Munich food tours compared: the Viktualienmarkt walk, the Weißwurst breakfast tour, the full-meal tour, the beer hall walks and the beer tour with dinner

💡 The Short Version: For a first food walk, book the Munich: Viktualienmarkt Food Tourad: from €43, 2.5 hours, 1,319 reviews, meeting at Marienplatz. For a full meal, the Bavarian Food Tour with Full Meal & Beer Tastingsad is from €76 for 3 hours, and the Old Town Food Tourad adds a Weißwurst breakfast and a beer hall from €102. For beer, the Beer and Food Tour with Dinnerad is from €72, and the Beer Halls and Breweriesad walk is from €49 on Friday and Saturday afternoons. The market is free to walk alone: a tour pays for the guide and the tastings. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices and move with the date.

The tours, compared

Food tours

Viktualienmarkt Food Tour

From €43 · 1,319 reviews · 2.5 hours

Munich: Viktualienmarkt Food Tourad is run by Munich Walk Tours, in English or German. You meet at Marienplatz in front of the Tourist Information office in the town hall, where the guide holds a yellow sign reading “Food and market tour”. The tour visits several stalls and tastes Weißwurst, Leberkas, pretzels, cheeses and herbs, with gelato or exotic fruit juice depending on the season. Arrive with an empty stomach. Hotel pickup is for the private option only.

A fruit and juice stall on the Viktualienmarkt. Photo: Henning Schlottmann, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Old Town Food Tour with 10+ Tastings

From €102 · 192 reviews · 3 to 3.5 hours

Munich: Old Town Food Tour with 10+ Tastings, Beer & Pretzelad is run by Secret Food Tours, in English. It starts at a café with a Schmalznudel, then a Weißwurst breakfast with a pretzel, sweet mustard and a wheat beer on the morning tour, or a Rostbratwurst with sauerkraut on the afternoon tour. A butcher serves Leberkäse, the Viktualienmarkt gives a platter of cheese, charcuterie, smoked meats, bread and honey wine, and a beer hall and a dessert follow, with a secret dish. Until 31 October you meet at Sebastiansplatz 11, in front of Noah’s Pizzeria; from 1 November, at the fountain on Sankt-Jakobs-Platz. The guide holds an orange umbrella. Vegetarian and other diets are supported if you tell the operator when you book; wheelchair users are not catered for. Secret Food Tours sells its Munich tour on its own site at €94.99.

Bavarian Food Tour with Full Meal & Beer Tastings

From €76 · 55 reviews · 3 hours

Munich: Bavarian Food Tour with Full Meal & Beer Tastingsad is run by Do Eat Better Experience, in English or German, for a small group. Across four or more stops you eat Weißwurst with pretzels, a Leberkässemmel, traditional Bavarian mains and a Schmalznudel or Krapfen, with beer, Apfelschorle, honey wine or schnapps. The route passes the Viktualienmarkt, the Platzl, Marienplatz and Sankt-Jakobs-Platz and finishes at the Viktualienmarkt. You meet at the entrance of the Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum, by the statue of the wild boar. Expect 10 to 15 minutes of continuous walking. Children under 10 pay less and infants under 5 go free, with a ticket.

Eat Like a Local

From €79 · 16 reviews · 3.5 hours

Munich: Eat Like a Local! Food Tour with Beer & Dessertad is run by Local Table, in English, German, Russian or Ukrainian, privately or in a small group. It starts at the Isar Gate with the story of the city’s foundation, then a Weißwurst breakfast with a wheat beer, half a Leberkässemmel, a cheese and charcuterie platter with mead at the Viktualienmarkt, fried dough, the Glockenspiel at Marienplatz and a dessert with a glass of beer. You meet in front of the Isar Gate, on the side opposite Hotel Torbräu, where the guide holds a green umbrella. It is not suitable for vegans.

Street Food with Peter

From €39 · 12 reviews · 1.5 hours

Munich: Authentic Street Food with Peterad is run by TourguidePeter for 10 people at most, in English or German. It starts at the Fish Fountain on Marienplatz, crosses the Viktualienmarkt and the Metzgerzeile and ends with the guide’s list of places to eat. There are two options, with snacks or without any tastings, and the tasting option is not suitable for vegetarians or vegans. Bring cash.

Beer tours

Beer Halls and Breweries

From €49 · 1,018 reviews · 3.5 hours

Munich’s Beer Halls and Breweries: 3-Hour Guided Tourad is run by Munich Walk Tours, in English. It starts on Marienplatz in front of the Tourist Information office, and you arrive 10 minutes before. It goes round the Paulaner Bräuhaus brewery to the Hofbräuhaus, where you finish with a litre. The price includes two 0.5 l beers, a pretzel, transport and the brewery entry; Munich Walk Tours prices the tour at €49 on its own site too, and €47 for under-26s and over-67s. From 9 October to 31 December 2026 it runs on Fridays and Saturdays at 16:30, with no tour on 25 and 26 December. Nobody who is drunk is taken into the brewery. GetYourGuide lists the tour as not suitable for under-16s.

