Nice food tours compared: the No Diet Club tastings, the food and wine old-town walk, the full-meal tours, the market tours and the tourist office's cooking class

💡 The Short Version: For a first food walk, book the No Diet Club tastingsad: from €69, 3 hours, 946 reviews at 4.9 stars, a group of up to 10 that meets at Lou Balico and eats socca, pissaladière, pan bagnat, stuffed vegetables, sweet chard pie, ice cream and macarons. The food and wine old-town walkad is from €84 for 4 hours and ends with a picnic on Castle Hill, and the two full-meal tours from Do Eat Better Experience are from €81 and €87. The tourist office’s cooking class is from €60. Tours that start at the flower market need a day from Tuesday to Sunday. 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

Tastings on foot

Petits farcis, the stuffed vegetables that several of the tastings include. Photo: Arnaud 25, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

No Diet Club

From €69 · 3 hours · 4.9 stars from 946 reviews · meets at Lou Balico, 20 avenue Saint-Jean-Baptiste

No Diet Club: Unique Local Food in Nice with Tastingsad is run by No Diet Club, in English and French, for up to 10 people, and is wheelchair-accessible. The listing names pan bagnat, socca, pissaladière, stuffed vegetables, sweet chard pie, homemade ice cream and macarons, and starts “just before lunch”. The listing says it is likely to sell out. Lou Balico, where it meets, is on the tourist office’s Cuisine Nissarde label list: where to eat in Nice.

Food and wine old-town walk

From €84 · 4 hours · 4.8 stars from 429 reviews · meets at 8 quai des États-Unis

Nice: Food and Wine Old Town Guided Walking Tourad is run by Nice Creative Tours, in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, for up to 15 people. The itinerary runs from the flower market on the Cours Saleya to the Opéra and the Sainte-Réparate cathedral, with 7 to 10 tasting stops, and ends with a picnic of Niçois specialities, wine and desserts in the Castle Hill park. The listing asks you to skip breakfast or have a light one.

Old town food tour with 12 tastings

From €69 · 3 hours · 5.0 stars from 42 reviews · meets at Place Garibaldi

Nice: Old Town Food Tour with 12 Tastings & Local Winead is run by Mediterranean Food & Stories, in English and French. The listing counts 12 or more tastings, about 7 stops and two glasses of wine, “equivalent to a full lunch”, and names hot socca, pissaladière and Swiss-chard pie. It lists mobility impairments, wheelchair users, food allergies, gluten intolerance and nut allergies as unsuitable.

Old town food walking tour

From €120 · 3.5 hours · 4.8 stars from 72 reviews · meets at 1 place Masséna

Nice: Old Town Food Walking Tourad is run by Original Food Tours, in English, for up to 10 people, and is wheelchair-accessible. The listing gives 5 to 7 tasting stops of regional wines, cheeses, cured meats, pastries and chocolate, and names socca, salade niçoise and pissaladière.

Tours with a full meal

Do Eat Better Experience’s own site prints “from €89.95” for its Nice food tour and its Nice sunset food tour, and GetYourGuide’s lowest prices for its two listings are lower, at €81 and €87.

Guided food and wine walking tour with full meal

From €81 · 3.5 hours · 4.6 stars from 141 reviews · meets at Palazzo Rusca, ends at Place Rossetti

Nice: Guided Food & Wine Walking Tour with Full Mealad is run by Do Eat Better Experience, in English and French, for up to 12 people. It opens with an olive-oil tasting and a Provençal aperitif of wine and regional delicacies, then seats you in a local restaurant for socca and other Niçois street dishes, and ends with homemade ice cream and a treat from a historic pâtisserie. The listing lists mobility impairments as unsuitable.

Sunset food tour with full meal and wine

From €87 · 3.5 hours · 4.7 stars from 174 reviews · meets at Palazzo Rusca, ends at Place Garibaldi

Nice: Sunset Food Tour with Full Meal and Winead is run by Do Eat Better Experience in the same format, for up to 12 people, with stops on rue Saint-François de Paule, rue Pairolière, rue Cassini and rue Bavastro and a finish at Place Garibaldi. It lists socca, olive oil, charcuterie, pissaladière and a local sweet treat, with wine. The listing supports vegetarian and other diets if you tell the provider when booking, and lists mobility impairments as unsuitable. Start times show when you check availability.

Market tours

Old town and local markets food tour

From €97 · 3 hours · 4.9 stars from 58 reviews · meets at Place Garibaldi

Nice: Old Town & Local Markets Food Tour with 9+ Tastingsad is run by Secret Food Tours, in English, for up to 12 people. It starts in the morning markets and lists socca, petit farci (stuffed vegetables), pissaladière, merda di can (Swiss-chard gnocchi), pan bagnat, ice cream and a secret dish. Dietary needs go to the operator before the tour, and the listing lists mobility impairments and wheelchair users as unsuitable. The flower market runs from Tuesday to Sunday mornings and the Monday market is for antiques: the Cours Saleya page has the days.

The ochre arcades of Place Garibaldi, where two of the tours meet. Photo: GFreihalter, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The tourist office’s cooking class

L’Atelier Cuisine Niçoise is the Nice Côte d’Azur tourist office’s own class, sold on its online shop from €60. It runs in the old town near the Cours Saleya, starts at 9:30 and lasts about 2 hours 30. You cook two recipes and eat them there or take them away. The shop takes online bookings for up to 4 people, and groups of more book by phone. Children from 12 can take part with an adult. The dates are listed on the shop page, each with its two recipes, and some fill up. It is the class to book if you want to cook rather than walk.

How to choose

• Where it meets. No Diet Club at Lou Balico, Nice Creative Tours at 8 quai des États-Unis, the Do Eat Better tours at Palazzo Rusca, Secret Food Tours and Mediterranean Food & Stories at Place Garibaldi, and Original Food Tours at 1 place Masséna.
• Eat first or not. The full-meal tours and the 12-tasting tour add up to lunch or dinner. The old-town walk asks you to skip breakfast or eat lightly.
• Wheelchairs. The No Diet Club tastings and the Original Food Tours walk are listed as wheelchair-accessible. The Do Eat Better, Secret Food Tours and 12-tasting listings list mobility impairments as unsuitable.
• The Monday rule. A tour with a flower-market stop needs a day from Tuesday to Sunday.
• Dietary needs. Tell the operator when you book.
• Do it yourself. Where to eat in Nice lists the restaurants, best socca in Nice the counters, and Nice walking tours compares the sightseeing walks without a meal.
• Fit it in. 3 days in Nice puts a tour or a socca lunch on the first day, and the old town is where most of them walk.