Amsterdam food tours

Search for an Amsterdam food tour and every result on the first page is someone selling you one. That is not a reason to skip the topic. It is the reason to write it: no operator is ever going to tell you what the operator next door charges.

So we opened all of them on the same morning and wrote down the price, the length, the group size and the number of stops. Seven operators, ten tours, all read on 14 September 2026.

The first thing that fell out of the spreadsheet had nothing to do with which tour is best.

The short version, before the table: the best value is the cheapest, the gap between the dearest and the cheapest buys you a smaller group rather than more food, and one operator charges different prices depending on where you click.

Every tour, side by side

Sorted by price. Everything here is the from-price per adult, which is what makes the two sales channels comparable.

Four of the listings can be booked through Viator, and three of those are below; the rest are sold only on their operators' own sites. The two highlighted rows are the same tour twice: Adam & Eve charge 79 euros on their own website and 94 on the platform, which we know because Viator names them as the operator of product 375412P1. Worth knowing if that is the one you want, though note that our pick costs the same 79 euros, runs half an hour longer and is better rated.

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Our pick

Food and Cultural Tour, 10 tastings

★★★★★★★★★★4.98 · 6,335

Cheapest, longest and best rated of the three. Ollantay run it.

79 EUR

3 h 30 · max 15 · free cancellation

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10 Tastes of Amsterdam

★★★★★★★★★★4.92 · 4,307

Smaller group, but it is 79 EUR on Adam & Eve's own site.

94 EUR

3 h · max 12 · free cancellation

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Jordaan Food Tour with Dutch Tastings

★★★★★★★★★★4.89 · 2,683

The dearest of the three and the one with fewest reviews.

109 EUR

3 h · free cancellation

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Photo for Food and Cultural Tour, 10 tastings is illustrative, not from the tour. Photo: Renée Kools, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

What the extra money actually buys

Not food. The most expensive tour on the list, at 159 euros, has five stops. The 119 euro Jordaan tour has six. The 78 euro morning tour has three, and it is also the shortest at two and a half hours, so at least that one is priced consistently.

What the money buys is group size. Hungry Birds and Amsterdam Food Tours both cap at eight people and both charge over 110 euros. The cheapest tour on Viator takes up to fifteen. If you have ever been at the back of a walking tour trying to hear a guide over traffic, that is the difference you are paying for.

The other thing it buys is a boat. The 159 euro tour is the only one that puts you on the canals, which is a legitimate reason to cost more than a walk.

Why we split stops from tastings

Operators count what they serve in two incompatible ways and it is worth knowing before you compare anyone's numbers, including ours. Eating Europe publishes stops, meaning places you go into. Adam & Eve and Ollantay publish tastings, meaning things you eat. One stop can hand you three tastings.

So a tour advertising "10 tastings" and one advertising "6 stops" may well feed you the same amount. We kept them in separate columns rather than adding them together, and where an operator does not publish one of the two there is a dash rather than a guess.

The tours, one by one

Everything below comes from the operator's own page or from their Viator listing, read on 14 September 2026. Where a company does not publish something, we say so rather than fill the gap.

Ollantay, 79 EUR: the most food for the money

Three and a half hours, ten tastings, about 2.5 km on foot with a mix of indoor and outdoor stops, groups capped at fifteen. It is the longest of the comparable tours and the best rated anywhere in this comparison, 4.98 from 6,335 reviews, and it has won Viator's experience award three years running.

It can be done vegetarian. It cannot be done vegan or gluten free, which the operator states plainly, and that is the main reason to look elsewhere.

Adam & Eve, 79 EUR direct or 94 on Viator

Three hours, ten or more tastings plus two drinks, five stops, a group of twelve, and 2.5 km of walking through Spui, the Nine Streets and the Jordaan. It starts inside Gastrovino, a cheese shop on Spuistraat 330, down in the wine cellar: eight minutes on foot from Dam Square and five from Rokin metro.

Vegetarian and pescatarian are fine. Gluten free works at roughly seven stops in ten, and only on tours starting at 16:00 or earlier. This is also the tour that costs fifteen euros more on the platform than on the company's own website: same operator, same three hours, same cellar.

Eating Europe in the Jordaan, 109 EUR on Viator or 119 direct

Here the gap runs the other way, which is exactly why this page does not tell you to always book direct. Eating Europe list their Jordaan tour at 119 euros on their own site and 109 on Viator.

