Liverpool Food Tour: Discover Local Flavors and Stories

Join our small-group local food tour in Liverpool and experience the city’s hidden culinary gems. Explore less touristy areas, taste delicious dishes, and learn about the people and communities behind them. Limited to 10 people for a personalized experience.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Bluecoat - We meet at the oldest building in Liverpool, originally constructed as a school in the 18th century. Now, it serves as a vibrant arts center. We’ll explore this remarkable building before enjoying our first taste of a local classic.
  • Liverpool ONE - At first glance, it appears to be a shopping street, but we’ll uncover the area’s…
What's Included
  • Lunch
  • Enjoy a beer or wine at our last stop
  • Local knowledge tips for further enhancing your stay in Liverpool
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

We are a small group of local guides who love to show off Liverpool and its amazing small businesses. Our tours are full of stories and tales about our city and what life is like here. Our local guides have tailored the route to include some of the most interesting less touristy areas. Every tour has 5 different stops where we visit a local food vendor…

Location
The Bluecoat
School Lane
Your guide will be waiting for you outside the main entrance to the Bluecoat Arts centre on School road.
Cancellation Policy

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

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Andersonnc2017
Nov 30, 2024
Fun family experience - We had such a fun day with James! Food was tasty and conversation was even better. We enjoyed the experience and got very lucky to have wonderful weather.
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Lukeau4463og
Nov 30, 2024
Amazing - This was an amazing experience with a fantastic guide. He took us to great spots and taught us tons about the city and history of Liverpool. Would 100% recommend it.
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Paul_w
Oct 8, 2024
Even Food Critics Frequent - We've been to Liverpool numerous times, mainly limited to shopping, however we decided to make a long weekend in the city to celebrate our wedding anniversary. We'd recently been on a food tour in Harrogate and thought we'd try another. Great way to get your city bearings and doing the tour on day one meant we found some hidden local gems that even food critics frequent. (see later). Our host James was excellent, well informed, jovial and true passion for local economy support. We'd booked based on his responses to some of the reviews (witty, matter of fact and polite). The origins of each restaurant stop was explained and that added to the experience. We met at Bluecoats, which was a quiet hidden gem, where we sought sanctuary from the hub of Liverpool One. Unfortunately Scouse was not on the menu, but we weren't disappointed. A short walk to Lunya for a snack and then a brief walk to lunch and onwards. Further hidden gems followed and a "marmite" (love it or hate it) moment at a fantastic restaurant (that you might well pass by) owned by two brothers, whose savoury doughnut invention will test your senses. We loved it. We also hoped that Tom Parker-Bowells (food critic for the Mail) also approved?? On both tours we've met some lovely like minded "foodies" (mostly from Belfast, we must go there next - maybe James can branch out?). We all had different favourites from the tour which is a testament to the variety of food sampled and the city itself for offering it. Thankfully we had a guide, otherwise we'd have probably stuck to the more well trodden food emporiums. Simply excellent.
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Z8737yvbens
Oct 5, 2024
What an amazing tour - An amazing afternoon out. The food was incredible and James was a brilliant guide, really interesting knowledge about the area and the places we visited. Will definitely be visiting the places shown again.
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Garymb2906jq
Jul 14, 2024
Liverpool bites - Fantastic tour and our guide John was very knowledgeable, engaging and fun to be with. Comes highly recommended .Thank you once more.
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316charisseb
Jun 29, 2024
Fun and Informative - I loved our tour with John Lewis today! I learned so many interesting historical details about the city. I also really like that the tour focuses on small businesses—the food at every stop was delicious and at the end I was completely full. I highly recommend this experience!
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Lindas5107if
Jun 29, 2024
Great food tour in Liverpool! - We had a fantastic time with our guide John Lewis. Not only did we get to sample delicious local food, we learned SO much about the history of Liverpool! Highly recommend!!!
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Matthewdf3849fw
May 4, 2024
Liverpool Food Tour - We had a great time on the tour. We live in Liverpool and found some great new places to eat, and lots of history too. The tour took around 3 hours total, with 5 stops and plenty of stories about the city’s culture and history along the way. We tried some new foods we wouldn’t otherwise have tasted (no spoilers included in the review!) and would definitely recommend it to anyone visiting the city, it was a great way to see some of the sights and get a flavour for the city
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Laurajjh
Apr 28, 2024
Great tour, great food with the bonus of helping local businesses! - Really enjoyable few hours with tour host, James. Plenty of great food in local businesses that we will definitely revisit, while learning about Liverpool history along the way. We wouldn’t have found these places ourselves despite being reasonably regular visitors to Liverpool. I would recommend this tour to anyone, locals, almost locals like ourselves and tourists alike. Thank you, James for a great tour.
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Wacaster13
Apr 5, 2024
Incredible Liverpool food tour - Amazing way to experience & explore Liverpool. Saw places/streets I wouldn't have seen otherwise and ate wonderful food along the way. James is an excellent guide.
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