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Dinner walk, wine walk or morning walk: choosing between three Lisbon food tours
The three tours side by side: what each tastes, where each starts and who each suits.
Reserve a place on the Baixa walk ↗Three tours compared
| Baixa dinner tour | Food and wine walk | Morning tour | |
|---|---|---|---|
| From | US$80 | US$78 | US$71 |
| Rating | 4.9 from 2,213 reviews | 4.9 from 5,124 reviews | 4.9 from 1,015 reviews |
| Tastings | 8 tastings, 4 drinks | 15 tastings across 6 stops | 8 tastes and 3 drinks across 7 stops |
| Starts at | Praça do Comércio | Praça Dom Pedro IV | Praça da Figueira |
| Operator | Carpe Diem Tours | Inside Lisbon tours | Devour Tours |
If you want the evening to be dinner
Pick the Baixa tour. It is sold as dinner and drinks, with eight tastings and four traditional drinks over three hours, a start at Praça do Comércio and a finish at Praça dos Restauradores. The route is built for stories as much as for food: the first stop is a talk on the rebuilding of Lisbon after 1755, and the guide carries that thread through the taverns, family-run eateries and street-food stops of the Baixa. A private group can book it, and guests aged 18 and over can add the Port Wine Upgrade. It earns its 4.9 from more than two thousand reviews.
If you want the most wine
Pick the fifteen-tasting walk. It is the cheapest per tasting of the three and the one reviewers describe as generous with wine: fifteen tastings across six stops, beginning with Vinho Verde and a codfish cake and passing through Port with cheese, a bifana with draft beer, ginjinha at the bar that first sold it, chouriço with red wine and a rice dish with wine. It starts at Praça Dom Pedro IV with a guide from Inside Lisbon tours. A few guests say the group can feel large, so stay near the guide. Vegan and coeliac guests cannot be catered for.
If your free time is the morning
Pick the Devour Tours morning walk. It is built as breakfast and lunch across seven stops, with eight tastes and three drinks. The stops run from the oldest pastry shop in Lisbon, with homemade sweet pastries and an espresso, through the last traditional Portuguese grocery with its salt cod and acorn-fed Iberian ham, a ginjinha at a 130-year-old family-run stall, a bifana at a busy bar, a sit-down lunch at a traditional tasca with beer or wine, a talk about tinned fish, and a pastel de nata watched being made. It starts at Praça da Figueira and is the cheapest of the three.
What the three share
All three run for about three hours on foot, with a guide leading in English, and all three offer free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start and Reserve now & pay later. None of them is suitable for guests who are vegan or have coeliac disease. All three start in the Baixa, so they combine easily across two days: dinner on one night, the morning walk the day after.
Starting points and getting there
The three squares are within the same downtown grid. Praça do Comércio sits on the river, with its own metro station, Terreiro do Paço. Restauradores Square, where the Baixa tour finishes, lies at the south-east end of Avenida da Liberdade. Praça Dom Pedro IV and Praça da Figueira are the other two meeting points. If you are staying elsewhere in Lisbon, check the meeting address on the booking page for your date.
A short recommendation
For most first-time visitors who want dinner, the Baixa tour is the one to start with: it is the only one of the three built around the evening, and its route covers the district that was rebuilt after the earthquake. For wine lovers, add the fifteen-tasting walk on another night. For anyone short of evenings, the morning tour packs breakfast and lunch into a single walk. Whichever you book, come hungry, wear comfortable shoes and tell the operator about any dietary needs when you reserve.
What the fares buy
At the fares shown on this site, the fifteen-tasting walk works out cheapest per tasting at about US$5, against roughly US$9 per taste on the morning tour and about US$11 on the Baixa tour. The comparison is blunt, because the tours are not the same size of tasting and the Baixa tour counts its drinks separately. It still shows what you are paying for: the Baixa tour costs more because it is built around dinner and a guided walk through the rebuilt district, while the wine walk buys volume. Fares change by date and group size, and the booking page shows the total before you confirm.
A two-night plan
If you have a few days in Lisbon, the tours do not clash. Take the Baixa dinner tour on your first evening, when the story of the 1755 rebuilding makes sense of every street you walk afterwards. Save the fifteen-tasting wine walk for a second visit to the same part of town, or take the morning tour on a day when you want the city at breakfast. Each can be booked separately with free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start, so there is no cost to holding a date while you decide.