Food and Culture Walk: 3-Hour Educational Tour through the Heart of Bergen City Center

Embark on a 3-hour food and culture walk through the heart of Bergen city center. Discover traditional tastes, hidden gems, and popular attractions while indulging in local food and drinks.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Fishmarket in Bergen - Taste of local food with history
  • Bryggen Hanseatic Wharf - Taste of local food and history of the heritage
What's Included
  • Lunch
Additional Information

Embark on a culinary and cultural journey through Bergen city center with this 3-hour tour, starting from Bontelabo 2. Sample traditional flavors and learn the history behind them under the guidance of a local expert. Your tour will take you off the beaten path to lesser-known local treasures, coupled with visits to notable sights around the city. We’ll…

Location
Tourist Information in Bergen
Strandkaien
You meet our guide by the entrance of the touristinformation.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Debbie_g
Oct 27, 2024
Great Intro to Bergen - Great overview of Bergen. It’s history and food. Freda our guide was wonderful. Loved all the food experiences.
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276charlenes
Oct 2, 2024
Bergen Highlights with Andres - Andrea provided a very interesting cultural tour of the beautiful town of Bergen with delightful and delicious stops for local cuisine. We loved the fish cake from the fish market located next to the tourist center at the harbor! Never have we visited such a well organized fish market with delicacies galore and fine wines to accompany the seafood choices. Learning about the carpentry of the Middle Ages which still is required for today’s renovations was interesting and Andrea showed us the extraordinary process! In a beautiful garden setting we enjoyed a lunch of a meaty(lamb&pork) soup with delicious local vegetables. We visited the moose leather shop where we bought a moose leather fisherman’s cap! The cellar bar with its unique and tasty beer and the captivating story of Prince Christian II shared by Andrea will certainly lead to another visit there!! We highly enjoyed and recommend this tour with charming Andrea in Bergen!
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Tara_u
Sep 26, 2024
Fun food and facts! - Great guide! Fun food samplings! We visited Bergen highlights by way of a well organized walk. A nice way to spend an afternoon.
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Emily_e
Sep 24, 2024
Excellent tour! - Wonderful tour guide - very knowledgeable and an engaging story teller. Food and drinks were also wonderful! Thank you, Ivan!
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K9128mkstaceya
Sep 20, 2024
A great guide made for a great tour! - Our 3 hour walking food & culture tour was awesome. Our guide Nina was delightful! She was very knowledgeable & provided historical as well as whimsical details about Bergen & its history. The stops for local food was a nice treat. Thanks to Nina, it was a most enjoyable tour!
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Jane_m
Sep 18, 2024
Great Bergin Food and Culture Tour - This was a very extensive tour. We covered a lot of area and the guide was excellent. She was a wealth of information!
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Cory_s
Oct 7, 2024
Good tour overall. - History part was great, food portion was a little lacking. Would have loved to learn more about the unique culture of the food and why it's signature to the area. Additional food stops would have been better, with smaller bites.
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Leanne_m
Sep 10, 2024
Great tour - Emphasis of our tour was on the culture and not the food. But given that, the history and local culture imparted by our guide was pretty wonderful and through. Time well spent and worth the dollars spent as well.
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Memworldwide
Oct 12, 2024
History Tour (with snacks) - If you are a foodie looking for a food tour, this isn’t it. Our guide was perfectly nice and had lots of stories to tell about the Hanseatic history of Bergen. There were also snacks- a fish cake, cinnamon bun, brunøst (brown cheese), a bowl of soup, warm apple juice, beer- but we came away not having learned anything about the food or culture of Bergen. The pork and lamb soup, at a restaurant that used to be a public bath, was an especially odd part of the tour.) If you are really interested in Norwegian or Bergen food and food culture, this is not the tour you want.
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544betsyk
Sep 15, 2024
Disappointing- more history tour than culture and food tour - The tour was so different from other tours like this in other cities. The first half was standing around for long periods of time listening to a history lecture from a guy who knew English well but had no fluency. It was hard to follow the story with his halting English. At one point we stood for 20 plus minutes to listen in a dark cool hallway. Why look at beautiful views when they might distract you from the history lecture? We were given some local food but literally started the tour standing next to the fishmarket, and he never once mentioned anything about it. The second half was better after we stopped for meat soup at a local restaurant. We walked through some cool neighborhoods and got some good pictures. It ended with a small beer in an old pub with a drawn out historical story. If you’re expecting a food tour where you go to 4 or 5 local restaurants with short stops to point out the attractions and lots of food and culture content while you eat, this is not that.
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