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Number of dishes
Some tours serve 15 dishes, others five tastings. We add the number to every tour whenever the operator states it.
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Eleven tours comparedRome food tour: pasta, pizza and supplì in one night
On a food tour in Rome, a local guide walks you through one neighborhood and into the places where Romans eat. Along the way you try dishes like supplì, fried rice balls with cheese. We compared eleven tours and counted how many tastings you get on each.
The pasta builder
Four pastas. One more ingredient.
Rome's four famous pastas build on each other. Tap a pasta to see which ingredients go into it.
Many food tours in Rome serve at least one of them. On the Testaccio tour you even taste three: carbonara, amatriciana and cacio e pepe, from $123 per person.
See the tours- Pecorino Romanohard sheep's-milk cheese
- Black pepperfreshly ground
- Guancialecured pork cheek
- Egg yolkmakes the sauce creamy
- Tomatoas a sauce
Carbonara Gricia plus egg yolk. Carbonara is the youngest of the four and dates from the 1940s.
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Why a food tour
Lots of restaurants. A guide who knows where to go.
Around Rome's big sights, many restaurants cook mainly for visitors. The good places are often a few streets away.
On a food tour, a local guide takes you to those places and explains what you eat. GetYourGuide and Viator list 84 food tours in Rome. The eleven group tours on this page cost $47 to $123 per person.
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Price per dish
We divide the tour price by the number of dishes. That shows you which tour gives you the most food for your money.
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Two booking sites
Many tours are listed on both GetYourGuide and Viator. We show you both prices so you can pick the cheaper one.
Eleven tours
Food tours in Rome by tastings.
Each card shows the number of tastings, the length and the cheaper of the two booking sites. If a tour is on both, the second price is listed below.
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6 to 7 tastings4 hoursTrastevere, Rome · GetYourGuide · ★ 4.9
Trastevere at dusk: 6 to 7 tastings and a pasta dinner
You try pizza and street food, have a seated pasta dinner and finish with gelato. Some dates include a wine cellar that the operator says is older than the Colosseum. Groups have no more than 12 guests.
from $115 per personSee dates
Also on Viator: from $117
10+ tastings3 hours
20+ tastings3.5 to 4 hours
20+ tastings4 hoursTrastevere, Rome · Viator · ★ 5.0
Trastevere: 20+ tastings at 4 stops
You eat homemade pasta, pizza, cheese, ham and gelato. The operator says the pizza comes from the oldest wood-fired oven in Trastevere. Groups have no more than 15 guests.
from $111 per personSee dates
Number not stated2.5 hours
5 tastings2.5 hoursOld town, Rome · GetYourGuide · ★ 4.8
Old town: 5 street food tastings
You eat pizza, supplì, cured meats and gelato. Depending on the date, you walk through the Jewish Quarter or around Campo de' Fiori.
from $47 per personSee dates
9 tastings3.5 hoursTestaccio, Rome · Viator · ★ 4.9
Testaccio: 9 tastings and three Roman pastas
At Testaccio Market you top your own bruschetta. Then you try carbonara, amatriciana and cacio e pepe, and you finish with gelato at a shop that has been open for 105 years.
from $123 per personSee dates
8+ tastings3 hoursCampo de' Fiori, Rome · Viator · ★ 5.0
Campo de' Fiori: 8+ tastings with pasta and pizza
The tastings include supplì, cured meats and cheese, two Roman pastas, two kinds of pizza, cannoli and gelato. Cannoli are fried pastry tubes filled with sweet ricotta. The operator keeps one dish a surprise until the tour.
from $110 per personSee dates
7 stops4 hoursJewish Quarter, Rome · Viator · ★ 4.9
Jewish Quarter and Piazza Navona: 7 stops
You try meat, fish, vegetables, pizza, pasta and dessert. According to the operator, the tour ends with dinner next to the ruins of Rome's oldest theater.
from $100 per personSee dates
15 tastings2 to 3.5 hoursTrastevere, Rome · GetYourGuide · ★ 4.9
Trastevere and Jewish Quarter: 15 tastings
The tour covers two neighborhoods. The operator lists 15 tastings of food and wine.
from $81 per personSee dates
25+ tastings4 hoursPrati, Rome · Viator · ★ 5.0
Trionfale Market: 25+ tastings at 6 stops
The tour starts with a coffee and takes you through Mercato Trionfale, one of Rome's largest markets. Bonci's Pizzarium is one of the stops here, too.
from $75 per personSee dates
The comparison
Price per tasting at a glance.
