Book the meal, and the city comes with it.
Which Rome tasting walk feeds you properly and which one hands you three olives. What a Hanoi street breakfast costs. Whether the Tokyo tour is worth the yen. Reviews of food tours, tastings and cooking classes in every city that cooks.
Four food tours that talk people into the flight.
The bookings that turn a trip into a food trip: a soup crawl in the cold, a Tuscan sunset with wine in hand, a plastic stool by the tracks, and a morning in the French Quarter.
01ReykjavikReykjavik Food Walk – Local Foodie Adventure in IcelandLamb soup, fermented shark and rye ice cream across six stops. The one food walk people plan a whole Iceland stopover around.
02FlorenceWinner 2025 Florence Sunset Food & Wine Tour by Eating EuropeTuscan wine and small plates as the light goes. Groups stay small and the last stop runs late, so it doubles as dinner.
03HanoiGuided Food Tour with Train Street VisitPlastic stools, bun cha and the train that runs through the neighbourhood. The cheapest great meal on this whole site.
04New OrleansNew Orleans Food Walking Tour of the French Quarter with Small-Group OptionGumbo, po-boys and beignets walked off between courses in the French Quarter. Book the morning slot before the heat.
Six cities where a food tour beats a sightseeing tour.
Trastevere after dark, a Barcelona market at opening, Hanoi at breakfast, Tokyo standing up, Bangkok backstreets and a bakery lane in Lisbon. Six kitchens worth building a trip around, and the tour that gets you fed in each.
Tasting walk, cellar day or a pizza class. Three ways to eat Italy.
Italy is the country most people book a food tour in, and the three kinds of day cost very different money. Here is what each one runs to, and which city does it best.
The best eating is standing up, on a street with no menu.
A guide who knows which grill to trust is the whole product. These are the walks that go stall to stall, order in the local language and stop when you say you are full.
Italy: the country where the food tour is the itinerary.
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Rome for pasta and cellars, Florence for the wine hour, Naples for a pizza you make yourself, Palermo for street food that predates the tourists. Italy carries more of this site than any other country, and these three carry Italy.
Trastevere, with or without the wine
The unlimited-tasting walks pour properly and end late. The cheaper versions are a food tour with a glass in it. Read the inclusions before you pick, because the price gap is mostly wine.
A pizza class in Naples
Dough, oven, appetisers, drinks and someone correcting your technique. It runs shorter than a tour, feeds you like a restaurant and gives you the one recipe worth taking home.
Tuscany and the hills behind Rome
Cellars in Chianti, farm lunches in Frascati, Barolo tastings that need a driver. The good ones include the transfer, and the ones that do not will cost you the difference in taxis.
The food tours the most travellers actually take.
Every food tour review →Eight tastings with more travellers through them than anything else on the site, and what earns each one the slot.
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Reykjavik Food Walk – Local Foodie Adventure in Iceland
Explore Reykjavik through Icelandic food, landmarks, and local stories on a three-hour small-group walking tour with eight tastings.
From · $146
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2
Ho Chi Minh City Street Food Tour & Sightseeing By Motorbike
from $28
3
Bateaux Parisiens Seine River Gourmet Dinner & Sightseeing Cruise
from $150
4
Shinjuku Food Tour (13 Dishes at 4 Local Eateries)
from $86
5
Winner 2025 Undiscovered Lisbon Food & Wine Tour by Eating Europe
from $125
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Guided Food Tour with Train Street Visit
from $19
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New Orleans Food Walking Tour of the French Quarter with Small-Group Option
from $75
8
2 Wine Regions, Farm-to-Table Lunch & Boat
from $94
In Hanoi and Saigon the tour comes with a motorbike seat.
A rider, a helmet and six stops nobody walks to: alley pho, banh mi from the counter with the queue, beer on a kerb. Prices here are the lowest on the site and the portions are the largest.
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Japan rewards a guide who can read the counter.
Tsukiji at market hours, a Shinjuku alley where nobody speaks English, a sushi counter where you sit down and the chef decides. Half of eating well in Japan is knowing which door to open.
