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: 24 hours
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’…
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…

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.

Customer Ratings
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Judy_w
Oct 29, 2024
Pick this tour. Stop looking. You're welcome. - The tour was great! We've done food tours before and figured we'd enjoy this one, too, but it far exceeded our expectations. We enjoyed a LOT of food and everything was delicious, followed by a trip to an off-the-beaten-path wine cellar where we enjoyed a glass of white and a glass of red. I liked the white so much I ordered a case (never done that before). Plus, just hanging out with our tour guide, Christy, was fun. She was super knowledgable, relaxed, and easy to talk to. I spent hours looking for the just the right tour and I'm glad I did. Totally worth it.
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Kathy_f
Oct 18, 2024
BEST way to begin your adventure in Florence - My husband and I enjoyed learning about the city,culture and food on our very first day in Florence. Our time was well spent learning so much and tasting all the incredible offerings in Florence. Our guide was friendly,helpful and genuine.
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Monique_g
Oct 3, 2024
Book now!! - We booked this tour on our Italian honeymoon. We had the pleasure of having Tatiana as our local guide and she was such a lovely person. We had such a great day with her and learnt so much. We have booked local private tours in all our stops and we couldn’t be happier. If you are thinking of booking this than don’t think twice. No regrets and you not only get great food and wine, but a friendship as well. Thanks so much Tatiana and until next time, Grazie!
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Carol_p
Oct 2, 2024
Tasting wonderful Florentine foods - Tatania was a great guide and did a wonderful job of showing us Florentine food from local vendors. The food was marvelous. It was so nice to get away from the crowds and see a local market.
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Morgan_g
Sep 12, 2024
Amazing food and wine! - Christy was a wonderful guide and definitely a local expert! She spoke excellent English and was very easy to understand. She took us to all local, mostly family owned businesses and local fresh markets. Would definitely recommend!
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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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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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From $78
up to 10 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).