The way to Puerto Vallarta's heart is through your stomach. And walking makes the appetite grow stronger. So come walk around traditional eateries where colorful owners and staff serve delicious, authentic food, and get a real taste for this resort city.

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Duration 3 hours: Check availability to see starting times.
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Live tour guide: English
Wheelchair accessible
Small group: Limited to 10 participants

Highlights

Leave the hotels and restaurants behind and sample the best local food in Puerto Vallarta
Sample a wide variety of authentic dishes introduced by your guide
Learn about the food from the colorful people known as the best in their trade

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This guided food and city walking tour features 7 food-tasting spots carefully chosen to highlight the best regional flavors Puerto Vallarta has to offer. Savor regional delicacies at off-the-beaten-path eateries with their colorful owners and staff. You will enjoy a sampling of mouth-watering food at family-owned restaurants and stands, sip on refreshing local drinks, and even enjoy a fresh tortilla straight off the conveyer belt at a tortilla factory. You can look forward to Vallarta’s best mole enchiladas, traditional ceviche tostadas, fresh coconut, authentic tacos, savory soups, regional sweets, and more. It adds up to enough for a satisfying lunch, and all the food is included in the tour price. But you can also learn about the food from the colorful local folks whose pride in their craft is matched only by the effusiveness of their spirit.

Includes

Live tour guide
Water
Soft drink

Meeting point

Lazaro Cardenas Park in the romantic zone. The park sits in the corner of Lazaro Cardenas Street and Pino Suarez. Your guide will be in the middle of the park in the gazebo.

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4.6 /5

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3/5
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4.5/5
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Good for trying things you never thought you would experience!

Plain and simple: restaurants are very different in Mexico than they are in the US. What I loved about going on this food tour is the amount of "street" food we got to try along with visiting traditional restaurants and stores. I think it's better to go on a local tour (our guide Ricardo was excellent) than to try to explore on your own. Being a shy American, I probably wouldn't have gone up to a taco cart and bought something. I loved Concepcion's tuba water! I wish we had something like that in the US, but I will just have to go back to Vallarta!

August 2, 2013

Very tasty and informative!

There were 6 friends in our group(plus 3 others). Half thought it was great and well priced. The others thought the tour was over-priced for the amount of food and value. Our guide, Ricardo was excellent. The 3 hour tour was a little bit too long. We loved the mole, beef tacos on the street, tortilla soup, ceviche tostado as well as the tuba juice. Oh and the candy was delicious. I would recommend it for $35 to $40. $50 US is too much.

January 6, 2013

One of the best tours I've taken. Great food, people and guide!

No better way to get a feel and taste of the local food and people. Just thought this was a great tour.

November 29, 2012

Puerto Vallarta 3-Hour Food Tour of Authentic Local Cuisine

Puerto Vallarta 3-Hour Food Tour of Authentic Local Cuisine

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Good for trying things you never thought you would experience!

Very tasty and informative!

One of the best tours I've taken. Great food, people and guide!