Porto is easily one of the most fascinating cities in Europe, and although it’s undoubtedly quickly gaining popularity among travelers, it’s still quite underrated.

I’ve been to so many renowned “foodie” cities, and the food and wine scene found here certainly offers some of the best culinary experiences at prices that are still very affordable.

From the port wine cellars aging centuries-old fortified wines to traditional tascas serving petiscos, there’s SO much to see and do. However, if you really want to do it right, I highly recommend going on one of the 7 top Porto food tours out there. I’ve reviewed them all, so let’s jump right in!

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Best Food Tours in Porto

Our 7 Top Picks For The Best Porto Food Tour:

1. Authentic Food and Wine Tour in Porto by Food Lover Tour
2. Porto Private Food and Drink Tasting Tour with Local
3. Porto Food & Wine Tasting Tour with Lunch or Dinner Option
4. Porto Progressive Dinner Tour with Eating Europe
5. Porto Small Group Gastronomic Food and Wine Tour
6. Porto Food Half-Day Tour
7. Taste of Porto: The Ultimate Full Meal Portuguese Food Tour

Porto Tour Reviews

1. Authentic Food and Wine Tour in Porto by Food Lover Tour

What to Expect on the Tour

Let’s start things off on the right foot with the Authentic Food and Wine Tour in Porto by Food Lover Tour. Operating as a half-day walking experience through the heart of the city, you’ll start out by meeting your guide and small group at an easily accessible spot before you set off on your stroll.

Expect an itinerary that manages to mix both breakfast and lunch dishes, offering a nice array of options that’ll expand your horizons when it comes to local cuisine.

Expect to try proper dishes instead of snack-sized bites – definitely come hungry, because you’re going to have a full stomach by the time you’re done.

Throughout the tour, your guide will offer Portuguese history and cultural context, relating back to the different dishes, ingredients, and eateries visited. Try a nice mix of coffee, wine, traditional dishes, and more modern twists on the cuisine.

What Makes This Tour Great

I have to say that the guide we had on this tour was hands-down one of the best I’ve ever had on a tour.

No scripted cards or anything like that – they’re expert locals who genuinely love their city’s culture and can lay out their country’s history in a way that’s easy to digest, complete with useful phrases, as well as grade-A storytelling.

They also provided some fantastic recommendations for things to see and do later on in our visit, so I do recommend taking this tour as early into your trip as possible.

Learn all about what to look for in Portuguese cuisine, which dishes you absolutely have to try, and you’ll also get a nice lay of the land, covering multiple neighborhoods. I was surprised at just how much wine and food that were included, though you can also opt for non-alcoholic beverages if you prefer.

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2. Porto Private Food and Drink Tasting Tour with Local

What to Expect on the Tour

Next up is the Porto Private Food and Drink Tasting Tour with Local, which is perfect if you don’t want to share the experience with people you have just met. Not that there’s anything wrong with group tours, but sometimes it’s nice to have a more exclusive tour where it’s just you and the food.

With 10 hand-selected food and drink tastings picked by your expert guide with personal knowledge and culinary passion, you know you’re in for a good time.

Expect to cover both local hotspots and hidden gems, visiting well-known establishments with places you’re likely never to find on your own.

Also expect to see everything from traditional markets where you’ll see how the local delicacies are made, century-old shops specializing in specific products, wine houses, cafes, and restaurants that locals love.

The tastings cover Portuguese classics like cheese, cured meats, Vinho Verde, olive oil, bifana, traditional soups, and port wine.

What Makes This Tour Great

I really do love the completely private format of this tour, with amazing guides there to tailor the experience to suit you perfectly. No worries about stops that are redundant for you, or those you simply have no interest in.

You call the shots, and can give your guide input in order for them to craft the ideal itinerary to your needs. The guide’s deep knowledge goes far beyond food, offering all kinds of cultural and historical info to bring the past to life.

Speaking of the guide, their strong relationships with local food vendors and eatery owners offer you the opportunity to get a VIP experience, and at times, you may even get to go “behind the scenes” to see how everything works.

Whether you’re a first-time visitor to Porto or just want to get to know its food scene better, this tour is a treat for anyone!

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3. Porto Food & Wine Tasting Tour with Lunch or Dinner Option

What to Expect on the Tour

This Porto food and wine tour begins at Bluedragon’s store after a seamless orientation, then launches into a thorough exploration of the city’s beloved cafes, markets, and generations-old taverns.

