Athens Local Food Tour in Monastiraki

Make sure you have a small breakfast, because your foodie guide will make sure nobody leaves hungry!

Athens Local Food and Market Tour Description

Your 4-hour tour includes:

• Guided walking tour of the Monastiraki neighborhood

• Visit the vibrant Varvakios Agora Market

• Various food stops with coffee, pastries, wine, and local specialties

• Try koulóuria, loukoumades, spanakopita, and more!

• English-speaking local foodie guide

• Maximum group size of 15

• Food and drinks included

The exact food stops on this tour may change due to holidays, closures, or other factors, but your guide will always make sure you have a fantastic foodie experience.

Welcome to Monastiraki!

After meeting your fun local guide in Monastiraki Square, you'll begin your foodie journey. As you stroll around this lively neighborhood, your guide will explain some of the history and influences that helped from Greece's world-famous cuisine, and soon you'll reach a centuries-old cafe for your first tasting of the day, the much-loved spinach pie known as spanakopita.

Next, visit a much-loved local pastry shop for filo squares and loukoumades—Greece's answer to the donut! You'll also try Athens favorites like koulóuria as you visit the neighborhood's best bakery, cheese shop, and more on your Monastiraki discovery!

Varvakios Agora Market

Your tour continues in Athens central Varvakios Agora Market—the beating heart of the neighborhood's food culture. Your guide will lead you to sample some of the finest local produce at the market's top stalls. Try the best local treats, including wine, aged vinegar, honey, and much more!

You'll then explore the meat and fish market, a living monument of Athenian culture, before heading outside the market where you will soon catch the scent of coffee roasting in the distance. Follow the aroma to the next stop.

Historic Coffee Roaster

Enter this century-old old coffee roaster and you'll instantly understand the Greek obsession with coffee. See the roasting process, where the expert roaster will describe how the beans develop from farm to cup.

You'll sample two wonderful coffee experiences. Similar to espresso but not filtered, a traditional Greek coffee presents a combination of flavor of texture deeper than most other coffee choices around the world. You'll also try the local favorite, Frappé, learn the story of how the drink accidentally came to fruition due to an American and the arrival of an unheralded product.

Stroll Down Evripidou Street

As you belly gets full and the tour draws to an end, you'll head down one of Athen's hippest roads, Evripidou Street. There you will sample Greek charcuterie and can take the opportunity to stock up your kitchen for when you get home. Kalí Órexi!

Your tour comes to a close back at Monastiraki Square.