Top 10 Food Tours in Canada, Canada

September 22, 2021 Darleen Reid

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1. Secret Food Tours Toronto w/ Private Tour Option

St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St E, Toronto, ON M5E 1B4, Canada Secret Food Tours Toronto
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5.0 based on 27 reviews

By booking our Toronto Food Tour, we will take you on a taste-bud tantalising journey with dishes inspired by the culture that shaped Toronto. Along the way, your guide will share some key points of local, as well as Canadian history.

Inclusions: Food tasting

Exclusions: Food and drinks

Reviewed By jwmuir18

Had a great food tour with Ian as our guide. Very friendly and knowledgeable. Fully recommend to anyone looking to learn a bit about the city whilst being well fed!

2. Toronto Great Canadian Food Tour

Pow Wow Cafe, 213 Augusta Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 2L4, Canada Chopsticks+Forks
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In less than 2.5 hours, let us take the trouble off your hands to find and taste some of the best places to discover all things born and made in Canada - all on one food tour. With up to 12 guests, we'll explore Kensington Market, one of Toronto's oldest and most diverse neighbourhoods, bite by bite. As we walk along the streets, we'll stop to sample bites from 6 stops that cover all the essential eats of Canada. Our stops will introduce you to Indigenous foods from before Canada was even a nation to more recent delights like the Quebec favourite: Poutine. VEGETARIANS: Vegetarians are welcome but please note that the menu is quite different and becomes much less Canadian. We cannot accommodate aversions to gluten, eggs, dairy and nuts.

Inclusions: The tastings are more than enough to equal a very generous meal.

Exclusions: Gratuities, Alcoholic Beverages, Bottled water

Reviewed By markhoog123

My wife and I decided at last minute to look for a food tour in Kensington Market. We did the tour with Jesup and had an amazing time! Jesup was a fantastic guide who was a lot of fun as we toured the neighbourhood. We learned a lot about Kensington Market and we really enjoyed our 6 food stops.

3. Creemore's Route Champlain Culinary Cycling Tourism Experience

Creemore Springs Brewery Limited, 139 Mill St, Creemore, ON L0M 1G0, Canada Patricia Cleary
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Creemore is located in the centre of the once thriving Huron Wendat nation. We will share the story of First Nation over 1000 year history in the Creemore area and arrival of Samuel de Champlain, the Founder of New France in 1616. Our tour is part of the Route Champlain - Ontario's Historic Trail and offered in both of Canada's official languages, English and French. The tour is followed by a French/Indigenous inspired 5 course Gourmet Luncheon featuring local farm to table seasonal ingredients hosted at an Authentic RIverside Maple Sugar Shack, dining al fresco under a canopy of trees. We can arrange a rental bike for you to enjoy the scenic 15 km bicycle ride through the local countryside along roads that were once trails for trade over 500 years ago, or linger a little longer in town to shop and enjoy tastes at the Brewery. All inclusive - excluding bike. Bringing your own road-worthy bike plus helmet is permitted

Inclusions: Lunch, Historic Tour, Air-conditioned vehicle

Exclusions: Use of bicycle

4. Private Tour: Secret Food Tours Vancouver

200 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6C 1S4, Canada Secret Food Tours Vancouver
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This tour takes you down the main strip of Gastown, where you will be able to eat delicious foods that can only be found in Vancouver and Canada, all while feeling as if you are walking through a small town in Europe. Our food tour is specifically designed to hit your taste buds in all the right places as we make our way through the town from place to place. On our Secret Food Tour in Vancouver, you will get to try many dishes that locals have come to love. They are made with fresh and local ingredients and are restaurants that you will find in no other city. We have created a relationship with these local companies which ensures top notch service. As a private tour, everything works around you! Our start times are much more easy going, dates can open up. It's a much more intimate and cozy experience. No need to shout over other tourists, you will have every question answered, and leave feeling like a native yourself!