We divided the price of each tour by its number of tastings. If the operator says “more than”, we use the stated number, so each tasting costs at most that much. The Trionfale Market tour is the cheapest, at no more than $3.01 per tasting.
| Food | Tour | Per tasting | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25+ | Trionfale Market: 25+ tastings at 6 stopsPrati · 4 hours · Stops: 6 · Drinks: wine | at most $3.01 per tasting | from $75Dates on Viator |
| 20+ | Prati by the Vatican: 20+ tastings at 5 stopsPrati · 3.5 to 4 hours · Stops: 5 · Drinks: free-flowing wine | at most $3.12 per tasting | from $62Dates on Viator |
| 15 | Trastevere and Jewish Quarter: 15 tastingsTrastevere · 2 to 3.5 hours · Stops: several · Drinks: wine | $5.40 per tasting | from $81Dates on GetYourGuide |
| 20+ | Trastevere: 20+ tastings at 4 stopsTrastevere · 4 hours · Stops: 4 · Drinks: wine included | at most $5.57 per tasting | from $111Dates on Viator |
| 10+ | Trastevere: 10+ tastings and a pasta dinnerTrastevere · 3 hours · Stops: several · Drinks: wine, beer or soft drinks | at most $8.48 per tasting | from $85Dates on GetYourGuide |
| 5 | Old town: 5 street food tastingsOld town · 2.5 hours · Stops: several · Drinks: not stated | $9.48 per tasting | from $47Dates on GetYourGuide |
| 9 | Testaccio: 9 tastings and three Roman pastasTestaccio · 3.5 hours · Stops: market and several eateries · Drinks: wine and beer | $13.67 per tasting | from $123Dates on Viator |
| 8+ | Campo de' Fiori: 8+ tastings with pasta and pizzaCampo de' Fiori · 3 hours · Stops: several · Drinks: wine | at most $13.69 per tasting | from $110Dates on Viator |
| 7 | Jewish Quarter and Piazza Navona: 7 stopsJewish Quarter · 4 hours · Stops: 7 · Drinks: wine, beer and soft drinks | $14.35 per stop | from $100Dates on Viator |
| 6–7 | Trastevere at dusk: 6 to 7 tastings and a pasta dinnerTrastevere · 4 hours · Stops: 6 to 7 · Drinks: 4 to 6 drinks incl. wine and beer | at most $19.22 per tasting | from $115Dates on GetYourGuide |
| – | Trastevere and Campo de' Fiori: street food on footTrastevere · 2.5 hours · Stops: several · Drinks: included | Number not stated | from $49Dates on GetYourGuide |
Checked on November 12, 2026. The number of tastings, stops and drinks comes from the operators. The price is for the cheaper of the two booking sites.
How it works
What happens on a food tour in Rome.
As an example, here is the Trastevere evening tour, the most-booked food tour in Rome. It takes about four hours. The stops and the minutes at each stop come from the operator's description. The tours on this page last 2.5 to 4 hours and work the same way: you meet at a set meeting point, and the guide takes you from one place to the next.
See this tour- 01
Tiber Island
You meet on Tiber Island, the only island in the river Tiber. You then cross the old Ponte Cestio bridge into Trastevere.
short - 02
Trattoria from 1935
At a trattoria that has been open since 1935, you toast with prosecco and taste Roman starters.
Only on some dates, not on Sundays20 min - 03
Old wine cellar
In an old wine cellar, you drink local wine from the Rome area. According to the operator, the cellar is 160 years older than the Colosseum.
Only on some dates20 min - 04
Porchetta
Porchetta is slow-roasted pork. You eat it in pizza bianca, a pizza without tomato sauce, with a cold beer.
15 min - 05
Supplì
Supplì is a fried rice ball with melted cheese in the middle. You eat it at a small snack bar that has been there for decades.
15 min - 06
Piazza di Santa Maria
The group stops briefly on Trastevere's main square to take a look around.
short - 07
Pasta dinner
You sit down for dinner at a trattoria. You get two Roman pastas, amatriciana and gricia, with local wine.
30 min - 08
Gelato
The tour ends with gelato. The guide shows you how to tell good gelato from the tourist kind.
10 min
5Each food tour stays in one or two neighborhoods, so you walk little and eat a lot.
Neighborhoods
Where you eat.
The five neighborhoods differ in their food and the time of day. Here is what to expect in each one.
For your first evening
Trastevere
The name comes from Latin and means “across the Tiber”. The neighborhood lies on the west bank of the river, around the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere.
For the morning
Campo de' Fiori
From Monday to Saturday, a market fills the square in the morning. In the middle stands a statue of Giordano Bruno, a scholar who was burned here in 1600.
For artichokes
Jewish Quarter
Rome's Jewish community is one of the oldest in Europe. From 1555, the city's Jews were forced to live in a walled-off area by the Tiber, the ghetto. Jewish-style fried artichokes come from here.
For old Roman cooking
Testaccio
From 1891 to 1975, Testaccio was home to the city's big slaughterhouse. Workers were partly paid in offal, which gave rise to dishes such as coda alla vaccinara, an oxtail stew.
