On the Reykjavík Food Walk enthusiastic local foodies take you on a four-hour culinary tour of the Icelandic capital’s secret local hangouts and five or six of the city’s best restaurants. Get your chops stuck in to some free-range Icelandic lamb, homemade rye bread ice cream, lobster soup, seasonal meats and cheeses (including local delicacy Skyr) and fresh fish. They’ll also take you to Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur, the legendary hot dog stand famously visited by Bill Clinton. Read our guide to Reykjavík for more inspiration.

Context Travel run tours with scholarly guides, bringing fresh perspectives to even the most familiar cities. Their Baguette to Bistro tour of Paris around the chic Saint-Germain-des-Prés area delivers a walking culinary education, covering everything from the basics of bread and cheese, to foie gras, homemade rillettes and Armagnac. Expect to stop at the traiteur who once supplied the Court of Versailles and now the finest fromageries in the city. For more inspiration, read our guide to Paris here.

Explore Lisbon’s Moorish Mouraria neighbourhood on the three-hour Secret Food Tour of Lisbon, trying food from typical tascas (local taverns). Bite into the best bifana (a tasty pork sandwich) in town, some sardines and tumbler of local liqueur, Ginjinha. Visit an old palace to taste some traditional handmade petiscos (snacks) before rounding things off with a pastel de nata pastry. Plus they’ll choose a secret dish of the day for you to sample too. Read our guide to Lisbon here for more tips.

If you wind up in Prague chances are you’ll fancy a pivo (beer) or two, so why not soak it all up with some choice local morsels? Eating Europe puts you in the capable hands of renowned beer expert Evan Rail on a 3.5 hour tour of craft brews and Czech bites. Starting out from the bucolic beer garden of Letna Park, he’ll whisk you around the city sampling Scotch eggs crafted by a Michelin-star chef, traditional Czech dumplings with braised beef and one of Prague’s most treasured desserts.

Get to know the stunning Montenegrin UNESCO-listed city of Kotor with this Gastronomic Tour around the Bay of Kotor. The six-hour experience starts with sightseeing around the Old Town, visiting various churches and the 12th-century Saint Tryphon Cathedral. After that you’ll be taken to the 300-year-old home of your culinary guardian who will prepare a lavish, authentic lunch typical of the southern Montenegro region.

Get a serious culinary immersion with Wanderbeak Barcelona Food Tours. They’ll whip you round three historic barrios, Barri Gòtic, Raval and El Born, tasting 15 dishes from across the country, including some Catalan cuts, each paired with a suitably traditional beverage. They even promise that you’ll leave the four-hour-tour gratifyingly full. Drink from a traditional porron (wine glass), pinch some pinxos (snacks), test your teeth on a turrón and learn about Barcelona’s rich history, culture and traditions along the way. Find out more about Barcelona with our guide.

Cue bad puns about not going hungry in Hungary... Budapest’s signature food tour Taste Hungary Culinary Walk starts at Central Market Hall with a fortifying apéritif, before you see how all that pork fat, paprika, and goose liver is put to belly-pleasing use. Then you’ll retreat to various bakeries and coffee houses for a tempting slice of Esterhazy torte, washed down with a sublime glass of Tokaji aszú wine, plus a pit stop at an award-winning chocolatier.

Even by Italy’s lofty standards, the central region of Emilia Romagna offers a bounty of appetising foods to feast on, including parmesan cheese, Parma ham, pasta with bolognese sauce and aged balsamic vinegar from Modena. On this five-hour private tour you’ll get to sample all of these goodies and more on visits to producers in and around Parma and Bologna, plus there’s a photo stop in the scenic medieval village of Torrechiara.

Home to one of Europe’s biggest open-air markets, Latvia's capital Riga offers a melange of Slavic and Germanic culinary influences. Expect plenty of pork, potatoes and cabbage in dishes such as pirags (bacon-stuffed pastries) and asinsdesa (blood sausage with cowberry sauce), and the national dish, herring. Eat Riga's six-hour Feast for a Day gives you a pretty sound immersion, cruising the canals, prowling the market and winding up with a gourmet restaurant meal. We've got a local's guide to Riga here.

Devour Madrid’s Hidden Food and Market Adventure opens in Huertas, the vibrant literary quarter of Madrid. From there you’ll be treated to a bona fide foodie adventure, meeting local vendors and restaurateurs, visiting a secret back room in Madrid’s oldest grocery store and trying local wines and cheese delights in the historic Antón Martín Market. The tour takes in 14 tastings and wraps up with some of the best cheesecake in Madrid baked in a hundred-year old oven. Read our guide to Madrid here for more tips. 

