Istanbul street food tour with local guide

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What You’ll Experience
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5 hours
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Number of Guests
1 - 12 guests
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English
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Discover Istanbul's flavors on a street food tour with a local guide. Indulge in authentic dishes, desserts, and traditional tea or coffee in historic settings. A culinary journey awaits you!

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

We guide the tourists and make them taste local street delicacies and taste different delicious dishes at different points. This includes appetizers, entrees, main course, dessert, tea or Turkish coffee. We will drink tea and coffee while relaxing and chatting in a place that was a madrasa, a place where education was given in the Ottoman period, and where locals now stop by after work and drink tea, coffee smoke hookah./ sisha.



Sample Menu

STARTER
İstanbul Street Food.
Lentil soup, white rice with chickpeas,stuffed mussels, çiğ köfte (Traditional snack made with fine bulgur, tomato paste and vegetables).
MAIN
Lahmacun ( türkish pizza) and Büryan kebap
Lahmacun made with minced meat and finely chopped vegetables. Büryan kebap (well-baked büryan kebab)
DESSERT
Halka tatlsı ( traditional donut dessert)
Dessert is known as halka tatlısı (which is made of pastry, sugar, egg, milk, oil Etc
DESSERT
Türkish tea or türkish coffee
End the tour at Ancient Madrasa with some Turkish tea or coffee, chating and watching how the locals getting socialized with smoking hookah

What You Get

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Dessert
Dinner
There is no transportation on this tour. It will be a walking food tour.

Good To Know

  • We would be very happy if guests with gluten allergy, vegetarians, or do not consume dairy products or any other sensitivity please inform us in advance.
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Guests who are vegan cannot participate

What You’ll Experience

Discover the local culinary in İstanbul with a small group of people at the evening walking food tour by the local guide, exploring the local’s life and cuisine in European side of İstanbul. Have a chance of tasting the Turkiye’s variety food in Fatih district (which called historical peninsula) throughout the golden horn neighborhood. Join a small group and enjoy the food in local places with a local English speaking guide. We will be walking and stopping in different places for eating ( in some places we will sit and eat, in some places we will stand and eat). There won’t be any transportation. Start walking towards where local people live and work. We will pass by a bridge which is located in Golden Horn and where cars pass over and reach taksim. We will stop by the seaside of Golden Horn and you may enjoy taking some pictures throughout there. We will take a walk to the neighborhood as known women’s market ( kadınlar pazarı in türkish) which is popular with bringing most of product from Southeast Anatolia like meat, cheese, honey, grape molasses, butter and much more product. We will stop at different local places and taste different local street food.

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

İtimat Fabrika Satış Yeri, Avrupa Yakası, Fatih İstanbul, Türkiye, TR, 34116

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İn front of Egyptian baazar(Spice baazar)next to tourısm police cabin. The spice baazar Gate which is facing the Galata Tower/Galata Bridge. pass the trafic lights walk to spice baazar, before you get into the spice baazar there is a police cabin on the right where your guide will meet you.
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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What People Are Saying
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Excellent foods of hidden gems
June 14, 2025
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We had great times with our guide, his knowledge went well beyond the Food. Spoke of the history of old town and various kandsmarks around the City. The street Food experience was sensational. We h...read more

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Yummy foods
May 20, 2025
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Realy tasty foods of hidden places at local market with locals in the neigbourhood. Tasted more than enough food of the city . All dishes were tasty and fresh. Dessert with goat ice cream was my fa...read more

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May 14, 2025
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We had an amazing trip and with this tour we also had the opprtunity yo discover Kore and try some food of the turkish culture. l never thought that we would like some place that much. Everything w...read more

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We had a very familial...
May 13, 2025
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We had a very familial experience with our guide. It felt as if we were with an additional family member. He showed us all the great local spots which was amazing. This is an ALL walking tour, so b...read more

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Great food in neighborhood
April 26, 2025
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We did dinner walking tour as well and it was as great as morning one . Foods were fresh and tasty like the morning tour , guides were so nice and helpful. Highly recommend

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