We are less certain this is the identical product than we are with Adam & Eve: the operator, the neighbourhood, the three hours and the cap of twelve all match, but the names differ, so they could be two editions of the same walk. Either way it is the most generous on paper, with twelve tastings and four drinks, including apple pie in a cafe over four hundred years old, bitterballen, fried fish, cheese, and Surinamese and Indonesian dishes.

Two practical details nobody else publishes: it needs a minimum of four people to run, and if that is not met they reschedule or refund you. Children from four pay a ticket, and under fours come free but do not eat.

Eating Europe morning tour, 78 EUR: the short one

The cheapest tour here and the shortest, two and a half hours with three stops, and the only one that runs neither in the old centre nor the Jordaan: it works De Pijp, around the Albert Cuyp market, and includes a stroopwafel workshop rather than just a stroopwafel.

Eating Europe food and canals, 159 EUR: the boat

The most expensive thing on the list and the only one that puts you on the water: three and a half hours split between a private canal boat and a walk through the Jordaan, five stops, eleven people maximum. If you want the boat and the food in one afternoon, this is the only way to get both. If you do not, it is eighty euros more than the morning tour for two extra stops.

Hungry Birds, 110 EUR: the long one

Four and a half hours, the longest of the lot by a full hour, with a group capped at eight, the smallest along with Amsterdam Food Tours. It runs in De Pijp, where the company started in 2013. They publish neither a tasting count nor a stop count on the tour page.

Amsterdam Food Tours, 119 EUR

Four hours in the Jordaan with a maximum of eight guests. They also sell a private version of the same walk from 103 euros a head, which is the only case in this comparison where going private costs less per person than the shared tour, provided you bring enough people to spread it across.

Secret Food Tours, 89,99 EUR

Three hours in the centre, of which about an hour and a half is walking. They publish neither the group size nor the number of stops, which is why their row in the table carries two dashes.

The free tour, which is not free

There is a free food tour in Amsterdam. It leaves from the National Monument on Dam Square every day at 10:30 and runs for two hours. The guide works for tips, which is the usual arrangement, but the food is not included: you pay for the tastings up front when you book.

The company does not publish how much that is anywhere on its site, and we are not going to guess. A reviewer in April 2026 called it reasonable and warned to bring cash for the guide. If budget is the reason you are reading this page, the option exists, and it is worth asking the price before you turn up.

What you actually eat

The lists overlap almost completely, which is the other reason price is a poor guide to quality here. Between them these tours feed you aged Gouda, freshly made stroopwafels, bitterballen, raw herring with onions, Dutch fries with mayonnaise or satay sauce, apple pie, poffertjes and jenever, which is the gin the English borrowed and then changed beyond recognition.

The second thread is colonial, and it is the part most visitors do not expect: Surinamese and Indonesian food is Dutch food now, and several of these tours build a stop around it. If you have never eaten Surinamese, that is the thing on the list you cannot easily find at home.

If you have a dietary requirement

Vegetarian is fine everywhere that says anything at all. Past that it gets specific, and the operators are unusually straight about the limits.

• Vegan: Ollantay say no outright. Nobody else commits either way.
• Gluten free: Adam & Eve manage it at around seven stops in ten, and only before 16:00. They recommend the private tour if you need every stop to work.
• Severe allergies: Eating Europe state that their tour is not suitable for anyone with a severe or life-threatening allergy to anything served on it. That is a straight answer and worth having before you book rather than after.

When they run, and why the hour changes the food

Most of these are mid-morning or late-afternoon walks of about three hours. Adam & Eve run daytime slots between 10:00 and 15:00 and evening ones at 16:00, 17:00 and 18:00, and there is a catch worth knowing: herring is only served before 16:00, because that is when the stalls that sell it are open. Book the evening tour and you are getting a different tasting list from the one in the photographs.

If you are going to book one

On the numbers, the tour we would book through a platform is Ollantay's at 79 euros: it is the cheapest, the longest at three and a half hours, and it has the highest rating and the most reviews of anything comparable. Its trade-off is the group, which can reach fifteen.

If a small group matters more to you than the price, Adam & Eve cap at twelve and Hungry Birds at eight. Adam & Eve are bookable above; Hungry Birds sell only through their own site, so you will have to look them up.