Edinburgh Food & Drink Tour with Eat Walk Tours

Nice walk, great food, kind tour guide, but short on history and/or interesting information.

Honestly the tour was a little disappointing. Our guide was very nice, but she was very young and had little knowledge of the city, history, etc. My wife and I have been on at least a dozen similar food tours in various cities and they typically include a guide that provides a wealth of knowledge about the area. This guide was mostly quiet unless asked a specific question, and then didn't know some of the answers. The food was excellent, and she was an excellent "host", but I think she needs more education about the area in order to provide the experience we'd expect. After she left the other two couples indicated the same opinion. The four stars is because she was very kind and the food was great, as were the other couples, but honestly the knowledge gained on the tour would be more like a 2-3 star experience comparative to others we have taken.

Skip this tour

Not enough food. Portions were small and left hungry. For the price there should have been more generous portions and less sharing.

Eating Edinbourgh

This was a fun tour with excellent food and drinks. Our guide, Sarah, was awesome and really knew the city and had great recommendations. The tour itself, with Sarah, was excellent. Unfortunately, the only reason why this is not a 5 star review is because the tour was delayed about 30 min. from its intended start. The four of us waited about 30 min. in the rain and contacted Sarah that we were waiting. As it turned out, the intended guide was a no-show and Sarah herself hurried to our meeting place to host the tour herself.

Exceptional, delicious and unique tour of Edinburgh for foodies and adventurers!

From beginning to end, the tour was terrific. Fran was friendly, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and engaging. There were ten members of our group which was the perfect size and made it fun for everyone. The venues were all fantastic and the food and drink five star. We were taken to places we would have never discovered on our own and they were exceptionally accommodating with food preferences/needs. We would highly recommend this tour to anyone whether on a first visit or tenth to Edinburgh. There is something new to learn/taste/discover for everyone.

Amazing time with fun folks in Edinburgh!

I believe our guide was named Elsie and we just had a great time. I think we were all in town from the USA and got along really well throughout. We ate lots of great food, had nice conversation and learned from our guide about the city. Highly recommend!

Excellent.

Restaurant selection was fabulous and guide did well as navigated through very busy timing due to Taylor Swift being in town. Only one of four restaurants had delay. Selection and quality of food and drinks was great and felt local. Guides were great and shared interesting pieces of information.

Wonderful Scot Food Adventure

Kristina was a thoughtful guide who mingled with the group to ensure all our needs were met. She shared stories about everyday food eaten growing up, and encouraged us to try new things. She knew a lot about whisky and was able to instruct as well. She is lovely and our family of five enjoyed a wonderful Scot Food Adventure

Delicious Food /Drink/Walking Tour!

One of best food/walking tours we’ve been on. Food was outstanding in upscale restaurants. Worth every penny! Elsie was wonderful and informative,

Huge disappointment

We would definitely not recommend this tour….directions to meet initially were wrong. We then looked up the street and found the group, the guide was less than professional. The tour took us to a French restaurant for soup with a cider, then a new hotel for a whisky, which we still do not what make it was, then doubled back to a busy restaurant for a starter of pork belly (absolute size of a free sample) accompanied with a drink of cordial….at that point we questioned what the next stop would be on the four stop tour…..only to be told it could be pasta or a dessert, the guide wasn’t sure….we gave up at that point, as the money charged and the promise of the itinerary, no where near matched the evening. A huge disappointment….

Always hit up the food tours

Fran was great! Such a fun intro to this amazing city. Love doing tours like this to get a lay of the land and get some yummy food and drinks. Didn’t disappoint.

Worth the Price

I booked this for me and my brothers. The tour was great. Excellent food and drink plus a nice walking tour. Recommend to others.

Food tour w/Sara

Sara was amazing! She knew her country and was sound proud to share it with us all while enjoying some of the best food and drink EDI has to offer. Such an incredible experience.

Well worth it!

Wonderful food, great restaurants, knowledgeable and friendly guides! I’d never have thought I’d like haggis!

Edinburgh cuisine

With Dylan’s great guide we discovered that Edinburgh’s cuisine is very rich and has something for every taste.

Very informative but small portions

The tour was really great. It was my first night in Edinburgh and the guide immediately showed a lot of great spots, gave a lot of information and great tips. The food was also delicious and had a lot if variety. The only downside was that the portions were kind of small compared to what you pay for it. I mean splitting 1 beer and 2 scotch eggs among three people? What’s one more scotch egg and a couple of beers? Other than that I do recommend it, but if you hope to eat enough to cover as dinner, you should eat before or after.

Christina is the best guide

Christina was the absolute best tour guide, sharing the origins of all the food we tried and answering all our questions. She seemed genuinely interested in getting to know us and helping us feel connected to Scottish culture and cuisine. Book your tour with Christina today!!!

Small portions, not good value

Small portion sizes and few choices for amount paid. Most things were shared between 2-3 ppl eg haggis, scotch eggs. Guide was hard to hear at times and walked fast and was hard keep up at times in the rain

Great experience!

