30 editor picks across France.
30 food tours worth the trip across France, editor-ranked by TableJourney. All France guides.
Ophorus runs a full-day Medoc wine tour from Bordeaux, with three classified-growth chateau visits in Margaux, Saint-Julien and Pauillac, plus an afternoon.
TipPauillac lunch is not included; the €250 covers transport, tastings and an English-speaking guide.
Culinary Backstreets Marseille walks from Saint-Charles station down into Noailles on a 5.5-hour tour capped at seven guests, tasting West African accras, Algerian bradj, navettes and sardines before a portside apero.
TipSmaller groups; the guide's history-and-politics framing distinguishes it from quick-eat tours.
Les Petits Farcis on Rue Saint Joseph in Vieux Nice runs Rosa Jackson's Cours Saleya market tour and Nicois cooking class, the only English language Nice.
Maison Ruinart's two-hour visit in Reims takes twelve guests at a time into its crayères, about twenty chalk pits on two levels some 40 metres down, and finishes with a guided tasting of two of the house's cuvées.
TipGroups are capped at 12 and the house closes on 1 May; the house prints €90 for adults and the tourist office €85, so check the price when booking.
A La Francaise runs a three-hour gourmet walk through Bordeaux's old streets, calling on artisan producers for canele, cheese and charcuterie tastings that close with a glass of local wine.
TipThe 09:30 start works best ahead of the lunch service; reserve at least three weeks ahead in peak summer.
Original Food Tours runs a 2 to 2.5 hour market walk through Halles de Lyon Paul Bocuse with 5 to 7 vendor tastings: charcuterie, cheese, seafood.
TipTours run Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00; arrive ten minutes early at the Halles main entrance and skip breakfast.
Plum Lyon's market-and-lunch tour starts at Halles Paul Bocuse with Lucy Vanel, picks ingredients with stallholders and finishes with a lunch cooked together.
TipSaturday is the strongest market day; small group of six Book at least 48 hours ahead.
This half-day runs from Montpellier out to the Étang de Thau, pairing a vineyard cellar visit with oysters eaten at a working mas on the lagoon edge.
TipDepartures are Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, leaving the Esplanade de l'Europe at 10:00.
Les Petits Farcis runs the private Nice street food tour in Vieux Nice, Rosa Jackson and her team walking visitors through socca counters, pissaladiere shops.
A Taste of Nice runs the four-hour Pure Nice Food Tour, either a 10:00 walk of the Liberation market or a 17:00 route through Old Nice food shops that tastes candied fruit and local wine before dinner.
A la française Côte d'Azur runs a private Nice gourmet walking tour from the Cours Saleya market through the Vieux Nice specialty shops, with stops for socca, pissaladiere and Nicoise sweets.
Paris by Mouth in Paris runs a 3-hour Marais cheese, charcuterie and wine tour led by working food journalists. Small groups, English-language.
TipTours run Tue-Sat at 11:00 and 16:00. Book three weeks ahead in spring and autumn.
Taittinger's Instant Rosé is a 70-minute guided visit of the house's cellars on Place Saint-Nicaise in Reims, past the remains of a 13th-century abbey, with Brut Réserve and Prestige Rosé to taste.
TipVisits take up to 20 people in French or English, daily from 10:00 with a last tour at 17:00 until 31 December 2026; the cellars stay at about 12 degrees.
Foodeez walks Rennes city centre for three hours across six tasting stops at independent operators, adding up to a full meal of Breton produce.
TipGroups run to a maximum of 14 people and the exact starting point lands by message 24 to 48 hours ahead, so keep your phone to hand that morning.
Taste of Toulouse runs its Victor Hugo Market tour for a maximum of eight guests, tasting breads, Xavier fromagerie cheeses, Southwest duck charcuterie and wine at a bar inside the market hall.
TipMorning departures are the canonical timing while the market is at full capacity; book a week ahead in season.
Authentica Tours runs a private half-day from Dijon down the Côte de Nuits: Gevrey-Chambertin, Chambolle-Musigny and Vosne-Romanée, then one cellar tasting of five to seven wines including a grand cru.
