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Where to Eat in Italy: the 15 Best Food Tours with Locals

36 tours  ·  from $40 a head

Good food tours with locals fill up weeks ahead and the great ones go first. Below: the 15 to book early, what each includes and how they differ.

Naples: Street Food Walking Tour with Local Guide - Fried pasta and arancini in the Centro Storico
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Naples: Street Food Walking Tour with Local Guide

1.Naples: Street Food Walking Tour with Local Guide

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 4,976 reviews · 2.5 hours · from $50Our pick

Start in Piazza Bellini and follow an English-speaking guide through Naples’ Centro Storico. You’ll taste pizza a portafoglio, pizza fritta, frittate di pasta, arancini, taralli, babà, sfogliatelle, mozzarella, gelato, spritz, and limoncello. Guides including Mario, Daniela, Sara, and Carmen mix food with legends, landmarks, and practical Naples tips.

“Daniella 'Nonna' is a great guide, explaining everything well and keeping us entertained along the way. Usually on food tours you get small samples but on this one it is a lot of food and it is constant. Great value for money and a good way to spend acouple of hours in Naples. Just don't eat beforehand!”

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Rome: Street Food Tour with Local Guide - Starting under Giordano Bruno in Campo dei Fiori
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Rome: Street Food Tour with Local Guide

2.Rome: Street Food Tour with Local Guide

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 4,077 reviews · 2.5 hours · from $53

Spend 2.5 hours walking through Campo dei Fiori and Rome’s Jewish Quarter with an English-speaking guide such as Mattia, Francesca, or Marco. Try five tastings, including pizza, supplì, cured meats, wine, beer, and gelato, while learning about landmarks such as the Portico of Octavia and Turtle Fountain.

“our guide was very friendly and knowledgeable. The four was delicious and allowed us to visit places we were not aware of. Great tour! We highly recommend it!”

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Eat Like a Local: Venice 3-Hour Small-Group Food Tasting Tour - San Polo and Venice’s old bacaro tradition
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Eat Like a Local: Venice 3-Hour Small-Group Food Tasting Tour

3.Eat Like a Local: Venice 3-Hour Small-Group Food Tasting Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 3,137 reviews · 2 hours 30 minutes to 3 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $107Top rated

This 2.5 to 3.5-hour English walking tour begins near Rialto Bridge and visits seven or eight local bars, shops, and restaurants. Expect coffee and pastries, cicchetti, five to six kinds of fish, cured meats, cheese, pasta or risotto, sarde in saor, wine, cookies, and gelato. Guides such as Anna, Marianna, Greta, Carlo, and Sara add local stories and practical dining tips.

“Highly recommended - an excellent tour guide, great food from local shops most tourists wouldn’t naturally find, and a terrific way to discover the city in the process”

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Venice: Street Food Tour with a Local Guide and Tastings - Meeting in Campo San Bartolomeo
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Venice: Street Food Tour with a Local Guide and Tastings

4.Venice: Street Food Tour with a Local Guide and Tastings

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 2,613 reviews · 2.5 hours · from $57

Follow an English-speaking guide through Rialto, San Polo, and Dorsoduro for 2.5 hours of Venetian food and history. You will visit the Rialto Market, enter Basilica dei Frari, sample cicchetti, regional specialties, buranelli biscuits, gelato, and more. Guides such as Tone, Denis, Ana, and Vanessa are known for lively local insight.

“The guide was so friendly and knowledgeable. The shops we stopped at provided great service. I have no changes to offer.”

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Rome: Street Food Tour with Local Guide - Starting under Giordano Bruno in Campo dei Fiori
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Rome Street Food Tour with Local Guide

5.Rome Street Food Tour with Local Guide

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 2,361 reviews · 2 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $54

Start beneath Giordano Bruno in Campo de’ Fiori and spend 2.5 hours tasting Roman specialties with a local guide. Expect cheese, cured meats, pizza, suppli, pastries, seasonal produce, wine, beer, and gelato, with stops around the Jewish Ghetto, Teatro di Marcello, and Largo Argentina. Morning tours include the market.

“Perfect amount of food and history even for two teenagers!! Amazing value. Great variety of traditional foods.”