We had a fabulous experience with Wag and Kristina on this tour! There was a variety of foods and wonderful information on Scottish culture. We had kiddos with us (ages 6-13) and they were wonderful with them. We did this tour our first night in Scotland which I recommend if you can because it really helped give us a lay of the land and Wag and Kristina provided us with reccos for our time here. Thank you so much for your time Wag and Kristina!! Highly recommend

Rainy but Delicious

Dylan did a wonderful job trudging us through the rain to ensure we got the best experience, food and drink in Edinburgh.

Slàinte Mhath! A Tasty Walk in Old Edinburgh

A very pleasant walk in the rain up Victoria Street and down the Mile with our delightful guide, Dylan, was a highlight of our stay in Edinburgh. We started with Scottish ale and venison stew, tried some haggis with neeps and tatties, enjoyed a delicious bit of coley, and finished with a wee dram and some chocolate and rhubarb. All delicious except perhaps for the IRN-BRU (Iron Brew) that looked like gasoline and tasted like Bazooka Joe. An acquired taste for sure. Dylan was an excellent guide filled with stories of old Edinburgh, its ghosts, dogs, and heroes. We highly recommend Dylan and the tour. Great fun.

Elisa

Elisa was fantastic and so informative. We went to interesting restaurants in both new and old town Edinburgh.

The wonderful Guide Ian

Our guide’s name was Ian and he was a very cool guy who did a very excellent job he explained things very well went through the history wonderfully and chose some truly spectacular venues

Time well spent learning about Scottish food and history!

Wag shared a lot of Edinburgh history which really enriched the tour well beyond the food. If not for the tour, I never would have tried haggis. The tour was both informative and highly enjoyable!

Everything you ever wanted to know about (Scottish) whiskey.

Wow! A more knowledgeable, more entertaining expert on (Scottish) whiskey I cannot imagine! It was a great pleasure and privilege for me to have the opportunity to discuss whiskey with a fellow aficionado. I recommend this Viator tour without reservation.

Good food tour

The tour food was good but the explanation can be better. As i had young kids, the small group size is perfect. Overall its fine.

Best ever Food and Drink Tour Especially If Time is Pressing!

Best ever Food & Drink tour! Russell was amazing and we all learned a lot. I was part of a group 7 including myself and only had 24 hours in Edinburgh. This tour was from 5:30 to 8:30 ( a wee bit longer) and worth every penny! It allowed me to feel and get the culture, facts and figures, stories and more, and not be either overwhelmed or sad that I could not stay longer...next time. We went to some great food spots along the way and yes, even whiskey tastings. Highly recommended!

Yummy

Fantastic experience with Sara and Elsie! We loved the fresh oysters, whiskey tasting, and smoked fish! You don’t want to miss this one!

Good Time

First of all, Russell was an awesome guide; warm, friendly, and seemed to really enjoy sharing all the information and stories he had prepared for us. We really enjoyed 3 out of the 4 locations he took us to, nothing wrong with the forth, just still not a fan of haggis. Glad we booked the tour!

A great food tour with Wag!

Wag is a very interesting guide with a great knowlegde of history, food, architecture and many more. He brought us to different places for a great tasting of Scottish food and drinks. Thank you for that wonderful insight view of Edinborough‘s life!

Great Tour! Above and Beyond Customer Service.

Tour was wonderful, our guide was very knowledgeable about the area and took us to great restaurants. Unfortunately our group, besides us of course, were very dull. I don't know why people would go on a group tour who don't want to be social and have a good time... but this was not the tours fault. They tour went out of their way to accommodate us as we have another tour scheduled before this one. They even sent us a taxi free of charge to get us to the tour on time!! Now that is customer service! Our guide also had some great recommendations for us for other places to check out during our stay!

Good experience but not the best

Overall the tour was good, but didn't quite live up to other similar European food tours. The length of time/number of stops/volume of food/price didn't quite align as it was pretty expensive for the amount of food and drink received. But it was a good way to try a few Scottish foods and our guide was good.

Dessert

Wonderful food tour with Rebecca! We enjoyed the many dishes and company of fellow travelers. We loved the whiskey and dessert!

Edinburgh Food Tour was fab!!

Wow, just wow. Top notch guide Iain leas us to several excellent food locations among the blizzard of restaurant choices in Edinburgh. Loved this tour, would highly recommend any of the places we visited to others and have been enjoying a repeat of the foods and restaurants during the rest of our stay. Well done!!

10/10 Recommend!

This was such a fun walking food tour! Our guide was Russell who was very approachable and knowledgeable in Scotland history and of course, delicious food and drink. We stopped at 3 or 4 locations if I remember correctly, but some of the stops doubled up on the food so you end up eating a LOT! There was also an opportunity to do a whisky tasting (paired with your haggis which was surprisingly delicious) as well as some local beers at the last stop (paired with your cullen skink chowder which was my personal favorite of the day). The best part of this tour is that you go to spots that are not very obvious to tourists which is great to escape that scene for a few hours. 10/10 recommend this tour and if you have Russell, even better!

The Best Eat & Walk Experience!

