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💡 The Short Version: For a first food experience, book the walking tour with the most reviews: Food & Culture Walking Tour with 10 Tastingsad, £67.48, 3½ hours, 5.0 stars from 1,200 reviews. The Top 10 Tastes walk, in 2 or 3 hours, is cheaper from £48.46, and a stroopwafel workshop takes 45 minutes at about £17. A canal cruise with Dutch snacks is from £18.87. GetYourGuide’s Amsterdam food supply is short: only one walking tour has more than 349 reviews, and Flagship runs three of the products here, so they are not four independent choices. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” price on 1 October 2026 and move with the date; the operators’ own prices are given where they publish one.
The tours, workshops and cruises, compared
| Experience | Length | From | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food & Culture Walking Tourad | 3½ hours | £67.48 | 10 tastings from the Flower Market through the Jordaan |
| Top 10 Tastes walking food tourad | 2 to 3 hours | £48.46 | Six tastings in 2 hours, or 10 tastings and 3 drinks in 3 |
| Spui, Canals and Jordaan food tourad | 3 hours | £84.56 | 10 tastings and drinks, at most 12 guests |
| Jordaan food tour, Eating Europead | 3 hours | £93.11 | 12 tastings in the Jordaan |
| Stroopwafel workshop, We Are Amsterdamad | 45 minutes | £16.74 | Bake two XL stroopwafels on the Albert Cuypmarkt |
| Stroopwafel workshop, Flagshipad | 45 minutes | £16.84 | Bake and decorate two stroopwafels on the Bloemgracht |
| Canal cruise with Dutch snacksad | 1½ hours | £18.87 | An open electric boat, up to 24 guests, with snacks |
| Small-group canal cruise with snacks and drinksad | 2 hours | £41.00 | Bitterballen, cheese and an open bar, up to 14 guests |
| Pancake boatad | 1¼ hours | £25.80 | All-you-can-eat pancakes on a cruise of the IJ |
Walking food tours
The walks are 2 to 3½ hours on foot, stopping at a bakery, a café or a stall roughly every 15 to 30 minutes. Most stay in the old centre and the Jordaan.
Food and culture walk
From £67.48 · 5.0 stars from 1,200 reviews · 3½ hours
Amsterdam: No. 1 Food & Culture Walking Tour with 10 Tastingsad, run by Ollantay Food Tour and one of GetYourGuide’s own “Originals”, meets in front of Asian Kitchen at Vijzelstraat 5-A, at the entrance of the Flower Market. It passes the Begijnhof, the Royal Palace, the Westerkerk and the Anne Frank House, and crosses the Jordaan. The 10 tastings include local cheese, herring, kibbeling, stroopwafel, fries, bitterballen, grilled cheese and apple pie. It is the most-reviewed walk by more than three to one, and the first to book. It is not suitable for people with mobility impairments, and large bags are not allowed.
Top 10 Tastes, 2 or 3 hours
From £48.46 · 4.6 stars from 283 reviews · 2 to 3 hours
Amsterdam: Top 10 Tastes of Amsterdam, Guided Walking Food Tourad is run by Flagship Bike Tours Amsterdam and meets at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 101. You choose the 3-hour tour, with 10 tastings and three drinks, or a 2-hour tour with six. The tastings include poffertjes (mini pancakes), chicken satay, herring, kibbeling and bitterballen, with drinks such as a Dutch herbal bitter, beer, wine or jenever. It is the cheapest walk with more than 100 reviews. The same operator runs a bike versionad of 10 tastings, for groups of up to 15 (from £67.07, 4.9 stars from 45 reviews, 3 hours).
Spui, canals and Jordaan, with drinks
From £84.56 · 4.8 stars from 136 reviews · 3 hours
Amsterdam: Food Tour with Drinks by Spui, Canals and Jordaanad, by Adam and Eve Tours, starts at Gastrovino and serves 10 tastings in five eateries across three neighbourhoods, with jenever, wine, coffee or soft drinks, for groups of up to 12. Adam and Eve’s own site lists a 3-hour tour of 10 or more tastings and two drinks from €79 (about £67.52), starting every hour from 10:00 to 18:00 at Gastrovino, Spuistraat 330 (adamandevetours.com, 1 October 2026); booked on GetYourGuide it is £84.56.
