Our verdict
Best overall
Obi's African & Caribbean Food Tour in Brixton
African and Caribbean food across four or five Brixton eateries in three hours, about £90, rated 4.9★ — the food tour that shows you a London most visitors never see.
4.9★ · 189from £90 GetYourGuide →
Best value
London: Traditional English Scone Making and Tea Workshop
An hour making and eating scones with tea for about £23, rated 4.9★ from nearly 1,200 reviews — the cheapest properly British food experience in our feed.
4.9★ · 1,187from £23 GetYourGuide →
Skip it if
You only want Borough Market
Entry is free and it’s open six days a week. A tour adds stories and pre-chosen tastings, but grazing it yourself costs only what you eat.
What’s the best food tour in London?
A London food tour is a walk of two to three and a half hours with five or six tasting stops, a guide and a small group. Where you go matters more than who runs it: London’s food is defined by its neighbourhoods. Here’s how the main tours compare.
| Tour | Area | Length | Price | Stops | Group max | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obi’s African & Caribbean food tour (GYG) | Brixton | 3 h | ~£90 | 4–5 eateries | — | Somewhere new; 4.9★ (180+) |
| Eating London — East End | Brick Lane, Spitalfields, Shoreditch | 3.5 h | £93 | 6 | 12 | The classic East End introduction |
| Eating London — Borough Market & London Bridge | Borough, Bankside | 3 h | £76 | 6 | 12 | Market lovers, first-timers |
| Eating London — Notting Hill morning | Notting Hill | 2 h | £66 | 5 | 12 | Short on time |
| Eating London — Twilight Soho with drinks | Seven Dials, Chinatown, Soho | 3.5 h | £115 | 5 | 10 | Adults’ evening out |
| Secret Food Tours — London Bridge | London Bridge | 3–3.5 h | £84.99 | 6 | 12 | Drinks as an optional add-on |
| Secret Food Tours — Camden Market | Camden | 3–3.5 h | £84.99 | 7 | 12 | Street food, younger crowd |
| Secret Food Tours — Express Soho | Soho, Chinatown | 2 h | £69.99 | 4 | 14 | Cocktail included |
| NO DIET CLUB bike and food tour (GYG) | Central London | 3.5 h | ~£58 | — | — | Cycling plus snacks; 4.8★ (50+) |
GetYourGuide prices are the “from” prices in our partner feed today; Eating London and Secret Food Tours prices are from their own websites. Secret Food Tours also runs an Indian food tour in East London (£84.99) and a Soho evening tour (£94.99), and lists its East End tour as private only.
Food tours and workshops you can book now
London: Traditional English Scone Making and Tea Workshop
from £23
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Obi's African & Caribbean Food Tour in Brixton
from £90
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NO DIET CLUB - Bike and Food tour in London!
from £58
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London: Indian Cooking Masterclass with Market Tour
from £89
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Brick Lane Walking Tour: Murals, Murder & a Beigel included
from £20
See on GetYourGuidePrices and ratings checked 21 Oct 2026; they change daily.
Borough Market: tour or DIY?
Borough Market, next to London Bridge station, is London’s best-known food market and the base for several tours. It’s open Tuesday to Friday 10am–5pm, Saturday 9am–5pm and Sunday 10am–4pm, and closed on Mondays. The market runs its own official tours — a tasting tour on selected Friday mornings and private behind-the-scenes tours — alongside the commercial operators.
East End food tours
The East End is where London’s immigrant food history is easiest to taste: Jewish beigels on Brick Lane, Bangladeshi curry, the remains of the pie-and-mash tradition and the newer food halls around Spitalfields. Eating London’s East End tour is the benchmark at £93 for three and a half hours and six stops, capped at 12. For something much cheaper, a two-hour Brick Lane walking tour on GetYourGuide covers murals, local history and a beigel for about £20 — it’s new, with only a handful of reviews so far.
If you’re in the area for the art rather than the food, our street art and Shoreditch walks cover the same streets.
Brixton: the food tour with the most to teach
South London’s Brixton, with its covered market arcades and long-established Caribbean community, is where the best-rated food tour in our feed goes. Obi’s African and Caribbean food tour takes three hours, stops at four or five eateries, and costs about £90 — rated 4.9★ from nearly 190 reviews. It’s the one to pick if you’ve already done the markets of the centre.
Scones, tea and cooking classes
Not every food experience needs a walk. A scone-making and tea workshop — an hour, about £23, rated 4.9★ from nearly 1,200 reviews — is the most-reviewed food experience on this page, and an easy one for a wet afternoon. An Indian cooking masterclass with a market tour runs two and a half hours for about £89; it’s new on the platform, with only six reviews so far. If you want your tea served rather than made, our afternoon tea bus page compares tea on a moving double-decker.
Food, drink and something else
Food tours rarely include much alcohol — Secret Food Tours sells drinks as an upgrade, and only a few tours, like Eating London’s Soho evening, bundle them in. For pubs, a pub tour or crawl is the better buy. And if you’d like to work up an appetite first, the bike-and-food tour combines both; our London bike tours page has the rest.
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Sources
- Eating Europe — London food tours (prices, duration, group size) (checked 21 Oct 2026)
- Secret Food Tours — London (prices, stops, drinks, group size) (checked 21 Oct 2026)
- Borough Market — visit us (opening hours) (checked 21 Oct 2026)
- Borough Market — official tours (checked 21 Oct 2026)
- GetYourGuide — food and drink in London (partner feed)
Written and checked by the Private Tours London desk