BEST OF · STREET FOOD TOURS IN MEXICO
Good street food tours in Mexico run small groups and fill up weeks ahead. Below: the 12 to book early, what each includes and how they differ.
Taste Cancun beyond the resorts with carnitas, barbacoa, Yucatecan dishes, Mercado 23, murals, hotel pickup, and local guides.
“The tour guide, Sasha was incredibly knowledgeable. We got a true sense of Mexican cuisine and the local market was great!”
Taste Yucatecan street food, market fruits, cochinita pibil, ceviche, candy, and gelato on Merida’s small-group food walk.
“Luz expertly guided us through the market, tasting many different Mérida specialties. The ceviche and gelato to finish the tour we're delicious! We even went back to Pola for more gelato on our own. Skip breakfast as you will be very full by the end of this tour.”
Explore Mexico City by bike, tasting tamales, tacos, churros, and tequila across Condesa, Roma, Chapultepec, and Juárez.
“Be prepared to eat right away! We had tamales for breakfast! They were delicious! It was so much fun to ride around the busy city. It was a Sunday so many people were out and our ride began very relaxing and got busier in the last hour. It was a blast!”
Explore Mexico City markets, taste street food, ride the Metro, and make salsa with a local family on this five-hour tour.
“We had a wonderful day with Axel and had a lot of experiences that we would never have been able to have without Axel’s guidance. I can’t speak highly enough of Axel and it really felt like a day with a great friend. It was the perfect way to acclimatise and immerse in life in Mexico City as we just arrived”
Explore Mexico City street food in a small-group tour with tacos, tamales, carnitas, chocolate, and practical local food advice.
“Great experience. Would 100% recommend. Our guide, Fernando, was excellent. All of the food was amazing.”
Taste 15-plus vegan and vegetarian Mexican foods while walking through four Mexico City neighborhoods with a local guide.
“We had an absolute blast! the tour guide was informative and entertaining with great vibes and a nice pace. The rest of the people in our group were also a vibe and we became one large group of friends by the end. Definitely recommend. I am a vegan foodie with a voracious appetite if I left stuffed no one is escaping this experience anything less than full!”
Explore Mexico City by bike, sampling tamales, tacos, markets, parks, pastries, and micheladas on this four-and-a-half-hour food tour.
“Amazing experience . Super friendly tour guides . Great activity when traveling with friends or solo”
Taste tacos, tamales, cochinita pibil and more on a five-hour Cancún food tour with market time, local guides and urban art.
“Great experience with G and Angel. informative, fun, and well-rounded tour with varied and authentic food. However, I was somewhat disappointed that we didn't have more walking and experiencing the ambience of downtown Cancun. G mentioned a few times that it's a very walkable town, but...all the walking we did was 10min around the market. The urban art was to be seen from the van, so not great. I would rate the tour very well for its food variety, but very poorly on the walking/experiencing the vibe of the city part. Since this was a food focused tour, I guess it's our fault, but I definitely would have liked to…”
Review of Mexico City’s four-hour Roma food tour, with street eats, market bites, homemade tamales, mezcal, and practical booking advice.
“We thoroughly enjoyed learning about and tasting a wide variety of Mexican food. All of the food was delicious, especially the homemade tamales and hot chocolate!”
Taste vegan Mexican street food across four Mexico City neighborhoods, with local guides, family-run stops, Metrobus rides, and one included drink.
“The tour was fantastic! We are a vegetarian and carnivore couple and both found enjoyment in the foods we ate. I look forward to returning to the places we stopped at. Sharon was a wonderful guide (from Traveling Herbivore) with a lot of enthusiasm and shared wonderful tidbits about the food and history of food in Mexico. Normally, the group size is smaller but Sharon ran the tour smoothly in spite of the larger than expected party.”
Taste Mérida’s market foods, Yucatecan specialties, ceviche, candies and gelato while learning about local culture with a bilingual guide.
“Our walking food tour was a visit to the busy local market. It provided an authentic experience where locals buy their fresh foods and have their breakfast. Our guide was familiar with the local vendors. We had delicious popular foods (quick service in spite of long queues) and she provided explanations for each dish. We also sampled fresh local fruits, herbs and spices used in Mexican cooking. Lunch was a prawn ceviche and we finished in an ice cream shop with interesting and unusual selection of flavours.”
Taste Cancun beyond the resorts with downtown tacos, Yucatecan specialties, tequila, mezcal, local drinks, and warm churros.
“The tour was fun and Antonio was an excellent guide/host. We would have liked a wider variety of stops. Plus serving 2 tacos per stop was too much food....it would be better to taste more places and only have to eat one taco at each place.”
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