Seville food tours and cooking classes compared: tapas crawls, a Triana tour, paella classes and tastings, with GetYourGuide prices

💡 The Short Version: For a first food walk, book the Seville Tapas Crawlad: from €68.82, 3 hours, 2,101 reviews, with 10 tapas and 4 drinks. The cheapest is the Flavors of Andalucía tourad through Triana, from €35 for 2.5 hours. For a class, the evening paella and tapas classad is from €70 for 3 hours. Two walks share the title “Tapas, Taverns and History” but are different tours from different operators. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices and move with the date.

The tours and classes, compared

Tapas walks

Tapas Crawl

From €68.82 · 2,101 reviews · 3 hours

Seville: Tapas Crawl with 10 Tapas Servings & 4 Drinksad is run by Food Lover Tour Andalucía in English and takes four local bars, with about 10 dishes, a dessert and 4 drinks. The guide meets you in front of the Catalina Casa de Comidas restaurant on the Plaza Padre Jerónimo de Córdoba. It is not suitable for vegans or people with severe gluten allergies. It has the most reviews of any food listing in the city, 4.9 stars. The bars on the lists are in Seville tapas.

Two walks called “Tapas, Taverns and History”

From €77 and €67 · 983 and 621 reviews

The 4-Stop Tapas, Taverns & History Walking Tourad is run by Spain Food Sherpas, for 3.5 hours in a group of up to 12, from the white fountain on the Plaza de la Encarnación. The first stop is a tavern founded in the early 1900s that serves flaming chorizo with vermouth from the barrel, the second a bakery of traditional cakes after a walk along the old Moorish souk route, then a bar open since 1942 and a restaurant that mixes Andalusian and international cooking. It is for ages 18 and over, and it is not suitable for vegans or people with gluten intolerance.

Tapas, Taverns and History Guided Walking Tourad is a different tour, run by Devour Tours for 3 to 3.5 hours through the Jewish Quarter and Arenal, with century-old bars, orange wine at a family-run bar and sweet red vermouth. It is not suitable for vegans, children under 15 or people with coeliac disease. Both free-cancel up to 24 hours ahead.

Food Tour with Tapas & Drinks with a Local

From €74.32 · 226 reviews · 3.5 hours

Seville Food Tour with Tapas & Drinks with a Localad is run by Do Eat Better Experience from the Plaza de la Alfalfa, with four or more stops. The listing names croquetas, cod fritters, Russian salad, gazpacho and churros or ice cream, and asks groups of more than 12 to contact the operator.

Tapas walk with a flamenco show

From €99 · 114 reviews · 3 to 4 hours

Seville: Tapas Walking Tour with Traditional Flamenco Showad is run by Devour Tours from the Plaza de San Francisco: three tapas bars with 8 or more tastings and 3 drinks, and a flamenco show between them, at La Casa del Flamenco according to the listing. The tour is in English, privately or in small groups. For the shows on their own, see flamenco shows in Seville.

Triana and the Jewish Quarter

Flavors of Andalucía, Triana

From €35 · 392 reviews · 2.5 hours

Seville: Flavors of Andalucía Guided Food Tour with Tastingsad is run by LFEST in English and visits two tapas bars in Triana for shared tapas and a drink at each. It is the cheapest food tour with more than a hundred reviews. The Triana market is in Triana and where to eat in Seville.

A fruit and vegetable stall in the Mercado de Triana. Photo: Anual, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Small Group Jewish Quarter Tour with Tapas & Drinks

From €56.70 · 146 reviews · 3 hours

Seville: Small Group Jewish Quarter Tour with Tapas & Drinksad is run by Seville Unique Experiences for a small group of up to 10 with a licensed guide, ending with tapas and drinks in a traditional setting. It is for ages 17 and over.

A corner of the Barrio de Santa Cruz, the old Jewish quarter. Photo: Jocelyn Erskine-Kellie, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cooking classes

Evening paella and tapas class

From €70 · 1,125 reviews · 3 hours

Seville: Evening Cooking Class with Paella, Tapas & Sangríaad is taught by the Taller Andaluz de Cocina cooking school in English. You cook paella, salmorejo and traditional tapas hands-on with a chef and eat what you made with sangría. The meeting point is stalls 75 to 77 in the Triana market on the Plaza del Altozano. The school says it suits vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free diets if you tell it in advance.

Morning class with a market tour

From €75 · 878 reviews · 3.5 hours

Seville: Paella and Tapas Class & Morning Triana Market Tourad is the same school’s morning class, which starts with a tour of the Triana market. The listing says the market tour is included in morning sessions only. The market’s hours are in where to eat in Seville.

Paella show-cooking

From €37 · 203 reviews · 2 to 2.5 hours

Seville: Paella Showcooking Experiencead is run by Terraza del Cristina: an instructor prepares a paella while you watch, and you taste it with local wines, appetizers and sangria. It is a demonstration, not a hands-on class.

A paella cooking over a fire. Photo: Jebulon, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

Tastings

Seville: Sherry Wine Tasting with Light Snacksad is run by LFEST, from €33 for 1.5 hours, with 263 reviews and an age limit of 18 and over. Seville: Spanish Sangria Tasting with 4 Varietiesad is run by Terraza del Cristina, from €25 for 1.5 hours with 367 reviews: four sangrias made with sherry, white wine, red wine and rosé cava, paired with marinated olives and Manchego cheese. A one-hour river boat tour with tapas and a drink, from €35, is covered in Guadalquivir river cruises.

How to choose

• The cheapest walk: Flavors of Andalucía, from €35.
• The most reviewed: the Tapas Crawl, from €68.82.
• History with the bars: the Devour Tours walk, from €67, or Spain Food Sherpas’ 4-stop walk, from €77.
• Tapas and flamenco in one evening: the tapas walk with a flamenco show, from €99.
• Hands on: the evening paella class, from €70, or the morning class with the market, from €75.
• A vegetarian or vegan: the cooking classes, with notice.

To fit a tour into a trip, see Seville in one or two days and what to book before you go to Seville. Seville tapas lists the bars to visit yourself, and day trips from Seville covers the wine and olive-oil trips. Where to stay in Seville compares the areas, and the best time to visit Seville gives the weather by month.