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💡 The Short Version: For a first food walk, book the Guided Street Food Walking Tourad, £57.94, 2 hours, five tastings, 4.8 stars from 636 reviews. For a longer one, Eating Europe’s Food & Beer Tourad is 3½ hours with eight tastings and two drinks from £75.83, ending with svíčková at Café Louvre. The best-known independent tour, Taste of Prague, is not on GetYourGuide and costs 3,000 CZK direct. The chimney-cake workshop takes 65 minutes from £17.81. DH Travel runs both the street food walk and the Old Town culinary tour, so they are one company’s two tours, not two choices. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices and move with the date.
The tours, workshops and classes, compared
| Experience | Length | From | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Street food walkad | 2 hours | £57.94 | Five street-food tastings in the Old Town |
| Secret culinary tour of the Old Townad | 2 hours | £46.86 | 5 to 6 tastings with beer and coffee; same operator as the street food walk |
| Guided food tour with tastingsad | 3 hours | £58.79 | 6 to 7 tastings and one beer, from Národní třída |
| One Prague Tourad | 3 hours | £51.80 to £64.75 | A city walk with one food stop and two beers; two routes |
| Food tour with 10 tastings, Secret Food Toursad | 3 hours | £71.07 | Open sandwiches, soup, pickled sausage, gingerbread and a secret dish |
| Food & Beer Tour, Eating Europead | 3½ hours | £75.83 | Eight tastings and two drinks in the Old Town and New Town |
| Food and culture tour, Prague Foodiesad | 4 hours | £109.91 | A small group of up to 10 with wine, beer and cheese |
| Old Town evening food and drink tourad | 3½ hours | £122.69 | An evening walk for small or private groups, with pickup |
| Chimney-cake workshopad | 65 minutes | £17.81 to £22.54 | Knead, roll and bake your own trdelník |
| Czech cooking class with a market tourad | 4½ hours | £118.44 | Holešovice market, then kulajda, goulash and buchty |
Walking food tours
The walks are 2 to 4 hours on foot with a tasting every 15 to 30 minutes. Most stay in the Old Town and New Town, within a few streets of Wenceslas Square.
Street food walk
From £57.94 · 4.8 stars from 636 reviews · 2 hours
Prague: Guided Street Food Walking Tourad, run by DH Travel s.r.o., meets at the tram stop at Vodičkova 9 and leads five tastings of street dishes such as an open sandwich, potato bread and a meatloaf in a bun. It is in English only and wheelchair accessible. GetYourGuide’s review summary says travellers praise the guides and the portions and some find the pace rushed. The next most reviewed walk listed here has 384 reviews.
Chlebíčky, the Czech open sandwich. Photo: Karelj, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.
Secret culinary tour of the Old Town
From £46.86 · 4.9 stars from 86 reviews · 2 hours
Prague: Secret Culinary Tour of the Old Townad is DH Travel’s second tour and meets at Vodičkova 9. It serves 5 to 6 tastings: chlebíček open sandwiches, soup, dumplings, a meatloaf sandwich, and koláče and větrník for sweets, with beer and coffee. It is the cheapest walk here, and the street food walk is the same company’s other tour from the same meeting point.
Guided food tour with tastings
From £58.79 · 4.8 stars from 353 reviews · 3 hours
Prague: Guided Food Tour with Tastingsad, run by Taste your way around, meets outside the Národní třída metro station, at the Spálená exit in front of the Tchibo shop. It includes 6 to 7 tastings and one beer or a non-alcoholic drink; further drinks are paid for. The operator says to bring water and cash.
Eating Europe: Food & Beer Tour
From £75.83 · 4.9 stars from 384 reviews · 3½ hours
Prague Food & Beer Tour: Special 10-Year Anniversary Editionad is run by Eating Europe, for up to 12 guests. It moves through the Old Town and New Town with eight tastings and two drinks: marinated cheese and craft beer in a monastery, pastries from a family-run gingerbread shop, open sandwiches at a Czech-Slovak deli and, to finish, a sit-down at Café Louvre with svíčková (beef sirloin in a creamy root-vegetable sauce, with bread dumplings) and apple strudel. Eating Europe’s own page lists it at EUR 75 to 84 for 3½ hours and five stops (eatingeurope.com), against £75.83, about EUR 89, on GetYourGuide. It also runs the 4-hour Mystical Prague by Night tour in Malá Strana, at EUR 80 to 89 on its own site.
Secret Food Tours
From £71.07 · 4.8 stars from 114 reviews · 3 hours
Prague: Food Tour with 10 Tastings of Classic Czech Dishesad starts at a Czech deli with chlebíčky, then a historic restaurant for a Bohemian soup, a courtyard for Czech wine with pickled sausage, a beer with hearty dishes, and a gingerbread shop, with a “secret dish” from the guide. Secret Food Tours’ own page lists a Prague tour of 3 to 3½ hours, five stops and up to 12 people at EUR 84.99 (secretfoodtours.com).
One Prague Tour
From £51.80 (usually £64.75) · 5.0 stars from 170 reviews · 3 hours
Prague: One Prague Tour with Hidden Gems, Czech Food & Beerad is a city walk with one food stop, two local beers and a tram ticket, and hotel pickup. You choose the Castle Side, through Malá Strana and Hradčany past the Castle gate, Strahov Monastery, Kampa and the John Lennon Wall, or the Old Town Road, through the Old Town and the Jewish Quarter. It is a sightseeing tour with a tasting, not a food tour: book it for the route.
The dearer tours
- Prague Food and Culture Tourad, by Prague Foodies, is from £109.91 (4.9 stars from 47 reviews, 4 hours) for up to 10 people, with Czech wines, craft beers, cheeses and charcuterie in restaurants, cafés and pubs. The operator says it can usually accommodate vegetarians, coeliacs and allergies if told when you book.
