Victoria Food Tour: Hidden Gems and Local Cuisine

Embark on a multicultural culinary adventure in Victoria’s downtown core. Sample BC wine, Middle Eastern street food, Korean corn dogs, gourmet cheese, decadent chocolate, and French macarons. Meet local business owners and discover hidden gems with a local foodie expert guide.

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Steamship Terminal - Start the tour at this historic building built in 1924 by famous architect Francis Rattenbury.
What's Included
  • Local guide
  • Afternoon tea
  • Professional guide
  • Food and drink tastings
  • Lunch
What's Not Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

On this fun and tasty tour we take you to our favorite hidden gems in the downtown core serving up delicious multi-cultural cuisine that is unique to Victoria led by a local foodie expert guide.
ON THE MENU: BC wine tasting, baked goods from one of Canada’s best bakery, Middle Eastern street food, authentic Korean corn dogs, gourmet cheese, a decadent…

Location
Off The Eaten Track Food Tours Victoria
Belleville Street
We are on the main floor of the Steamship Terminal Building. We have a gift shop inside, next to the Steamship Grill & Bar Restaurant. Please go inside our gift shop to check-in with the staff.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Roamerj
Oct 20, 2024
Rain or Shine: Do it! - Superb experience with Jo as our guide: cheerful (despite the downpour!) and informative. The food choices were varied and delicious. Come hungry!
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Yesaidar2017
Oct 19, 2024
Yummy food - Food was amazing and loved all of it! I wish I lived closer to go back! FYI go with an empty stomach because you will leave full . The guide was amazing absolutely loved Julie, kinda wish the tour was longer but with rain it turned out great
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Lnmcattell
Oct 13, 2024
Great foodies exploration - Great experience, knowledgeable guide. Good was both exceptional and in some cases unusual! A great way to wander downtown. Do not eat breakfast or lunch before this tour!!!
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Karens9103
Oct 1, 2024
Excellent alternative to a ship based shore excursion - Excellent food tour and experience with our guide Jo! We were the only two on the tour and we really appreciated that it ran with just us. The smoked salmon at the Oso Bakery was some of the best I had and other highlights included Bon Macaron and the L'Apero Cheese Bistro. We'd definitely do other of their tours if we were in town longer.
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Jartemenko
Sep 29, 2024
Highly recommend!! - The tour guide was fun and knowledgeable, and the restaurants they took us to were delicious! There was way more food than we thought, we we're stuffed! And I was happy they accommodated a vegetarian :)
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Bethdv69
Sep 28, 2024
Great experience! - We really enjoyed our tour, our guide AJ was a lot of fun and very knowledgeable. The drinking chocolate was delicious!
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Departure28918842583
Sep 26, 2024
Even better than expected! - AJ was great and introduced us to several delectable foods that were unexpected, along with some very fine wine. It was a great tour, and very enjoyable with the new Canadian friends we met on the tour.
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Marilyn_g
Sep 22, 2024
Nice tour - Nice tour. Guide was interesting. Thought it was strange that 1st food was in a mall food court, tho the sandwich was very good. No story to go with it. Food was plenty. We asked for vegetarian. Went to place that served something like a fried corny dog. Nice that they offered fried & battered cheese, but was fried in same oil as the meat, so we didn’t eat it. Enjoyed the wine & cheese tasting. Portions small here, but delicious.
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Keith_m
Nov 16, 2024
Ordinary - The open faced sandwich was good , however, at a food court in the mall? Wine tasting was barely enough wine to taste. Chocolate and macaroon stores were good. Cheese tasting was very small. Korean corn dog was at a corner store, and Mexican food was a taco at a real small restaurant. I was expecting more in the restaurant setting than fast food, especially for the price.
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Rebecca
Oct 29, 2024
Very rushed and disappointing tour but great food. - I gave it a 3 based on most of the food was great. Otherwise I would give it a 2. The tour itself was very disappointing. We have taken food tours all over the world and this was one of the worst. The guide gave us very little information about Victoria and was more interested in telling us about Japanese culture which seems to be a passion of hers. While passing by an ice cream shop she entered into a 20 minute or more conversation with the owner followed by a 10 minute or so attempt at trying to figure out how to get to our destination in an elevator. It was 40 minutes before we had our first tasting. A stop for wine tasting was a joke. The portions were no more than a tablespoon each and the guide told us we needed to move on even before hearing about the second wine. The third stop was closed. The rest of the tour was very rushed. All four of us in our group commented to each other how rushed we felt. While we were eating samples the guide would go off to pick up food from 3 of our stops. One of the pleasures of food tours is visiting each food stop but in our case she decided to bring the food to us (giving us each samples from two of the places in bags at the end). We don’t even know where the food came from. She also spent a great deal of time looking at or texting on her phone. Don’t know if it was tour related or not. Even though 30 minutes were spent on her interests and not the actual tour, she seemed more intent in limiting the tour to 2 hours than giving us the actual experience.
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