Marbella Original Food Tour: Tapas, Wine & Old Town with a Local

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Marbella Original Food Tour: Tapas, Wine & Old Town with a Local

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US$135.45 per guest

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Summary

Experience Details

What You’ll Experience

Where to Meet

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Location

Malaga

Duration

3 hours

Number of Guests

1 - 12 guests

Language

English, Spanish

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Mobile or paper ticket accepted

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

Experience Details

Marbella's original tapas food tour — the first of its kind, running since 2018, and still the most reviewed food tour in the city.

Plenty of tours have followed. Only one started it. Across 3 hours, your local guide walks you through the Old Town's whitewashed lanes to three traditional taverns the guidebooks miss — the places locals actually eat.

Taste award-winning Ensaladilla Rusa at Marbella's oldest tapas bar, hand-carved Iberian bellota ham with Payoyo, Spain's most awarded cheese, the day's fresh catch and salt-cured Cádiz tuna, with a different Andalusian wine at every stop.

Between bites, discover Orange Square, hidden plazas and the bronze Dalí sculptures, and the stories behind them.

Small groups. Real food. Real history, and more five-star reviews than any other food tour in Marbella.

Book the original, and taste the Marbella that locals keep to themselves.

What You Get

Expert local guide and food host

Alcoholic beverages

3 drinks, one paired at each tavern: cava, a crisp Verdejo and a local red (non-alcoholic options available)

Gratuities

All gratuities and tips included for the restaurants and waiters

Gratuities

Tips for the Guide not included

Good To Know

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Not recommended for travellers with celiac disease
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

What You’ll Experience

Plaza de Los Naranjos

We gather in Marbella's 15th-century Orange Square, by the fountain beside the little Ermita de Santiago chapel. Your local guide sets the scene with the story of the old town — the Casa del Corregidor and the town hall around us — before the tasting begins.

15 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Calle San Lázaro

Down one of the old town's narrowest lanes to one of Marbella's oldest tapas bars, pouring since the 1950s. First glass of cava in hand, we taste the award-winning Ensaladilla Rusa and home-made chicken-and-ham croquetas.

40 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Calle Pantaleón

A cosy, family-run taberna tucked into a lane just off Orange Square. We hand-carve Iberian bellota ham and set it beside Payoyo — Spain's most awarded cheese, made high in the Sierra de Cadiz from the milk of the native payoya goat — and wash it all down with a crisp, chilled Verdejo. Two mountain flavours, centuries in the making, on one plate.

40 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Avenida del Mar

A gentle walk through the tiled Alameda gardens down to Avenida del Mar, lined with ten bronze Salvador Dali sculptures. Time for photos and the stories behind Marbella's open-air art before the final stop.

20 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Avenida Miguel Cano

Our final stop is a traditional Jerez-style bodega, all dark wood and hanging hams. We round off the evening with a glass of red, mojama de atun — salt-cured red tuna from the Cadiz coast — and gambas al pil-pil sizzling in garlic.

40 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Plaza de Los Naranjos

We stroll back through the whitewashed lanes — past the Iglesia de la Encarnacion and remnants of the old Arab walls — to Orange Square where we began, with the guide's personal tips for the rest of your stay.

25 minutesAdmission Ticket Free

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

Plaza de los Naranjos, Málaga Andalucía, Spain, ES, 29601

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Wait for me at the fountain, at the side of the plaza by the small church called ermita de Santiago

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.
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Reviews

4.8

based on 176 reviews

(TripAdvisor)

Great tapas tour in Old Marbella Spain

July 26, 2026

Christian was a great tour guide. He was very personable, honest as well as a bit quirky, in a good way! The restaurant choices on the tour gave us a little taste of many different types of Tapas. ...read more

(TripAdvisor)

History and local hot spots

February 18, 2026

This was a great and informative tour where all the food stops were out of the way local haunts with real food and good wine.

(Viator)

We enjoyed our tour and...

November 09, 2025

We enjoyed our tour and the amazing food and wine. Michel was a great tour guide. We would recommend it!

(TripAdvisor)

Tapas and walking tour with Michel

September 28, 2025

The tapas tour with our guide, Michel, was awesome! Every restaurant we stopped at had delicious tapas paired with cava/wine. Along the walking route, Michel told us about some of the history of Ma...read more