Tantalize your taste buds as you enjoy a walking food tour of Vancouver's historic Gastown. Explore this culturally rich neighborhood and visit 8 eateries to enjoy some local food and drinks.

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Duration 2.5 hours: Check availability to see starting times.
Live tour guide: English

Highlights

Sample mouth-watering cuisine in Vancouver's oldest neighbourhood
Visit 8 unique restaurants and shops
Learn about Gastown's colourful history

Full description

The Gastown Food Tour will take you through the cobbled streets of Vancouver’s oldest neighborhood while enjoying local craft beer, delicious cheese and prosciutto with flavorful local wine, Japanese kar-age style chicken, freshly made Sicilian tortellini, crispy sweet and chili cauliflower, Canadian poutine; handmade fries topped with cheese curds and gravy and a choice of beer/wine, soft organic ice cream, Vancouver's award winning cheesecake, and lemon bars. On this 2.5-hour walking food tour, a professional actor full of passion for the city and its food will share fascinating little-known stories about Vancouver and its “Wild West” history that dates back 150 years. This is a tour you don’t want to miss!

Includes

Tour guide
7 food and 3 alcoholic beverages (non-alcoholic options available)

Tips (15%-20% is recommended)

Not suitable for

Wheelchair users

Covid-19 precautions

Safety measures in place

All areas that customers touch are frequently cleaned

Traveler requirements

Masks are required while indoors
All participants who are over 16 years old must present proof of full vaccination or lawful exemption. All participants under 16 years old must be accompanied by a fully vaccinated adult from their household
All participants who are over 16 years old must present either a valid EU/Swiss Covid-19 certificate consisting of either: proof of full vaccination (only Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech, Johnson&Johnson, or AstraZeneca vaccines are accepted), proof of a Covid-19 infection within the last 6 months, or a negative rapid test taken no more than 48 hours before the activity starts. Non-EU/Swiss proofs of vaccination or Covid-19 infection must be exchanged by an official body in Switzerland. Only EU/Swiss certificates will be accepted.
All participants who are over 16 years old must also bring a valid form of government-issued photo ID

Meeting point

Meet at 13:45 at Starbucks inside Waterfront Station, 601 West Cordova Street

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Important information

Not allowed

Pets
Smoking

Know before you go

Special dietary requests can be accommodated on this tour.

Customer reviews

Overall rating

4.7 /5

based on 92 reviews

Review summary

Guide
4.9/5
Value for money
4.5/5
Service
4.7/5
Organization
4.7/5

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Sean was an excellent guide. The tour took a little bit longer than expected due to a few people having trouble finding the starting location. Sean took his time to make sure that they could locate the group and started the tour. He was informative and made sure he interacted with everyone in the group. If you’re in Vancouver, I highly recommend that you book this tour.

May 21, 2022

Not only do you get to eat some great food and try great local beer and wine in some excellent establishments but you also get to learn a whole lot about the history of Vancouver. Tour guide Brent was excellent with his knowledge of the food, and history he also explained everything so well and is an excellent story teller. Highly recommended!! Word of warning don’t eat before this tour and if your planning dinner after it plan it to be a later dinner. I was full as a boot by the end!

October 9, 2019

Delicious, Fun and All the Best Foods!

How do you satisfy parents and teens? Sign up for this fun food tour! Our guide Liam was fun and pleasant as he took us to 9 different eateries all within a 10 minute walk of the starting point. Food and drink was varied. We all wished we had done it on our first night in Vancouver so that we could return to several of the restaurants. We especially liked the Bao sandwiches. Learning about the local history was an added bonus. The food was plentiful and varied. There was no part of the tour we did not like!

July 30, 2019

Vancouver: 2.5-Hour Gastown Walking Food Tour

Vancouver: 2.5-Hour Gastown Walking Food Tour

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Delicious, Fun and All the Best Foods!