Porto food tours compared: the 3-hour food tour, the food and wine walk, the evening tavern crawl, the Gaia port and francesinha tour and the market tapas class

💡 The Short Version: For a first food walk, book the Porto: 3-Hour Food Tourad: from €64, 3 hours, 1,138 reviews, meeting near the Aliados Metro exit. For a bigger meal, the Delicious Food and Wine Walking Tourad is from €74 for 3 to 4 hours, and the 4-hour version adds half a francesinha and half a grilled chicken. For port, the Exclusive Food & Port Wine Tasting Tourad is from €69 in Gaia. Porto’s food is heavy on pork, so vegetarians should read the diet notes below before booking. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices and move with the date.

The tours, compared

Day food walks

3-Hour Food Tour

From €64 · 1,138 reviews · 3 hours

Porto: 3-Hour Food Tourad is run by Food Lover Tour, in English, with French, Portuguese and Spanish on request. It is a breakfast and a lunch at five local and traditional spots: a café for breakfast, old shops, a market with Iberian ham, sardines, cheese and wine from the north, and a local lunch of the most typical dish of Porto, with drinks. One stop serves vinho verde, the young green wine. It passes Liberdade Square and the Mercado do Bolhão. You meet near the Aliados Metro exit, next to the Zegna store, 10 minutes before the start. It needs at least four people, runs rain or shine, and is not suitable for vegans, vegetarians or people with gluten intolerance.

Delicious Food and Wine Walking Tour

From €74 · 1,358 reviews · 3 to 4 hours

Porto: Delicious Food and Wine Walking Tourad is run by Bluedragon City Tours for up to 10 people. The 3-hour tour has ten tastings, among them a bifana, a bolinho de bacalhau (a cod fritter), caldo verde, a fino (a small draught beer), boards of cheese and cured meats, sardine conserves, a ginja tasting and a glass of port with chocolate. The 4-hour tour adds half a francesinha and half a flame-grilled chicken each. You meet at Rua Alexandre Herculano 251. The tour is vegetarian-friendly, though substitutions are not available for every dish, and it is not suitable for vegans, pregnant women or people with gluten intolerance. Children aged 1 to 3 are free and 4 to 14 pay half.

Eat Porto Like a Local

From €71 · 180 reviews · 3.5 hours

Porto: Eat Porto Like a Local, the Ultimate Full-Meal Food Tourad is run by Do Eat Better Experience, in English, for a small group. You taste pastel de nata, local cheeses and wine, a bifana, petiscos and port over four or more stops, with an hour in the Mercado do Bolhão and a stop on Rua do Carmo. You meet at the Capela das Almas and finish at Praça de Almeida Garrett. Expect 10 to 15 minutes of continuous walking uphill and downhill. Vegetarian and other diets are supported if you tell the operator when you book.

Evening and tavern tours

Evening Local Food Crawl

From €69 · 610 reviews · 3 hours

Porto: Evening Local Food Crawl with Drink Pairingsad is run by Food Lover Tour, in English. It visits four restaurants and bars away from the tourist streets in the Clérigos and Cedofeita districts for ten to twelve petiscos, with port, beer, local wine and spirits. You meet at the Monumento aos Mortos da Grande Guerra. It needs at least four people and is not suitable for wheelchair users, people with mobility impairments, vegans or vegetarians.

Traditional Taverns and Local Dishes

From €68 · 35 reviews · 4 hours

Porto Food Tour: Traditional Taverns and Local Dishesad is run by Ventania Tripeira for eight people at most, in English, Spanish or Portuguese. It visits six or seven tascas, small taverns, for enough food for a full meal with drinks, and says Porto’s traditional cooking is heavily meat-based, especially pork, so it is not a seafood tour. You meet in front of the Batalha cinema. A vegetarian diet or one that excludes pork is very difficult to accommodate, according to the operator, and the tour is not suitable for vegans or people with food allergies.

A cured ham, onions and old pans arranged on a table in Porto. Photo: Edgar Jiménez, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Port and wine

Exclusive Food & Port Wine Tasting Tour

From €69 · 47 reviews · 3.5 hours

Porto: Exclusive Food & Port Wine Tasting Tourad is run by Eating Europe Food Tours, in English. It crosses to Vila Nova de Gaia for a private tasting of four port wines in the cellar of Real Companhia Velha, which the operator calls the oldest functioning port wine cellar in the world, and food stops on the way that include a freshly made francesinha, a coffee and a coconut-and-egg pastry. You meet at the Jardim do Morro and finish in Gaia. Wheelchair users are not catered for. The operator will try to accommodate vegetarians and gluten-free guests, with a minimum of two guests.

