Naples food tours compared: the street food walks, the Pignasecca market tour, the Sanità tour, the pizza and pasta classes and the operators' own prices

💡 The Short Version: For a first food walk, book the Street Food Walking Tour with Local Guidead: from €42, 2.5 hours, 6,022 reviews, meeting at Piazza Bellini. The cheapest, the Street Food tour with 6 gastronomic stops and pizzaad, is from €25 for 2 hours and goes through the Pignasecca market. For a longer meal, the Pizza and Beyond Food Tourad is from €41.40 for 3 hours, and for the neighbourhood away from the crowds, the Sanità tourad is from €41.60. A pizza class is from €24.50. The streets are 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

The old-town walks

Street Food Walking Tour with Local Guide

From €42 · 6,022 reviews · 2.5 hours

Naples: Street Food Walking Tour with Local Guidead is run by Food Raphael Tours and Events, in English. You meet at Piazza Bellini, beside the Greek ruins, where the guide holds a “Street Food Tour” sign, and the group cannot be joined later. The tastings are pizza a portafoglio and pizza fritta, frittate di pasta and arancini, then taralli, babà and sfogliatelle at Piazza del Gesù, fresh mozzarella in a salumeria, a shot at a limoncello factory and a gelato. The price includes a spritz. It is not suitable for vegans, wheelchair users or people with gluten intolerance, and takes vegetarians only if told in advance. Free cancellation.

The Greek wall sunk below street level in Piazza Bellini. Photo: Armando Mancini, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Guided Street Food Tour with Spritz

From €39 · 1,642 reviews · 2.5 hours

Naples: Guided Street Food Tour with Spritzad is run by Pink Umbrella Tours, in English. It meets at Piazza Bellini and goes through the Decumani to San Gregorio Armeno and the Gesù Nuovo, with a market stop for mozzarella and fresh fried pizza, a spritz and limoncello. Tastings include taralli, frittatina and babà. It does not suit vegans, people with gluten or lactose intolerance or wheelchair users.

Old City Center Street Food Tour with Spritz

From €42 · 119 reviews · 2.5 hours

Naples: Old City Center Street Food Tour with Spritzad is run by Francesca Tours, in English. It starts at Piazza Bellini and walks San Gregorio Armeno and Spaccanapoli, with mozzarella, vegetables, different pizzas, a limoncello from a small family factory, a spritz and a gelato, and ends at Piazza del Gesù Nuovo. Vegetarians can be accommodated.

Food, Spritz and Sightseeing Tour

From €38 · 41 reviews · 2.5 hours

Naples: Food, Spritz and Sightseeing Tour in the City Centerad is run by Marco Tours and Experiences, in English. It starts at Piazza Bellini and passes San Gregorio Armeno, Piazza San Gaetano, Spaccanapoli and Via Toledo, with tastings on Via dei Tribunali, a spritz and desserts at Piazzetta Nilo and Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, and ends at Piazza del Gesù Nuovo. It does not suit vegans, wheelchair users or people with gluten or lactose intolerance.

The Pignasecca market and the Sanità

Street Food tour with 6 gastronomic stops and pizza

From €25 · 683 reviews · 2 hours

Naples Street Food tour with 6 gastronomic stops and pizzaad is run by Naples bay tour, in English, Italian, French or Spanish, for 15 people at most. You meet at Piazza Carità 12, outside the church of San Liborio alla Carità, and walk through the Pignasecca market to finish at Scaturchio. The six tastings are a welcome spritz with a platter of mozzarella and cold cuts, a tarallo, a folded pizza, a meatball in ragù, a cuoppo of fried seafood and a dessert, with a limoncello or an espresso. Vegetarian and vegan diets are supported if you tell the operator, and the tour is not wheelchair accessible. A private group can be arranged.

