PERU
Peru's classics.
Our pick of the 10 food & drink tours worth booking in Peru, with the details that matter: what you see, how long you need, and what it costs.
4-hour Lima food tour in Barranco: watch ceviche and lomo saltado, make pisco sour, taste fair-trade chocolate, and more.
“This tour was excellent! I highly recommend this tour if you want to really experience the food culture in Peru. My tour guide Marcos was very professional and knowledgeable about food history and Peruvian culture.”
A 4-hour English street food tour through Lima’s historic center, with market stops, Chinatown bites, and classic casona chilcano.
“The tour was really enjoyable and well organised. The variety of the food and drinks we tried was amazing and we were really full in the end. Everything was delicious.”
Sacred Valley food and culture tour: Urubamba market tastings, Ollantaytambo chicha, Huilloc family lunch, and Urubamba dessert.
“Amazing experience, beyond food, culture and more, Liat brings her passion in to the tour, she is funny, friendly, and giving her all to the group, taking care of everyone and every detail”
3.5-hour Lima street food tour with Bruce: Central Market, Chinatown, Barrios Altos, and optional pisco sour for $50.
“Love the tour as you get to eat street food while experience local culture. The guide Bruce with Inka Pride was great and informative about places to vist and see. He did offer alternatives for those who are not adventurous in there food choice as well. Overall the food picks tasted delicious 😋”
Private Lima street-food tour with 10 tastings and city highlights, including Chanchamayo coffee, in about 3 hours.
Walk Arequipa’s historic center and taste local fruit, queso helado, and pisco on a small 3.5-hour food-and-culture route.
“Value for money was good, but title of tour was misleading. It was a long walking tour mostly focused on architecture history of city of Arequipa, including review of various natural disasters. Tour guide was nice, but it would have been appreciated if he could have adapted the tour a bit, ie shorten the tour…”
Small-group Lima food tour with Surquillo market fruit tasting plus a 4-course Peruvian cooking class at SkyKitchen.
“This was an exceptional tour from the local markets to the kitchen's rooftop terrace overlooking the city. We were especially grateful that the chefs created a vegan version of their cooking class! Thank you for being a highlight of our trip!”
Tour 3 Ica wineries: learn pisco production, enjoy two sommelier tastings, stroll vineyards, and pair wines with a regional lunch.
“it was a quite good experience. friendly guiding and much interesting information about production and processes.”
Private 3-hour Cusco food tour with 10 local tastings, fruit juices, ceviche and pisco sour, plus landmarks like Qorikancha and La Merced.
“We had a great afternoon with Fabrizio. He showed us to some great places to eat and catered the foods around what we were interested in trying. He even went above and beyond helping us get SIM cards for our phones! I can't recommend this tour enough.”
A 4-hour Miraflores food walk with coffee, chicharrones, market fruit, ceviche, pisco, and churros, led by a small bilingual group.
“Sharing the experience with Sergio the tour guide on my last day of trip to Peru was the icing on the cake!”
