Private Food & Wine Experiences in Paris

The tastings are the easy part. What you take home is knowing how to eat here.

Paris is the hardest easy city in the world to eat in. There is extraordinary food on almost every street, and also a great deal of expensive mediocrity aimed squarely at visitors : and from the outside the two look identical. The kitchens shut between lunch and dinner. The best bakery on a street is rarely the one with the prettiest sign. Half the good places close on Sunday, the other half on Monday, and a lot of them close for most of August.

A decent food tour fixes the afternoon it happens on.
A good one fixes the rest of your week.
You leave knowing how to read a menu, which counter to join, what time to turn up, what to ask for — and where to go back to on Thursday when nobody’s guiding you.

Trays filled with golden croissants and pastries in a Paris bakery, a tempting first stop on a private Marais food tour
Food Tour

Private Marais Food Tour

From€519
Discover Paris's historic Marais district on a private food tour with expert guides. Taste authentic French cuisine, visit hidden gems, and explore charming streets at your own pace.
Neatly arranged rows of artisan chocolates behind glass in a Paris boutique, featured on a private Marais food tour
Food Tour

Family Food Tour in Saint-Germain-des-Prés | Paris with Kids

From€449
Enjoy a Saint-Germain food tour for families in Paris, with kid-friendly tastings of pastries, chocolate and regional specialties, guided by a friendly foodie in one of the city’s most charming neighborhoods.
Private wine tasting in Paris with professional sommelier and French wine map for small group tour
Wine Class

Private Wine Tasting Class with Renowned Sommelier

From€278
Wine tasting class in Paris with a renowned sommelier. Taste Champagne, Burgundy and Bordeaux, paired with French cheeses and charcuterie in an elegant setting.

Which food tour is right for my trip to Paris ?

The real fork is whether you want to walk or to sit.
The two food tours are walking tours where the food is the route : the Marais if you’re serious about eating and traveling without small children, Saint-Germain if you have children from about five, since the tastings are chosen for them and the pace is built around their attention rather than yours.

The wine class is the opposite: two hours in one room, five glasses, and a sommelier teaching you to taste properly : the best two hours here for anyone who has always nodded along to wine talk and would rather not.

And Champagne is a whole day out of Paris, which is a different decision entirely: you’re giving up a day of the city to stand in a chalk cellar and have lunch where the wine is made.

Ask us if you’re not sure: we’ll tell you honestly if a €278 class does what you’re after.

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    What our guests are asking us before in Paris. ?

    Is a food tour in Paris worth it?

     It depends whether you treat it as a meal or as an orientation. As a meal, ten-plus tastings for two and a half hours is fair value. As an orientation it’s better than that: most guests tell us the real return was the four days afterwards, when they knew which counter to join and what to order.

    What time do restaurants serve in Paris?

     Lunch is roughly 12:00 to 2:30 and dinner starts around 7:30 or 8:00 pm — and in between, most kitchens are genuinely closed, not quiet. This catches out more visitors than anything else in Paris. If you’re hungry at 4pm, you want a bakery, a café or a market, not a restaurant.

    Which days are things closed?

     Sunday and Monday, and it varies by street. Many restaurants close Sunday, many others Monday, and bakeries take a weekly closing day on a rota so a neighborhood is never without one. Open-air markets are mostly closed Mondays. In August a lot of independent places shut for two to four weeks.

    Do you tip in Paris?

     Service is included in the price by law, so no tip is required. Rounding up, or leaving a few euros for a good meal, is normal and appreciated; 15 to 20 percent is not expected and marks you out. Nobody will chase you down the street.

    Can you do a food tour with children?

     Yes : but pick the one built for them. Our Saint-Germain tour is designed around tastings children actually want, from about age five, with the pace to match. The Marais tour is the better one for adults traveling without them.

    Do I need to know anything about wine?

     No, and the class is better if you don’t. It’s built for people who’d like to stop nodding politely — how to look at a wine, what you’re smelling, why one Burgundy tastes like somewhere and another doesn’t. Five wines, two hours, no jargon test at the end.

    Is Champagne a good day trip from Paris?

     Yes, if you’ll trade a day of the city for it,  you’re about 100 minutes east by car, 45 minutes by train, and you get something Paris can’t give you: chalk cellars cut by hand, and a family grower pouring their own wine at their own table.
    Ten hours door to door, lunch at the estate.

    Can you accommodate dietary restrictions?

     Usually yes :  vegetarian, nut-free and gluten-sensitive tastings can be arranged with notice, and the guides do it often. Tell us when you book rather than on the day, so the shops can be chosen accordingly.

    What should we eat in Paris that we can't get at home?

     Cheese at the right ripeness, bread the day it’s baked, and butter. Nothing exotic, the difference here is that the ordinary things are made properly and sold by people who care when you eat them.
    A fromager will ask what day you plan to open it. That question is the whole point.