Paris food tours and cooking classes compared: which neighbourhood, what you eat, what it costs

💡 The Short Version: A Paris food tour is a 2- to 3½-hour walk through one neighbourhood with a tasting at each stop, and the neighbourhood decides what you eat. Montmartre is cheese, charcuterie, wine and chocolate; Le Marais is falafel, pastrami, croque monsieur and pastries; Saint-Germain-des-Prés is chocolate and pastry; the Latin Quarter round Notre-Dame adds cheeses, a galette and a sit-down lunch. Groups are capped at 6 to 12 people on most of them, and every tour and class below can be cancelled free up to 24 hours before. The most reviewed is the Montmartre cheese, wine and pastry walkad (from £102.85, 4.9 stars from 2,395 reviews, 3 hours). For hands-on cooking, the croissant classad is from £85.71.

The tours, compared

Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” price on 30 September 2026, per adult; every tour below had dates in its calendar that day.

Montmartre

Cheese, wine and pastry walk

From £102.85 · 4.9 stars from 2,395 reviews · 3 hours · up to 12 people · meets at 5 Place Blanche

Paris: Montmartre Cheese, Wine & Pastry Guided Walking Tourad starts at Place Blanche, walks past the Moulin Rouge and spends an hour on the Rue Lepic tasting pastries, homemade chocolates, charcuterie and cheese, with a wine stop at a local restaurant. It passes the Mur des Je t’aime, the Place du Tertre and the Sacré-Cœur, where it ends. It is a walk with stops, so wear comfortable shoes.

A delicatessen on Rue Lepic, Montmartre. Photo: Mig Gilbert, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cheese and wine with a cheesemonger

From £59.14 · 4.9 stars from 782 reviews · 2 hours · about 10 guests · 98 Rue Marcadet

Cheese & Wine Tasting in Montmartre with Local Cheesemongerad is a seated tasting in a stone-walled room, hosted by the cheesemonger Max or one of his team: eight French cheeses and five wines, one sparkling, with as much baguette as you want. It is a tasting in one room, not a walk. For a show in the evening, see Moulin Rouge tickets and the other cabarets.

Le Marais

Guided tour with tastings

From £59.14 · 4.9 stars from 779 reviews · 3 hours · up to 10 people · English or French

Paris: Le Marais Guided Food Tour with Tastingsad is the cheapest of the three-hour walks. The tastings run from a croque monsieur and poutine à la française to chouquettes, macarons, French toast and ice cream, and the tour ends with the guide’s list of places to eat for the rest of your stay.

A street in the old Jewish quarter, Le Marais. Photo: Guilhem Vellut, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Ten tastings, wine and a bistro lunch

From £81.42 · 4.8 stars from 803 reviews · 3 hours · up to 12 people

Paris: Le Marais Food Tour with 10 Tastings & Winead starts with a croissant and sourdough at a bakery, then goes through the oldest covered market in Paris, a chocolatier, a warm pastrami sandwich in the old Jewish quarter and a sit-down bistro lunch, then a French-Syrian pastry stop, a flight of artisan cheeses and a natural wine shop. The operator calls it a full meal. It is not suitable for vegans or for people with gluten intolerance, and it can be adapted for vegetarians and pescatarians if you say so when booking.

Small group with a full French meal

From £79.41 · 4.7 stars from 186 reviews · 3½ hours · meets at Place Louis Aragon

Paris: Le Marais Small-Group Food Tour with Full French Mealad starts on the Île Saint-Louis and ends on the Rue des Archives, by way of the Rue de Rivoli, the gardens of the Hôtel de Sully and the Rue des Rosiers, where the falafel is. It also stops for macarons, cheese, choux pastry and a bistro main such as croque monsieur or boeuf bourguignon, with one glass of wine or a soft drink included. Expect 10 to 15 minutes of continuous walking between stops.

Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Chocolate and pastry

From £84.85 · 4.8 stars from 579 reviews · 3 hours · up to 10 people · meets at 6 Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Saint-Germain: Gourmet Chocolate & Pastry Walking Food Tourad has eight tastings, including chocolate at Debauve & Gallais, and a tea, coffee or hot chocolate. The route passes the Café de Flore, Les Deux Magots and Saint-Sulpice. The tastings are chocolates, pastries and macarons, so it is not the tour for cheese or charcuterie.

