The best food in the city is never on a menu. Someone has to walk you to it.
What a Hanoi Old Quarter crawl costs against a Naples pizza walk. Which night market tours actually feed you and which only walk you past the stalls. Reviews of the street food tours worth going hungry for.
Four street food walks that decide the rest of the trip.
The most booked eating tours on the site, spread across four countries. What each one costs, and what you actually get fed.
01Saigon, on two wheelsHo Chi Minh City Street Food Tour & Sightseeing By MotorbikeA rider, a helmet and a run of stops through the back lanes. The most booked eating tour on the whole site, and still under thirty dollars.
02Rome after workStreet Food Tour with Local GuideSupplì, pizza al taglio and a guide who knows which counter to stand at. Rome does street food politely and does it well.
03Into the medinaStreet Food Tour with a Local GuideMarrakech at full volume with someone who can order. The stalls change nightly and the guide is the only reason you find the good ones.
04Hawker to MichelinSmall Group: Michelin and Local Hawker Food Tour with 9 tastingsNine tastings across Singapore, including stalls the Michelin inspectors wrote down. The cheapest famous food in the world.
Vietnam is the street food trip every other one gets measured against.
Hanoi eats on the pavement, Saigon eats on the back of a motorbike, and both do it for the price of a starter at home. Three ways to book the eating, and what each costs to board.
What a street food tour actually costs, city by city.
Every tour on the site grouped by price. A guided evening of eating in Hanoi or Mumbai costs less than one main course in Rome.
Hanoi alley walks, Old Delhi by rickshaw, Dubai souk evenings and most of Asia’s night markets.
Europe on foot: Naples, Rome, Palermo and Florence, plus the small-group hawker tours with ten or more tastings.
- 1Street Food Walking Tour with Local Guidefrom $50
- 2Street Food Tour with Local Guidefrom $53
- 3Street Food Tasting Tourfrom $69
Private guides, all-inclusive tasting runs and the long night-market evenings with transport included.
Street food is a night shift almost everywhere.
The stalls that matter open when the sun goes down. Saigon by motorbike at nine, the Marrakech medina at full noise, Chiang Mai’s evening lanes, a Seoul market that fills up after work. Book the late slot.
The street food tours more travellers eat their way through than any others.
Every catalogue entry →The eight most popular eating tours on the site: what each one feeds you, and what it costs to sit down.
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Old Town, Creek, Museums, Souks, & Street Food Tour
Explore Old Dubai, Al Fahidi, Creek, souks, museums, street food, and an abra ride with a local guide for only $18.
From · $18
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Ho Chi Minh City Street Food Tour & Sightseeing By Motorbike
from $28
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Comuna 13 Graffiti Tour, Cable Car & Street Food
from $18
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Old Town, Souks, Street Food, Guided Tour & Abra Ride
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Street Food Walking Tour with Local Guide
from $50
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Small Group Hanoi Street Food Tour with a Real Foodie
from $28.58
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Street Food Tour with Local Guide
from $53
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Saigon By Night and Street Food By Motorbike | Opt: Ao Dai Riders
from $37
A night market tour is where street food stops being a snack.
It is a different animal from a walking tour. More stalls, more sitting down, and a guide who orders for you in a language the stallholder answers in. The three most popular, and the lists they come from.
Six cities that run on street food, and the walk to book in each.
Hanoi’s Old Quarter, Saigon from the back of a bike, Naples with fried pizza folded in paper, Rome after work, Bangkok by tuk-tuk, and the Marrakech medina once it gets dark.
India serves the cheapest great street food on the site.
Old Delhi by rickshaw, Mumbai’s night markets, chaat counters that have been in the same spot for three generations. Thirteen dollars buys a guided evening of eating in Mumbai, and it will be one of the best meals of the trip.
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Three things that only happen when you eat on the street.
A plastic stool at the kerb in Hanoi, a paper cone of fried food in Palermo, and a stall a Michelin inspector walked past and then wrote down.
The plastic stool
In the Old Quarter the restaurant is a doorway, the kitchen is a charcoal grill on the pavement and the seating is a red plastic stool about a foot off the ground. One address does one dish and has done for decades, which is why a guided walk covers five or six of them rather than one. Train Street sits in the middle of it, and the tours time the tea stop around the timetable.
- 1Old Town, Creek, Museums, Souks, & Street Food Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 10,816 reviews
- 2Old Town, Souks, Street Food, Guided Tour & Abra Ride★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 7,170 reviews
- 3[HOT] Hanoi Old Quarter Walking Street Food – Small Group Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,163 reviews
Fried food, eaten upright
Palermo hands you arancine the size of a fist, panelle in a bread roll and sfincione cut off a tray on the back of a van. The two markets, Ballarò and Capo, are where the walks start, and the city is entirely unembarrassed about the offal end of the menu. Nobody sits down. Nobody uses a plate. A napkin is the whole table setting.
- 1Palermo Original Street Food Walking Tour by Streaty★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,105 reviews
- 2Street Food and History Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 1,486 reviews
- 3Palermo Sicilian Street Food Tour: Small Group by Do Eat Better★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 920 reviews
Michelin stalls at hawker prices
Michelin started listing street stalls in Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong, and the effect on the queues was immediate. The food did not change and neither did the price, which is how a bowl that costs a few dollars ends up in the same book as a tasting menu. Tours built around those addresses take the queueing decision off you and put the tastings in the right order.
- 1Small Group: Michelin and Local Hawker Food Tour with 9 tastings★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,890 reviews
- 2Michelin Guide Street Food Tour by Tuk Tuk★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · 1,274 reviews
- 3Michelin Guide Street Food Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 961 reviews
Italy eats standing up and charges properly for it.
Naples fries its pizza and hands it over folded in paper. Palermo does offal in a bread roll and expects you to be pleased about it. Rome and Florence run the civilised version, with a glass of wine in the other hand. Europe is the priciest street food on the site and the easiest to walk off.
- 1Street Food Walking Tour with Local Guidefrom $50
- 2Street Food Tour with Local Guidefrom $53
- 3Trastevere & Campo de Fiori Street Food Walking Tourfrom $51
What a street food tour asks of you.
Three hours on your feet is the standard, and the tastings keep arriving whether you are hungry or not. Two questions decide which tour suits you: how far you are willing to walk, and whether you eat everything. There are tours built for both answers.
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