Salzburg food tours: the cooking classes, the Stiegl brewery tour, the Mozartkugel workshop and the tastings compared, and where the walking food tours stand

💡 The Short Version: There is no public walking food tour on sale for Salzburg. What you can book is a cooking class, the best reviewed being the Apple Strudel and Salzburger Nockerl classad, from €60, 1.5 hours, 572 reviews at 4.9 stars. The Stiegl brewery tourad is from €24.90 on GetYourGuide and €22.90 on the brewery’s own site. The Mozartkugel workshopad is from €65 and the wine tastingad from €38. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” price per person, in euros, except where a line says otherwise.

Prices, lengths and review counts are GetYourGuide’s, apart from the Stiegl-Brauwelt’s own prices. Every experience listed cancels free up to 24 hours ahead.

The experiences, compared

Cooking classes

All four classes are run by Edelweiss Cooking School, meet at Ursulinenplatz 9, are taught in English and take up to 15 people, in tables of two to four.

The strudel and Nockerl class

From €60 · 1.5 hours · 572 reviews · Ursulinenplatz 9

Salzburg: Apple Strudel & Salzburger Nockerl Classad has you stretch the pastry and marinate the apples for an apple strudel, then make your own Salzburger Nockerl while it bakes, with a goulash soup before you eat what you made. The class is wheelchair-accessible, and the listing says it is likely to sell out. It is the one to book for the dish the city is known for: where to eat in Salzburg has the Nockerl in restaurants, at €22.90 on Zwettler’s menu.

The strudel classes with lunch

From €60 or €65 · 1.5 hours · 157 and 46 reviews · Ursulinenplatz 9

Salzburg: Apple Strudel & Vanilla Kipferl Class with Lunchad swaps the Nockerl for vanilla kipferl, the most popular biscuit in Salzburg, according to the listing, and it calls the programme excellent for families with children. Salzburg: Apple Strudel and Pretzel Cooking Class with Lunchad makes a Salzburg pretzel instead, offers a vegetarian or vegan lunch, and is not suitable for children under 5.

The dinner class with music

From €85 · 2 hours · 75 reviews · Ursulinenplatz 9

Salzburg: Dinner Cooking Class and Musicad shapes a pretzel and an apple strudel, then serves a goulash dinner, or a lentil ragout for vegetarians, while a live singer performs Mozart and Sound of Music songs. It is wheelchair-accessible and not suitable for children under 5. For a bigger evening with Mozart, see Mozart concerts in Salzburg.

Beer, wine and chocolate

The Stiegl brewery tour

€22.90 on the brewery’s site, from €24.90 on GetYourGuide · 1.5 hours · 368 reviews · Stiegl-Brauwelt, Bräuhausstraße 9

The Stiegl-Brauwelt sells the museum admission with the guided tour and three beer tastings for €22.90, and GetYourGuidead sells the same tour from €24.90. Tours run daily at 10:30, 13:00 in English and 15:30. The route takes in the museum, a 270-degree cinema, the brewhouse and the bottling hall, which fills 90,000 bottles an hour. It is not suitable for wheelchair users or people with mobility impairments, and reviewers say it is hot inside. A Salzburg Card holder pays a surcharge of €11 for the tour.

The copper brewing kettles at the Stiegl brewery. Photo: Richard Symonds, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The museum alone is €14.90 with one beer on the brewery’s site, and GetYourGuide’s ticketad is the same price, with an audio guide in six languages and two beers. Exchange the voucher at the ticket desk in the Stiegl Shop. The museum and shop are open daily from 10:00 to 19:00, with the last admission at 18:00. Beer halls and beer gardens in Salzburg covers the rest.

The wine tasting

From €38 · 45 minutes · 80 reviews · wine shop De Gustibus, Bergstraße 14

Salzburg: Guided Wine Tasting in a Hidden Wine Barad is three Austrian wines with regional snacks, led by a wine expert in English or German, for up to 10 people. It is wheelchair-accessible.

The Mozartkugel workshop

From €65 · 2 hours · 106 reviews · Werkstättenstraße 22

Salzburg: Mozart Chocolate Workshopad is hosted in the guide’s chocolate atelier in English or German, for up to 20 people. You shape, dip and decorate 10 Mozartkugeln and take them home wrapped, with the original recipe. The sweet’s own story, and Fürst’s claim to the original, is in Salzburg’s coffee houses.

Mozartkugeln, one cut open to show the marzipan and nougat. Photo: JH1880, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

Walking food tours

GetYourGuide has no public walking food tour for Salzburg. The operators’ own are these:

The two private tours are priced per group.

Plan the rest

Where to eat in Salzburg lists the restaurants, the coffee houses cover the cakes, and 3 days in Salzburg fits a class or a tour round the sights. What to book before you go to Salzburg has the hours and closed days.