Tour Details
Duration
3
Product Type
Tour
Venues
Central Market
Photos & Highlights
- Gain a true understanding how Valencians really eat both at home and out
- Stroll Valencia’s streets to taste the city’s flavors and uncover Spain’s history through its food
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Tour Description
Valencia’s food deserves more than a passing mention, yet many visitors leave with only a surface taste, having sampled familiar dishes in predictable places. With a Context expert leading the way, focus on how locals actually eat, shop, and think about food, with Central Market as a key to understanding why Valencia follows its own culinary traditions.
Rather than a fixed checklist of stops, expect generous, well-chosen visits to favorite market stalls, bakeries, and food shops. Along the way, stories behind familiar dishes add depth to what you taste, highlighting how Valencia’s culinary identity formed, adapted, and endured, and why it still feels distinct today.
Choose this tour if…
- You’d like to learn how to approach the rest of your trip like a local, gathering tips on where to go and what to order
- You want to avoid tourist traps and be certain you are tasting authentic Valencian cuisine handpicked for you by a local expert
- You are looking for more than just paella. You are seeking a deep dive into the culinary culture with a local.
Please note all tastings are expert and availability-dependent. Each tour is truly an individual experience, but please let us know in your reservation notes if there is anything in particular you would love to taste or prefer to avoid! Here is a sampling of what previous travelers have tasted on this experience:
- Clóchinas
- Tomato Coca
- Pepito sandwich
- Croquetas
- Anchovies
- Horchata
- Fartons
- Esgarraet
- Agua de Valencia or a glass of local wine / beer
Food in Valencia is practical, seasonal, and proudly specific, shaped as much by exchange as by tradition. In the Old Town, everyday habits and history guide what people eat, and Central Market makes that logic visible through choices driven by timing, purpose, and place rather than passing trends.
The route may vary, shaped by your expert. Start with market snacks or linger over sweets, sampling local favorites like clóchinas, tomato coca, croquetas, or anchovies, then finishing with horchata and fartons, esgarraet, a pepito sandwich, or a glass of Agua de Valencia.
Between tastings, your expert highlights how trade routes and migration are woven into shopfronts and side streets, showing how local palates took shape over time. Central Market anchors the experience, while nearby stops broaden the view and reveal just how much variety lives within a compact neighborhood.
By the end of the tour, the food people eat offers a new lens on the city, reshaping how it looks, feels, and makes sense around you.
- Central Market Center of daily food shopping and flavor, known for its Valencian Art Nouveau style architecture.
Tastings
All tastings are covered in the cost of the tour, except should you wish to indulge in a treat or two to take home with you
Transportation
This is an all-outdoor walking tour, and private car service is not included with this tour.
We understand that some of our valued guests may have mobility concerns, and we want to ensure you have a comfortable and enjoyable experience throughout your tour. If there are any accessibility concerns that your tour guide will need to be aware of, please let our team know at the time of booking.
Wheelchair accessibility
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Service dog accommodations
This is an outdoor walking tour, therefore service dogs are welcome. Please let us know if you are attending the tour with a service animal so we can be sure to choose accommodating shops and restaurants.
Is this tour available every day? This tour is not available on Sundays as the market is closed.
Can clients book this tour if they have dietary restrictions? This tour can be adapted to dairy-free clients, vegetarians, and pescatarians. Clients who are gluten-free or vegan will be nearly impossible to cater to.
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