Le Marais Paris food tours feed you as you walk: pastries, cheese, falafel and usually wine, over two to three and a half hours. The fare is the food, so the choice is how much of it, and whether it ends in a meal.
The most-reviewed food walk in the quarter. From the Saint-Paul merry-go-round you eat a croissant, a croque-monsieur made to order, cheese, falafel, a macaron and chocolate, with red and white wine or soft drinks. Much of it is eaten standing.
From $104 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A full French meal spread over three and a half hours, from the tip of the Ile Saint-Louis to the royal square. A seated main course, wine or a non-alcoholic choice, and vegetarian dishes if you ask ahead. Not for vegans.
From $104 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The cheapest food walk here: two hours from the Place de la République to the Picasso museum, with three small tastings on the way. Light bites, not a meal, and drinks are not in the fare.
From $37 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Three hours of tastings around the old Jewish quarter, starting outside a patisserie on the Rue des Rosiers. Ten people at most. The listing does not say whether wine is poured, so ask before you book if that matters.
From $79 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Three and a half hours from the covered market on the Rue de Bretagne down to the Rue de Rivoli: chocolate, macarons, cheeses and cured meat, with wine. Ten people at most. Cancel three days ahead, not one.
From $152 per person
Free cancellation up to 3 days in advance
Nine people at most, from 10 Rue Saint-Antoine. A savory croissant and a cream puff, cheeses aged in a 17th-century cellar, then boeuf bourguignon or choucroute with French wine at a sit-down stop. Under-fours join free.
From $158 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Six people at most, from a bakery by Saint-Paul metro to the Rue du Trésor. The fare covers the food and drinks on the operator's menu, and the listing does not print that menu, so ask for it before you book.
From $174 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Your party alone, from the same bakery by Saint-Paul metro. Pastries, chocolates and macarons, cheese and wine, and a French onion soup, with the Jewish history of the Rue des Rosiers on the way. Not for vegans or gluten-free diets.
From $222 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The Secret Food Tours menu with a guide for your group only: a pastry, a croque-monsieur, cheeses, falafel, a macaron and chocolate, wine or soft drinks. Three and a half hours, adults only, vegetarians welcome.
From $274 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Another listing of the Secret Food Tours walk from Saint-Paul, with the same falafel, cheese and wine. Check the option you pick: its two-hour express walk starts near the Louvre and never enters the Marais.
From $87 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A second listing of the Do Eat Better meal from the Ile Saint-Louis: macarons, falafel, bistro dishes, cheese and choux pastry, with water and one glass of wine or a soft drink. Vegetarian and other diets on request.
From $106 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A third listing of the Secret Food Tours walk: three hours from Saint-Paul metro through the Jewish quarter, with food and wine in the fare. Compare its fare with the other two before you book the same walk.
From $117 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A croissant, a croque-monsieur, cheese, falafel, a macaron and chocolate, with red and white wine, over three to three and a half hours. It starts by the merry-go-round at Saint-Paul metro.
See this tourA food tour here is a guided walk with lunch broken into pieces. You stop at a bakery, a cheese shop, a falafel counter and a chocolate maker, and you eat at each one. Between stops the guide tells you about the street you are standing in. Most walks take three hours or a little more and stay in the southern half of the quarter, around the Rue des Rosiers and the Place des Vosges.
The food is Paris food more than Marais food: a croissant, a croque-monsieur, a board of cheese, a macaron. What the Marais adds is its Jewish quarter. Most food walks that pass through the Rue des Rosiers stop there for falafel, and the private LivTours walk makes the street's Jewish history part of the fare.
Two kinds of walk share the name. A tastings walk feeds you small plates at several stops, and much of it is eaten standing. A full-meal walk is built as a meal, with a seated main course. Your first choice is which of the two you want.
The full-meal walks are lunch, sold as lunch. Do Eat Better spreads a French meal from the Ile Saint-Louis to the royal square, and Eating Europe serves boeuf bourguignon or choucroute at a sit-down stop. You do not need to find a restaurant afterwards.
Most food walks pour wine with the cheese, and the history walks pour nothing. If a glass matters to you, that alone decides it. Secret Food Tours and Do Eat Better also offer soft drinks or a non-alcoholic choice instead.
The shared food walks that state a cap hold between 6 and 12 people. LivTours takes six at most, Eating Europe nine. A small group fits at a counter, which is why the numbers stay low.
The routes pass the same places a history walk does. The Secret Food Tours walk goes by the church of Saint-Paul Saint-Louis, the royal square and the Jewish quarter. Do Eat Better walks you through the Hôtel de Sully garden on the way to the Place des Vosges.
Here are the two side by side, from the listings' own figures. Shared fares only; the private walks are compared on their own page.
| A food tour | A walking tour | |
|---|---|---|
| What the fare buys | Tastings or a full meal, most with wine | A guide; one walk adds a bakery sweet |
| How long | 2 to 3.5 hours | 1.5 to 4 hours |
| Fare, per person | $37 to $174 | $50 to $117 |
| Group size, where stated | 6 to 12 | 7 to 14 |
| Pace | Stop, eat, walk a few minutes, stop again | Steady walking, standing stops |
| The history | Told between tastings | The whole point |
If you want both, split them. Take a history walk on your first morning and a food walk another day, once you know your way around. The Le Marais walking tours start from $50.
Three and a half hours, a seated main course, wine or a non-alcoholic choice, and vegetarian dishes if you ask ahead. It ends on the Place des Vosges.
See this tourFor what each fare costs by the hour, read our guide to Le Marais tour prices.
Not sure the day should be about food? Compare every tour side by side on Le Marais Paris Tours.