Edinburgh Food & Drink Walking Tours

Happy New Year

Let us hope it is a happy new year for everyone.

We look forward to welcoming visitors back to Edinburgh by the summer. Presently all bars and restaurants are closed so we cannot offer tours.

As the city starts to come alive again, we will start to offer private food walking tours for people travelling together.

When it is safe to do so we will offer our regular daily tours, this will likely be by the summer.

We will continue to offer private tours for people who would feel more comfortable to explore the cuisine of the city with their own guide.

But our daily tours are a great way of meeting fellow travellers and swapping stories on your time or plans in Scotland.

Drop us an email by clicking on link below to be kept up to date on when the tours will be running again or if you have any questions.

Continue to take care and we hope to see you in the not-too-distant future.

For further information on how we plan to run the tours to ensure your health and safety please click on “We’re Good to Go” logo below.

We are hopeful by June 2021 things will be back to normal and people will be able to book on our regular Old and New Town food & drink tours.

Take care.

FOOD WALKING TOURS OF EDINBURGH

Discover Edinburgh’s food culture and history with Eat Walk Edinburgh, the original Edinburgh food walking tour.

Eat Walk Edinburgh tours are all about local sourcing. The company is based in Edinburgh, our guides are local and our tours showcase locally sourced, Scottish food and drink.

We live in a beautiful city with a fantastic array of restaurants and bars which we love to share.

Get a taste for Edinburgh’s vibrant food and drink scene with our two guided food tours.

Edinburgh Old and New Town Tour

Due to COVID-19 our Old and New Town food tour in 2020 will be offered only as a private food tour for your party whether it be 2 people or 10 people. This is to ensure your own enjoyment and ensure we maintain socially distancing criteria.

We are hopeful by 2021 we will be able to provide our regular Old and new town food tour where we take up to 8 people out on tour. (But even if only two people are booked on our regular tours they still go out).

Below is information on the Old and New Town tour that you will experience whenever you book.

The three-and-a-half hour Edinburgh Old and New Town food tour explores both the medieval Old Town of Scotland’s capital and its elegant Georgian New Town. Don’t be put off by the name New Town, yes the Old Town does date back in part to the 1100’s but the New Town dates back to the 1700’s so is worth a visit.

There are five food stops en route, three of them with a drink tasting. All of the stops have been carefully chosen not only to highlight Scotland’s iconic food and drink but also because many of the venues are much loved by local residents. This food tour takes you off the tourist trail.

As well as delving deep into Scotland’s natural larder, the Old and New Town food tour illustrates Edinburgh’s past and present; its history and the day-to-day reality of 21st century living in such a historical city.

Guests will be given audio headsets so you can listen live to the guide as you walk at your own pace or stop to take photos. Our daily regular food tour size is limited to 8 people so you all get a chance to get to know each other on the tour. (During 2020 we will be running only private tours)

The Edinburgh Old & New Town food tour takes place Monday to Saturday at 1pm and Monday to Thursday at 5pm. Private tours are available at other times.

The Canongate Brunch Tour

 Eat Walk Edinburgh also offers a mid-morning tour of the Canongate, the lower half of Edinburgh’s fascinating Royal Mile.

The Canongate tour stops at a mix of eateries, bars, and shops. Visiting local shops provides the opportunity to meet local shopkeepers, who love to chat about their produce and have some tasty samples to try.

Weaving between venues, the tour visits some of the (intriguing) nooks and crannies that are a feature of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town. The guide will explain the local history and stories of these lesser known sights

Eat Walk Edinburgh Tours

Press Tour Reviews

Since we started our food and drinks tours 8 years ago. We have received many great reviews in the media. Those below are a sample of some reviews for our Edinburgh food tours.