Book the food tour first. Then plan the rest of the trip.
Which Hanoi stall run is worth the early alarm. What four hours in Trastevere actually costs. Whether the market morning or the evening crawl fits the day you have. Reviews of every food tour and tasting you can book, city by city.
Four food tours worth flying for: Reykjavik, Saigon, Rome, Tokyo.
The four travellers talk about for years afterwards. What each one costs, how long you are on your feet, and what lands in front of you.
01The long walkReykjavik Food Walk – Local Foodie Adventure in IcelandSix stops across central Reykjavik, lamb soup through to fermented shark. Three hours, and dinner afterwards is a mistake.
02The pillion seatHo Chi Minh City Street Food Tour & Sightseeing By MotorbikeA local rides you between Saigon stalls once the heat drops. The cheapest big night out on the site.
03The twilight tableRome Twilight Trastevere Food Tour by Eating EuropeTrastevere as the light goes, four hours of small Roman plates with wine poured at every stop.
04Thirteen dishesShinjuku Food Tour (13 Dishes at 4 Local Eateries)Four Shinjuku eateries and a guide who orders in Japanese, so you eat the thing you would never have pointed at.
In Italy the food tour is a four-hour dinner that walks.
More food tours run in Italy than in any other country on this site. The choice is really the city and the hour: a market morning in Bologna, cicchetti along a back canal in Venice, or Trastevere once the light goes.
★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · Rome Twilight Trastevere Food Tour by Eating Europe
RomeTrastevere and Testaccio after dark, wine at every stop.
FlorenceSunset tastings, Tuscan reds, a lunch counter in the market.
VeniceCicchetti bars down the back canals, ombra in hand.
BolognaRagù, tortellini and the mortadella counter, at source.
PalermoPanelle, arancine and the shouting of the Ballarò market.
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Six cities where the food tour is the reason to go.
A pho stool at seven in the morning, cicchetti before dinner, thirteen plates across Shinjuku, a tuk-tuk between Bangkok stalls. The six deepest lists on the site, and the best table in each.
Stall crawl, market hall or tasting walk: the three shapes a food tour takes.
Almost every tour here is one of three afternoons. A stall crawl where the guide orders in the local language and you keep moving. A market hall walk that ends at a counter. Or a slow tasting route through a single neighbourhood, one plate per doorway.
- 1Reykjavik Food Walk – Local Foodie Adventure in Icelandfrom $146
- 2Old Town, Creek, Museums, Souks, & Street Food Tourfrom $18
- 3Ho Chi Minh City Street Food Tour & Sightseeing By Motorbikefrom $28
Reykjavik, Hanoi, Miami: the food tours everybody books.
Every food tour we have reviewed →The most popular tours on the site, and what each one puts in front of you.
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Reykjavik Food Walk – Local Foodie Adventure in Iceland
Walk central Reykjavik with a guide such as Stevie, Thor, Lenny, or Mímir, stopping at four to six eateries for eight or more tastings. Try lamb, fish, hot dogs, fermented shark, plokkfiskur, and rye bread ice cream while seeing Harpa, Arnarhóll, Laugavegur, and Hallgrímskirkja.
From · $146
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Hanoi Jeep Tour: Food, Culture and Fun by Vietnam Army Jeep
from $55
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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
5
Little Havana Food and Walking Tour in Miami
from $69
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Old Town, Souks, Street Food, Guided Tour & Abra Ride
from $9
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Hanoi Motorbike Tour: Food, Culture and Fun by Vintage Motorbike
from $55
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Shinjuku Food Tour (13 Dishes at 4 Local Eateries)
from $86
The night market never needed a guide. Take one anyway.
Bangkok tuk-tuks between temple stalls, Saigon from the back of a motorbike, Shinjuku alleys three feet wide. Evening tours go where the good stuff only appears once the sun is off the street, and where the menu is on a wall in a script you cannot read.
What a food tour costs, from a stall crawl upwards.
Every tour on the site, grouped by price. The cheap end is not the thin end: some of the best eating on this list costs less than the taxi to it.
Stall crawls, market walks and the short tasting routes through one neighbourhood.
The standard three to four hours: eight or more tastings, a drink at most stops, a guide who orders for you.
Private guides, chef-led routes and the long tasting days that replace both meals.
A food tour is either a market morning or a night out. Pick one.
Market halls trade early and are swept out before lunch, so the produce walks start at eight and finish at a counter. Stall crawls do the opposite: the burners come on at six and the guide keeps ordering until you stop them. Book one of each on different days, and skip the meal in between.
Three food tours that could not happen anywhere else.
Tasting menus and market walks turn up in every city on earth. A pillion seat through Saigon traffic, a curtain you push through in a Shinjuku alley, and a Sevillano bar with no chairs do not.
Vietnam from the pillion seat
Hanoi and Saigon are eaten from a motorbike, because that is how the cities move and because the good stalls sit down alleys no minibus fits. A guide rides, you hold on, and the stops come every ten minutes: broth, then grilled pork, then something wrapped in a leaf. Helmets are handed out, the traffic looks worse than it is, and the whole thing costs less than a sit-down dinner at home.
- 1Hanoi Jeep Tour: Food, Culture and Fun by Vietnam Army Jeep★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 15,222 reviews
- 2Ho Chi Minh City Street Food Tour & Sightseeing By Motorbike★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 9,413 reviews
- 3Hanoi Motorbike Tour: Food, Culture and Fun by Vintage Motorbike★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 6,699 reviews
The Tokyo alley crawl
Shinjuku hides hundreds of eight-seat counters behind cloth curtains, most with a handwritten menu and no English on it. A guide gets you through the curtain, orders the thing that bar is actually known for, and explains why the man next to you is drinking his beer with a raw egg. Thirteen dishes across four rooms is a normal night.
- 1Shinjuku Food Tour (13 Dishes at 4 Local Eateries)★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 6,603 reviews
- 2Tokyo Tsukiji Fish Market Food and Culture Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,184 reviews
- 3Shinsekai Food Tour with 13-15 Dishes at 5 Eateries★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 2,204 reviews
The Andalusian tapas run
In Seville a tapas crawl is a series of ten-minute stops, taken standing, with the bill chalked on the bar in front of you. Each place does one thing properly: the spinach and chickpeas here, the ox tail there, sherry from a barrel at the next. Sitting down is what you do afterwards, somewhere else, when it is over.
- 1Tapas Walking Tour with Food, Wine, and History★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 4,261 reviews
- 2Sevilla Food Tour: Tapas, Wine, History & Traditions★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,468 reviews
- 3Ibiza: Beach Hopping Cruise w/ Paddleboard, Food, & Drinks★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 3,224 reviews
Four food tours that decide the shape of your day.
Most of this list can be booked from a hotel lobby the night before. These four take the whole evening, or the whole appetite, so they go into the itinerary first and everything else arranges itself around them.
- 01Reykjavik Food Walk – Local Foodie Adventure in IcelandIceland is a stopover for most people, and a stopover is one evening. This is what the evening is for.
- 02Rome Twilight Trastevere Food Tour by Eating EuropeIt starts at dusk and runs four hours. Put it on an arrival night, not the day you are queueing for the Vatican.
- 03Shinjuku Food Tour (13 Dishes at 4 Local Eateries)Thirteen dishes across four eateries. Book nothing else that day and turn up genuinely hungry.
- 04Hanoi Jeep Tour: Food, Culture and Fun by Vietnam Army JeepAn open jeep through Hanoi after dark, so the weather matters more than the calendar. Take a dry-season night.
By city, where the food tour is the plan
By kind, stall to cellar
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