Victoria Food Tour: Hidden Gems and Local Cuisine
4.8
199 Ratings
Victoria

Embark on a multicultural culinary adventure in Victoria’s downtown core. Sample BC wine, Middle Eastern street food, Korean corn dogs, gourmet cheese, decadent chocolate, and French macarons. Meet local business owners and discover hidden gems with a local foodie expert guide.

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Steamship Terminal - Start the tour at this historic building built in 1924 by famous architect Francis Rattenbury.
What's Included
  • Local guide
  • Afternoon tea
  • Professional guide
  • Food and drink tastings
  • Lunch
What's Not Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

On this fun and tasty tour we take you to our favorite hidden gems in the downtown core serving up delicious multi-cultural cuisine that is unique to Victoria led by a local foodie expert guide.
ON THE MENU: BC wine tasting, baked goods from one of Canada’s best bakery, Middle Eastern street food, authentic Korean corn dogs, gourmet cheese, a decadent…

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Location
Off The Eaten Track Food Tours Victoria
Belleville Street
We are on the main floor of the Steamship Terminal Building. We have a gift shop inside, next to the Steamship Grill & Bar Restaurant. Please go inside our gift shop to check-in with the staff.
Cancellation Policy

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

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Kathleen_h
Apr 28, 2025
The highlight of our stay - Our guides were personable and knowledgeable. The variety and quantity of food was just right. The pace was unhurried. We thoroughly enjoyed this experience and would do again.
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Bonnie
Apr 19, 2025
Highly recommend. Great tour, great food. - Highly recommend this food tour! AJ was our guide and he was very knowledgeable about the city and its history, food, and had a great energy. The food was delicious and you won’t want to eat after the tour because you get plenty. My only suggestion would be to take this tour early in your visit so you know where all these amazing places are and get familiar with the downtown area.
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Craig_t
Apr 12, 2025
Highly Recommend - Brenda, our tour guide, was a lot of fun and very accommodating. It was fun eating some unique foods we would have never tried on our own. Highly recommended!
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258averyb
Dec 29, 2024
Locals, you’ll love this! - A fantastic was to learn and eat your way through the city, as a local, I really enjoyed it! Highly recommend this locally owned and operated business.
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Texslp
Dec 27, 2024
Fun and Delicious Activity - This was the perfect activity for us as we had just gotten off the ferry and dropped off our bags at the hotel across the street. One must be hungry as there are quite a few food stops. From Korean hot dogs to pork belly bowls to desserts it was quite fun. Ben was a great guide and kept our tour fun and informative. Met some great people too. All in all great activity and highly recommend when visiting Victoria!
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Roamerj
Oct 20, 2024
Rain or Shine: Do it! - Superb experience with Jo as our guide: cheerful (despite the downpour!) and informative. The food choices were varied and delicious. Come hungry!
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Dianna_k
May 4, 2025
Great Food - AJ was fantastic. A lot of good information. All the food stops were excellent but we found it too rushed. 7 stops in 2 hours is too rushed. Other than that, we really enjoyed the tour
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Juliedoumad
May 6, 2025
Disappointed that Tea was not included as advertised:-( - We have done several food tours. AJ was knowledgeable but felt a bit rushed. There was no tea as advertised . The Korean corn dog was not a good choice the Macrons tasted nothing like tomatoes or bacon way too sweet . The sitting in the middle of the street and handed a simple dessert to eat was awkward and did not care for. The cheese wine was a great stop . Prepared seating and an explanation of the cheeses very good stop. The roasted brussel sprouts stop with prep seating nice. The 1/2 open face sandwich in a mall was ok. But overall our expectations were much higher. We also had to pay for transport to and from meeting spots not good for the price we paid. But big disappointment no high tea as advertised. So would not do this tour again.
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Keith_m
Nov 16, 2024
Ordinary - The open faced sandwich was good , however, at a food court in the mall? Wine tasting was barely enough wine to taste. Chocolate and macaroon stores were good. Cheese tasting was very small. Korean corn dog was at a corner store, and Mexican food was a taco at a real small restaurant. I was expecting more in the restaurant setting than fast food, especially for the price.
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Rebecca
Oct 29, 2024
Very rushed and disappointing tour but great food. - I gave it a 3 based on most of the food was great. Otherwise I would give it a 2. The tour itself was very disappointing. We have taken food tours all over the world and this was one of the worst. The guide gave us very little information about Victoria and was more interested in telling us about Japanese culture which seems to be a passion of hers. While passing by an ice cream shop she entered into a 20 minute or more conversation with the owner followed by a 10 minute or so attempt at trying to figure out how to get to our destination in an elevator. It was 40 minutes before we had our first tasting. A stop for wine tasting was a joke. The portions were no more than a tablespoon each and the guide told us we needed to move on even before hearing about the second wine. The third stop was closed. The rest of the tour was very rushed. All four of us in our group commented to each other how rushed we felt. While we were eating samples the guide would go off to pick up food from 3 of our stops. One of the pleasures of food tours is visiting each food stop but in our case she decided to bring the food to us (giving us each samples from two of the places in bags at the end). We don’t even know where the food came from. She also spent a great deal of time looking at or texting on her phone. Don’t know if it was tour related or not. Even though 30 minutes were spent on her interests and not the actual tour, she seemed more intent in limiting the tour to 2 hours than giving us the actual experience.
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