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Florence: Street Food Tour with Wine & Local Guide - Starting at Piazza dell’Unità Italiana
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Florence: Street Food Tour with Wine & Local Guide

6.Florence: Street Food Tour with Wine & Local Guide

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 1,443 reviews · 2.5 hours · from $44

Walk Florence’s historic center with a local English-speaking guide, stopping for schiacciata, pasta, Tuscan wine, cantucci, vin santo, truffles, olive oil, and other specialties. You’ll visit San Lorenzo Market when booking a morning tour and see the Duomo, Ponte Vecchio, Cathedral, and Battistero. Guides include Francesco, Giovanni, Anna, Paolo, and Valeria.

“Thanks for all the good food including the Pasta for Lunch!:-)”

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Bologna: Walking Food Tour with a Local Guide - Starting at the Neptune Fountain
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Bologna: Walking Food Tour with a Local Guide

7.Bologna: Walking Food Tour with a Local Guide

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 1,418 reviews · 3 hours · from $86

Walk from the Neptune Fountain to Bologna’s Two Towers with an English-speaking local guide. Taste more than 15 foods and drinks across five stops, including tigella, mortadella, Parmigiano Reggiano, tortellini, tagliatelle, local wine, balsamic vinegar, and gelato. Guides such as Roberta, Valentina, Stefania, and Eugenio add history and practical restaurant tips.

“Valentina was a wonderful guide! The tour was the perfect way to start our journey in Bologna. We learned so much about the local food culture, and got history lessons as well.”

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Venice: Eat Like a Local Food Tour with Wine & Spritz - Starting at Campo della Maddalena in Cannaregio
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Venice: Eat Like a Local Food Tour with Wine & Spritz

8.Venice: Eat Like a Local Food Tour with Wine & Spritz

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 985 reviews · 2.5 hours · from $99

Walk from Campo della Maddalena through Cannaregio and Rialto, stopping at family-run bacari for cicchetti, seafood, wine, Spritz, and tiramisu. Your English-speaking guide, such as Camilla, Georgia, or Olympia, leads a group of up to 10 and includes a traditional traghetto crossing. Expect about 2 km of easy walking and plenty of food.

“Excellent guide, Alissa. Highly recommend. More food. Drink and info. 5 star.”

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Venice Street Food Tour with Local Guide with Local Food Market Visit - Cicchetti, the Venetian way to snack
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Venice Street Food Tour with Local Guide with Local Food Market Visit

9.Venice Street Food Tour with Local Guide with Local Food Market Visit

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 822 reviews · 2 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $53

Start near Rialto Bridge and follow a local guide through Venice for 2.5 hours of cicchetti, regional cheese, cakes, buranelli biscuits, and market sights. Guides such as Tone, Tony, Vanessa, Ana, and Denys bring different personalities to the route. Food is included, drinks cost extra, and groups are limited to 14 people.

“Shantal was the best tour guide! She gave little bits of history into the areas we walked through, pointed out a few notable sites, and was very informative about the traditional foods. Each place she took us to was amazing, we even went back to a few the next day because they were that good. We did another food tour in Rome and this one was far more worth the $, we had several stops with multiple tastings and many different options. One of our favorite nights of eating in Italy!”

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Palermo: Street Food Walking Tour with Local Guide & Tasting - Starting at Teatro Massimo
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Palermo: Street Food Walking Tour with Local Guide & Tasting

10.Palermo: Street Food Walking Tour with Local Guide & Tasting

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 632 reviews · 2.5 hours · from $52

Meet your English-speaking guide beside Chiosco Vicari at Teatro Massimo, then walk through central Palermo to Capo Market for sfincione, panelle, crocché, arancine, and Sicilian dessert. Guides including Francesco, Alessandra, Silvia, and Alessandro add local food knowledge and city history. Vegetarian options are available, but vegan, gluten-free, and lactose-free diets are not supported.

“Great general architectural and cultural history alone with various food and market stops. Alessandra was lovely.”

