Athens Food and City Private Walking Tour
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Athens Food and City Private Walking Tour
By Alternative Athens
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Duration: 5h
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Live guide: English, French
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- Pickup and drop-off at centrally located hotels only
- Local guide
- Food tastings including olive oil, honey, cheese, wine, vinegar, liquor, sweets, koulouri, authentic Greek coffee, and Greek meze
- Local taxes
- Snacks
What's not included- Any food or drinks you may get on your own
- Transportation to/from attractions
- Start:Multiple pickup locations offered.
- Syntagma Square, Plateia Syntagmatos, Athina, GreeceIn front of the fountain of Syntagma square
Pickup details- If your hotel / apartment is located in the historic center of Athens your guide will meet you there, otherwise please contact us for the most convenient meeting location for you
Hotel pickup offeredDuring checkout you will be able to select from the list of included hotels.End:- Monastiraki Square, Apollonos 21, Athina 105 57, Greece
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 6956P15- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Approximate distance covered: 5 kilometers, flat
- Not suitable for wheelchair users due to lack of infrastructure in the Greek capital
- Maximum is 12 people per booking
- Most travelers can participate
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
- For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.
- If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 6956P15
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- Mcallanan20 contributionsA Deeper Understanding of AthensFantastic! This tour was a highlight of our visit to Athens. Our guide, Nick, was awesome, providing a unique, insider's view, bringing us to neighborhoods that are off the beaten path and offering a deeper understanding of the city. This art is powerful and stunning. We highly recommend this tour for those who want a different perspective on this fascinating city. We loved it!.Written October 13, 2024
- BDesalvo0 contributionsWell Worth It-Book This Now!!!Highly recommend this food tour. Small group is the best way to experience the local food in Athens. Antigone was so knowledgeable about the food and much much more! The pace of the tour is perfect for anyone young or not-so-young and the authentic lunch at the very end was perfection!Written October 12, 2024
- SKMcr0 contributionsUnexpected Athens Orientation TourWe took the "Unexpected Athens Orientation Tour". Our guide, Joseph, was excellent, funny, and highly knowledgeable and passionate about his city, its modern history and culture. The tour, which we took on our second day of five in Athens, really helped us to navigate our way around the city centre and took us to areas away from the classic historical attractions.Written October 12, 2024
- soujanyad20230 contributionsGreat tour in Athens before getting on cruise shipVery interesting tour of Athens! Our tour guide was Georgina and she was extremely charismatic and knowledgeable about Greek history and mythology! This was definitely a highlight of our trip to Greece! We saw all the major sites in Athens during this tour in the one day we were there before departing on a cruise ship.Written October 12, 2024
- Mamasuzz0 contributionsMust do in Athens-Best if done in first day or two.MaryKate was a great guide. The food was delicious with a nice variety and we felt like we covered a nice distance with highlights of Athens. She went above and beyond at the end of our tour with other suggestions of food in Athens and included some recipes.Written October 12, 2024
- Zigbe0 contributionsEnjoyable way to discover AthensEnjoyed our delicious Athens food tour with Andreas who was a knowledgeable engaging and relaxed guide. We got to try a wide range of different food and really enjoyed our introduction to Greek food.Written October 12, 2024
- W4335CFlynnt0 contributionsMade learning interesting and funThis was a wonderful experience and a chance to see/learn so much about history. Magda was so knowledgeable and worked hard to include everyone in the group. She kept us informed and engaged during the entire tour. Highly recommend!Written October 11, 2024
- 516SueA5160 contributionsBest food tour!Outstanding food stops. A ton of food- no small tastings here! Our guide was knowledgeable, kind and accommodating. A great way to see lesser known spots in AthensWritten October 10, 2024
- Freedom520167259520 contributionsFabulous!This was a great tour, really interesting and we went to parts of Athens we wouldn't have otherwise found. Nikos was a really brilliant guide - very kind and patient, excellent knowledge. Would recommend to everyone.Written October 10, 2024
