Eight walks where the fare covers what you eat as well as who explains it — bakeries, cheese counters, a wine flight or a full sit-down meal. From $68.
Cheese, viennoiserie, a Brittany crêpe and a dish nobody names in advance, with French red and white. Capped at twelve; a shorter express version exists.
From $94 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Macarons, cheeses and cured meats poured with wine, walked from Place Blanche to the top. Three hours, twelve people, a guide who may work in two languages.
From $142 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Three and a half hours that add up to a full meal rather than samples, wine included. Twelve people, and vegetarian options if you flag them at booking.
From $105 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Eight tastings and two drinks at named addresses — a boulangerie, a café, a fromagerie, a pâtissier. It starts on Avenue Junot in the quiet upper village and works down to the basilica, capped at ten.
From $129 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Fifteen tastings and a lunch, with an hour of it on Rue des Abbesses alone. Ten people is the smallest cap of any food tour on this hill.
From $154 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Croissant, éclair, chocolate, madeleine, macaron, crêpe and coffee, walked over three hours between the shops that make them. Twelve people maximum, from the Moulin Rouge up to the basilica, minimum booking of two.
From $100 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A dawn walk with a sit-down breakfast at the end — the only listing here where the food comes after the walking rather than during it.
From $68 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Five French wines and a dessert wine with a certified sommelier, sitting down on Place du Tertre. Cheese, charcuterie and a dessert come with it.
From $118 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Every food tour here refunds in full up to 24 hours ahead, and most cap at ten or twelve people.
Check availabilityThree hours in which you walk between five or six food businesses on the hill and eat something at each one, with a guide who has arranged it in advance and can tell you why this baker and not the one across the road. It is not a restaurant meal and it is not a tasting menu; it is a moving lunch spread across a village. Every listing here itemises what you will be given, and the difference between them is exactly that list.
This is the whole distinction from a Montmartre walking tour. Every listing in this group states tastings, a meal or a wine flight in its own inclusions, which is why the prices start where the walking tours stop.
Ten or twelve people, against fourteen to twenty-five on the shared walks. You will be inside small shops, which is the practical reason, and the effect is that you can actually ask questions.
One listing names its stops outright — a boulangerie, a café, a fromagerie, a pâtissier. Two more take you into shops on Rue Lepic and Rue des Abbesses that look like every other shopfront from the street.
You are not going to want lunch afterwards. If you were planning to eat in Montmartre anyway, that changes the real cost of the tour considerably.
The two groups answer different questions, and the price gap is almost entirely the food. Here is the comparison on the captured figures.
| Food tours | Walking tours | Best for | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price band | $68–$154 | $23–$75 | Anyone who wants the meal solved | From $68 |
| What is in the fare | Guide, tastings, usually wine | The guide | Travellers comparing like with like | From $68 |
| Group cap | 10–12 | 14–25 | Hearing every word without straining | From $68 |
| Length | 2h–3h30 | 1h30–2h30 | An afternoon you do not need to fill | From $68 |
| Dietary needs | Handled at booking on most | Not applicable | Anyone with an allergy to declare | From $68 |
Check availability from from $68
If your morning already has a lunch reservation in it, take the walk. If it does not, a food tour is a guided walk and a meal in one booking, and the honest arithmetic against doing it yourself is here.
You get: between seven and fifteen tastings depending on the listing, a
local guide, and in most cases wine. Two of these are effectively a full meal.
You don't get: transport, gratuities, or anything you order beyond the
set list. Nothing here includes an admission ticket.
Read carefully: the dietary clauses. One listing rules out vegan diets and
severe allergies outright; another rules out lactose, gluten and nut allergies. Those are
their words, and they matter more than any other line on the page.
Price band: $68 to $154 per person.
Duration: two to three and a half hours.
Booking window: the food tours are the ones that sell out. Two are marked
as likely to, and the caps are ten or twelve. Book a week ahead in summer.
Timing: most run at lunchtime. Do not eat beforehand, and do not book a
dinner table for two hours after it finishes.
Minimum booking: one listing needs two guests before it will run.
If you have a severe allergy or eat vegan, several of these listings say plainly that they cannot accommodate you. Take a guided walk instead and eat where you choose — the hill is full of options and none of them is closed to you.
If you are on a budget, $68 is three times the cheapest guided walk. The walk plus a bakery lunch of your own will cost you half as much and show you the same streets.
And if you want to cover ground rather than eat, the food tours are slow by design: three hours for a route a walking tour does in ninety minutes. That is the point of them, but it is worth knowing before you book.
Eight food tours on the Butte, from $68, every one refundable in full up to 24 hours before it starts.
Check availabilityBest Montmartre walking tours are listed separately; every departure on the hill is on Montmartre Paris Tours.