The Reinheitsgebot panel and brewery barrels on the Viktualienmarkt maypole. Photo: Burkhard Mücke, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Beer and Food Tour with Dinner & Oktoberfest Museum

From €72 · 1,215 reviews · 3.5 hours

Munich: Beer and Food Tour with Dinner & Oktoberfest Museumad is run by Radius Tours, in English. It starts at Dachauer Straße 4 with a beer and food tasting, takes a private tour of the Beer and Oktoberfest Museum, walks through Marienplatz and ends with a Bavarian dinner at a reserved table in the Hackerhaus. The price includes the guide, transport to the centre, the museum entry, the beer tasting and the food platter. Vegetarian options need notice, and it is not suitable for stag parties.

Beer & Beyond

From €35 · 244 reviews · 3 hours

Munich: Beer & Beyond Tour of Up to 3 Beer Halls & Gardensad is run by The Local Experience, in English, as an evening walk. You meet inside the Euro Youth Hotel at the main bar at 18:45 for a 19:00 departure and visit up to three beer halls and gardens, with 1.5 litres of beer included and Bavarian food on sale. It is not for under-18s or stag and hen parties, and you carry ID. It is wheelchair accessible.

The Hofbräu brewery tour

€15, or €20 with a snack · 60 to 90 minutes · Monday to Thursday · hofbraeu-muenchen.de

Hofbräu München runs its own tour at its brewery at Hofbräuallee 1 in Riem, which is a different place from the Hofbräuhaus at the Platzl. It starts Monday to Thursday at 10:00, with a snack afterwards, or at 13:00 without one, in German or English. Groups run from 10 to 30 people, individuals can register and the tour goes ahead only with 10, and everyone must be 16 or over. Register at least 14 days ahead; the company confirms a date by email. There are no tours on Fridays, weekends or holidays. The Löwenbräukeller’s brewery tour, with a three-course meal, is for groups of 20 or more.

A class

GetYourGuide has no Bavarian cooking class with more than two reviews. Munich: Bavarian Pretzel Workshop with Beer Tastingad, run by Miam München, is €100 for 3 hours in a cooking studio near the centre: you shape and lye-dip pretzels, make Obatzda and Kaiserschmarrn, and eat the lot with a Bavarian beer tasting. It is taught in English, German or French and is not suitable for people with gluten intolerance. Munich: Make a traditional Bavarian cheese and taste beersad, at the Münchner Käse Manufaktur, is €109 for 2 hours and includes an Obatzda workshop.

Book direct

Three operators sell tours on their own sites. Secret Food Tours sells its Munich tour at €94.99, for 3 to 3½ hours and 7 stops, with 12 people at most. Fork & Walk Tours Munich runs small-group tours for 8 guests at most: the More Than Viktualienmarkt Food Tour, from €100, at 11:00 for 3.5 hours from Tuesday to Saturday, and the Ultimate Munich Beer Tour and Bites, from €140, at 17:00 for 4 hours on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Munich Walk Tours charges the same €49 for its beer tour as GetYourGuide does.

How to choose

• Sundays. The Viktualienmarkt stalls are closed on Sundays, except for bakers, florists and caterers. The Augustiner Stammhaus beer hall, Zum Dürnbräu, Donisl and Bratwurstherzl are closed too.
• Weißwurst timing. The custom is to eat them before the noon bells. The Old Town tour serves the Weißwurst breakfast on its morning departure, and the Eat Like a Local tour opens with one.
• Where it meets. Most tours meet within a short walk of Marienplatz. The Beer & Beyond walk meets at the Euro Youth Hotel, and the Radius tour at Dachauer Straße 4.
• Eat first or not. The full-meal tour, the Old Town tour and the dinner tour are a meal. Arrive hungry.
• Free cancellation. GetYourGuide lists free cancellation up to 24 hours before on each of these.
• Do it yourself. The market costs nothing to walk, and where to eat in Munich lists the stalls with their hours. Munich’s beer halls and beer gardens give the prices.

Plan the rest

The places the tours stop at are in where to eat in Munich, the halls in Munich’s beer halls and the gardens, where you can bring your own food, in Munich’s beer gardens. For the other ways to see the city on foot, see Munich walking tours, and for the bike tours with a beer-garden stop, the English Garden. Marienplatz and the Glockenspiel is where most of these tours start. 3 days in Munich fits a food tour into the days, and where to stay in Munich compares the areas. A Maß at Oktoberfest prices is in Oktoberfest 2027. For other cities, see Berlin food tours, Prague beer tours and Vienna food tours.