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Reviewed By TommsL

Our guide, Liam was very knowledgeable and friendly. I guarantee we would not have found these restaurants on our own and each stop was better than the last. It wasn't too much walking at all, but the Gas Light area where we was clean and interesting. I would recommend taking one of these tours especially if you like adventurous eating. (It was also a good way to scope out some shopping sites as you walked to the next stop)

5. Explore and Taste The Junction, Toronto’s Hippest Neighbourhood (3 Hours)

3224 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M6P 2A3, Canada Toronto Food Adventures
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Recently named by TimeOut as Toronto’s hippest neighborhood, The Junction is the perfect place to explore and eat like a local. On this guided three-hour walking tour, led by a local expert, you will have the opportunity to have tastings at five delicious restaurants as well as explore local shops. This tour shows you the people, history, and ingredients behind the food all the while experiencing the sights, sounds, and aromas of this unique neighborhood. On this tour, you will discover The Junction’s unique history, including why the neighborhood had a prohibition on alcohol until only two decades ago. If you are the kind of traveler who loves authentic experiences, this is the tour for you.

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6. A Wok Around Chinatown: Culinary and Cultural Walking Tour Led by a Chef

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K2, Canada A Wok Around Chinatown
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It's no secret that Vancouver's off-duty chefs love to shop for themselves and choose from the freshest local and exotic fruits, vegetables, seafoods, and meats. Chinatown is where they go!. This is a 3.5-hour culinary and cultural walking tour of the colourful & historic Vancouver Chinatown District,.Our knowledgable guides will showcase a beautiful Classical Chinese Garden, historic Chinatown landmarks, then explore the exotic food, cookware, pastry, tea and herbal medicine shops. A delicious dim sum lunch is also a part of this unique, small-group tour.

Inclusions: Walking tour that includes food samplings, tea, and dim sum lunch

Exclusions: Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)

Reviewed By faerylight1

Robert who guides the tours is such a knowledgeable and lovely person. We seemed to have him all to ourselves on our trip. His amazingly kind and welcoming, with tons of knowledge about the food, area and history. We enjoyed every single food sample that we were introduced to - and such a great way for a foodie to look around granville !!! we would happily book this up again and do it all over - you will come away wanting to buy everything so be warned haha!!

7. Old Quebec City Food Tour

49 Rue St - Louis, Québec, QC G1R 3Z2, Canada Local Quebec Food Tours
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Discover and taste your way through the oldest and most European-like neighbourhood of Quebec City. Sample varied dishes ranging from traditional to modern and get a feel for what it is to be Québécois! Adult + Alcohol tickets include wine and a local gin pairing as well.

Inclusions: La Bûche - A 3-course tasting with a Québécois pea soup, pâté chinois, and maple taffy, Chez Paillard - Discover the true french-style bakery and taste the best croissant in town., Chez Boulay Comptoir Boréal - Enjoy a traditional Québécois holiday dessert: sucre à la crème., BEClub Bistro - Mac & cheese with maple bacon. Adult tickets receive a local wine ( 2oz glass)., Maison Livernois - Poutine! Adult + Alcohol tickets receive a Québécois gin pairing., Please bring your own water bottle to help us save the environment. However, if you forget we have a water bottle for you.

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Reviewed By jennifergollop

There really is no better way to get to know a city than to do a food tour! We chose this tour as it was recommended by a friend and we were so pleased we did. The guide was friendly and knowledgeable (Ben) and the timings worked perfectly. We had the best mac and cheese ever, paired with local wine which was the standout stop for us! It was a little chilly being December, but the time between stops was very manageable. Great tour and would do it again

8. Wine and Lunch Escape

Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel, 1919 Upper Water St, Halifax, NS B3J 3J5, Canada Grape Escapes Nova Scotia Wine Tours
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4.9 based on 157 reviews

Enjoy a scenic drive to the Annapolis Valley to experience 3 award winning wineries. Sip your way through Nova Scotia wine country and learn about our cool climate wines. Stop one includes a tour/tasting at the first winery. At the second winery enjoy a guided tasting and lunch with wine at Luckett Vineyards, overlooking the beautiful Minas Basin fed by the Bay of Fundy (Luckett Vineyards is only available during May-December). Finally, visit a third winery after lunch for a final guided tasting before heading back to Halifax.