A tasting flight of five ports, from white to ruby. Photo: Jeremy Keith, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Wine Tasting with Tapas Walking Tour

From €45 · 1,556 reviews · 2 to 3.5 hours

Porto: Wine Tasting with Tapas Walking Tourad is run by City Lovers Tours. It visits a port wine cellar for two port varieties, walks the Ribeira, and tastes vinho verde and Douro wines with codfish cakes, five tastings in all, finishing at the Fonseca Port Wine Cellars. You meet at the lower level of the Dom Luís I bridge on the Porto side, beside the two stone pillars, and carry ID. Pregnant women are not catered for. Port cellars are compared in Porto’s port wine cellars and port wine tasting tours.

Wine Tasting with a Tapas Plate

From €30 · 586 reviews · 1.5 hours

Porto Wine Tasting Experience with Portuguese Tapas Platead is run by Canto Cooking in the orangerie of the Canto de Luz hotel. You taste two Douro whites, a rosé, two reds and a white port, with a tapas plate of local cheese and cured ham, crackers and homemade jams. A 20-year tawny and a ruby reserve port are an upgrade at extra cost. It is not open to under-18s or pregnant women, and it is wheelchair accessible. The hotel is in where to stay in Porto.

A market and a class

Chef Led Market Tour and Tapas Class

From €97 · 39 reviews · 4 hours

Porto: Chef Led Porto Market Tour & Portuguese Tapas Class + Winead is run by Canto Cooking for eight people at most. A chef leads you round the Mercado do Bolhão, then you walk to the kitchen at Canto de Luz for coffee and a nata, a demonstration and a tapas class, and lunch with a glass of Douro wine. You take home recipes and a bottle of aguardente. You meet at the corner between Manteigaria and Leitaria Quinta do Paço. Open-toed shoes are not allowed. The market is closed on Sundays: see where to eat in Porto.

A walk with one tasting

The Soul of Porto

From €32 · 37 reviews · 2 hours

Porto: The Soul of Porto, Walking Tour with Food and Wine Tastingad is run by InsighTours. It is a history walk from São Bento station through Praça da Batalha, the Fernandine Walls, the Church and Convent of Santa Clara, the Sé and the Barredo to the Ribeira, with a tasting of traditional Portuguese pastries and delicacies and a glass of port or a soft drink at the end. A reviewer says it is not a food tour. You meet in front of Santa Clara church. The walks are compared in Porto walking tours.

Book direct

Two operators sell tours on their own sites. Secret Food Tours Porto sells a 3 to 3.5-hour tour of downtown Porto and Ribeira, with five stops and 12 people at most, at €75.99. Taste Porto describes itself as the longest-running food tour company in Porto, and runs a downtown and Bolhão tour, a vintage and port wine food tour, a craft beer and food tour and a self-guided food passport.

Cooking classes

The three biggest classes on GetYourGuide are for the pastel de nata, with 2,489, 1,924 and 1,437 reviews: see pastel de nata classes in Porto.

How to choose

• Pork. Porto’s traditional food is pork-heavy, and the tavern tour says so. Vegetarians should pick the tour that supports them, and tell the operator when booking.
• Sundays. The Mercado do Bolhão is closed on Sundays. Ask the operator what a Sunday departure does instead.
• Where it meets. Most tours meet in the centre, within a short walk of the Clérigos tower and Avenida dos Aliados. The Gaia port tour meets at the Jardim do Morro, across the bridge.
• Free cancellation. GetYourGuide lists free cancellation up to 24 hours before on each of these.
• Eat first or not. The 3-hour tour and the full-meal tours are a meal. The history walk is not.

Plan the rest

The places the tours stop at are in where to eat in Porto, and the sandwich with the sauce is in the francesinha in Porto. For the other ways to see the city on foot, see Porto walking tours. Where to stay in Porto compares the areas, and Porto in 2 days fits a food tour into the plan. For other cities, see Lisbon food tours and fado evenings and Athens food tours and cooking classes.