Philadelphia Donut Tour: Taste the Best Donuts

Embark on a delicious adventure with the Philadelphia Underground Donut Tour. Sample the best donuts in the city, including vegan and gluten-free options. Book now!

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Federal Donuts & Chicken East Market - This is where we start the tour. They have the best hot and fresh donuts.
  • Center City - We’ll walk around the City Center area and provide some fun food, history, and architecture facts.
  • Mochinut - At Mochinut, we’ll try some of their tasty mochi style donuts. These are Japanese style donuts made with mochi (rich flour). You’re going to love them!
  • Reading Terminal Market - You’ll get to visit historic Reading Terminal market, one of the most popular tourist attractions in Philadelphia.
  • Beilers Doughnuts - The last and final stop on our tour. We saved one of the best for last. Make sure to bring your appetite so you have room for this last.
  • El Merkury at the Market - If it’s a Sunday, we’ll stop at El Merkury for some of their delicious churros. Save room because this is a great way to end the tour!
What's Included
  • Savor local flavors with food tastings
Additional Information

Satisfy your sweet tooth on a food tour of Philadelphia that features the city’s best donuts. Visit three renowned donut makers, including Beiler’s Donuts and Federal Donuts, and a renowned coffee brand. This walking tour is ideal for kids and adults, and with stops in Center City and Reading Terminal Market, it provides participants with an orientation to the city.

Location
Federal Donuts & Chicken East Market
South 12th Street
The first stop on the donut tour is Federal Donuts at 21 S 12th St, Philadelphia, PA 19107. Keep a look out for one of our guides. They will most likely be wearing an Underground Donut Tour t-shirt or sweatshirt.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Faraway20644160044
Aug 3, 2024
Donut tour - Great tour, with great guides and tasty donuts :) Would recommend to others and be sure to have that 4th donut! Thanks for the tour!
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Myzarm
Aug 3, 2024
Friendly, tasty, and efficient! - The tour was very well curated in terms of time and variety of donuts. The tour guide was friendly and informative. Would attend again!
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Zbritestarz
Aug 3, 2024
A donut afternoon - Such a fun tour! Not too much walking which was perfect in the summer when it’s really hot. I was surprised how many donuts I can eat 😂 Dom and Steve were great guides and we all had a great time!
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Trailblazer817370
Aug 3, 2024
Donuts and socializing and AC - We tried three donuts with one bonus doughnut at the end. The guides were knowledgeable and friendly, and helped our group get to know each other better.
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T7292lxtanyag
Jul 30, 2024
Fun and Tasty Experience - Jason was an amazing, friendly, and informative tour guide. The donuts are super yummy and different in each bakery/shop. It is a super fun activity to do with friends and young children.
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Melissamx9937xk
Jun 12, 2024
Fun and Unique Experience - Since we’re local to the Philly area, we thought we’d take a day trip into the city. Our first part of the day was this tour. Our tour guide was Dom. He was very informative and knew the history of the city. We enjoyed being able to pick each donut flavor and the variety offered was excellent. If you have a couple hours and want to do something fun and unique, you should check out this tour.
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Georgianac200
Apr 9, 2024
Amazing donut tour! - Such a fun time! The donuts were amazing and the guide was even better. The ube donut from Mochinut was so delicious. I loved learning about the history of Reading Terminal Market too! I highly recommend!
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Alyssarothermel88
Apr 5, 2024
Yum! - Great day exploring Philadelphia and the donuts were delicioussssss!! Thank you underground donut tour!!! So fun!!!
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Adamav8778tv
Mar 24, 2024
Philly donut tour with Dom. - Having been born and raised and Philly, I was blown away at how much new information I learned about my city from our wonderful and energetic guide, Dom. When combining that experience with a diverse assortment of donuts, the day turned out to be one for the history books. From reading terminal market to Philly’s mini Korea town, from classic Boston cremes, to mochi nut donuts, I never imagined Philly to have a world of donuts that I knew nothing about. Looking forward to trying the food tour next.
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Kvassell
Apr 29, 2024
Save your money - This was not the experience the reviews gave. I surprised my husband with this tour while we were in Philadelphia for the weekend. The text message I had received stated to be at federal donuts by 2:50 which we were. Our guide was late arriving ( after 3pm or scheduled start time). We started at federal donuts and he told us we would come back why We would meet there and not start there only to come back made zero sense. After an hour into the tour, our tour guide Gave us a history of all the local buildings William Penn all of that it was an hour into our tour before we had our first donut at the terminal. My husband and I only got to pick one doughnut. My husband was picking two, the guy said just one. Mind you I saw the cost of donuts. We sat down at our donuts, headed back out onto the street. Did a few more history things like the convention center only to head back to federal donuts where we started it. He picked out two donuts, which I thought we should’ve been able to pick us we had to split Donuts guess where we headed back to the terminal where we did not get donuts we got ice cream he told us to pick out the flavors we want. My husband told him what he wanted and I told him what I wanted and our guide told us just one as they are seven dollars apiece so we had to split it… what a joke. After leaving the terminal it was over. .. and thank god bc I was so thirsty, never once were we offered coffee a water a drink all of the reviews I had read said people were full from all the donuts they had and coffee needless to say we did not have that experience at all. I paid $137 for this tour and our Guy may be spent 15 if that on one donut apiece from the first place to donuts that we had to share from the second place that we didn’t even get to pick and the third place was ice cream wasn’t even doughnut. I thought this was a doughnut tour. Im sorry I wasted my money on this. This was not what it was made out to be. .. In the multiple stops as it made, it seem was also a lie. Why would we leave the terminal only to return to it? Why would we leave the starting point at a donut place only to return to it was two hours of my life that I absolutely hated. What was even more comical is he took a photo of us? I didn’t look at it until we got back to our room. It is pitch black you can’t even make us out in it. I tipped him at the end bc I just wanted to get away.
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