Brussels food tours compared: the city-centre walk, the walk with a mussels lunch, the Place Poelaert tour, the history tour with a waffle and praline, and the chocolate, waffle and beer classes

💡 The Short Version: For a first food walk, book the City Highlights Walking and Tasting Tourad: from €70, 2.5 hours, 577 reviews at 4.9 stars, with a beer stop at a local bar, meeting at the Hilton Brussels Grand Place. The city-centre food tourad is from €67 for 3 hours, the tour with a mussels lunchad is from €95 for 4 hours, and the history tourad is from €45 with a waffle and a praline. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” price per person, in euros.

Prices, lengths and review counts are GetYourGuide’s. Every tour listed cancels free up to 24 hours ahead.

The tours, compared

Food walks

The walking and tasting tour

From €70 · 2.5 hours · 577 reviews · meets at the Hilton Brussels Grand Place

A flight of five small beers at Delirium Café. Photo: Fernando Losada Rodríguez, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brussels: City Highlights Walking and Tasting Tourad is run by SODA Entertainment, in English. The route goes over the Mont des Arts, through the Royal Galleries of Saint-Hubert and across the Grand-Place to the Manneken Pis, with local snacks on the way, and ends with an hour at a local bar where you try four beers. The listing is wheelchair-accessible. It is the tour for a first morning: it doubles as a walk round the centre, and the Grand-Place and the Manneken Pis are on the route.

The city-centre food tour

From €67 · 3 hours · 463 reviews · meets at Rue de la Bourse 34

Rue de la Bourse, where the city-centre food tour meets. Photo: iMahesh, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brussels: City Centre Guided Food Tour with Tastingsad is run by NO DIET CLUB, in English or French, for 10 people at most. The listing names fries cooked in beef fat, a homemade frikadelle, fresh fish croquettes, Liège waffles and Belgian chocolate, and says tastings vary with the season. Vegetarian options are available, and the listing includes hotel pick-up and drop-off. A reviewer says the guide asked about allergies and adapted the tour, and another wanted one or two more food stops to be full at the end. Arrive hungry.

The tour with a mussels lunch

From €95 · 4 hours · 330 reviews · meets on the Grand-Place

Brussels: Food Tour with Chocolate, Beer, Waffle and Sightsad is run by European Travel Services, in English or German, for up to 25 people. It is the one that feeds you a meal: three Grand Cru chocolates from Colombia, India and Peru, then a full-course lunch of mussels, meatballs in tomato sauce and gratin with two beers, then a Brussels waffle with chocolate and pastries. The route passes the Bourse, the oldest taverns and the Jeanneke Pis. It is a late-morning start, so do not plan lunch.

The Place Poelaert tour

From €80 · 3.5 hours · 89 reviews · meets at Place Poelaert

Brussels Food Tour: Main Dish, Beer, Waffle and Chocolatead is run by Do Eat Better Experience, in English or French, for up to 12 people. The listing names a croquette, a boulette (a meatball) with fries, local cheeses, Belgian beer, a waffle and chocolate, and calls it a complete meal with drinks across four or more stops. It starts at the foot of the Palace of Justice, up the hill from the centre, in the Sablon and Marolles direction.

A history walk with a waffle

From €45 · 2.5 hours · 1,539 reviews · meets at The Waffle Heritage

Brussels: Historical Tour with Chocolate and Waffle Tastingad is run by Legends of Brussels, in English or French, for up to 14 people. It is a sightseeing walk past the Grand-Place, the Manneken Pis, the Royal Galleries, the Cathedral and the Mont des Arts, with a Belgian waffle, a praline from the royal supplier, historic sweets from the 16th and 17th centuries and cuberdons, the local sweet. It ends at the Mont des Arts or Place Royale. It is the cheapest option, and a snack rather than a meal.

Classes and tastings

Each has its own page, with the operator’s price where it sells the class itself.

How to choose

• Where it meets. The walking and tasting tour meets at the Hilton Brussels Grand Place, the city-centre tour at Rue de la Bourse 34, the mussels-lunch tour on the Grand-Place and the Poelaert tour at Place Poelaert.
• Eat first or not. The mussels-lunch tour and the Poelaert tour add up to a meal. The history tour is a snack.
• Dietary needs. Tell the operator when you book. Only the city-centre tour says vegetarian options are available.
• Do it yourself. Where to eat in Brussels lists the restaurants, and Brussels walking tours compares the sightseeing walks without a meal.
• Fit it in. 3 days in Brussels places a food walk on the day the museums are shut.