Culinary Backstreets promise "A Walk on Tbilisi’s Culinary Wild Side", which starts at the Georgian capital’s largest open-air marketplace, the Deserter’s Bazaar. Here you’ll sample warm loaf of bread baked in a seminary’s tandoori-like oven, fresh Georgian cheese, honey and delicious churchkhelas (nuts dipped in a thick grape syrup). Drink homemade wines and chacha – Georgia’s take on grappa. Then it’s on to the Dry Bridge Flea Market for mountain-style khinkali dumplings, before a feast at a backstreet restaurant serving home-style meals.

Copenhagen’s Culinary Experience Tour kicks off at Torvehallern Market, where you’ll sample artisan cheese made in collaboration with several of Copenhagen’s Michelin-starred chefs. Try liquorice and caramels in the city’s oldest sweetshop, then sample seabuckthorn jam and smørrebrød from some of the city’s finest small producers. The tour also takes you through the serene Copenhagen Botanical Gardens, where you’ll learn about their apiaries and the honey harvested there.

Here’s an wonderfully indulgent way to spend a day in Istanbul. The Istanbul Foodie Walk is a six-hour tour of Istanbul’s lesser-known areas, taking in speciality cafés, hidden-away restaurants, niche food shops and kitchens in Beyoğlu on a gastronomic treasure hunt. You’ll stop for tastings while meeting chefs and friendly shop-keepers, with no pressure to buy anything. For lunch you’ll stop for longer to enjoy a special choice of restaurant. Here are a few reasons we think you should visit Istanbul.

Famous for its sherry, Cádiz has some of Spain’s best tapas too. On Annie B’s Cadiz Tapas Tour a local Gaditano will shepherd you around narrow streets in search of the best ensaladilla (tuna, potatoes and mayonnaise) paired with chilled Manzanilla, and tortillitas de camarones (crispy prawn fritters). Sit on an old Sherry barrel dipping bread in delicious chilled salmorejo (cold tomato soup), complemented by chopped jamon and eggs. You can also savour some delicious riñones al Jerez (kidneys cooked in Sherry).

See another side to Amsterdam by wandering the courtyards and back streets of the Jordaan district with Eating Europe’s Jordaan Food Tour. On this four-hour guided walk, you’ll get tastings at a dozen fine food purveyors. Discover the city’s rich Indonesian culinary heritage, taste apple pie at the legendary 400-year-old Café Papeneiland, sample smoked sausage made from a century-old family recipe and learn the correct Amsterdam way to eat herring.

Dive deep into Berlin’s international food scene and make some new friends while you're at it with Bite Berlin’s Neukolln Supperclub Tour. On this 4.5-hour foodie foray you’ll visit Kreuzberg’s Turkish market, calling in at various cafés (including some which are refugee-run) and bakeries along the way, before decamping back to the home of Bite Berlin’s Samantha, where you’ll roll your sleeves up and fix a traditional vegan feast, Berlin-style.

Dodge the tourist traps and discover Stockholm’s classic restaurants and speciality shops with Food Tours Stockholm’s Nordic Experience. Walking mostly around the buzzing Vasastan area, this tour takes in ten ‘taste stops’ in four hours. You can expect to gorge on Swedish meatballs with lingonberry jam at historic Tennstopet, fish soup at Kajsas Fish, rounded off with coffee and pastries in the dungeon of Rörstrands Castle. Explore more of the Swedish capital with our tips here.

Lyon’s reputation as one of France’s most celebrated gourmet destinations is well established. See the best of the city’s food scene on Lyon Food Tour’s four-hour saunter around Old Lyon. On this tour you’ll meet passionate local craftsmen, poke your way down the city’s ancient traboules (secret passages), and visit an authentic bouchon Lyonnais (traditional restaurant). Enjoy local wines, meats and cheeses at Mons and sample artisanal ice cream and homemade praline pie at La Fabrique Givrée.

Immerse yourself in Lausanne's hidden foodie delights with a self-guided food tour of the Swiss city. Enjoy La Brasserie de Montbenon, an historic building with great views over Lake Geneva where guests dine on traditional high quality Swiss cuisine. Follow this up with a visit to a quirky bistro in town and a cupcake workshop at the family-owned Royaume Melazic. Then enjoy a wine tasting at the Lavaux Vineyards, now celebrating Lausanne becoming the newest member of the Great Wines Capital Network.