Rebecca was a great tour guide for our First Eat and Walk experience! Rebecca was an absolute joy to be around! So knowledgeable about the various spots around Edinburgh and the food & drink that made up our full meal

Well balanced, personable tour

I was looking forward to this tour since they keep it to a small group but to our luck we had it even better when it was only us 2 along with our guide Wag. This tour is unlike usual walking tours I’ve taken in cities. Wag made it feel like we were simply wondering around the city with a friend who had a vast knowledge of the city and it’s history. The restaurants and bars we stopped at broke up the walking perfectly. We were happy to cross 2 places off that happened to be on our list to try and discover 2 that hadn’t been on our radar. We loved our last stop so much that we stayed for another round after Wag had to part ways to go meet up with his next group. Wag gave great information about the food and drinks and was able to answer any questions we had.

Fun and Tasty Tour

Fran, our tour guide, was fun, knowledgeable and courteous. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed the evening tasting/ sampling of food. Pork belly, haggis, cullen skink, STP (sticky toffee pudding) and of course scotch whisky. Fran also took us through parts of the Royal Mile, explaining the respective history and stories of each locale.

Food & history tour

Our guide, Fran, was incredibly personable and full of knowledge about the foods we tried and the city itself. She took us to places we would have just passed by or wouldn't have noticed, but ended up loving . Would absolutely recommend!

Edinburgh Food Tour

This was a perfect way to see the city, especially if you are there for a short time. The food and drink is of course very special highly recommended. Our guide Sara was fantastic with so my stories and fun facts to share. She even stayed in touch after the tour to finish answering some questions.

Amazing trip with Fran!

Fran was an excellent guide, definitely recommend this trip to get to know the city, food and history!

Excellent tour to try local food and drinks!

What a great tour! Fran was excellent and provided us great history about the areas of both old and new town Edinburgh as we went to the four locations. I highly recommend this tour!

Great experience and intro to city

Very nice food tour. It is a great way to get an introduction into the city. Actually, it was the best food/drink we had in Edinburgh. Circled back around to one of the restaurants a few days later with friends. Highly recommend.

Book this tour!

A really lovely time with Wag yesterday morning. I learned so much about Edinburgh, had a great gradual 2 mile walk from Old Town to New Town (not 7 miles as another review mentions), and tasted great food at 4 different places.

Fantastic food tour

Food and locations were excellent and our guide was extremely knowledgeable and personable during the whole of the tour.

A great way to kick off a trip to Scotland

A great way to start our trip. We did this our first day and it helped us get a taste of regional cuisine and fight our jet lag. It was great to try venison stew, haggis, ale, whiskey, and more. The restaurants were all good choices and the food was good and authentic as well. Guide was excellent and made a great recommendation for us for the next day in Leith. Highly recommend.

Best food tour ever!

We book walking food tours in every city we visit and I truly think our Edinburgh tour was the best so far! Our guide was Wag and he kept us on our toes the whole time. He was engaging, knowledgeable and fun. He shared endless historical facts and stories with us (which is what we wanted!) and the restaurants we visited were all gastronomical gems. Even the haggis was good :) We've already recommended Wag and his team to other friends and encourage anyone thinking of doing a food tour to sign up immediately!

Worth the price!

Writing this 6 hours after our tour ended and I’m still full! We started with blueberry and honey porridge, had (one of the best) almond paste croissant with a hot beverage (I had the Earl Grey Hot Chocolate but you can choose what you want to drink), a whiskey pairing with haggis (I had the veggie haggis) from The Scotch Malt Whiskey Society, and then topped it off at Whighams Wine Cellar where we had Cullen Skink (Amazing!) and Sticky Toffee Pudding (super sweet but double amazing!). Besides the food we really enjoyed the walk to the various food establishments and all the history we got of the city along the way. Russell was a fabulous guide 😀 Meeting point on Grassmarket was very convenient.

Scam

The ticket says 24 hours. That is not what i got. We leave tomorrow morning at 6am. I bought the ticket at noon. I was on the bus until 540 when we got off to look at a shop. When we came out is when we saw a sign that says 545 is the last stop. Shame on you for not putting that info on the ticket.

Highly recommend! Fran was great!

This was a great tour. Fran, our guide, was very friendly and informative of the places she took us to and also explained a lot of the history and development of Edinburgh. We went to 5 places. The first places were more like samplings, but the last place was a hearty lunch and I was full. The tour was a nice selection of places and I liked everything we ate and drank: parritch (oatmeal) with wild blue berries, macaroon, tea, cider ,mac and cheese, fish and leek soup, brown bread and butter, haggis with mustard cream sauce, sticky toffee pudding and ale. We visited Old Town and New Town. Highly recommend!

How to Enjoy Edinburgh

This is a wonderful tour. The guide, Sara, made it feel more like a group of old friends she had invited to share her town going out for a great experience. She set exciting expectations for the good food and beverages in store and then exceeded them by drawing on her knowledge of the history and culture of Edinburgh and Scotland. The food was great, the beverages perfectly matched, the talk charming and informative, and the walk leisurely. Best way to spend an afternoon in Edinburgh.