KNOW YOUR VENETIAN LANGUAGE - LESSON # 3
A “Bacaro” [Bach-arrow] is the typical Venetian Osteria [Hoster-ia, where “ia” is pronouced as “Iä!” in “Iä! Shub-Niggurath!”], some sort of an old fashioned tavern where you can drink small glasses of wine called “ombra” [like “sombra” in Spanish, but without the S-. The plura is “ombre”, that is pronouced as... well you get it] and eat some nibbles called “cicchetti” [chick-hecto].
A Bacaro Tour is an organized or unorganized tour from one taver to the other along Venice, in order to taste different cicchetti and sometimes drink yourself to a stupor. Bacaro tours are getting more and more difficult to organize, as most of the Venetian osterie are closing and getting replaced with cheesy souvenir shops.
Now things get complicated: if you move from Venice and go to a bar and ask for a cicchetto you will get a small glass of an alcoholic beverage of your choice.
