Tenedor Tours in San Sebastian, founded by Gabriella Ranelli in 1997, designs private custom Basque food and wine tours behind the scenes with chefs, winemakers and producers across Gipuzkoa.
Route: Private Basque food and wine tour, custom itineraries
Tip: Custom only; minimum half-day, full-week itineraries on request. Email through tenedortours.com.
Mimo's Michelin Star Secrets in San Sebastian takes a small group through chef demonstrations, technique walkthroughs and a tasting based on the city's Michelin canon at the Maria Cristina cooking school.
Tip: Includes a four-course tasting with wine pairings. Book through mimo.eus 2 weeks ahead.
Potluck Food Tours in San Sebastian runs chef-led culinary adventures across the Basque Country, with pintxos crawls, market visits and cider-house dinners on multi-day itineraries.
Tip: Multi-day Basque itineraries with hotel coordination. Book through potluckfoodtours.com.
San Sebastian Food runs an Old Town pintxos crawl with Basque wine pairings, leading small groups through the canonical bars on Calle 31 de Agosto and Fermin Calbeton across an early-evening route.
Tip: Cooking classes are the sister product; book through sansebastianfood.com.
Mimo's evening pintxos tour from the Maria Cristina Hotel in San Sebastian walks groups of eight through the Old Town's best counters, with five stops and Txakoli pours every evening at 18:30.
Tip: Tours daily from 18:30. Book through mimo.eus; the cooking school upstairs is the sister product.
Devour Tours' Ultimate Pintxos and Wine tour in San Sebastian's Old Town runs groups of eight through eight pintxos stops and five drink pours in family-run bars over three hours.
Tip: English-only tours; book through devourtours.com. The Centro tour is a separate product for a quieter crawl.
Devour's Centro pintxos and wine tour in San Sebastian takes small groups away from the Parte Vieja crowds into the working downtown bars where locals eat away from the tourist queues.
Tip: Better-value than the Old Town version; the route covers the gilda canon at Antonio Bar.