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Sants Food Tour: Explore Barcelona's Booming Local Cuisine
5.0
34 Ratings
Barcelona
Embark on a food tour in Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood, where you’ll discover a thriving local cuisine scene and delve into the area’s rich history. Indulge in traditional markets, vermuterias, pastry shops, and innovative culinary projects. Experience an alternative side of Barcelona!
Embark on a food tour in Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood, where you’ll discover a thriving local cuisine scene and delve into the area’s rich history. Indulge in traditional markets, vermuterias, pastry shops, and innovative culinary projects. Experience an alternative side of Barcelona!
Duration:
5 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Sants - Embark on our Sants food tour to indulge in a day of culinary exploration through a lesser-known neighborhood with a thriving local food scene and intriguing history. Discover markets, traditional vermuterias, pastry shops, and cozy restaurants, while also experiencing the vibrant contemporary culinary projects that define Sants. This tour…
- Sants - Embark on our Sants food tour to indulge in a day of culinary exploration through a lesser-known neighborhood with a thriving local food scene and intriguing history. Discover markets, traditional vermuterias, pastry shops, and cozy restaurants, while also experiencing the vibrant contemporary culinary projects that define Sants. This tour is perfect for those seeking an alternative taste of Barcelona, beyond Gaudi architecture and the usual top 10 tapas.
- La Bordeta - During our Sants food tour, explore a variety of neighborhood institutions, both historic and modern, to experience life in Barcelona before it became a global hotspot. Begin with a hearty breakfast at the newly restored Mercat de Sants, operating since 1913, and sample offerings from its vendors. As the tour progresses, visit numerous food shops and restaurants, savoring beloved dishes from seasonally changing menus. Enjoy stops at traditional bodegas and bars for vermut with tapas among wine casks, and at small bakeries and chocolate shops for handmade sweets.
- Mercat De Sant Antoni - Before leaving Sants, visit one of the neighborhood’s most unique social and cultural projects: a massive 19th-century textile factory, now transformed by locals into a vibrant cultural center complete with its own bar and microbrewery. Over drinks and more Sants delicacies, learn about the history of community organizing in Sants and discover what makes this neighborhood truly special. It’s a rare opportunity to explore off the beaten path while still being in the heart of the city.
What's Included
- Lunch
- Snacks
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Lunch
- Snacks
- Alcoholic Beverages
What's Not Included
- Private transportation
- Private transportation
Additional Information
Embark on our Sants culinary journey to spend your day exploring an under-the-radar neighborhood that is thriving in terms of its local food culture and interesting history. We’ll delve into local markets and traditional vermuterias, bakeries and unpretentious dining establishments, but we’ll also discover the heartbeat of Sants in some modern culinary…
Embark on our Sants culinary journey to spend your day exploring an under-the-radar neighborhood that is thriving in terms of its local food culture and interesting history. We’ll delve into local markets and traditional vermuterias, bakeries and unpretentious dining establishments, but we’ll also discover the heartbeat of Sants in some modern culinary endeavors. Don’t look forward to Gaudi architecture and mainstream top 10 tapas, Sants caters to those craving for a taste of alternative Barcelona.
Location
Carrer de Sants, 109
Carrer de Sants
Our meeting point is at the benches facing the round fountain at Placeta de Ramon Torres i Casanovas at Carrer de Sants 109, at the beginning of Rambla de Sants.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Jessem92
Jan 9, 2026
Escape the tourist area! Take a food tour of Sants! - Pam was an amazing tour guide. She was extremely knowledgeable about the history of the Sants neighborhood and the history and culture of all the delicious food we tried. Put on your walking shoes, you can’t miss this tour!
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Jonezy
Dec 2, 2025
Great Food Tour of Barrcelona Sants - Our Guide Senem was outstanding! We got a background of the SANTS neighborhood, went to the marked for a "Fork" breakfast and hit many other locations we would have never found on our own. Would recommend this tour without hesitation
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Cappy66
Nov 11, 2025
Wonderful tour in a less touristy neighborhood - Fantastic guide and great bites. This tour felt very local. I did it early in my trip and this really helped set the stage for subsequent days in Barcelona.
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Matthewed5415bv
Nov 9, 2025
Excellent Food Tour - Overall excellent experience, great food, history and company made this a must do while in Barcelona. The stops were authentic, the food was delicious and well paced so we weren't too full to enjoy the remainder of the tour.
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L4123cwryand
Nov 2, 2025
Perfect food tour exactly as advertised - Just a wonderful tour in an off-the-beaten-path neighborhood. Lots of companies will say "off the grid" but it's only a marketing pitch, and you end up at restaurants and bars in highly-trafficked areas. This tour truly was unique and hyper-local. The guide, Senem, was a dream. She had an encyclopedic knowledge of local food and customs and was eager to share them with us.
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Voyager758447
Oct 27, 2025
Fantastic bites off the regular tourist track - Pam was a wealth of knowledge about the Sants neighborhood!
Thoroughly explained the history and food of this unexplored part of
Barcelona. Highly recommended!
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553stephaniec
Oct 8, 2025
Excellent tour in Sants! - What a wonderful way to experience a very non-touristy neighborhood and eat like the locals do. Senem was an excellent guide, so knowledgeable about the local history and culinary background. And a charming person to spend nearly 6 hours with! She clearly has an excellent relationship with the shop and restaurant staff. Highly recommended and worth every penny.
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Bears1219
Oct 6, 2025
Senem is a great culinary host! - Our guide Senem was wonderful! It was so nice being in a small group, 6, plus our guide. Senem was very good at adapting to our needs and raising our level of knowledge about the city, the history, the food, the culture and current events affecting the area. This was more than basic stuff- it was really informative without being boring and Senem presented a very balanced view of the people whose lives we were learning about. I highly recommend this tour. It is not the touristy Barcelona and in fact you won't see any other tour guides walking where you'll be going. And really I can't say enough about Senem! She also gave us information about Culinary Backstreets as a company and how the guides know each other in different cities, etc. This gives me a lot of confidence in CB and I can't wait to book another tour!
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B1392pfsarahl
Oct 1, 2025
Crash course in Catalan cuisine - Man, what an experience. I was so glad to have done this on my first day in Barcelona because it gave me the courage to try authentic food throughout my stay and gave me the knowlege and familiarity of Catalan culture. Pam was an excellent guide and Im grateful that she shared her knowledge and passion with me. I cant wait for my next culinary back streets tour. Worth every penny if youre debating the cost.
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Jwh502
Sep 23, 2025
Barcelona level 99 - We had an awesome time with Pam, our ever smiling, articulate historian and fellow foodie. The food and settings were unbelievable and would take years to find without a guide. Serendipitous encounters with locals at the bodega brought it all together.
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