Bologna Food Tasting Box

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Embark on a self-guided culinary adventure in Bologna’s historical city center with the Bologna Food Tasting Box. Discover the city’s food and culture at your own pace with 7 vouchers for selected shops and a recommended itinerary for 11 main attractions.

Duration: 1 day

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

The first self-guided tour in Bologna to discover food and culture at your own pace!
The Bologna Food Tasting Box includes 7 vouchers to be used during your stay in selected shops in the historic center for a complete gastronomic experience.
It also includes a handy city map with a recommended route to 11 of its top attractions, which you can discover by…

What's Included

Orientation using a satellite navigator
QR code audio guide for key monuments
Personal welcome by Bologna Tour staff
Seven tasting vouchers for diverse local cuisine
Five vouchers for children aged 5-11 for tastings
Custom map of Bologna highlighting a recommended route and key attractions

What's Not Included

Gratuities

Additional Information

The first self-guided tour in Bologna to discover food and culture at your own pace!
The Bologna Food Tasting Box includes 7 vouchers to be used, during your stay, in selected shops in the historic center for a complete gastronomic experience.
It also includes a handy city map with a recommended itinerary to reach 11 of its main attractions, which you…

Location

Fontana del Nettuno

Piazza del Nettuno

Next to it is the Neptune Fountain, on the steps of the Bar Vittorio Emanuele.

Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings

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Briannehk

Jun 22, 2024

Loved the flexibility!!! - Great tour that I’d definitely recommend! My family, 2 adults and 2 children (ages 8 and 10) really enjoyed the flexibility of the experience. We were only in town a few hrs and wished we had more time to enjoy the audio features as well. The food servings were perfect portions and the locations were very easy to find. My only ‘wish’ is that one of the vouchers was not for a magnet (a bit out of the way so we didn’t go)…and the coffee is only available in the morning but they gave us a much appreciated bottle of water instead (very hot out so it was great!). The self-paced was exactly what we needed and I’ll definitely do other similar tours in the future.

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Al_n

Mar 26, 2024

Great to explore by yourself! - Great idea. Self paced. Vouchers never go bad. Wonderful. Little booklet included a bunch of take away items and treats, a map, more recommendations and info audios.

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C1971eyangelar

Dec 2, 2023

Self guided food tour - Professional introduction to the city by a young woman fluent in English. She made it very clear how to locate the different places we were going to visit that day-with a map and individual coupons with QRC. Very easy to find. Food was amazing. Very flexible for us and the coupons never expire. The vendors at the food places treated us very special and we made other purchases in addition to enjoying the small bites. I really loved the places where we ate and appreciate the tourism department making it easy for foreigners. Thank you

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Harold_k

Sep 24, 2023

Food scavenger hunt - This was a lot of fun and great value. We were late by an hour and they were very nice and accommodating to meet us later. Study the map as some tastings are close to each other. The gelato was the farthest away so we stopped on the way out of town. More than enough food!

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Marcoitalytr

Aug 24, 2023

History and food in Bologna! - It's a very nice why to discover Bologna and its culinary traditions! You can take your time, since it's a self guided tour, with audioguides to discover the main monuments or point of interest in the city center, and food tasting vouchers that you can use in bar and restaurants along the itinerary. I highly recommend it :)

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Kristen_w

Jul 21, 2023

You won’t regret this activity! - The guide was amazing! Polite, knowledgeable, and so kind! We only made it to 3 places and were stuffed! Planning another day to shop and tantalize our palettes!

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Ivan_c

Jun 21, 2023

Plenty of walking while worth it - Different types of foods. No pasta. Breads, balsamic vinegars, morsels sanchwiches, pizzas, gelatos. All were delicious.

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Christian_e

Aug 18, 2024

Great concept - I love the idea, I love the town, and the young woman to attend us was very friendly and spoke excellent English. Three friendly suggestions: 1. Maybe I am a naive tourist, but to me Bologna is the town of Ragu, Lasagne and Tortellini. When doing a food tour, I would have expected anything like this. 2. Maybe you could redesign your map? It shows a clear walking-path alongside the main monuments. Aditionally it shows two dozens of restaurants. They dont necessarily correspond to the vouchers you get. So you stand in a busy hot square, and need to figure out which vouchers correspond to which places on what part of the tour. I would have appreciated a simple „walk to sight A, then stopp and use your voucher B, then walk to sight C, and so on 3. Check the availability of your partners. We got 7 vouchers for 6 places, out of which one was closed for Ferragosts and one didnt accept the voucher after 17:00 (the whole tour starts at 15:00). So we paid 35 per person for two sandwiches, a glass of wine and a shared cold cut. Hope you can fix some issuses. Its a great idea in a great town!

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Tibonil

Dec 9, 2023

Good idea, but could be improved. Price a little high - Various tours leave at 10.30am, so the guides are overworked and you have to wait in the cold for the other trips to be organised. I would advise the organizers to provide differentiated departure times. The map is not very clear, because everything is concentrated in the center. The idea is good, but be careful about changing the one provided in the vouchers! Ask for prices first

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Maria_s

May 14, 2024

Disappointing - We thought it would be fun to do a self-guided food tour at our own pace, but were left very disappointed at the quality of some of the food. The taglieri (cold meats) was excellent, as was the espresso and ice cream. But the mortadella and stuffed breads were just tacky fast foods. Not what we would have expected on the culinary capital of Italy!

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From $48

up to 15 guests

1 Adult