A café on the corner of Rue de Buci and Rue de Seine, Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Photo: trolvag, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Foodie walk in groups of six

From £81.42 · 4.8 stars from 164 reviews · 2 or 3 hours · 6 people at most

Paris: Saint Germain des Prés Guided Foodie Walking Tourad is offered as a 2-hour tour with 6 tastings or a 3-hour tour with 9 and a cheese stop, in English, French or Spanish, and in the morning or the afternoon. Each stop is from a different French region, and the walk passes Saint-Sulpice and the Luxembourg Gardens.

Latin Quarter and Notre-Dame

Notre-Dame and Latin Quarter

From £103.70 · 4.9 stars from 102 reviews · 3 hours · meets at Pont Marie

Paris: Notre Dame & Latin Quarter Food Tour with 10 Tastingsad crosses the Île Saint-Louis and the Île de la Cité, past Notre-Dame, to a cheesemonger and a bakery in the Latin Quarter, with a 65-minute lunch stop, and ends near the Panthéon. The tastings include a macaron, viennoiseries, a galette from Brittany, savoury tarts, cheeses and a seasonal pastry. It caters for vegetarians and other diets if told when booking, and is not suitable for wheelchair users. For entry to the cathedral itself, see visiting Notre-Dame.

Wine and cheese at Mouffetard

From £50.57 · 4.7 stars from 402 reviews · 2 hours · meets outside Mejane Café, 98 Rue Monge

Paris: Wine and Cheese Tasting with a Chef Sommelierad starts with 30 minutes at the Mouffetard market, then sits down in a restaurant nearby for six cheeses with three wines, fruit and bread, with blind-tasting games. It is not suitable for vegans or people with lactose intolerance. The nearest station is Censier-Daubenton, on metro line 7.

Rue Mouffetard, Latin Quarter. Photo: Matt Casagrande, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cooking and baking classes

All of these run in English and are hands-on.

Croissant baking class

From £85.71 · 4.9 stars from 1,091 reviews · 2½ hours · Maison Fleuret, 3 Rue des Trois Portes

Paris: French Croissant Baking Class with a Chefad is at the Maison Fleuret pastry school in the 5th arrondissement. It covers the butter-dough technique, chocolate croissants and chocolate snails, and the history of the croissant. It runs in English, French or Spanish, in a small or private group.

Macaron class

From £85.71 · 4.9 stars from 714 reviews · 2½ hours · Maison Fleuret

Paris: French Macaron Culinary Class with a Chefad is at the same school. You make the meringue and the ganache, and take a box of macarons home.

Macaron class at Galeries Lafayette

From £50.57 · 4.3 stars from 1,427 reviews · 1½ hours · 40 boulevard Haussmann · dates to 30 December 2026

Paris: Macaron Class at Galeries Lafayettead is the shortest and cheapest, a class for 4 to 18 people in the department store’s Haussmann building. You make at least four macarons, eat them there or take them away, and get the recipe. Participants must be over 13, apart from a parent-and-child option for ages 5 to 12, and the class can be cancelled if fewer than four book.

Macaron, croissant or tart class

From £81.42 · 4.8 stars from 290 reviews · 2½ to 3 hours · up to 6 people · 9 Rue Thimonnier, 9th

Paris: Macaron, Croissant or Pastry Class with a French Chefad lets you choose macarons, croissants, French tarts or champagne-ganache macarons. You taste what you make with tea or coffee, or take it home. Children under 15 cannot join the croissant or tart class.

Full-day cooking class with lunch

From £161.99 · 4.9 stars from 154 reviews · 5 hours · 59 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine · up to 12 people

Paris: Full-Day Cooking Class with 3-Course Lunchad starts at 10:30, when the hosts return from the market. You cook a starter, a main course and a dessert, with 6 to 8 techniques, then eat the meal with red and white wine and cheese, at about 15:00. Children under 10 are not admitted, and the class can be cancelled if two people or fewer book.

Which tour to choose

• Cheese and wine: the Montmartre walk if you want a view, the Montmartre or Mouffetard tasting if you want to sit down.
• Sweet things: Saint-Germain for chocolate and pastry, or a baking class.
• A meal, not tastings: the Le Marais tours with a bistro lunch or a full French meal, or the Notre-Dame and Latin Quarter tour.
• Diets: say so when you book. Vegans are ruled out of two tours above, and the Le Marais tour with 10 tastings is also unsuitable for gluten intolerance.

Montmartre and Saint-Germain are two of the areas in where to stay in Paris, and the Le Marais tours start from streets covered in where to stay in Le Marais. To choose your own tables instead, where to eat in Paris ranks bistros, bouillons and bakeries by how many independent sources name them. For everything else to book, see what to book before you go, and for the first three days, the 3-day itinerary.