Venice Rialto Market Tour: Seasonal Cooking Class & Local Wine Tasting
4.6
54 Ratings
Venezia
Discover the vibrant Rialto Market in Venice and participate in a seasonal cooking class. Indulge in local wine tasting and savor a delectable lunch in a Venetian palazzo.
Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Mercati di Rialto - Meet your guide, a chef, at the Rialto Market to start with a tour of this vibrant part of Venice. Shop with your chef/guide to select the ingredients and raw materials for your cooking class. Then head to a typical Venetian palazzo for your hands-on cooking class.

During the class, you will prepare:

  • fist course (it can be a hand made pasta, risotto or lasagna) with tomatoes and fresh vegetables
  • second course (can be chicken or fish) or Eggplants Parmigiana

Tiramisu` dessert. You will also enjoy a wine tasting session with a professional sommelier, who will help you to discover some delicious wine pairings. End your class with a lovely lunch and enjoy the fruits of your hard work, with plenty of wine of course.

What's Included
  • Welcome spritz aperitif
  • Gourmet 3-course lunch with fine Italian wine
  • Collection of recipes
  • Tour of the market with a local expert guide
  • Interactive hands-on cooking class
  • Complimentary beverages
What's Not Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Information

Experience the renowned Rialto Market and pick out seasonal produce with an expert chef in this 4-hour gastronomy class and wine sampling in Venice. Step into an intriguing Venetian palazzo and commence your practical cookery lesson. Relish the meal paired with superior local wines in the company of loved ones.

The market is not open on Sundays, so we will concentrate solely on the culinary course.

  • Please advise of any specific dietary requirement at time of booking
  • A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
  • Please be advised the tour will start punctually at 9:30 we recommend to be at the meeting point 10 min earlier
  • 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
Location
Al Mercà
Campo Bella Vienna
Meeting point at al Merca`: Campo Bella Vienna, 213, 30125 Venezia VE Please be advised the tour will start punctually at 9:30 we recommend to be at the meeting point 10 min earlier.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Julie_w
Mar 29, 2024
A truly memorable cooking experience the Italian way. - An absolutely wonderful experience that we would do again if we come back to Venice. We were met and taken to the Rialto fresh markets and then on to do some Italian cooking. We made lots of fresh Italian inspired dishes, being shown different methods of cooking and preparing the ingredients. We cooked some starters, a main course and a dessert and then sat down to eat it all with a glass of wine. The hosts were absolutely amazing, very knowledgeable and very friendly and created a lovely atmosphere. An experience we will never forget and can’t recommend highly enough.
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Sarah_r
Mar 17, 2024
Pasta Perfecto! - This experience was my favorite in Venice! Chef Lorenzo 👨‍🍳 made you feel very comfortable in his kitchen and taught us to make homemade pasta and tiramisu♡ Make sure you have google maps on your phone and give a little extra time for getting lost in the maze of Venice(part of the experience) ♡ We left so full and so proud of our creations!
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Julie
Dec 9, 2023
Excellent experience, delicious food, charming host! - This was amazing! Lorenzo was charming, informative, fun and an excellent teacher. Had a wonderful time And the food was some of the best I had during my time in Venice. Highly recommend!
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Debbie_b
Nov 21, 2023
Amazing cooking experience - What a great way to see the market and cook with a restaurant chef. We got to help pick the menu and learned how to make many new dishes. We also enjoyed that it was a small group and got to know the host and fellow attendees. A must do if you are in Venice!
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Rich
Sep 30, 2023
Beautiful, Sweet Chef Rosa— making Beyond Delicious Food! - Rosa is a true jewel! Her home is truly lovely and welcoming. We actually learned to make the dishes and had so much fun while we cooked and ate our way through the day. The food was absolutely spectacular- and Rosa could not have been sweeter. We can’t wait to go back and visit her. Thank you Rosa! Highly recommend this to everyone that likes to cook and eat amazingly ng food.
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Lynda_g
Aug 4, 2023
Yummy! - This was an exceptional experience. Lorenzo took us first on a tour of the Rialto Market where he sells seafood and vegetables for our creative cooking. Then we walked to Lorenzo’s apartment, where he made as welcome, and showed us how to cook tagliatelle pasta two shrimp dishes and two kinds of baked salmon. Let’s not forget Tiramisu for dessert!
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Michaelft1973qv
Jul 17, 2023
Great food! And creative - Lorenzo was great and very knowledgeable! It was a hilight of my trip with my mother. Highly recommend!
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Annette_s
Jul 8, 2023
Fun way to learn about the culture and cuisine!! - Lorenzo met us at Rialto Market. As we walked through the market, Lorenzo shared great information about where the different types of fish, meats and produce came from. He asked our likes/dislikes as he shopped for the ingredients for the meal we were going to prepared. He adjusted the menu using the information he gathered from us and the availability of ingredients. We then walked through Venice to Lorenzo’s flat where we enjoyed wine from a local winery as we prepared fresh pastas with Bolognese we all helped make, fresh fish, tiramisu and homemade sorbet made from fresh peaches from the market. We then sat down to enjoy a wonderful meal we all helped to create. Lorenzo was a gracious host and shared a wealth of knowledge. We highly recommend this experience to anyone wanting to submerse themselves in the culture and cuisine of Venezia!!
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Bonnie_b
Jun 20, 2023
The Chef is lovely. This... - The Chef is lovely. This was an awesome experience. The class was well worth it and I would recommend to anyone wanting to do something fun and delicious.
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Ellie_g
Jun 2, 2023
Simple, fresh and delicious - We had a fantastic cooking session with Lorenzo, who had a varied and delicious menu for us. It was definitely plentiful. We made focaccia from scratch, as well as spinach and ricotta ravioli. We also had a captées salad, asparagus, carpaccio, artichokes… and it was topped off with a tiramisu. Most items where purchased fresh from Rialto that morning. Please note there is no market on a Sunday and the fish market is closed on a Monday so this will affect your menu. I thought maybe for the ricotta and mozzarella it could have been bought fresh from the market shops and not a supermarket. It was brilliant to learn how to make simple food which tasted so nice. My only comment would be there was not really a wine tasting, but wine to drink. I thought this was slightly misleading but probably a language translation issue. For the price being more than others I was expecting it… however, we had a great time and I would not only recommend but I would also do it again. Many thanks to the Chef and our fun group!
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