The Porto Food & Wine Tasting Tour with Lunch or Dinner Option is the perfect alternative to going out to dinner or lunch, offering options you may not taste when you go out to order at a restaurant. This is a great way to discover new favorites without having to commit to a whole plate!

Venture through the legendary Bolhão Market, which is Porto’s recently renovated 2-story open-air arcade, where you’ll meet vendors, see the colorful displays, and even watch fresh fish being cleaned to order.

Visit a traditional smoked meat and cheese shop, and get ready for your life to change, with the hearty bifana sandwich, washed down with some national beer. Continue on to try codfish cakes with liquor samples, before doing a port wine tasting, and much more.

What Makes This Tour Great

It’s tours like this that really make you realize the value of a knowledgeable guide who’s into what they do.

Ours not only offered interesting information on what we were eating and drinking, but had plenty of specialized knowledge to the point that she even brought cookbooks and explained in detail how certain dishes were prepared!

I’d say this was easily one of the best value city walking tours I’ve ever taken, with food and drinks being genuinely generous.

The small-group setting made for a social atmosphere where we all had some laughs, with relaxed, engaging energy. Of course, getting to try delicious food and covering markets, taverns, etc., is certainly a great time.

However, it’s the access to meeting the owners, learning all the lore that the public doesn’t know about, and the personal anecdotes from locals takes it to a whole new level.

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4. Porto Progressive Dinner Tour with Eating Europe

What to Expect on the Tour

Next is the Porto Progressive Dinner Tour with Eating Europe, which is the perfect dinner alternative to simply going out to a restaurant.

In fact, this excursion pretty much reframes traditional Portuguese dining as a various-stop tasting experience, where you’ll stop at various family-run and historic eateries all across the city center.

When you compare this to sitting at a single restaurant all evening, you’re going to learn and taste SO much more – not to mention you really do get more food and drink for your money. This 3-hour experience covers 5 different venues, with 5 different food tastings and drink tastings to wash them down with.

Expect to experience a family-owned tasca for apps paired with Vinho Verde – a unique national sparkling wine you have to try at least once! For some nice comfort food, stop for some caldo verde, which is a warm kale and potato soup, paired with some chilled beer.

Follow up the main dishes with some homemade salt cod and croquettes, all the while exploring some incredible landmarks between each stop.

What Makes This Tour Great

I thought this tour did a great job of balancing sightseeing with tastings, taking us to the pedestrian Rua de Santa Catarina starting from Praça da Batalha and the tiled Igreja dos Congregados, the Fonte dos Aliados (Porto’s “reception room” avenue that is basically a mini Champs-Élysées, and passing the baroque Torre dos Clerigos church.

The small-group format made it so much fun – to the point that I’d say I think this specific tour is better this way than it would be as a private tour.

If you want to avoid tourist traps and head right into the authentic establishments that locals frequent, this is exactly what this tour does best.

The pacing was perfect, with some learning and sightseeing in between each stop, with enough time to digest a bit and stretch the legs before arriving at the next location for delicious food and drink!

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5. Porto Small Group Gastronomic Food and Wine Tour

What to Expect on the Tour

This Porto gastronomic tour operates as a comprehensive 4-hour walking excursion led by experienced locals, starting at Mercado do Bolhão’s entrance.

Capped out at just 10 guests, max, the small-group setting ensures customized attention throughout the entire journey. The Porto Small Group Gastronomic Food and Wine Tour delivers a whopping 12+ distinct food and drink tastings, spanning all across Porto’s culture.

At the market, you’ll waste no time, getting straight into spice tasting, fresh fruit and juice, grilled sardines, olive oil tasting, and traditional charcuterie.

You’ll have more than enough time to explore the market’s vendors before heading to another market to try codfish cakes, octopus salad, and white wine – classic seafood preparations found in Portugal.

I loved trying the street food bifana, mini francesinha, and beer, as well as the artisan cheese and ginja pairings!

What Makes This Tour Great

If it’s your first time in Porto and you really want to get a grasp on what the local food scene is like, this is one of the most complete itineraries.

From Vinho Verde, grilled sardines, olive oil, charcuterie, and codfish cakes, to octopus, bifana, pastel de nata, and port wine, you’ll become more than familiar with both traditional foundations and modern-day twists on regional specialties.