- Prague: Old Town Fun Evening Food and Drink Tourad, by Prague City Adventures, is from £122.69 (4.9 stars from 37 reviews, 3½ hours) in the evening, in English, with pickup available and private or small groups.
Taste of Prague, sold only on its own site
Taste of Prague is not on GetYourGuide. Its Prague Foodie Tour costs 3,000 CZK, about £104, for about 4 hours and up to 12 guests, with 4 or 5 stops and about a mile of walking; it starts at 12:00 and 16:00. Beer, Czech and Moravian wine and spirits are included. Taste of Prague says it began in 2011 as the first food tour in Prague (tasteofprague.com). It also sells a Prague Foodie Map, a PDF with eight neighbourhood walks, for 450 CZK.
Workshops and classes
Chimney-cake workshop
From £17.81 (usually £22.54) · 4.9 stars from 1,248 reviews · 65 minutes
Prague: Traditional Chimney Cake (Trdelník) Making Workshopad, run by Chimney Cake Workshop Prague, teaches you to knead the dough, roll it into strips, wrap it round a wooden spit and bake it in a rotating oven. You eat your cake warm with cinnamon sugar, vanilla, walnuts or coconut, and the price includes coffee or tea, an apron and a certificate. The dough is prepared before you arrive. The workshop is held in a small shared space with wheat, milk, nuts, orange and coconut, so guests with those allergies are asked not to book, and children need one adult for every four. It is listed as likely to sell out.
Chimney cakes (trdelník) baking on spits at a Prague stall. Photo: Fjmustak, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Czech cooking class with a market tour
From £118.44 · 4.8 stars from 71 reviews · 4½ hours
Prague: Traditional Czech Cooking Class with Market Tourad, taught by Ondřej Molina in English or Czech, starts at the Holešovice market, where the chef buys the ingredients. You then cook a three-course menu in his kitchen: kulajda, a creamy dill-and-potato soup, beef goulash with dumplings, and povidlové buchty, sweet buns with plum jam. The price includes wine, beer and coffee, a recipe book and take-away boxes. On Thursdays it is an evening class from 17:00 with no market visit. It is wheelchair accessible.
The gate of the Prague Market in Holešovice. Photo: Alena Pokorná, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Other classes
- Market Tour and Traditional Czech Cooking Classad, by Chefparade, is from £170.40 (4.8 stars from 20 reviews, 3½ to 4 hours): a market visit from 09:00 and a three-course lunch of dishes such as goulash, dumplings and apple strudel, from Holešovice.
- Prague: 1.5-Hour Chocolate Museum Visit with Workshopad, at Choco-Story on Celetná, is from £20.52 (4.3 stars from 593 reviews): you make chocolate tablets, with the museum entry and an audio guide.
How to choose
- One short walk, the most reviews: the street food walk, 2 hours and five tastings.
- The cheapest: the secret culinary tour, from £46.86.
- A sit-down meal on the tour: Eating Europe’s Food & Beer Tour, which ends at Café Louvre.
- The most tastings: the Secret Food Tours walk, with ten, or Eating Europe’s, with eight.
- A route as well as a tasting: One Prague Tour, with the Castle Side or the Old Town Road.
- A group of 10 or fewer: Prague Foodies.
- No tour, just a sweet: the chimney-cake workshop, 65 minutes.
- A dietary need: tell the operator when you book; the operators differ in what they can change.
For restaurants rather than a tour, where to eat in Prague names the places by how many sources cite them and says which to book ahead. For beer by the glass or in a brewery, see Prague beer tours. To fit a tour into a trip, 3 days in Prague and Prague in one day are built round the bookings, what to book before you go to Prague lists the sights that need tickets, and best time to visit Prague gives the weather by month. For an evening after the tastings, see ghost tours and the medieval dinner, and Prague public transport has the tram and metro fares to the meeting points.
Common questions
How much is a food tour in Prague?
From £46.86 for a 2-hour walk of the Old Town with 5 to 6 tastings, and £57.94 for the 2-hour street food walk, to £75.83 for the 3½-hour Food & Beer Tour and £122.69 for a 3½-hour evening tour. These are GetYourGuide's lowest 'from' prices for one adult and they move with the date. Taste of Prague, which sells only on its own site, charges 3,000 CZK for about 4 hours.
Which Prague food tour has the most reviews?
The Guided Street Food Walking Tour, with 636 reviews and 4.8 stars on GetYourGuide, from £57.94 for 2 hours and five tastings. Among the walks listed here, the next most reviewed has 384. The chimney-cake workshop has 1,248 reviews, 4.9 stars and costs from £17.81, but it is a 65-minute class, not a meal.
Is Taste of Prague on GetYourGuide?
No. Taste of Prague sells its Prague Foodie Tour on its own site for 3,000 CZK, about 4 hours for up to 12 people with 4 or 5 stops, starting at 12:00 and 16:00. Eating Europe's two Prague tours and Secret Food Tours' tour are on GetYourGuide.
Can I take a Czech cooking class in Prague?
Yes. The most-reviewed is a 4½-hour class with a market tour from £118.44 (71 reviews, 4.8 stars): you shop at the Holešovice market, then cook kulajda soup, beef goulash with dumplings and povidlové buchty, sweet buns with plum jam. Chefparade's class with a market tour is from £170.40 and has 20 reviews.
Are there food tours for vegetarians or people with allergies in Prague?
Tell the operator when you book. Prague Foodies says it can usually accommodate vegetarians, coeliacs and allergies with advance notice, One Prague Tour has a vegetarian option, and the chimney-cake workshop works with wheat, milk, nuts, orange and coconut in a small shared space and asks guests with those allergies not to book.