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Bologna gastronomic experience with a local - Cold cuts, cheese, and wine in an old osteria
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Bologna gastronomic experience with a local

11.Bologna gastronomic experience with a local

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 626 reviews · 3 hours (approx.) · from $95

Meet your English-speaking guide under an orange umbrella at Neptune’s Fountain, then eat through central Bologna with stops for tigelle, regional cheeses, cured meats, wine, two fresh pasta dishes, and gelato from a family shop founded in 1972. Guides include Eugenio, Roberta, Valentina, Matteo, Erica, Sonia, and Claire.

“Our guide, Stefani, was fantastic. We had ended up with a private tour because the others had dropped out. Stefani was not phased, she shared lots of information about the town in addition to the food facts. We walked all around with several stops, eating and drinking in each spot. Stefani was nice enough to also share recommendations about Modena when we mentioned we would also visit there, and she sent me recipes. A great experience in every way!”

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Bari: Street Food Walking Tour with a Local Guide - Starting at San Nicola, Bari’s most important saint
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Bari: Street Food Walking Tour with a Local Guide

12.Bari: Street Food Walking Tour with a Local Guide

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 458 reviews · 2h 30m · from $40Best value

Spend 150 minutes walking Bari Vecchia with an English-speaking local guide such as Lorena or Federica. Taste focaccia, fried or baked panzerotto, handmade orecchiette with wine, and gelato while seeing the Basilica of San Nicola, old squares, the cathedral, and Castello Svevo from outside. Vegetarian options are available, but the tour is not suitable for vegans or people with gluten intolerance.

“Our guide was awesome she definitely knows her stuff. I thoroughly enjoyed the food tour in old town Bari ❤️”

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Milan: Sunset Navigli Food and Drinks Tour with a Local - The first stop: cocktails and the Milanese aperitivo
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Milan: Sunset Navigli Food and Drinks Tour with a Local

13.Milan: Sunset Navigli Food and Drinks Tour with a Local

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 359 reviews · 3.5 hours · from $104

Spend 3.5 hours tasting Milanese aperitivo in Navigli, with stops for cocktails, wine, cheese, cold cuts, regional food, risotto, street food, and gelato. Guides such as Anna Maria, Giulia, Francesco, and Alessia lead relaxed small-group walks in English or Italian. Come hungry, wear comfortable shoes, and tell the provider about dietary needs.

“Our tour guide was great! She led us to a lot of local places with really great vibes. One thing we wanted more of was more focus on places in Milan that served local Milanese food. There was one particular location we were taken to, but we would have preferred more. Overall, it was a great tour that we would recommend taking!”

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Bari: The Ultimate Street Food Tour with a Local - Starting at Piazza dell’Odegitria
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Bari: The Ultimate Street Food Tour with a Local

14.Bari: The Ultimate Street Food Tour with a Local

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 265 reviews · 3 hours · from $62

Spend three hours walking Bari’s old town with a local English or Italian-speaking guide such as Nicholas, Giuseppe, Alessia, or Vincenzo. Stop for focaccia barese, sgagliozze, popizze, panzerotti, grilled octopus in a sandwich, drinks, and gelato. Come hungry, wear comfortable shoes, and expect food, history, and local tips in a small group.

“Nicholas was incredibly good at both English and Italian. He showed us all the sights that were on the itinerary, was very kind in serving us food, and was concerned about the safety of everyone in the group as well as other people passing by. He explained everything in detail with very clear and easy-to-understand diction and provided a lot of interesting information about Bari. I loved the tour, highly recommend it, and will do it again when I return to Bari.”

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Palermo Sicilian Street Food Tour: Small Group with a Local - First bites: panelle, crocchè, and Palermo’s fried food culture
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Palermo Sicilian Street Food Tour: Small Group with a Local

15.Palermo Sicilian Street Food Tour: Small Group with a Local

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 259 reviews · 3 hours · from $51

Walk central Palermo with guides such as Annalisa, Carlo, Nadia, or Marinella, stopping at traditional food shops, Vucciria Market, and small eateries. Expect panelle, crocchè, sfincione, arancina, cannoli, granita, and possibly pani ca meusa, plus fixed servings of water, beer, wine, or soft drinks.

“Annalisa was so informative, fun and helpful. She provided plenty of information not only about the food but as Palermo as a city as well! We stopped at 4 places and all were great 🥰 highly recommend”

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