Oh, and if you’re vegetarian, there are also a wide array of delicious alternatives, such as Caldo Verde soup!

I had a relaxing time at Kitchen & Orangerie with gorgeous garden seating, and the Magical Wine Machine offered curated Douro Valley wines, which is fantastic for discovering without pressure – no bothersome wine sales pitches.

If you’re specifically looking for a family-friendly tour, just go ahead and put this one at the top of your list, already.

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6. Porto Food Half-Day Tour

What to Expect on the Tour

This Porto culinary tour is perfect if you’re looking to go out to lunch but want to discover new eats and learn all about Portuguese history and culture while doing so.

Focused on authentic northern Portuguese specialties and petiscos (Portuguese tapas, essentially), you have a local guide to take you through cool taverns, bars, and food spots far off the tourist’s beaten path.

If that sounds like fun to you, do yourself a favor and sign up for the Porto Food Half-Day Tour. The tour includes a visit to the baroque Torre dos Clerigos monument and centers around Mercado do Bolhão, where you’ll have tastings paired with great national wines.

Throughout the experience, expect to sample multiple food and drink items, with your guide there to explain the history behind the dish, their ingredients, and even some insider foodie tips on where to go later on in your trip.

I actually found this tour to be one of the best in terms of food AND wine, rather than food and perhaps a tasting or two of wine. It’s very well-rounded, taking you to places you’ll likely not see on any other tour of its kind.

Expect enough tastings to be considered a filling meal, with way more variety than you’d get at your average restaurant lunch.

What Makes This Tour Great

The food certainly makes this tour in the top tier for me, though it was the guides who really took things above and beyond my standards.

They made 4 hours just fly by with their funny banter, personal anecdotes, and all the crazy local history tales tied in with the food and drink we were enjoying. With genuine hospitality and personal connection, we felt like we were more like longtime friends than people who’d just met a moment prior.

Our guide was actually a historian, so you can imagine we had all kinds of context that you wouldn’t find anywhere else. It made the entire experience more enriching and gave more importance to dishes – the way it should be. With an impressive 9 food tastings, you’re bound to try something new!

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7. Taste of Porto: The Ultimate Full Meal Portuguese Food Tour

What to Expect on the Tour

If you’re on the hunt for that “best bang for your buck” Porto food and wine tour, you’re in the right place. The Taste of Porto: The Ultimate Full Meal Portuguese Food Tour is one of the top selections if you’re on a budget but don’t want to compromise on quality.

Clocking in at 3.5 hours, you’ll have plenty of time to make 4+ stops at different food venues, all while learning about local history and culture.

Expect to start at the Chapel of Souls, famous for its stunning blue and white tile exterior depicting saints’ lives, stopping at a mouthwatering pastry shop nearby for pastel de nata paired with Portuguese coffee (quite possibly the best pairing in human history).

From there, make your way to Bolhão Market, the neoclassical 1937 building that still plays a massive role in Porto’s daily life. Here, sample a board of local cheeses paired with regional wine before heading to Avenida dos Aliados for a bifana.

Pass all kinds of landmarks like the Lions’ Fountain, and Igreja do Carmo church before doing a traditional tasca tasting and a port wine tasting – I recommend trying a Port and Tonic cocktail!

What Makes This Tour Great

This tour is great in so many ways, starting with the grade-A prograflexibilityalances eating, embibing, and sightseeing. That’s a trio that I can’t get enough of in Porto, and on this itinerary, you’ll be engaged in active learning all while treating yourself to a spectrum of sweet to savory, including fortified wine.

There is quite a bit of seasonal flexiibility, so tastings aren’t ALWAYS 100% the same, but it’s more a commitment to quality and freshness than anything. I had a great time learning about petiscos/traditional tascas, which focus on sharing and communal dining.

This is something I notice many tourists miss when eating at formal restaurants, so enjoy the social experience! If you really want a comprehensive Porto food intro complete with tastings, sightseeing, and cultural education, without committing to a full day, this one is it.

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Katarina Jelks

Katarina Jelks is a professionally trained sommelier from Hawaii. She received her Wine & Management Diploma from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. Her experience working across the wine industry, in locations all around the world (France, Australia, New Zealand, the US & more), has resulted in a global perspective. She loves sharing her passion with others and helping them to chase their thirst for interesting wine and great food.