Inclusions: Air-conditioned vehicle, Lunch with a glass of wine, beer or cider for each guest is included plus server gratuities to the restaurant, Tour and tasting fees are included at all 3 of the wineries visited, Bottled water

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Reviewed By AtlanticLobsterLover

Driver/guide (Colleen) excellent ... bus (Se-bus-tian) comfortable - USB ports for charging phones/cameras would be nice ???? - water ????. Wineries: Benjamin-Bridge excellent in every way .. Genny superb (knowledgeable, clear, timing perfect!), wines wonderful, ambience the best (under construction but still enjoyable). Luckett Winery great as well .. location, product selection and ambience perfect. Wine steward not tops .. upset with me as I accidentally broke a glass and not a lot of commentary. Pours much more “conservative” than BB. Lunch, however, superb with generous sandwiches, salad and nice glass of wine or beer. Nice addition to see and chat with Pete Luckett ???? Gaspereau Winery: nice but not as impressed with this stop. Wine steward rushed us and we felt like we were bothering her. Pours were the stingiest of the tour. Nice room out back which we were not taken to or shown .. that would have been a great place to have a tasting instead out out in the cold by a metal table.

9. Kensington Market -Toronto's Neighborhood International Food Tour

240 Augusta Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 2L7, Canada Chopsticks+Forks
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Designed for the adventurer, this food tour introduces you to flavours from around the world with the beginner and novice in mind. Experience Toronto's amazing diversity through food, which includes tastings from 6+ countries. This food tour winds through one of the most eclectic neighbourhoods in Toronto. Each tasting highlights items that are full of flavour, without the hot. Great vegetarian options and there is NO pork on the menu. After this tour, you'll leave feeling like you've been taken on a "round the world" tasting tour. Take the worry of figuring out what to try on your ethnic food adventure.  Discover the culture and history of our city, just northwest of the busy downtown area. Discover why Chopsticks+Forks is ranked the #1 Food Tour company on TripAdvisor in Toronto! Book today! Please Note: This is a walking food tour that operates through the Winter months.  Please dress appropriately.

Inclusions: Food tasting, Local guide, Guaranteed to skip the long lines

Exclusions: Gratuities, Alcoholic drinks, Hotel pickup and drop-off

Reviewed By HelenyMelony

The Great Canadian food tour has been one of the highlights of our stay in Toronto. Having never experienced a food tour before, we didn’t know what to expect, but Jusep was the best guide we could have wished for! He was super fun to spend the tour with & was so enthusiastic about the food & history we experienced whilst walking around Kensington Market. Everything we ate was honestly so delicious & left us wanting to go back again! Thank you Jusep for making the tour such a memorable experience!

10. Secret Food Tour of Vancouver w/ Private Tour Option

200 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6C 1S4, Canada Secret Food Tours Vancouver
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4.9 based on 65 reviews

City Manager Austin's experience of Vancouver food and culture is a powerful one. Outgoing and charismatic, he grew up in small town Ontario and moved to Vancouver 7 years ago and fell in love with the area right away. He enjoyed the seafood, sushi and the mountains right away and his energy on these topics will be sure to rub off on you. He has travelled to 35 countries and Vancouver is the place he always ends up back at. Being an athlete most of his life, his need for food as fuel made him a foodie automatically due to such high dietary needs. He thus made food an important part of his life. Living in Gastown himself as an actor, he is far from silent when it comes to giving tips and sharing his passion for the culture and food in

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Reviewed By TommsL

Our guide, Liam was very knowledgeable and friendly. I guarantee we would not have found these restaurants on our own and each stop was better than the last. It wasn't too much walking at all, but the Gas Light area where we was clean and interesting. I would recommend taking one of these tours especially if you like adventurous eating. (It was also a good way to scope out some shopping sites as you walked to the next stop)

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