Venetian bàcari

What are the venetian bacari? Tour of the venetian bacari

Venice is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but also one of the most expensive if you do not know where to eat, so if you want to find something low cost and typically Venetian we recommend the bacari … are a real institution!

What are bàcari?

The bàcaro is an osteria where you can enjoy “a shade” of wine or the typical spritz accompanied by “cicchetti”, there are scattered throughout the various districts of Venice They are characterized by a rustic decor and a cozy and familiar atmosphere.

Wooden tables, barrels, ceilings with pots and pans, navigational instruments, gondolas and anything else that recalls the Venetian tradition are the signs that represent the bàcaro.
Why bacari in Venice

For every Venetian, this is the place for a quick meal or snack at an affordable price.

Stopping in a bacaro is something that people do, the older ones like it as well as the younger ones.

These places thus become a meeting point in which to spend moments after a long day of work or study.

Some bacari during happy hour are very crowded and finding a seat is difficult, others do not even have tables and the delicacies are consumed in the calle or campiello.

If you want to get into the Venetian mindset, you must do a bacaro-tour.

It is said bacaro-tour when you follow an itinerary between the sestieri, with stops in different bacari.

Bacari in venice

The bacari in Venice are a tradition and according to legend it was a gondolier who coined the term, while tasting a wine he said “sè proprio un vin da bàcaro”, a wine perfect for partying.

From that moment, the Venetian expression “far bàcara” means to celebrate, revelry, eat in company.
What do you eat in Venetian bàcari?

The bacari tour: synonymous with two things, drinking good wine and eating cicchetti.

Venetian cicchetti