TipMorning departures leave Dijon at 09:30 and cost less than the 14:00 afternoon run; the tasting includes two premiers crus and one grand cru.
Original Food Tours runs a 3 to 3.5 hour Vieux Lyon walking tour with 6 to 8 tasting stops at bouchons, fromageries, pastry counters and wine bars.
TipTuesday to Sunday departures at 10:30 and 17:00; book the morning slot for the market and lunchtime bouchon energy.
Nantes sensorielle is the long Les Épicuriens food tour of Nantes, five hours and fourteen tastings from a fine grocer to a chocolate maker.
TipAbout an hour and a half of the five is walking, so this is the version to book when you want the day itself to be the outing.
No Diet Club's Nice walk was built by two French founders around pan bagnat, socca, farcis nicois, pissaladiere, artisanal macarons and Italian ice cream, with a lesson in the Nissart language between stops.
Le Foodist pairs a Latin Quarter market visit with a hands-on class in English, cooking a three-course French meal such as coq au vin or boeuf bourguignon and sitting down to eat it with wine.
TipThe morning class runs Tuesday to Sunday, 09:00 to 15:00, capped at 12 people; coffee at the school comes before the market walk.
Maison Pommery's one-hour guided tour in Reims goes into the crayères and cellars of the Domaine Pommery, takes in the art exhibition Expérience Pommery and ends with a tasting of your choice.
TipThe estate has 18 km of cellars, 60 Gallo-Roman crayères and a 116-step staircase; a self-guided version with a digital trail costs a little less.
Veuve Clicquot's one-hour cellar tour in Reims, Brut Yellow Label, the birth of a style, leads through the house's historic cellars and ends with a tasting; other tours cover blended rosé and La Grande Dame.
TipIn autumn 2026 the visitor centre opens Tuesday to Sunday until 1 November, then Wednesday to Sunday, 09:30 to 17:30; tickets are booked online.
Food & City Tours walks the Grande Ile and Petite France over six hours and 8 stops, with tastings from pain d'epices and kouglof to Alsace wine.
Viator's Toulouse Food Tour walks the city centre with five tasting stops covering cassoulet, foie gras, charcuterie, cheese and SW France wines.
TipBookable on Viator with free cancellation up to 24 hours; the small-group format caps at twelve guests.
A cassoulet-focused walking tour visiting three Toulouse cassoulet anchors (Restaurant Emile, La Cave au Cassoulet, Le Bibent) with tastings at each.
TipThe most cassoulet-intensive Toulouse tour; book on Taste of Toulouse direct.
Toulouse Gourmet Tours' Traditional Food Tour is six stops, six stories and six tastings led by Chef Alejandro, who cooks some of them on a cargo bike between Place du Capitole and Saint-Sernin.
TipSix stops, six stories and six food samples across four hours; bookings essential, the group is capped at small numbers.
Do Eat Better's Avignon Food Tour is a 3.5-hour walk with at least four food stops, from the Palais des Papes to Les Halles on lunchtime departures.
TipGroups are capped at 12; lunch tours leave at 10:45 Tuesday to Sunday and evening tours at 17:00 Tuesday to Saturday, and the evening route skips the market.
Rustic Vines Tours runs an e-bike ride out of Saint-Emilion through the surrounding vineyards, a Bordeaux day trip with a minimum of ten wine tastings included along the route.
TipE-bikes do most of the work on the gentle Saint-Emilion plateau; bring a hat, the route is exposed at midday.
Tastes of Lyon runs a 2.5 hour Old Town walk built 50 percent food, 50 percent history with charcuterie, cheese and wine, a bouchon main and a Coussin de.
TipGroup departures from Place du Change in Old Town; the guide carries a blue umbrella and minimum three to confirm.
Tasty Lyon's Gourmet Croix-Rousse Tour walks the silk-weaver quarter and daily market with stops at three local artisans and a tasting of Lyonnais.
TipSaturday mornings have the strongest market; book 10 days ahead.
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