The Best Athens Food Tour: award-winning with more than 10 tastings

€65 per person
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The Best Athens Food Tour: Award-winning with More Than 10 Tastings

Price: 65€/person

Have you already visited the super crowded touristic spots for food in Athens?Then, it’s time to follow your local host and explore “ hidden” spots and shopsfor food lovers,away from the touristic crowdsand difficult to find if you are not a local foodie.Enjoy a unique gastronomical experience, indulge in traditional greek goods, learn their origins and history,visit the city’s tastiest neighborhoods and taste genuine greek flavours like koulouri, souvlaki,loukoumades, bougatsa, cheese& olives, ouzo and much more.

  Athens

  Private tour. Only you and your local host.

  3,5 hours

  Food Tour

  Walking Tour

  Including: English speaking local host, all food & drink tastes as described in the plan, Bottles of water.

Why join this experience

Private tour (only you and your local host)

Try the world famous souvlaki (and not in a typical touristic way, but the traditional one)

Taste the best local delicacies (loukoumades & bougatsa)

Visit shops and delis away from the touristic buzzle, only locals know.

Meet the biggest open-air food market in Athens

Delicious “meze” tasting (like tapas but much tastier) at the best hidden specialty food store district in Athens.

The food consumed during this tour equals a hearty lunch (you will be needing no lunch after the tour)

Description of the tour

The best way to meet a new culture is to familiarize with its cuisine.Food is the key to make friends,enjoy new things, love a country and have fun.Our Athens Food tour gives the opportunity to explore carefully selected spots and shops off the beaten track, difficult to find d if not a local.

 

Meet your new local friend and after drinking the traditional Greek coffee as a welcome,follow him to local neighborhoods, spice districts, small pastry shops and street food places where you can get the real feeling of the city and taste authentic Greek flavors followed up by their history and origins.This part of the tour includes a super tasty variety of local food.A lot of food! Koulouri, bougatsa, souvlaki, loukoumades, cheeses& olives,fried potatoes, ouzo are some of the local food you will try during those stops.

 

You will continue your tour by visiting the biggest open air market in Athens, called “Varvakeios “ market, where the Athenians buy the products for their everyday cooking. Varvakeios market , also known as “the belly of the city’s, is the most popular fish, meat and vegetable market in the whole of Athens.Listening the butchers and fishermen shouting about the high quality of their products and urging the customers to buy will really impress you and introduce you to the Greek Sales and Marketing traditional methods!
After leaving the market behind you, you and your local foodie will walk by the most popular spice street of Athens and as you will be talking about the culinary habits of the locals, all of a sudden you will find yourselves at a traditional deli store, where you will taste the famous among the greeks “meze”: a variety of carefully selected local cheeses & cured meats( like tapas only much better) combined with local ouzo or raki.
When you complete this food Tour, one is for sure: you will say goodbye to your local host with a happy face and a full stomach, since the food consumed during this tour equals a hearty lunch!

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This is the plan

2021

Guest pick up

You will be picked up at Syntagma square, the central square of Athens

Let’s make a start

Enjoy a Greek coffee at a local cafe’ with a delicious koulouri

Stop at at a local shop with traditional products

You will have the opportunity to learn more about famous greek olives and olive oil and of course try it

Time for souvlaki

Stop for souvlaki & fried potatoes at the best street food shop

Stop to try the loukoumades

One of the best traditional sweets in Greece

Visit the biggest open air market in Athens

Varvakeios market, is the city’s besting heart because it is the biggest fish, meat and vegetable market in the whole Athens

Walk by the most popular spice street of Athens

Time to try the “meze”

Stop at a traditional deli store to try “ meze”: a carefully selected variety of local cheeses& cured meats( like tapas but tastier) combined with ouzo or raki.

Goodbye stop for bougatsa

Stop at a small pastry shop to try the popular bougatsa ( for a “ sweet goodbye)

Meeting point

Useful info

Included
english speaking local host
ALL food & drink tastings as described

Not included
any extra food or drinks you might curve for

More Information
Free cancellation 24 hrs before the tour( no refunds within 24hrs before tour beginning time)
Beginning time for this tour between 10am and 12.30pm
This tour does not operate on Sundays.also January 1st, 2nd&3rd&6th? March 25th, may 1st, October 28th, December 25th&26th, Easter Sunday and Monday

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