Street Art, Wine and Food Tasting Walking Tour

From €41.60 · 242 reviews · 2.5 hours

Naples: Street Art, Wine and Food Tasting Walking Tourad is run by Hili srl, in English. It starts at Porta San Gennaro and goes into the Sanità district, with the Dei Vergini market, which is open in the morning, and the Palazzo dello Spagnuolo, seen from outside. The tastings are pizza margherita, mozzarella, taralli, sfogliatella and babà, with wine, beer and limoncello. It is not suitable for people with gluten intolerance. See the Catacombs of Naples for the district’s sights.

The longer tours

Street Food Scene Tour and Pizza and Beyond

From €41.40 each · 129 and 89 reviews · 3 hours

Naples Street Food Scene Tour: Small-Group Tasting Adventuread and Naples: Pizza and Beyond Food Tourad are both run by Do Eat Better Experience, in English, with 12 guests at most on the second. You meet at Piazza Dante, in front of the monument, and cover four or more stops with water and one drink, usually a beer. The first goes along Via Toledo and San Gregorio Armeno past the Sansevero Chapel and Santa Chiara, with a tarallo, a pizza a portafoglio, a frittatina, a ragù, a babà and an espresso. The second swaps the wallet pizza and the ragù for fried pizza and a marinara or margherita. Children under 10 pay less, and infants under 5 go free, with a ticket. Neither suits people with mobility impairments.

Food Tour with 8+ Tastings

From €81.77 · 17 reviews · 3 hours

Naples: Food Tour with 8+ Tastings of Pizza, Wine & Moread is run by Secret Food Tours, in English, and starts at Piazza Dante with an aperitivo, a fried appetiser on Via dei Tribunali and a pizza tasting. Secret Food Tours sells its own Naples tour on its site at €79.99.

Piazza Dante, the square where three of the tours meet. Photo: EletronicKnowledge, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Pizza and pasta classes

A class takes two or three hours and ends with a meal you cooked. GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices are per person:

• The oven. The Official Pizza Making Class bakes in a wood-fired oven. The WORLDTOURS pizza class uses a home-style electric oven, so that you can repeat the pizza at home.
• The group. The Official Pizza Making Class takes 12 guests at most. Both Naples bay tour pizza classes give a certificate and recipes to take home.
• Wine. The WORLDTOURS pizza class pours unlimited wine only at the 13:45 and 20:15 sessions.
• Who it is not for. The pizza classes are not wheelchair accessible, and the WORLDTOURS pizza class is not suitable for people with coeliac disease or allergies.

Book direct

Two operators sell their Naples tours on their own sites. Eating Europe sells the Naples Pizza & Drinks Tour, 3.5 hours with 5 stops, and Not Just Another Naples Street Food Tour, 3 hours with 6 or 7 stops, at €79 each for groups of 12 at most. Secret Food Tours sells its Naples food tour at €79.99 for 3 to 3½ hours and 7 stops, meeting at Piazza Dante, and a pizza-making class in the old town at €54.99 for 1.5 to 2 hours. GetYourGuide’s street food walks cost €25 to €42.

How to choose

• Sundays and mornings. Sorbillo and Di Matteo on the Via dei Tribunali are closed on Sundays. The Sanità tour visits the Dei Vergini market, which is open in the morning.
• Where it meets. Four of the walks meet at Piazza Bellini, three at Piazza Dante, one at Piazza Carità 12 and one at Porta San Gennaro.
• Eat first or not. The 3-hour tours and the classes are a meal. Arrive hungry.
• Diets. The Pignasecca tour supports vegetarian and vegan diets if told in advance. The Piazza Bellini walks cannot accommodate vegan or gluten-free diets.
• Free cancellation. GetYourGuide lists free cancellation up to 24 hours before on each of these.
• Do it yourself. The street food costs a few euros a bite, and Naples street food and pastries and where to eat in Naples give the stalls, hours and prices.

Plan the rest

The places the tours stop at are in where to eat in Naples and the fried food and sweets in Naples street food and pastries. For the pizzerias, see the best pizza in Naples. The Spaccanapoli walk is the route most tours follow, and Naples walking tours compares the guided city walks. 3 days in Naples fits a tour into the days, and where to stay in Naples compares the areas. For other cities, see Munich food tours and Florence food tours.