Jordaan food tour, Eating Europe
From £93.11 · 4.8 stars from 349 reviews · 3 hours
Amsterdam Jordaan Food Tour: 10-Year Anniversary Editionad, run by Eating Europe and one of GetYourGuide’s “Originals”, serves 12 tastings in a small group of up to 12, with cheese at different ages, a café from 1642 and a glass of jenever. Eating Europe’s own price is from €109 (about £93.16), the same as on GetYourGuide (eatingeurope.com, 1 October 2026). Eating Europe says it will do its best for vegetarians and gluten-free guests if told at booking, but the tour is not suitable for severe food allergies or for wheelchair users, and it runs only with at least four guests. The same operator’s Food & Canals tourad adds a private canal boat (from £144.36, 4.9 stars from 31 reviews, 3½ hours; own price from €159).
Smaller and shorter
- Guided Cultural Food Tour in a small groupad, by Amsterdamliebe, is from £51.55 (4.8 stars from 175 reviews, 2½ hours) in English, French, German or Italian, for up to 15 guests. It starts at the National Monument on Dam Square and finishes at the Spui, and most of the listed stops are sights, with the tastings between them.
- Guided Food Tour with Tastingsad, by No Diet Club, is from £58.94 (4.9 stars from 57 reviews, 3½ hours) for six guests at most, from Café Thijssen on the Brouwersgracht. A bicycle is €12 extra for the day.
Stroopwafel workshops
A stroopwafel is two thin waffle discs pressed round warm caramel syrup. Both workshops run 45 minutes, and neither is a meal.
We Are Amsterdam, Albert Cuypmarkt
From £16.74 · 4.8 stars from 5,017 reviews · 45 minutes
Amsterdam: Traditional Dutch Stroopwafel-Making Workshopad, at Albert Cuypstraat 194, covers the dough, the iron and the syrup, with coffee or tea, an apron and a certificate. You make two XL stroopwafels: eat one there and take one home. The operator’s own price is from €24.50 (about £20.94) (weareamsterdam.com, 1 October 2026), against £16.74 on GetYourGuide, which marks it as likely to sell out.
Flagship, Bloemgracht
From £16.84 · 4.7 stars from 1,356 reviews · 45 minutes
Amsterdam: Make Your Own Dutch Stroopwafel Workshopad, at Bloemgracht 2, in the Jordaan, has you make the dough, bake two XL stroopwafels, fill them with caramel and decorate one with chocolate and toppings such as marshmallows or fudge. Flagship’s own price is €20.99, down from €25.95 (about £17.94) (flagshipamsterdam.com, 1 October 2026). The workshop contains gluten, lactose and nuts.
Food cruises
A canal cruise with snacks is a sightseeing trip, not a meal; the pancake boat is the one that is. Amsterdam canal cruises compared has the plain cruises, and the Light Festival boats with mulled wine and hot chocolate are in Amsterdam Light Festival and Christmas.
Open boat with Dutch snacks
From £18.87 · 4.8 stars from 2,363 reviews · 1½ hours
Amsterdam: 90-min Cruise with Local Guide & Dutch Snacksad, by Jack Tours, is a small-group cruise on a 100% electric open boat for up to 24 guests, with a local captain, Dutch bites and optional unlimited drinks.
Small group, bitterballen and an open bar
From £41.00 · 4.9 stars from 780 reviews · 2 hours
Amsterdam Small-Group Canal Cruise Including Snacks & Drinksad, by Rederij de Wester, leaves from a jetty at Keizersgracht 401 with up to 14 guests. The price covers bitterballen, sliced Dutch cheese and stroopwafels, and an open bar of beer and wine; the operator will adjust the snacks for vegetarians and gluten-free guests if told in advance. In winter the boat is covered.
Pancake boat
From £25.80 · 4.4 stars from 1,702 reviews · 1¼ hours
Amsterdam: River Cruise With All-You-Can-Eat Dutch Pancakesad is a 75-minute cruise of the IJ with a pancake buffet of plain, apple and bacon pancakes, toppings from cheese and ham to jams and eggs, and gluten-free and vegan options. Drinks cost extra, and a €2.70 local entertainment tax a person is paid on board. The dock, at Ms. van Riemsdijkweg 41, is reached by the free ferry from Centraal. Pannenkoekenboot’s own price is from €27.50, or €22.50 for a child (about £23.50) (amsterdam.pannenkoekenboot.nl, 1 October 2026). The boat has a ball-pit playroom, and its toilets are upstairs.
