FOOD TOURER · THE WORLD ON A PLATE
Eat your way around the world.
Reviews of the best food tours on earth, city by city. Rome trattorie and Tokyo sashimi counters, Bangkok backstreets and Marrakech night markets, Spanish pintxos crawls and long vineyard lunches. We read the reviews so you book the right table.
Worth the airfare
Three meals you can only eat where they were born.
You can find a food tour in any city now. But a motorbike crawl through Hanoi’s alleys, a carbonara in the back lanes of Trastevere, and a pintxos walk across northern Spain belong to those streets alone.
On the tracks
Hanoi by Motorbike
Hanoi eats on the street, and the best of it hides down alleys no map marks. You ride pillion through the Old Quarter at dusk: bun cha smoking over coals, egg coffee in a hidden upstairs room, a bowl of pho where the railway runs close enough to touch the café chairs. A local does the ordering; you just keep eating.
- 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
In the old quarter
Trastevere After Dark
Across the river from the crowds, Trastevere is where Romans actually eat. Cobbled lanes between ivy walls open onto trattorie that have made the same four pastas for a hundred years: carbonara, cacio e pepe, amatriciana, gricia. Add suppli straight from the fryer, a Roman ghetto artichoke, and a carafe of Frascati you did not order but somehow finished.
- 1 Winner 2025 Rome Twilight Trastevere Food Tour by Eating Europe
- 2 Rome: Trastevere or Jewish Quarter Street Food Tour
- 3 Rome Food Tour: Campo de’ Fiori, Ghetto, Trastevere Winner 2024
Bar to bar
A Spanish Pintxos Crawl
In San Sebastian and Seville the meal moves. You take one pintxo and one small glass at each bar, then walk to the next: jamon sliced to order under hanging hams, a seared scallop, a wedge of tortilla, txakoli poured from a height. Nobody sits down for two hours, and that is exactly the point.
- 1 Sevilla Food Tour: Tapas, Wine, History & Traditions
- 2 Madrid: Tapas & Wine Tasting Tour with Local Guide
- 3 Barcelona: Tapas Food Crawl Walking Tour with Tastings
The table everyone books
If you only do one food tour.
More travellers reach for this one than any other on the site. A safe first booking in a city you are still learning to eat in.
The classics
The World’s Most Popular Food Tours
Rome, Tokyo, Hanoi, Seville, Paris. The walks and tastings travellers reach for first, in the cities they most want to eat in.
Where to start eating
Pick how you like to eat.
Street food if you like it standing up. Tapas if you like it bar to bar. Markets if you like it at dawn. Wine, twilight crawls, or the tasting menu you dress up for. Every style, in every city that does it best.
The first night
How to taste a city you just landed in.
The how matters as much as the where. Three ways to eat your way into a new place, depending on the time you have and how you like to roam.
In the vines
Lunch where the wine is grown.
The best wine days never feel like a tasting flight. They feel like lunch: a Tuscan estate between the cypress rows, a Douro terrace above the river, a Rioja bodega with the barrels still breathing. Someone who made the wine pours it, the food is whatever the region does best, and the afternoon goes long.
Read the guide: the best wine & vineyard tours →Spain & the Basque Country
The meal that never sits down.
In San Sebastian, Seville and Bilbao, dinner is a walk. One pintxo and one small glass at a bar, then on to the next: jamon carved under hanging hams, a seared scallop, txakoli poured from above. The locals call it the txikiteo, and they never stop at one.
See the best tapas & pintxos crawls →The best part
The plate gets passed around.
A good food tour is never just the eating. It is the dozen strangers who started the morning as strangers, the guide who knows which stall the grandmothers queue at, and the moment the tray comes out and everyone reaches in at once. You leave knowing the city a little, and a few people in it.
Browse every food tour →Asia after dark
The best food in Asia has no roof.
From Bangkok’s wok-fired backstreets to Hanoi’s pavement pho and Tokyo’s standing sashimi counters, the meals you remember are cooked on the street and eaten on a plastic stool. A guide who eats here nightly knows which stall to trust and exactly what to order.
- 1 Ho Chi Minh City Street Food Tour & Sightseeing By Motorbike
- 2 Tokyo: Shinjuku Food Tour (13 Dishes at 4 Local Eateries)
- 3 Hanoi: Guided Food Tour with Train Street Visit
By appetite
How hungry are you, really?
Some days you want a dozen small bites and a coffee. Some days you want to eat the whole city standing up. And some days you want to sit down for four hours and not look at the time. Pick the appetite, we will point you at the tour.
Just a taste
Graze your way through.Market mornings and old-town walks: a dozen small bites, a coffee, and the stallholders who have stood there for thirty years.
Come hungry
Eat the way the city does.Backstreet street food and evening crawls: standing-up noodles, grilled skewers, a beer at the counter, the next stall already calling.
The full feast
Sit down and stay a while.Tasting menus, wine flights and chef-led tables: the long evenings you plan a whole trip around and talk about for years.
Before the crowds
The market is where a city tells the truth.
Long before the restaurants open, the market is already loud: fish on ice, cheese cut to order, fruit you taste off the stallholder’s knife. It is where the chefs shop and where you learn what a place actually grows, catches and bakes. A guide gets you past the tourist stalls to the counters the locals have used for thirty years.
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Pick a city and start eating.
Rome for the pasta and the Trastevere lanes. Tokyo for the sushi counters and ramen alleys. Hanoi for the pho and the train-track stalls. Barcelona for vermouth and the Boqueria. Paris for the cheese caves and wine cellars. Bangkok for the backstreet wok.
Every style of tour
From a plastic stool to a tasting menu.
Food tours come in every shape: standing at a street cart, walking an old town between bites, riding pillion between stalls, or sitting down to a chef’s long menu. Browse by the kind of day you are after.
Dawn to last bite
A perfect day of eating.
First time in a city and hungry? Here is how to fill a single day with the best of its food, from the market at first light to the last glass after dark.
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