- 1Shinjuku Food Tour (13 Dishes at 4 Local Eateries)from $86
- 2Sushi Making Tokyo Roll and Authentic Japanese Sushi Classfrom $59
- 3Tokyo Tsukiji Fish Market Food and Culture Walking Tourfrom $99
What a food tour actually costs, city by city.
Every tasting on the site, grouped by price. The cheap end is not the weak end: some of the best eating here costs less than a main course at home.
Street food walks in Asia, market mornings, a bakery lane and most of the tuk-tuk runs.
The standard three-hour tasting walk in Europe, small-group cooking classes and the evening crawls.
Private guides, Michelin tasting menus, wine days with a driver and the once-a-trip dinner cruise.
Three food experiences that only work where they were invented.
Tasting menus travel. A fish market at five in the morning, a pizza oven that has been lit since before the war and a pastry counter with its own queue do not.
Tsukiji and a sushi counter
The wholesale auctions moved to Toyosu, but the outer market at Tsukiji still opens before dawn and still sells the tamagoyaki, the knives and the tuna. Tours run at market hours because by ten the stalls are packing up. Most pair it with a sushi class, which is the right order: see the fish, then learn what a chef does with it.
- 1Tokyo Tsukiji Fish Market Food and Culture Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,184 reviews
- 2Nishiki Market Brunch Walking Tour (7 Tastings + Brunch)★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,355 reviews
- 3Tsukiji Fish Market Guided Tour and Sushi Making with Pro Chef★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 775 reviews
A pizza oven you get to use
Naples treats pizza as a protected craft, with rules about the flour, the water and the ninety seconds it spends in the oven. Classes run in the old centre, usually with drinks and appetisers first, and end with you eating the thing you made. Book the evening slot: the ovens are hottest and the room is livelier.
- 1Authentic Pizza Making Class in Naples with Appetizers and Drink★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,178 reviews
- 2Small Group Cooking Class & Market Food Tour in Florence★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,574 reviews
- 3Neapolitan Pizza and Tiramisù Making Class★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 839 reviews
The pastry counter crawl
Paris pastry is a competition with published results, and the winners get the queue. A good sweets tour hits four or five counters in one arrondissement so you taste an eclair, a chocolate, a macaron and a canele in an hour, and learn which of the famous names are still worth the wait.
- 1Award-Winning Geneva Chocolate &Old Town Tour with Boat Ride (3h)★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,721 reviews
- 2Paris French Sweets Tasting Tour with Pastries and Chocolates★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 947 reviews
- 3Rome Afternoon Sightseeing Vespa Sidecar Tour with Gourmet Gelato★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 692 reviews
Four tastings that will be sold out when you land.
Most food tours can be booked from the hotel the night before. These four run tiny groups, fixed market hours or a single sitting, and they fill weeks out.
- 01Reykjavik Food Walk – Local Foodie Adventure in IcelandOne small group a day in a city with a short season. It sells out further ahead than anything else here.
- 02Tokyo Tsukiji Fish Market Food and Culture Walking TourIt runs on market hours, so there is one morning slot and no second chance later in the day.
- 03Winner 2025 Undiscovered Lisbon Food & Wine Tour by Eating EuropeSmall groups, one sitting per evening, and the tables are held at the restaurants rather than reserved for walk-ins.
- 04Authentic Pizza Making Class in Naples with Appetizers and DrinkA class is capped by how many people fit around the bench, and the evening slot goes first.
What to tell a food tour before you turn up.
This is the one activity where the small print is about your body. Say what you do not eat when you book, not on the pavement: kitchens on a fixed tasting route cannot improvise. Arrive hungry, expect to walk two or three kilometres between stops, and read the alcohol line if you are not drinking, because a third of the price can be wine. Vegetarians do well in Italy and India and struggle on a seafood route.
Wine, cheese and oil: the sit-down half of eating well.
Not every good food day involves walking. Cellars in Tuscany and the Douro, a cheese board in Amsterdam, a mill press in the Peloponnese, a roastery in Bogota. Book these for the afternoon you want to sit still.
By city, from the market to the last bar
By kind of eating, from street stall to tasting menu
The six countries that feed this site, and where to start in each.
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