Heated boat with bitterballen
From £24.77 · 4.6 stars from 175 reviews · 1½ hours
Amsterdam: Covered Heated Canal Cruise with Bitterballenad, by The Green Saloon, leaves from Stationsplein 18 with at most 16 guests and serves bitterballen halfway. It is not suitable for children under 14, wheelchair users or people with nut allergies, and drinks are paid for on board by card.
Cheese, genever and cocktails
- Cheese. The Henri Willig cheese tastingad is from £16.66 (4.7 stars from 1,225 reviews, 40 minutes to 1 hour), and the Old Amsterdam cheese tasting with wine pairingad from £16.74 (4.7 stars from 795 reviews, 45 minutes).
- Cocktails. The Bols Cocktail Experience and workshopad, a GetYourGuide “Original”, is from £26.52 (4.8 stars from 756 reviews, 1½ to 2 hours).
- Beer. The Heineken Experience tickets guide prices the brewery tour, which ends with a beer.
- Genever, with no tour. Proeflokaal A. van Wees, at Herengracht 319, runs a genever tasting room with more than 17 Amsterdam genevers and a Dutch kitchen that opens daily at 10:00 (proeflokaalvanwees.nl, 1 October 2026). De Drie Fleschjes, at Gravenstraat 18 behind the Nieuwe Kerk, is a tasting room dating from 1619 that serves jenever, beer and bar snacks (dedriefleschjes.nl, 1 October 2026).
How to choose
- One food tour, the most tastings: the Food & Culture walk, 10 tastings in 3½ hours.
- Cheaper and shorter: the Top 10 Tastes walk, which has a 2-hour option with six tastings.
- Drinks with the food: the Spui, canals and Jordaan tour, or the 3-hour Top 10 Tastes option.
- The Jordaan, with cheese and jenever: Eating Europe’s anniversary tour.
- Children: a stroopwafel workshop, or the pancake boat with its playroom.
- Wet or cold weather: the covered cruises, or a workshop indoors.
- A dietary need: tell the operator when you book; tours differ in what they can change.
For restaurants rather than a tour, where to eat in Amsterdam names the places by how many sources cite them and says which to book ahead. To fit a tour into a plan, 3 days in Amsterdam and Amsterdam in one day are built round the bookings, and what to book before you go in Amsterdam has the sights that sell out. For the weather month by month, see best time to visit Amsterdam.
Common questions
How much is a food tour in Amsterdam?
From £48.46 for the Top 10 Tastes walk, which is 2 or 3 hours depending on the option, to £67.48 for a 3½-hour walk with 10 tastings, £84.56 with drinks, £93.11 for the Eating Europe Jordaan tour and £144.36 with a private canal boat. These are GetYourGuide's lowest 'from' prices on 1 October 2026, and they move with the date.
Which Amsterdam food tour has the best reviews?
The Food & Culture Walking Tour with 10 Tastings has 5.0 stars from 1,200 reviews on GetYourGuide, from £67.48 for 3½ hours. No other walking food tour there has more than 349 reviews.
What is a stroopwafel workshop?
A 45-minute class in which you make dough, bake stroopwafels on an iron and press them together with warm caramel syrup. Two of them sell on GetYourGuide for about £17: We Are Amsterdam's, on the Albert Cuypmarkt, with 5,017 reviews, and Flagship's, on the Bloemgracht, with 1,356.
Can I book a cooking class or a rijsttafel tour in Amsterdam on GetYourGuide?
No. GetYourGuide has no Dutch cooking class, rijsttafel or genever tasting in Amsterdam. The nearest is the Bols cocktail workshop, from £26.52. Two tasting rooms, Proeflokaal A. van Wees and De Drie Fleschjes, serve genever without a tour.
Are there food tours for vegetarians or people with allergies in Amsterdam?
Several operators say they do their best for vegetarians and gluten-free guests if you tell them when you book, and the Eating Europe Jordaan tour is not suitable for severe food allergies. The Flagship stroopwafel workshop contains gluten, lactose and nuts. Ask the operator before you book.