This tour was fantastic! Susanna was a fun and knowledgeable tour guide and was so easy to talk to! Highlight was the central market. Context always has such great people. A real pleasure!!
Florence Food Tour: Cuisine & Wine Tasting
Explore Tuscan food and wine culture beyond tourist menus
Join a local who knows where stories simmer, turning every bite into a memory and a dinner-table detail to retell back home.
Tour Highlights
- Local flavors, easy choices Follow a chef or food writer to flavors locals love, letting your palate lead the way.
- Stories worth serving Carry home wine tips, food pairings, and Florentine stories worth retelling at dinner.
- Market sense, not guesswork Navigate markets, cafes, and shops through local best practices, instead of guidebook checklists.
- Tuscan wine, decoded Taste celebrated Tuscan wines while learning how grapes, place, and care impact flavor profiles.
- Street foods with context Sample truffle sandwiches, salami, focaccia, pastries, and seasonal gelato in local context.
- Culinary roots and customs Connect agriculture, trade, and social customs through Florence’s daily flavors.
Led by Experts, Shaped by You
Explore with an expert guide who responds to your questions, your interests, and your pace. Reveal layers of meaning most visitors miss—go from seeing to understanding.
The Finer Details
Florence has always spoken fluently through food. Join a local chef or food writer who helps tune your ear to that language, from the chatter of a market to the soft swirl of wine in a glass. This is not a sit-down meal, but a moving conversation through city streets, markets, and artisanal shops.
As your Florence food tour winds through the historic center, bakeries, markets, and cafes reveal the Florence locals actually use. Your Context Expert knows where Florentines pause for lunch, what workers order without fuss, and which foods can carry a story home. Instead of collecting random tastes, gather details that can become part of your own table talk later.
Regional specialties give the walk its flavors: truffle sandwiches, salami, focaccia, pastries, and gelato when in season. Each bite comes with something worth remembering, from how locals judge quality to why an unexpected pairing works.
Cuisine also makes Florence’s history easier to understand. Between bites, discuss the forces that shaped Tuscan cuisine—from agriculture, social customs, and trade—long before restaurants turned it into a headline. What makes a food memory last: the flavor itself, or the story that lets you bring it back to life?
Wine tasting draws the countryside into the city. Sample some of Tuscany’s most celebrated wines while discussing grape varieties, production methods, and the reasons these bottles gained international fame. Your Context Expert helps turn that knowledge into something you can use later, whether you’re choosing a bottle for friends, planning a meal, or casually explaining that you learned the pairing in Florence (no big deal).
This walk is for people with curious palates who want more than the famous Florentine steak. With a chef or food writer beside you, move past guesswork, language barriers, and the pressure to research every restaurant before arriving. Leave with favorite tastes, sharper instincts, and the kind of local details that make recreating Florentine flavors a breeze after returning home.
Meet the Experts
Where You’ll Go
From iconic landmarks to tucked-away local favorites, these are the places you’ll explore and experience firsthand with your Expert.
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Historic District
What’s Included As Standard
Here’s a look at what your tour covers, plus anything you’ll want to consider arranging separately, so you can plan with confidence.
Included
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English-speaking expert guideTours led in English, offering you unbroken understanding throughout.
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Intentionally sized groupsA smaller group means more time for conversations and questions.
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Tickets and entrance feesAll entry tickets included (unless clearly stated otherwise).
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HeadsetsHeadsets are included on tours that need them, so every word can be heard.
Not Included
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Food and drinkUnless booking a Food & Drink tour or tasting experience, refreshments are not included.
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Transportation to and from the meeting pointUnless noted, pre- and post-tour transport isn’t included - this service can be added by request.
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GratuitiesTips aren’t included, but we encourage tipping as a way to thank your guide after your experience.
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Hotel pickup or drop-offUnless noted, travel to or from accommodation isn’t included - this service can be added by request.
Where You'll Explore
Make the Most of Your Tour
Some helpful advice for getting the most from your experience, from practical prep to small on-the-day tips.
Dos:
- Wear comfortable footwear
- Check the weather and dress appropriately
- Bring a bottle of water (no glass)
- Feel free to ask your Expert anything
Don'ts:
- Bring firearms or weapons
- Bring sharp objects (e.g. knives, swiss army knives, switchblades, hiking sticks)
- Dress inappropriately to enter religious sites or sacred monuments
Any questions? You can always
contact us.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. If you have any specific allergies/intolerances, please indicate these in the Notes section when you're booking, and your guide will do his or her best to accommodate. This tour is not suitable for vegans or clients with gluten intolerance. Vegetarian diets can be accommodated.
While we don't cover a large distance on the tour, nor do we take a fast pace, some streets in the city center of Florence are cobbled. Please contact us with any mobility questions; we will be happy to advise if this walk will be appropriate for you or propose modifications where necessary.
While we don't cover a large distance on the tour, nor do we take a fast pace, some streets in the city center of Florence are cobbled. Please contact us with any mobility questions; we will be happy to advise if this walk will be appropriate for you or propose modifications where necessary.
Don’t just take our word for it
This was our second family food tour with Context, and once again, it was the highlight of our trip. The tour lets you discover Florence’s flavors like a local and visit cozy, family-run restaurants you might not find on your own. Our guide, Susanna, was knowledgeable, warm, and kind, and she made everyone in our family feel at home. Our eight-year-old even tried truffles for the first time! Spending the morning with her felt less like a tour and more like exploring the city with a local friend. Besides enjoying delicious food during the tour, we now have a list of local favorites to explore on our own this week. We can’t recommend Susanna and this tour enough. It’s the best way to start a week in Florence, or anywhere else you might be! Grazie!
Friendly, excellent knowledge. Tailored the tour to our family.
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