Top 10 Restaurants in Venice that Don’t Make Your Wallet Cry, Venice, Italy (B)

Venice, in spite of a glorious past as a maritime and commercial power of Europe, is now a small town with a population some sources estimate at 58,000 habitants, and others in 67,000, most of whom live in the Castello district and especially in Giudecca Island.

This situation led to the fact that by now hardly remains any “non-tourist” restaurants. In order to stay in business, local restaurateurs have been forced to focus increasingly on tourists.

To find the true flavors of Venice, we still have the baccari, those bars serving a wide variety of cicheti (small bites and finger-food, similar to the Spanish “tapas”, the Argentine “Picada”, or the American snacks and appetizers).

-While in Italian it is spelled cicchetti, in Venetian dialect it is written as above; and that’s the way we’re going to follow on throughout this post.

You’re supposed to eat one cicheto with each glass of wine (to avoid getting drunk, or at least not too fast), while doing the rigurous pub crawl trying the cicheti of different baccari. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).