In Venice you will find many dark and hidden bars that as a tourist you might not be game enough to enter.
But often these seemingly uninviting places are Venice’s best kept secret.
The “Bacari” are bars were you eat and drink standing up, but that often serve local delicacies and wine at cheap prices.
While in Venetian dialect, the site Venessia.
com includes a lot of information on Venice, not for tourists, among which you can find Venice’s best bars (and we’re not talking Harry’s Bar).
Bar advice includes visiting Al Bagolo in Campo San Giacomo for the music and people, S.
Marcuola “Enoteca Do Colonne” for the good snacks and nice baristas, Ai Bisatei in Campo San Bernardo a Murano where for 12 euros you can get good happy hour food, and the “Cantina da Roberto” At Cannaregio where the wine is good, the snacks even better, but apparently “solo per Veneziani”: only for Venetians!The term “bacaro” comes from an old word referring to the wine makers who once came to Venice with barrels of wine to sell in St Mark’s square, together with some snacks.
The glass the wine was served in was called “ombra”, meaning shade, because the wine makers used to follow the shade from the bell tower.
moving their stalls around the square, to protect the wine from the sun.