For pizza by the Vatican
Prati
Prati sits right next to the Vatican. Close by, Gabriele Bonci has been selling pizza by the slice since 2003, and Mercato Trionfale has around 270 stalls.
On the plate
What you eat in Rome.
These six dishes show up most often on the tours. The photos come from the tour operators.
Dish 01Supplì
Supplì are fried rice balls with tomato sauce and a mozzarella center. When you pull one apart, the cheese stretches like a phone cord. That is why they are also called supplì al telefono.
Dish 02Pizza al taglio
Pizza al taglio is pizza baked in a tray. The server cuts a piece as big as you like, and you pay by weight.
Dish 03Roman pasta
Rome's four famous pastas use very few ingredients. The pasta builder above shows which ingredient makes which dish.
Dish 04Carciofi alla giudia
These are Jewish-style artichokes. They are fried whole in olive oil until the leaves turn crisp. The dish comes from Rome's Jewish Quarter.
Dish 05Cured meats and pecorino
Many tours serve a board of ham, salami and cheese. The typical Roman cheese is pecorino romano, a sharp, hard cheese made from sheep's milk.
Dish 06Gelato
Gelato is Italian ice cream. On most tours on this page, a scoop of gelato is part of the tour.
Private and special
Just your group. Or an ancient wine cellar.
These tours cost $134 to $227 per person. In return, the guide leads only you or a small group to special places.
Private tour with 6 or 10 tastings · Your group onlyfrom $143
Campo de' Fiori, private: 8+ tastings · Your group onlyfrom $227
Trastevere, Ghetto and Campo de' Fiori, private · 3 stops with winefrom $203
Eternal Rome: Trastevere and Jewish Quarter · wine cellar over 2,000 years oldfrom $134
Cook it yourself
Cooking classes in Rome.
In a cooking class you make pasta, tiramisu or pizza yourself and eat it afterwards. Classes last two to three hours and suit beginners, too.
Cooking class2.5 hoursRome · GetYourGuide · ★ 4.9 · 9,037 reviews
Pasta and tiramisu by the Vatican
You make pasta by hand and layer a tiramisu, with wine on the side. No cooking class in Rome has more reviews on GetYourGuide.
from $33 per personSee dates
Cooking class3 hours
Cooking class2 hoursFAQ
Before you go.
Here are answers to the questions people ask most often before a food tour in Rome.
Compare toursHow much does a food tour in Rome cost?
A group food tour in Rome costs $47 to $123 per person. The most-booked tour in Trastevere starts at $115. A private tour, where the guide leads only your group, costs $143 to $227 per person.
Is a food tour in Rome worth it?
A food tour is most worth it on your first or second evening in Rome. In three to four hours you get to know several places you can go back to on your own, and the guide explains what you are eating. On the tours on this page, one tasting costs between $3.01 and $19.22. If you already know Rome well and like picking your own places, you don't need a guide.
Should I tip on a food tour in Rome?
Tipping the guide is optional. Tipping is less expected in Italy than in the US. For a half-day guided tour, travel guides suggest €5 to €10 per person if you enjoyed it. Most guests tip in cash at the end of the tour.
Can I cancel a food tour in Rome for free?
Yes, on almost every tour on this page. On GetYourGuide, all 10 tours and cooking classes can be cancelled up to 24 hours before the start for a full refund. On Viator, this applies to 13 of 14 listings. The only exception is the private Campo de' Fiori tour with 8+ tastings, which is non-refundable on Viator.
Which food tour in Rome is booked most often?
The Trastevere evening tour with 6 to 7 tastings and a pasta dinner has 7,801 reviews combined: 6,915 on Viator and 886 on GetYourGuide. Close behind is the Trastevere tour with 10+ tastings, with 6,970 reviews.
Which neighborhood is best for a first food tour in Rome?
Trastevere is a great choice for your first evening, because most tours on this page go there. If you want to taste old Roman cooking with offal and pasta, go to Testaccio. Near the Vatican, tours run through Prati and Mercato Trionfale.
Will I get full on a food tour in Rome?
Yes, on the tours with dinner and on the tours with 20 or more tastings. A street food tour with five tastings is more like an afternoon snack.
Are there food tours in Rome for vegetarians and vegans?
Yes. The operator of the Trastevere tour with 10+ tastings offers vegetarian dishes if you tell them in advance. The private tour with six or ten tastings also has vegetarian options. If you eat vegan, you can book a dedicated vegan street food tour with dairy-free supplì, pizza, artichokes and dairy-free gelato, from $88 on GetYourGuide.
What are the four classic Roman pastas?
Rome's four classic pastas are cacio e pepe, gricia, carbonara and amatriciana. All four use pecorino romano and black pepper. On the Testaccio food tour you taste three of them: carbonara, amatriciana and cacio e pepe.
Your evening in Rome starts here.
The Trastevere tours have small groups. Check the available dates as soon as your travel dates are set.