We will end up our meal with a strong italian coffee accompanied by local liquors

What You Get

Tour Leader & Nature and Interpretive Guide
Tea and coffee
Moka coffee & liquors
Lunch
3 courses meal
Water bus ticket to Murano. Tickets will be purchased on board
Gratuities

Good To Know

  • On certain dates, most travelers staying outside of Venice who are planning to visit for the day will be required to pay a €5 access fee. For further details (including exemptions) and to learn what days this fee is applicable, please visit: https://cda.ve.it
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Service animals allowed

What You’ll Experience

We will meet at the market place in Venice: Rialto: its fish market is noisy, raw, authentic and full of true venetian life. Fish is artfully arranged on stalls covered with deep layers of crushed ice, seagulls wander among the fishmongers calling out today's catch, local people purposefully browse the stalls scattered in the two halls of the "Pescheria", as generations of venetians have been doing so in the last 800 years! As soon as we made our best choice for fish, we will cross the Canal Grande on Gondola ferry, very probably together with some local housewives hurring up heading home! We will have a 15 minutes walk through hidden "calles" up to Fondamente Nuove, where will get home in Murano thanks to a short vaporetto ride. We will cook our meal together while tasting some glasses of prosecco, some appetizers and enjoying the view on the canal from the dining room. Then it will be time to check if we made the best choice at the market and enjoy our lunch: we will have some pasta with a tasty fish sauce while a seabass will be going to be cooked to perfection! We will then say arrivederci only after a strong Italian coffee, of course brewed from a moka machine!

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

Campo San Giacomo di Rialto, Venezia Città Metropolitana di Venezia Veneto, Italy, IT, 30125

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Close to the well in the middle of Campo San Giacomo di Rialto. (near Rialto bridge)
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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What People Are Saying
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Best part of my trip to Venice!
January 14, 2025
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I was expecting this experience to be unique and special, and I was looking forward to it as a highlight of our trip. I could not have anticipated how far it would exceed my expectations. Valerio p...read more

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A Highlight of My Venice Trip!!
January 13, 2025
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While visiting Venice, I had the pleasure of booking a tour with Valerio for fish shopping at Rialto Market followed by home cooking in Murano. The experience was nothing short of extraordinary and...read more

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Highlight of Our Trip to Venice
May 23, 2024
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I really did not know what to expect when my wife signed me up for an Italian Cooking Class for our May 2024 visit to Venice, Italy. It seems that somehow I never inherited the “cooking gene” and t...read more

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Cooking class with Valerio
April 05, 2024
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Valerio is a guide who immediately puts you at ease. Very friendly, passionate! We loved going to the Rialto market with him and cooking at his place. Top!

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Fantastic Venetian birthday tour
February 25, 2024
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We met Valerio in April 2022 on the tour "in the footsteps of Commissario Brunetti" and then immediately found out about other tours with Valerio! Now the time had finally come, I celebrated my 60t...read more

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