Top Food Tours in Mexico

★ 4.8

The Jose Cuervo Express runs on Saturdays from Guadalajara out to Tequila, an eleven-hour round trip through the agave fields with a guided tour of the La Rojena distillery and tastings that scale with the ticket class.

Club Tengo Hambre: Mexico City After Dark ★ 4.8

Club Tengo Hambre's After Dark walk crawls Centro Historico from dusk through eight taquerias and street counters, ending with cajeta-stuffed churros at El.

Culinary Backstreets: Tasting the Roots of Oaxacan Cuisine ★ 4.8

Culinary Backstreets Earth Corn and Fire is a 5.5-hour walk across Mercado de La Merced and Mercado 20 de Noviembre with a comal tortilla demo and a mole.

★ 4.7

Eat Mexico's La Merced Market Tour walks Mexico City's largest retail market with eight tasting stops including tamales, esquites, tacos al pastor and exotic.

★ 4.7

Oaxaca Eats Classic Centro Food Tour is a 4-hour walking crawl in Centro with about 15 tastings across 4 venues, ending on a mezcal flight.

★ 4.6

A Chef's Tour Guadalajara is the Santa Tere neighborhood food crawl, four hours of birria, tortas ahogadas, carne en su jugo and Tapatio market plates.

★ 4.6

Eating With Carmen's Mérida tour walks Centro and Plaza Grande with seven Yucatecan tasting stops, group capped at ten, departing daily at 10am and 3pm.

Culinary Backstreets: Tasting Oaxaca, By Night ★ 4.6

Culinary Backstreets The Late Shift is a 5-hour afternoon-into-evening crawl through 9-12 stops including a tortas counter open since 1930, a tlayuda vendor.

★ 4.5

Cancun Food Tours' Colors of Mexico taco tour drives between four Cancún taquerías from 18:00 daily, pairing each taco with a drink and ending with churros.

★ 4.5

Tulaka México's Taco Attack walks downtown Cancún from Parque de las Palapas through six to eight taco tastings, a Tequila 101 tasting and fresh churros.

★ 4.5

Veronika's Adventure Yucatan Cuisine Tasting Tour is a Centro Mérida walk with five tasting stops for cochinita, salbutes, marquesitas and Yucatecan beverages.

Club Tengo Hambre: Mexico City Street Food Essentials ★ 4.5

Club Tengo Hambre's Street Food Essentials runs the daytime canon from tamales and esquites to tacos al pastor across the Centro Historico, with seven.

★ 4.5

Oaxaca Street Food Tour walks the Zocalo, Pasillo de Humo and tlayuda stands, run by a women-owned business committed to local and fair-trade vendor sourcing.

★ 4.5

The Mezcal Journey is a 6-hour day trip from Centro at 11am to Mitla and Matatlan, with an agave-field walk, an artisan distillery process tour.

★ 4.4

Secret Food Tours' Cancún food tour makes six downtown stops, from the park facing Mercado 23 to Mercado 28 and Parque de las Palapas, for US$69.99 a head.

★ 4.4

Guadalajara Food Tours is the downtown food-and-drink tour company since 2013, a Centro Historico walking tour of torta ahogada, birria and tejuino tastings.

★ 4.4

GetYourGuide's Mérida Street Food Walking Tour walks Centro and Mercado Lucas de Gálvez with stops for panuchos, salbutes, cochinita pibil and seasonal fruit juices.

★ 4.4

Eat Mexico's Chilango Tacos 101 tour walks the canon Mexico City taco styles across Centro Historico, pairing al pastor, suadero, longaniza and barbacoa.

★ 4.4

Oaxaca by Locals runs a Centro market crawl with a local guide, hitting Mercado 20 de Noviembre, the chocolate block and a small mezcaleria for a final.

★ 4.4

A Chef's Tour Oaxaca is an evening 6:30pm-10:30pm walk for up to 8 guests with 14-plus tastings: campechano tacos, lechon, tlayudas, garnachas.

★ 4.3

Cancun Food Tours' Textures of Mexico tour stops in Cancún for carnitas tacos, tamales, barbacoa and a Yucatecan salbute, plus market time and an art walk.

★ 4.3

Casa Misterio's plant-food tour walks Mérida Centro and Itzimná with five vegetarian Yucatecan tasting stops, including chaya-and-pepita papadzules and corn antojitos.

★ 4.3

Sabores Mexico's Roma Norte tour walks the Colonia Roma food scene with 7 stops and 12 tastings across taquerias, panaderias and neighbourhood kitchens.

★ 4.3

Secret Food Tours Oaxaca runs a 3 to 3.5-hour walking crawl across Mercado 20 de Noviembre, Mercado Benito Juarez and the Zocalo, with 10 stops for mole.

★ 4.3

Eat Mexico's Taste of Puebla walks the downtown market stalls with a poblana guide, tasting about half a dozen local dishes including molotes, cemitas and mole.

TipThe guide is from Puebla rather than Mexico City, which matters when the tasting reaches the mole and the cemita counters.

★ 4.2

Tulaka México's market food tour starts inside Mercado 23 with tamales and regional pork, then moves to Cancún ceviche and ice cream at Parque de las Palapas.

★ 4.2

A Chef's Tour runs a four-hour evening food tour in downtown Cancún with 15 or more tastings, from lechón tortas and pozole to flan and mezcal ice cream.

★ 4.2

Mexican Food Tours in Tlaquepaque is the woman-owned walking food tour, tasting tortas ahogadas, tequila and Tapatio market plates on a Tlaquepaque crawl.

★ 4.2

Civitatis Mexican Food Tour Mérida walks Centro with gorditas, poc chuc, tamales and pastor stops, finishing in Eulogio Rosado, San Benito and Lucas de.

★ 4.2

Puebla Tours runs a four-hour Historic Centre crawl serving each course at a different restaurant: chalupas with agua fresca, mole poblano with beer, then sweets and cafe de olla.

TipHotel pickup is included inside the city, and the walk finishes through the Paseo Viejo de San Francisco to the Barrio del Artista.