Private Lisbon food tours seat your party with a guide and nobody else. That is what lets the route move, the menu bend around a diet, and the meeting point be agreed with you. Fares start at $88 a head, and the shorter circuits cost less than the median shared walk.
Two and a half hours with a host who has nobody else to look after, and a choice of six or ten tastings. The ten-tasting option starts high above the city, so the walk runs downhill from the first stop.
From $118 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Fourteen tastings from street food to a sit-down plate, with lunch and dinner both named in the fare. Your meeting point is agreed rather than fixed, which suits a group arriving from different hotels.
From $140 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A private market walk in Almada, then Portuguese and Goan dishes cooked in your host's own kitchen and eaten at her table. Six guests at most, reached by a seven-minute ferry from Cais do Sodre.
From $99 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The only walk here whose route, transport and surfaces are all wheelchair accessible, with infant seats available. Four hours, more than thirteen tastings, and the drinks on the set menu included.
From $88 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Private walks from a two-and-a-half-hour tasting circuit to a cooking class across the river.
Compare every Lisbon food tourYour party and a guide, and nobody else at the table. That single fact changes three things. The route can move. The menu can bend around what you eat. And the meeting point is arranged with you rather than fixed on a listing — one host will meet you wherever in central Lisbon suits your group.
It is not a longer tour or a grander one. Two of the four run shorter than the average shared walk. What you are buying is control of the afternoon.
A vegetarian, a pescatarian and somebody who will not eat cod can all be fed on the same walk. That is difficult on a shared route, where the tables are pre-ordered.
Stop for a photograph, sit longer at a stop you like, cut one short. Nobody is waiting, and with children that is most of the difference.
One host agrees the start with you and another offers two, chosen by which tasting option you book. Neither is a fixed square you have to find.
The only walk here whose route, transport and surfaces are all wheelchair accessible is private, and it carries infant seats too.
The gap is smaller than most people assume, and for two or more it can close entirely.
| Private walk | Small-group walk | |
|---|---|---|
| Who is there | Your party only | Six to fifteen strangers |
| Menu | Adapted to your table | Pre-ordered, with stated swaps |
| Meeting point | Agreed, or two to choose from | One fixed square |
| Pace | Yours | The group's |
| Typical fare | $88 to $141 | $57 to $157 |
| Length | 2.5 to 4.5 hours | 2 to 5.5 hours |
Note what the table does not say: private is not automatically dearer. Two of these four sit below the median shared fare.
Fares run from $88 to $141 a head and the shortest is two and a half hours. One is a cooking class across the river rather than a walk, and it collects you at the Cacilhas ferry terminal seven minutes from Cais do Sodre. Book further ahead than you would a shared walk: there is only one of each host.
| Tour | From | Length | Rating | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisbon Portuguese Food Tour | From $88 | 4 hours | 4.6 (83) | Check |
| Private Lisbon Market Tour & Portuguese Cooking Class with Paula | From $99 | 4 hours 30 minutes | 4.8 (111) | Check |
| Lisbon Exclusive PRIVATE Food Tour with 6 or 10 Tastings | From $118 | 2 hours 30 minutes | 4.7 (1,139) | Check |
| Private Food and Wine Tour: From Street to Gourmet | From $140 | 4 hours | 5.0 (203) | Check |
Tell your host about diets when you book, not on the day. That is the whole advantage of a private table, and it needs a day or two of notice to be worth anything.
If you are travelling alone and want company, a private walk removes exactly the thing a shared one gives you. Several reviewers of the group walks describe the other guests as half the afternoon.
If your budget is the constraint, the shared circuits start well below these and cover the same quarters. The range is set out on Lisbon food and wine tours. And if the evening is what you want rather than the privacy, Lisbon evening food tours is the better page.
Private walks from a two-and-a-half-hour tasting circuit to a cooking class across the river.
See the top Lisbon food toursCompare every fare on Lisbon Food Tours. For the practical detail, read planning a food tour. To see what arrives on the plate, read what you will eat.