Every city tastes different. Book the tour that proves it.
Which Rome tour actually feeds you dinner. What a night of Hanoi street food costs. Whether a Tokyo market walk beats a sushi class when you have one free morning. Reviews of the food tours worth turning up hungry for.
Four food tours worth planning a trip around.
The tables more travellers sit down at than any others. What each one costs, and what actually lands in front of you.
01Reykjavik, on footReykjavik Food Walk – Local Foodie Adventure in IcelandIcelandic classics across central Reykjavik in three hours, rye-bread ice cream included. The most booked walk on the whole site.
02Saigon, pillionHo Chi Minh City Street Food Tour & Sightseeing By MotorbikeDinner from the back of a motorbike, six stops the traffic keeps you from finding alone. Cheaper than a taxi ride home.
03Rome, unhurriedRome Food Tour: Unlimited Tastings with Fine Wine & BaroloTrastevere by the plateful with the wine kept coming. Book it for the evening and skip dinner plans entirely.
04Tokyo, after workTokyo: Shinjuku Food Tour (13 Dishes at 4 Local Eateries)Thirteen dishes at four Shinjuku counters, the kind with six stools and no English menu.
Italy runs more food tours than anywhere else. Pick your meal.
Rome at aperitivo hour, Bologna at lunch, a Tuscan cellar with the estate lunch thrown in. Four kinds of Italian eating day, and what it costs to join each one.
★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · Winner 2025 Rome Twilight Trastevere Food Tour by Eating Europe
Street food on the moveSupplì, pizza al taglio and the gelato worth the queue.
Cellar days outChianti and Barolo estates, lunch laid on under the vines.
Long tasting walksSix or seven stops, dinner in all but name by the end.
Market morningsTestaccio and the Rialto stalls before the heat arrives.
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Street food is where a city stops performing.
Plastic stools at knee height in Hanoi, tacos al pastor carved at midnight, a bánh mì passed over the counter in ninety seconds. The street-food nights travellers book most.
Six countries that reward booking a food tour on day one.
The pasta workshops and Roman street food, the po-boys and Pike Place mornings, a Saigon dinner by motorbike, tapas counters, Tokyo markets and Paris pastry runs. Six places, and the best day of eating in each.
The food tours travellers book before anything else.
All our food tour reviews →More people sit down at these tables than at any others on the site, and there is a reason behind each one.
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Reykjavik Food Walk – Local Foodie Adventure in Iceland
Start at Harpa Concert Hall and walk central Reykjavik with a guide such as Stevie, Thor, Lenny, or Mímir. Visit four to six eateries for eight or more tastings, from lamb and fish to fermented shark and rye bread ice cream. The three-hour route includes Arnarhóll, Laugavegur, Skólavörðustígur, and Hallgrímskirkja.
From · $146
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Dubai: Old Town, Creek, Museums, Souks, & Street Food Tour
from $18
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Ho Chi Minh City Street Food Tour & Sightseeing By Motorbike
from $28
4
Montserrat Half-Day Tour with Tapas and Gourmet Wines
from $55
5
Dubai: Old Town, Souks, Street Food, Guided Tour & Abra Ride
from $9
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Bateaux Parisiens Seine River Gourmet Dinner & Sightseeing Cruise
from $150
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Tokyo: Shinjuku Food Tour (13 Dishes at 4 Local Eateries)
from $86
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Winner 2025 Undiscovered Lisbon Food & Wine Tour by Eating Europe
from $125
What a food tour actually costs.
Every tour on the site, grouped by what you pay. Plenty of the best eating comes in under the price of the dinner it replaces.
Street-food walks, market mornings and a couple of hours of tasting on foot.
The full evening tours: six or seven stops, wine poured, dinner in all but name.
Michelin tables, private guides and wine-country days with someone else driving.
Three food tours that stay exactly where they are.
Tasting menus and cooking schools exist in every city with an airport. A stool by the tracks in Hanoi, a market breakfast in Tokyo and a four-bar vermouth run in Barcelona do not travel.
The Old Quarter, knee-high
Dinner in the Old Quarter happens on stools a foot off the pavement, in front of whichever family has cooked the same dish for forty years. A guide gets you bún chả grilled over coals, bánh cuốn steamed to order and egg coffee whipped thick enough to stand a spoon in. The hard part is not the food, it is knowing which doorway to walk through.
- 1Small Group Hanoi Street Food Tour with a Real Foodie★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 4,682 reviews
- 2Hanoi: Street Food Tour with Train Street & Hidden Alleyways★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,831 reviews
- 3Hanoi: Guided Street Food Tour with Train Street Experience★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 2,479 reviews
Breakfast at the outer market
Tokyo does its best eating before nine. The stalls in the outer market sell tamagoyaki on sticks, grilled scallops, sea urchin straight from the shell and knives sharp enough to shave with. Trade thins out by early afternoon and stops altogether on Sundays, so a market walk is a morning plan or it is nothing.
- 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
Four counters, one long dinner
Tapas in Barcelona is a route, not a restaurant: vermouth and olives standing up at the first bar, anchovies at the second, something out of the fryer at the third, and dinner has happened without anyone sitting down. Locals eat at ten. A tour that starts at seven is feeding tourists.
- 1Montserrat Half-Day Tour with Tapas and Gourmet Wines★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 7,359 reviews
- 2Barcelona: Tapas Walking Tour with Food, Wine, and History★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 4,261 reviews
- 3Barcelona: Food Walking Tour with Tapas and Wine★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 2,180 reviews
What a food tour asks of you.
Turn up hungry and check three things before you pay. How far you walk between stops, because most of these are two or three miles on foot. Whether the kitchen can work around an allergy or a diet, which is a question worth asking in writing. And what time you actually eat: a market tour is breakfast, an evening tour is dinner, and booking both in one day is a mistake you only make once.
Four food tours that will not wait for you.
Most eating can be arranged the night before. These run on market days, tiny kitchens and fixed sittings that take no interest in when your flight lands.
- 01Tokyo Tsukiji Fish Market Food and Culture Walking TourThe outer market trades in the morning and closes on Sundays and scattered Wednesdays. There is no afternoon version of it.
- 02Hanoi: Guided Food Tour with Train Street VisitHanoi’s track-side cafés open and shut on the timetable, and the police close the lane when a train is due.
- 03Authentic Pizza Making Class in Naples with Appetizers and DrinkA Naples pizza kitchen fits a dozen aprons around one oven. That is the whole day’s capacity.
- 04Montserrat Half-Day Tour with Tapas and Gourmet WinesThe mountain runs on a cogwheel-train timetable, so the tasting is built around departures rather than appetite.
Wine, cheese and coffee: the other half of a food tour.
Half of these tours are really about what is in the glass. Barolo poured in the cellar it was made in, a cheese counter with forty things on it, and coffee served three ways in a city that argues about all three.
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