- evasT4488SS0 contributionsTAKE THIS TOUR! street art is very interestingExcellent tour , very insightful. Nikos is brilliant! He is passionate about his city, funny, knowledgeable and speaks very clearly. And you get to visit less touristy parts of Athens.Written October 10, 2024
- lesliemR4809GR0 contributionsAthens’ incredible street artistsThe Athens street art tour is a great way to explore Athens’ most interesting neighbourhoods while learning about the city’s incredible street art. We had a great time with Nikos, a knowledgeable artist himself, learning about the city’s great artists while discovering a side of Athens we wouldn’t have otherwise seen. A highlight of our visit and one we would strongly recommend.Written October 9, 2024
- Matthew M0 contributionsGreat tourInteresting tour of the neighbourhood of Athens around the centre of the city. Joseph is a knowledgeable and professional guide with interesting information and perspectives.Written October 9, 2024
- suzannefR6994XL0 contributionsSo full after all the Wonderful food!!This tour was so much fun! A small group of both young and not-as-young people who were all very engaging. Our tour guide, Maria-Katerina, was charming, informative, and very gracious answering all our questions! English was perfect and easily understood. So much delicious food: gyros, authentic Greek coffee, traditional ‘donuts’, olive oil tasting with noshes, bread from a traditional bakery, and finishing off with a local tavern for tapas-style meal. Forgot to mention the ‘pretzel’ stop we made that is open all night and a great place to get a late night snack. We went to a variety of old and new neighborhoods that included beautiful shops, fish and meat markets, and down a street with wonderful smells of spices for sale. Maria-Katerina provided a wonderful narrative of how Greeks eat and shop and the how/why of the traditional foods. I highly recommend this tour! Thank you Maria!!Written October 9, 2024
- Seaside6215660 contributionsGreat experienceVery informative, well paced and encompassing. We really enjoyed our guide, Maria, who offered suggestions for other sites to visit and was friendly, intelligent, and engaging.Written October 7, 2024
- B9846FNmirellad0 contributionsA must do walking tourThe views were fantastic and the tour guide was very friendly, outgoing, informative and polite. A must do when visiting Athens. Vuolos was perfect for the role. Thankyou Vuolos😊Written October 4, 2024
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xcmalo
Saint-Malo, France4 contributions
Aug 2023 • Family
Delighted with this culinary tour of Athens with Joséphine. With her training in archeology and her knowledge of the city, she was able to make this visit fascinating and answer our questions which were sometimes unrelated to the theme of the visit. His French is excellent. Excellent value for money, numerous stops to taste a wide variety of local dishes and products. A special mention for the tasting and the short training on extra-virgin olive oil. I recommend!
Written August 14, 2023
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Rina Ya
1 contribution
Mar 2023
Pvlina, our guid, has a vast and deep knowledge of the history of her homeland. This knowledge articulates with her passion to share with us her coutry's traditional culinaty and how events, local or global, have modified some of the traditional recepies.
Pavlina introduced us to family culinary businesses of sweets, coffees, suvlakies and more as an example to Greek's culture
Her attitued and sensetivity to each and every one in the group is remarkabke.
She is everything you need as a guid
Thanks, Pavlina.
Pavlina introduced us to family culinary businesses of sweets, coffees, suvlakies and more as an example to Greek's culture
Her attitued and sensetivity to each and every one in the group is remarkabke.
She is everything you need as a guid
Thanks, Pavlina.
Written March 9, 2023
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nasser s
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Feb 2024 • Couples
Having loved Greece for a long time, we chose to spend more time in Athens to discover not only the culture and its history, but also its popular culture, starting with its cuisine and its culinary traditions. It was Leonidas who took it upon himself to accompany us. I don't know if we were lucky but Leonidas was the dream guide. His smile, his kindness, his skills helped make this ride more emotional than we imagined. All our senses were awakened and not just taste through tasting but smell, hearing, sight, it was a festival in the streets of Athens, its alleys, its market more exotic than ever. Among a thousand sensations, Leonidas also took us on a journey through the History of Greece, because current Greek cuisine is also the fruit of mixtures of culture and historical events. A “madeleine” on every street corner! We highly recommend this activity and especially Leonidas!
