Florence Food and Wine Tasting: Private Tour with Local Expert

Experience the local flavors of Florence on a private food and wine tasting tour. Discover the city’s coffee culture, explore the bustling market, and indulge in traditional favorites like Florentine street food, Tuscan sweets, olive oil, meats, cheeses, truffle, aged balsamic, and wine. Finish off with a creamy gelato. Book now!

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Chiesa di Sant’Ambrogio - We will start off in the very local neighborhood of Sant’ Ambrogio. Here we will visit a few different small shops to taste local favorites. Our tastings along the tour include everything from cantucci, coccoli, pizette, meats, cheeses, olive oil, truffle, and much more!
  • Duomo - After a few tastings in the Sant’ Ambrogio area, we will then take a nice stroll through the city center twisting and turning on the local streets to enter into another local neighborhood.
  • Ponte Vecchio - Enjoy a view of Ponte Vecchio as we continue on with our tasting tour!
What's Included
  • Tastings
What's Not Included
  • Transportation
Additional Information

This adventure is an excellent opportunity for visitors seeking an authentic local perspective! Join your knowledgeable, bilingual guide to immerse yourself in the Florentine community life. Our journey starts by savoring some Italian coffee, giving you a glimpse of our integral coffee culture. We then proceed to a vibrant local market, where you’ll experience the freshest seasonal produce, acquaint with local meat sellers and fishermen, and enjoy yet another scrumptious tasting session. We will then promenade through the heart of the city, making pit stops at a handful of family-run businesses to relish in tasting some iconic favorites like Florentine street meals, Tuscan desserts, Olive Oil, variety of Meats and Cheeses, Truffle, Aged Balsamic, wine, and much more! We’ll cap off our expedition with an indulgent local gelato. This walking exploration includes 5-6 stop overs and around 10 separate tasting activities!

  • No health restrictions but this is a 3 hour tour that includes walking between each stop
Location
Piazza Sant'Ambrogio, 3R
Piazza Sant'Ambrogio
We will meet on the steps of the Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio (Sant'Ambrogio Church). It is located right in the piazza at the intersection of 3 streets.
Cancellation Policy

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

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Iraa1
Aug 22, 2024
Great tour! - We had an enjoyable and tasty food tour with Christy. The food was great and Christy’s perspective on life in Florence was interesting. We have found that food tours are a nice way to get to know a city and this tour was the best!
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Josh_b
Jul 12, 2024
Amazing Food Tour in Florence - Highly recommend. Christy was a superb guide and our tour was equally brilliant. It was fun for our entire family of six — including kids from 18 to 7yrs old. The variety of foods, the flavors, the walking tour of Florence and her fun, informative style all contributed to an experience everyone loved and none will forget. Thank you, Christy!
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Kathyaustin
Jun 26, 2024
Florence Food Tour with Tatiana - Tatiana was phenomenal! We had a great food tour with her! Highly recommend! Our whole family of six enjoyed it!
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Zach_p
Jun 24, 2024
Great Experience! - My wife and I were on our honeymoon and wanted a unique way to experience the streets of Florence. Christy was very knowledgeable about the city and she walked us to several cafes and markets that were a little outside of the very touristy areas which we appreciated. It was such a fun experience walking through the streets, chatting about Italian culture and stopping for delicious food and drinks along the way. Our stop at San Ambrogio Market was definitely a highlight, and Christy even took us to an additional wine shop towards the end of the tour and introduced us to the owner who ended up helping us ship wine back home. Highly recommended if you’re looking for a unique, private and delicious tour through Florence! Go on an empty stomach though because you’ll definitely get full with all the food you’ll eat along the way.
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Emily_e
May 28, 2024
Must do tour while in Florence - Tatiana started with an amazing market and took us through and gave us an introduction to typical florentine food. Moving onto walking tour with coffee, desserts, and so much more. The really great part was having a local give you a tour of there city and the bits of history in the tour too.
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Dianne_l
May 20, 2024
Delightful journey through the city's culinary treasures. - We had an exceptional experience with Christy. It was a delightful journey through the city's culinary treasures. We started the day with delicious pastries, sampling some of the finest Italian baked goods. From there, we walked through a local farmers' market with cheese tasting and Tuscan Coccoli. Later, delicious paninis were enjoyed as we listened to the history of Italian Poet Dante adjacent to his historical church. The wine tasting offered us the chance to savor some of Tuscany's best wines and learned about the 3 markings of a good Chianti! No tour would be complete without indulging in some gelato, and we found some of the creamiest and most flavorful scoops in the heart of Florence. Every bite and sip added to the richness of our experience, making it an unforgettable day.
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Owen_m
Apr 18, 2024
Florence food tour - Our family of 4 (two teenagers) had an amazing time with our energetic, friendly and knowledgeable guide. We were able to taste a wide range of local foods and drinks in a variety of venues. Such a fun way to learn and experience Florence.
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Chelsea_m
Feb 27, 2024
The most wonderful food tour of them all!! - My husband and I have done several walking food tours in numerous cities, but this one was special!!! The one on one experience with Tatiana was exceptional! She instantly made us feel comfortable, and we enjoyed three full hours getting to know her. We felt like great friends by the time we parted ways! The food choices were exceptional and filling, the sites warm and quaint, and the company was exquisite. This was truly the highlight of our trip here thus far, and recommend this experience hands down!!! THANK YOU Tatiana, you were a jewel! We thoroughly enjoyed our afternoon with you.
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Andrea_b
Nov 11, 2023
Amazing Experience - Tatiana was absolutely amazing. So passionate about her work and very personable. Thank you so much for a memorable day.
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Amy_h
Jun 6, 2024
Great local guide perspective with limited food/wine included - This is a great tour for your first day in Florence! Our guide was attentive, energetic, and very insightful as to the sites of Florence that we may miss without the help of a local. She was eager to ensure that we made the most of our time while in Florence, making lots of recommendations for restaurants, sites to visit, and foods/drinks to try while in town (she even wrote them down so we could reference them later). This would have been so helpful to have on the first day of travel, so you could refine your remaining visit based on her helpful input. We were leaving the next morning, so we missed out a bit on this opportunity, but we were able to fit in an extra bar and visit to Piazzale Michelangelo based on her recommendation! She clearly has a passion for the city (and Italy in general), which was contagious. In terms of the food/wine elements of the tour- I think there is some room to improve. I've taken numerous food tours and they all had FAR more food involved, and more interesting things that we would not otherwise have tried. On this tour, we found some of the food choices a bit boring- gelato, cappuccino, Italian cookies/biscuits (all things that we had already had REPEATEDLY and weren't particularly unique to Florence). A few of the other choices were great- Florence typical appetizer and truffle pork panini. The food element just didn't resonate with us. In terms of this being a "wine tour"- we had only one glass of wine at the end of the tour, which was disappointing. We ended up deciding to go to a wine tasting somewhere else so we could try more Tuscany wines. I will say, though, that the wine bar (and every other shop) she took us to was fantastic! Overall, we enjoyed this tour, in particular, for the insights our guide offered about life in Florence, which helped us gain a better appreciation for this lovely city. If you do decide to book (which I recommend!), you may just want to manage expectations about the food/wine elements, which are more limited than anticipated.
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