Where to Eat Well: the 4 Best Christmas Market Food Tours Worldwide

1.Munich: Christmas Markets Food & Drink Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 50 reviews · 3 hours · from $64Our pick

Spend three hours exploring Munich’s Old Town Christmas markets with an English-speaking guide. Visit Marienplatz, the Rezidenz Christmas village, the Crib Market, and the Medieval Market while tasting mulled wine, Lebkuchen, and sugar-roasted almonds. Guide Leon has led the tour, and public transport is included.

“Learning anout the Christmas markets at the beginning of our trip was great, so we knew where to go during the rest of our stay.”

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2.Nuremberg: Christmas City Culinary Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 40 reviews · 2 hours · from $57Best value

Spend two hours walking Nuremberg’s Christmas markets with an English or German-speaking guide. You’ll taste sausage, Lebkugel, and hot wine while learning about the Christkindlesmarkt, the Christ Child tradition, the Children’s Market, and the city’s partner markets. Guides such as Martina, Claudia, Justina, and Justine are praised for making the history easy to follow.

“The guide was very knowledgeable! It was a great tour!”

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3.NYC: Christmas Eve Gourmet Brunch or Dinner Harbor Cruise

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 31 reviews · from $158

Settle into a reserved table aboard the glass-enclosed Bateaux New York for a three-course Christmas Eve brunch or dinner. You get live music, climate-controlled dining, coffee, tea, iced tea, and water, plus views of the Statue of Liberty, bridges, One World Trade Center, and Manhattan’s skyline from the dining room or outdoor deck.

“Very nice family time. However, dessert was served five minutes before we arrived, which was a real shame because we would have liked to have had some champagne with it.”

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4.Berlin Christmas Markets with Culinary Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 28 reviews · 3 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $168

Spend 3.5 hours tasting Berlin Christmas specialties with a local guide in a group capped at eight. You’ll visit Gendarmenmarkt, Lucia Weihnachtsmarkt, and KulturBrauerei, with stops for currywurst culture, Späti drinks, Glühwein, raclette, bratwurst, flammkuchen, and seasonal sweets. Public transport connects the markets, and the tour ends at U-Eberswalder Straße.

“Do not do this tour Save your money Started at a Xmas market near Berlin Opera building 1 x tasting and 1 x drink Some free time to look around Then we had to go to tram buy our own tickets and travel 30 minutes to what seemed an out of the way Xmas market 2 x more tastings and some drinks. Tour guide informed us this is where the tour finished and we had our own way home. We then had to find the tram buy more tickets and return to where we started by ourselves. First time in Berlin in the dark and not sure where we are…”

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