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Eating With Locals: the 15 Best Tours Worldwide

119 tours  ·  from $20 a head

Small groups, a guide who grew up on the street you are standing in, and places that never made a list. The 15 below are priced, sized and clear about how many of you there will be.

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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Marrakech: Street Food Tour with a Local Guide - Starting at Café Argana and Jemaa el Fnaa
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Marrakech: Street Food Tour with a Local Guide

4.Marrakech: Street Food Tour with a Local Guide

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 3,119 reviews · 3 hours · from $34

Walk Marrakech’s Medina with a local guide such as Abdo, Abdul, Ahmed, or Miriam, stopping for 10 to 12 Moroccan foods and drinks. Try msemen, harira, grilled meat, sardine balls, sweets, fresh juice, and more in local neighborhoods. The three-hour tour costs $34, includes all tastings, and runs in shared or private formats.

“Great tour. Ahmed our guide was fantastic. Each food stall was a full portion. so definitely go on an empty stomach. but a great experience”

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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

5.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

6.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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Madrid: Tapas & Wine Tasting Tour with Local Guide - Starting beneath García Lorca’s statue
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Madrid: Tapas & Wine Tasting Tour with Local Guide

7.Madrid: Tapas & Wine Tasting Tour with Local Guide

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 2,171 reviews · 3 hours · from $91

Spend three hours eating and drinking your way through Madrid’s Literary Quarter and the old Austrias district. A bilingual guide such as Carlos, Noemi, or Rocio leads you to four long-running bars, serving at least 12 tapas and one drink at each stop. Expect local history, Spanish wine tips, and enough food for lunch or dinner.

“It was a perfect evening of our first day in Spain: delicious food, good company, and a knowledgable guide!”

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Hungry Osaka Street Food Tour:15 Tastings & 3 Drinks with a Local - Five stops and 15-plus dishes
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Hungry Osaka Street Food Tour:15 Tastings & 3 Drinks with a Local

8.Hungry Osaka Street Food Tour:15 Tastings & 3 Drinks with a Local

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 1,727 reviews · from $73

Spend three hours eating through Shinsekai with guides such as Andy, Anna, Adam, Tim, or Scott. Try karaage, yakitori, takoyaki, udon, oden, kushikatsu, dessert, and more at five small local eateries, with three drinks included. The route also covers Tsutenkaku, Osaka food culture, and the area’s unusual past.

“Great tour to try a variety of street food. Anna was a wonderful guide - personable, knowledgeable, and very fun. Food was delicious, family owned spots. Recommended.”

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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

9.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

10.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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Budapest Food Walking Tour: Eat, Sip & Explore Like a Local - Starting at the Kazinczy Street Synagogue
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Budapest Food Walking Tour: Eat, Sip & Explore Like a Local

11.Budapest Food Walking Tour: Eat, Sip & Explore Like a Local

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 1,027 reviews · 3 hours · from $73

Spend three hours eating through Budapest’s District 7 with a local guide such as Eszti, Laura, Kitti, Peter, or Nica. Visit four local eateries, taste lángos, soup, Hungarian classics, and Jewish-Hungarian pastries, and pair the food with beer, wine, and pálinka. Vegetarian and alcohol-free options are available, but vegan and gluten-free diets cannot be accommodated.

“Excellent food and great company, a thoroughly enjoyable way to end a few days in Budapest. Our guide, Laura, was engaging and friendly; her passion for the food and the city really shone through.”

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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

12.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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Hanoi: Eat Like a Local Small Group Street Food Tour - Crossing Hanoi’s streets between bites
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Hanoi: Eat Like a Local Small Group Street Food Tour

13.Hanoi: Eat Like a Local Small Group Street Food Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 978 reviews · 210 minutes - 4 hours · from $24Best value

Meet your English-speaking guide at 33 Ngo Huyen Street for a 3.5-hour walk through Hanoi’s Old Quarter. Expect 7 or more food and drink tastings, including pho, bun cha, spring rolls, banh mi, sweet soup, and coffee. Guides such as Ha, Emily, and Chip adjust the menu for allergies, diets, and dishes you have already tried.

“We really loved the food tour with Emily. The meals were tasty and the atmosphere very nice. We were a small group but that made it all the better. Would really recommend this tour with Emily. We could ask all the questions and had intereresting conversations. She even left us her number so we could text her during our remaining time in Hanoi for more tips. Thank you!”

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Eat and Drink Like a Local: Tokyo Ueno Food Tour-Taverns&Ramen - Walking through Ameya Yokocho
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Eat and Drink Like a Local: Tokyo Ueno Food Tour-Taverns&Ramen

14.Eat and Drink Like a Local: Tokyo Ueno Food Tour-Taverns&Ramen

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 957 reviews · from $95

Join Aki, Akira, or Shota for a three-hour walk through Ueno and Okachimachi, stopping at local bars, taverns, and a ramen shop. You’ll sample sashimi, skewered meat, grilled fish, stews, Japanese drinks, and ramen while your guide explains ordering, dining customs, and the neighborhood. The small group is limited to 10 people.

“We had a great time with our fabulous guide Shota! We had Izakaya, some great drinks, ramen, and a lot of laughs. Shota is a knowledgeable and informative guide. He was open to questions and was interesting to talk to. We would definitely take another tour with him in the future. We would recommend this tour to anyone wanting a night of food and drinks.”

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Seoul: Night Market Food Tour with Local Guide - A guided route through the market
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Seoul: Night Market Food Tour with Local Guide

15.Seoul: Night Market Food Tour with Local Guide

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 943 reviews · 2 hours · from $73

Meet your English-speaking guide outside Jongno 5-ga Station and spend two hours sampling up to 10 Korean market foods at Gwangjang Market. Expect dumplings, pancakes, noodles, sweets, drinks, and possibly adventurous dishes such as yukhoe or live octopus. Guides including Juno, Jacob, Yoon, Tan, Kevin, and Roky add food stories, etiquette tips, and Korean drinking games.

“This was such a fun tour. Our guide, Yoon, was so knowledgeable and navigated a crowded market so well. Yoon taught me new things including a Korean drinking game. I highly recommend this tour!”

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