FOOD TOURS · AROUND THE WORLD
You want the food. We found the tour.
Street-food crawls in Hanoi, tapas bars in Barcelona, market mornings in Rome, scooter dinners in Saigon. Real reviews of the food tours worth booking, in the cities worth eating your way through.
Worth a trip for the food alone
Three cities you eat your way through.
Some places you visit for the sights. Hanoi, Madrid and Saigon you visit for the table: the street stalls, the late-night tavern crawl, the scooter dinner. These are the cities travellers come home talking about.
Vietnam
Hanoi
The pho simmers before dawn and the bun cha grills curbside by noon. A local leads you stall to stall through the Old Quarter and the back lanes, ordering the bowls a first-timer would walk straight past, then sits you on a plastic stool with the rest of the street for bia hoi. Few cities reward eating like a local more.
- 1 Hanoi: Guided Food Tour with Train Street Visit
- 2 Small Group Hanoi Street Food Tour with a Real Foodie
- 3 Hanoi: Guided Street Food Tour with Train Street Experience
Spain
Madrid
Dinner in Madrid is a crawl, not a table. A glass and a few small plates at one old tavern, then on to the next the locals are packed into, from the jamon counter to the late place with the good vermouth. A churros and chocolate stop at dawn is how the long ones end. Half the night is the walking between.
- 1 Madrid Tapas & Wine Tasting Walking Tour – Small Group Local Bars
- 2 Madrid Tapas & Taverns Small Group Food & History Tour
- 3 Madrid: Small Group of Prado Museum Tour & Optional Tapas
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City
In Saigon the food is on the street and so are you. Riding pillion on a scooter through the evening traffic, you stop wherever the plastic stools are full, eat standing or perched, and ride on. A motorbike food tour covers more of the city in one night than a walk does in three.
- 1 Ho Chi Minh City Street Food Tour & Sightseeing By Motorbike
- 2 Saigon By Night and Street Food By Motorbike | Opt: Ao Dai Riders
- 3 Private Street Food Tour by Motorbike/Car with Local Students
If you only book one
The food tour more travellers rave about than any other.
Out of every food tour on the site, this is the one that sends people home telling everyone they know to book it.
The crowd-pleasers
The Most Popular Food Tours Right Now
Hanoi street food, Barcelona tapas, Roman market mornings, Tokyo izakaya nights. The bookings travellers are happiest they made.
Start with a city
The best food tours, city by city.
Rome for the market mornings, Barcelona for the tapas crawl, Hanoi for the street stalls. Pick the city you are headed to and we will show you the food tours worth booking there.
Where to go hungry
Three corners of the world worth eating.
If the city is still open, start with what you are in the mood to eat. Each of these is a region the site covers deeply, and a different kind of food day waiting at the end of it.
Barcelona
Dinner is a crawl, not a table.
In Barcelona you eat standing up and on the move: a glass of vermut and a few pintxos at the bar, then on to the next place the locals are packed into. A guide walks you from the Boqueria market stalls to the back-street bodegas the tourists never find, and orders the things you would have skipped.
See the best Barcelona food tours →Rome
Eat your way through Trastevere.
A Roman food walk winds through Trastevere and the old market squares: supplì al telefono and pizza al taglio, a stop for cacio e pepe, the cheese counter, the fresh-pasta window, and a gelato for the walk home. A morning at the Campo de’ Fiori or Testaccio market is its own kind of tour, tasting down the aisle.
See the best Rome food tours →Lisbon
Follow the smell of grilled sardines uphill.
Lisbon eats in the old neighbourhoods: a custard tart still warm from the oven in Belém, bifanas and a glass of green wine at a tiled counter, the tascas of Alfama where the menu is whatever the cook felt like. A food tour climbs the hills with you, stopping at the family-run places the funicular crowds walk straight past.
See the best Lisbon food tours →Tokyo after dark
Down the lantern-lit alleys of Shinjuku.
Tokyo hides its best eating behind sliding doors and down alleys barely wide enough for two. An evening food tour takes you into the izakaya of Omoide Yokocho and Golden Gai, ordering skewers, sashimi and sake the way a regular would, with the language barrier handled for you.
- 1 Tokyo: Shinjuku Food Tour (13 Dishes at 4 Local Eateries)
- 2 Tokyo: Shinjuku Food Tour (13 Dishes and 4 Eateries)
- 3 Tokyo Night Foodie Tour in Shinjuku – Seasonal Sushi, Wagyu Beef
By appetite
How deep into the city do you want to eat?
A long Roman lunch with a glass of wine. A Madrid tavern crawl from one small plate to the next. A Saigon scooter dinner at midnight. Pick the city that sounds like your kind of night at the table.
Ease in
Rome, the long lunch.A Trastevere food walk at its own pace: cacio e pepe, a cheese counter, the fresh-pasta window, gelato for the walk home. Everything you came to eat, nothing you have to be brave for.
Eat like a local
Barcelona, bar to bar.A vermut and a few pintxos here, then on to the next place the locals are packed into. A guide walks you from the Boqueria stalls to the back-street bodegas and orders the things you would have skipped.
All in
Saigon, the whole city in a night.On the back of a scooter through Ho Chi Minh City after dark, stopping wherever the smoke and the crowd are thickest. Dinner as a ride through the loudest, best-fed streets in Vietnam.
Bangkok
The best cooking is at the kerb.
Bangkok’s finest food never sees a tablecloth. It comes off a cart in Chinatown, a wok on a Sukhumvit soi, a boat on the canals, a night market that only fires up after dark. A guide who knows the block walks you to the stalls with the longest local queues and orders the dish each one is known for, so you eat the city’s real food, not the version on the laminated menu.
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Pick a city to eat your way through.
Barcelona for the tapas crawl. Rome for the market mornings. Hanoi for the street stalls. Tokyo for the izakaya alleys. Lisbon for the tascas. Madrid for the old taverns.
More cities
More cities worth a hungry weekend.
Florence for the Tuscan markets, Seville for the tapas, Athens for the souvlaki and meze, New York for the world on one block. The rest of the map, ready when you are.
Three cities, three food days
Pick a city, plan the day around the table.
A market morning in Florence, a long tapas lunch in Seville, a cicchetti evening in Venice. Three cities, three very different ways to spend a day eating.
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