Written February 10, 2024
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Maria S
Skillman, NJ2 contributions
Oct 2023 • Couples
Vassia was a fabulous guide. She was fun and engaging and her passion for her Greek heritage and food shone through our entire walk. She brought us to authentic landmark bake shops, an olive oil tasting, Greek Coffee shop. farmer’s market and local meat and fish markets.etc, etc. We enjoyed a taste of all of Greece’s finest offerings. Everything we tasted was wonderful. We even had a hearty tasting in an old world style restaurant. We learned a lot about Greek traditions as well. Our tour exceeded our expectations and we were fortunate to be a small group of 6 very nice people. Kudos’ to Vassia!
Written October 14, 2023
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AdventurePeggie
Anchorage, AK4 contributions
Sep 2023 • Solo
A travel agent friend set me up with an Alternative Athens food tour the morning after I my arrival. I had not requested a food tour and was unsure I'd be awake for it (jet-lagged), but it was a highlight of my time in Athens and served to give me my bearings of the main historical neighborhoods. Plus the food was delicious. I am so glad I took the tour. Elena had wonderful stories and introduced us to some of the best places to sample Greek specialties, in addition her spoken English was very easy to understand. I highly recommend this tour to begin your time in Athens both to get to know Greek food and to gain familiarity with the old town neighborhoods
Written October 20, 2023
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brenda M
2 contributions
Sep 2022
No question, there really wasn’t a specific part of the tour. In it’s entirety we loved it all. The sounds, the smells, the sights, everything we experienced was fabulous. It must be said though, there’s no way we could have given this tour a 10 out of 10 rating without Haris leading the tour. His humour, his incredible wealth of knowledge about Greek history and his obvious passion for what he does, made all the difference in a world class tour.
Effkahreestoe Poli, Haris!!! Hope I didn’t misspell too badly, you have our respect always.
Effkahreestoe Poli, Haris!!! Hope I didn’t misspell too badly, you have our respect always.
Written September 30, 2022
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Jenia
3 contributions
Feb 2023 • Friends
We had Haris as our tour guide, the tour eas fun interesting and very well planned. We tasted a lot of local dishes and Haris was knowledgeable about the greek cousin as well as the city history. We will recommend this tour to any visitor in Athens. Thank you Haris!
Written February 11, 2023
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Jacqueline L
Stuart, FL1 contribution
Aug 2022
My husband and I had a great guide Andreas. He took us through streets we would not have seen and the food tasting was terrific. I highly recommend this to anyone who has already done the regular ruins tour looking for something different. After the tour he sent all the recipes!
Written September 6, 2022
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Jessica L
2 contributions
Jun 2023 • Family
I highly recommend this tour. Elena was a fantastic guide. She guides you through some parts of the city you might not otherwise see, and the tour encompasses a wide array of foods. Our family of 4 thoroughly enjoyed it!
Written July 6, 2023
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Cris M V
2 contributions
Oct 2022 • Couples
I strongly recommend this tour to anyone searching for an unique experience, full of history information and very diverse food tasting! From olive oil history, including studies for health benefits, and history of souvlaki, the most popular street food, we had a clear idea of what makes greek one of the most renowned cuisine in the world.
Our guide, Pavlina, was extremely skilled and helpful at all levels and one of of a kind. My husband and I had a fantastic and unforgettable time!! Thank you so much!!
Our guide, Pavlina, was extremely skilled and helpful at all levels and one of of a kind. My husband and I had a fantastic and unforgettable time!! Thank you so much!!
Written October 19, 2022
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Hi!
We are looking to do a tour May 11th after 3.00 pm with history, food, and drinks for 2 people. Could you please recommend?
Carie
Written May 6, 2019
I would like to do this tour with my electric mobility scooter. Is that possible?
Written May 3, 2019
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