Paris Food Tour: Small-Group Gourmet Experience with Wine Tasting
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Indulge in a full-day gourmet experience in Paris with a small-group food tour. Explore street markets, cafés, chocolatiers, and end with a wine tasting.
Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights

Meet your guide near the Ledru-Rollin metro station in the 12th arrondissement in the late morning. Starting in the Bastille area and ending in St-Germain-des-Prés, this full-day food expedition lets you enjoy the best of central Paris’ culinary delights, so come hungry!

Feel like a Parisian as you take a guided stroll through the Marché d’Aligre, stopping to taste wine and cheese. After teasing your palate, head to a typical Parisian café for a lunch of seasonal French cuisine with wine. Enjoy the plat du jour (daily special), or opt for a chèvre chaud (warm goat’s cheese), magret de canard (duck breast) or Niçoise salad.

Then follow your guide to the area of St-Germain-des-Prés, where you’ll satisfy your sweet tooth with tastings at three of Paris’ most famous chocolate and macaron makers, such as Chocolats Richart, Pierre Marcolini, Debauve et Gallais and Patrick Roger.

Take an afternoon break at a typical salon de thé (tea room) to rejuvenate with a coffee, tea or hot chocolate, accompanied with a delectable French pastry.

Enjoy a perfect finish to your tour with a visit to Paris Cave wine cellar (cave à vin), where you’re invited to unwind with a wine tasting. Your sommelier will teach you about the major wine regions in France and reveal the interesting details that make French wines unique. Learn fun and useful tasting tips as you try four different wines paired with charcuterie (cured meats).

Your full-day Paris food tour ends here in the evening.

Points of Interest

  • Rue Traversière
What's Included
  • Professional guide
  • Hot drink and pastry
  • Tastings (cheese, wine, chocolates, macarons)
  • Lunch
  • Wine tasting with charcuterie
  • Market tour
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Metro tickets
Additional Information

Indulge in a full day of Paris’ culinary delights with this intimate group walking tour. Starting near Bastille and finishing in St-Germain-des-Prés, immerse yourself in Parisian gastronomic scene as you stroll through the bustling Marché d’Aligre street market, enjoy a meal at a quintessential Parisian café, sample the city’s finest chocolates and macarons, pause for an afternoon tea or coffee, and wrap up your day at Paris Cave with an informative wine-tasting curated by an expert sommelier. Lunch and all tastings are covered.

This tour is designed for small groups with a maximum of eight participants, ensuring a more personalized gastronomic journey through Paris.

  • A moderate amount of walking is involved. Please bring suitable footwear.
  • The minimum drinking age in France is 18
  • A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
Location
Rue Traversière
Departure Point: Central Paris, 12th arrondissement Directions: From Ledru-Rollin metro station (line 8), take the exit for Rue Traversière. Your guide will be waiting near the news stand next to Café du Faubourg. Return point: Tour ends in the area of St-Germain-des-Prés, 6th arrondissement
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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926carolynh
Jan 24, 2023
Great Paris food and wine tour! - We tasted wonderful croissants, baguettes, cheese, pastries, chocolates and wine! Marion our guide was delightful and so informative. Great tour for foodies, or really anyone!
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Lisa
Jul 5, 2014
An absolute must! If you want to... - <p>An absolute must! If you want to immerse yourself and really experience delicious food and Parisian culture, let yourself be guided through this amazing experience.</p>
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Edward
Jun 23, 2014
the best. Our guide was fantastic... - <p>the best. Our guide was fantastic. Loved every minute!</p>
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Lisa
Aug 6, 2014
Really fun, our guide David was... - <p>Really fun, our guide David was awesome. The only down side was that we only had red wines throughout the day and out of our group of four I was the only one that really enjoyed red, so that was a disappointment.</p>
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R.
Jun 4, 2015
Another bad experience on this trip... - <p>Another bad experience on this trip. We followed the instructions exactly to get the meeting place at the appointed time. We were told to meet at the news stand next to Café du Faubourg. Found the café, but no news stand nor guide waiting for us. Inquired inside the café and they had no knowledge of a news stand anywhere nearby. Wandered around for 15 minutes and finally gave up and did our own food and wine tour.</p>
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Alexander
Aug 27, 2014
This was the worst of all the Viator... - <p>This was the worst of all the Viator tours my husband and I participated in Paris and London. We Paid a lot of money for what promised to be a 7-hour, walking Gourmet food and wine tasting tour. It turned out to be a waste of both time and money. Viator's only motive appeared to be a high (extremely so) profit margin on this tour. Everything was done on the cheap. We were met by a 20-year old student outside the Metro station and led first to a farmer's market where we spent a fair amount of time tasting a <br/> few free samples, selected merchants offered. Then we were led to some small back alley stores where the guide purchased small amounts of a few different cheeses and meats that the guide spread on the top of a wine barrel and tasted them along with a single red wine from a half bottle. After that the guide took us to a cheap eatery where we had lunch. After asking us to choose what we wanted to eat from the menu where no entré was more than 15 Euros, the guide came up with the worst (and the most insulting) surprise that the tour only allowed 15 E per person and anything over that we had to pay. The bill came to 58 Euros for three, including the guide and we were asked to pay an additional 15 Euros to cover our allowance of 30.<br/> This was not only not mentioned in the Ticket/Voucher, but entirely uncouth and uncalled for after being charged a hefty sum. The guide then led us back to the same small back alley wine shop and had us taste one more wine, and ended the tour at a small chocolate shop where we tasted a few wafer-thin chocolates. I would strongly recommend against this tour and suggest anyone considering it <br/> would be better off spending the time and money elsewhere in Paris.</p>
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