In a city struggling with overtourism, it pays to get an insider’s perspective. That’s what you’ll get on 2.5-hour Walks of Italy Venice Food Tour. After a glass of prosecco, you’ll hit the bàcari – wine bars popular with Venetians for cicchetti (snacks) and Veneto wines. You’ll visit Cantina do Mori in an alleyway near the Rialto Market, a favourite haunt of Casanova’s. Included in the tour is a short gondola ride across the canal to a pasta restaurant.

Happy Helsinki Tours’ two-hour Finnish Food Walk takes you from the Old Market Hall to the Hietalahti Market Hall, both heavy with the aromas of cured salmon, cheese and smoked reindeer. Along the way you’ll taste all of these, plus a host of local specialities from selected stores, fresh fish from the market and coffee with local pastries. Don't miss the Finnish delicacy and famously acquired taste of salmiakki (salt liquorice).

Learn why Freiburg is sometimes known as Germany’s "secret gourmet capital" and maybe even make the perfect Black Forest Gateaux on the Freiburg Culinary Tour. A local chef and food blogger will get you acquainted with farm-fresh strawberries, an array of quality sausages and some locally distilled fruit brandy. They’ll also show you where to get the best cheesecake and coffee in town, along with the prime seasonal fruit and vegetables available.

Dubrovnik’s Old Town Food Tour promises to take you way from the tourist hotspots into some hidden corners of the walled city, with knowledgeable local guides bringing Croatia’s culinary heritage to life. This slow food adventure on the Adriatic takes in five stops at a leisurely pace, including a wine bar set in a cave, with ample time to try hearty portions of zingy tuna tartare, fresh oysters, local wines, and homemade apple cake.

Keen to imbibe some vodka in a more civilised fashion than the average tourist hitting Kraków? Delicious Poland has you covered. They'll school you on the finer points of their national tipple on the Vodka and Culture Tour. Taking in seven quality vodkas, each paired with suitable Polish snacks such as perogi, Krakowska sausages and salty pickles. They’ll even arm you with a vodka cookbook at the end of the tour.

The award-winning Fab Food Trails is a three-hour tour run by food critics who’ll stroll you around some of the highlights of Dublin’s food scene. Eveleen Coyle, assisted by her niece Alice, will introduce you to foodie finds as they guide you around markets, food halls, cheesemongers, butchers, fruit stalls, fishmongers and bakers. Naturally a stop at a traditional Victorian pub for the proverbial pint of Guinness is on the agenda too.

Forget schnitzel, pork roast or Sachertorte, the Vienna Food Tour will introduce you instead to four of Vienna’s finest restaurants and bars representing the "neue Wiener Küche": a lighter take on traditional Viennese cuisine. Described as a "progressive dinner with friends", you’ll sit down for a delicious meal at three restaurants, leaving ample time to chat, ask questions, make new friends and enjoy a nice glass of wine.

On Culinary Backstreets’ four-hour tour of the Greek capital you can visit an old-school dairy bar and a tucked-away loukoumades (fried dough) joint, before exploring the hidden seafood restaurants of the 'stoa', the city’s distinctive downtown arcades. There will be artisanal cheeses and honey, and even a few sips of homemade spirits, accompanied by a special bite in the main fishmongers’ market.

Whoever said ‘there’s no such thing as a free lunch’ clearly hasn’t been to Sofia lately. The two-hour Balkan Bites food tour in Bulgaria’s capital is a good shout, and not only because it’s entirely free. Stops on the tour include the Sun Moon Bakery, slow food emporium Bagri and Supa Star, the city’s first soup bar. You’ll also get to sample fresh, doughy fried mekitsa at Mekitsa and Coffee and enjoy a traditional Bulgarian restaurant in Hadjidraganov’s Cellars.

The ancient Romans were keen consumers of street food. They grabbed pies, pork sausage, salted peas, pastries, figs, and partridge stews, all served in hot jars, from open-air stalls known as cauponae. Take a Gourmetaly tour to follow the thousand-year-old tradition. The Monti Gourmet Street Food Tour departs from near the Colosseum on a 2.5-hour extravaganza taking in the very best gelato, pizza, cheeses, panini and espresso. Read our guide to Rome here.