Alicante Food and Tapas Tour with a Local Guide
Overview
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2 hours
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Come with us and taste the best snacks and tapas from Alicante! A real local experience.
Our proposal is having a gastronomic experience trying many typical products from our region, including fruits and vegetables brought directly from the orchard, meat from local farms, Mediterranean fish, as well as tasting cheeses and handmade sweets, all accompanied by typical drinks, both with alcohol and without alcohol. You will discover delicious aromas and flavors!
We will meet at the central market and visit 10 different food places, which some of them have more than 100 years old. You can get to know the most experienced sellers and talk about the history of each product and the tradition behind each of them. Meanwhile, you will discover the interesting history of the central market and its hidden places.
Booking this experience supports the small businesses, the local producers and the artisans that are still doing their work as it used to be done before.
Vegetarian options available.
Additional Info
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
Come with me and try the best snacks and tapas from Alicante! A real local experience. 20 samples in total! My proposal is having a gastronomic experience trying many typical products from our region, including fruits and vegetables brought directly from the orchard, meat from local farms, Mediterranean fish, as well as tasting cheeses and handmade sweets, all accompanied by typical drinks, both with alcohol and without alcohol. You will discover delicious aromas and flavors! We will meet at the central market and visit 10 different food places, which some of them have more than 100 years old. You can get to know the most experienced sellers and talk about the history of each product and the tradition behind each of them. You will discover the Central Market and why the Mediterranean diet is the best in the world and how it can help you improve your nutrition. Booking this experience supports the small businesses, the local producers and the artisans that are still doing their work as it used to be done before. Pescatarian and vegetarian options available.
What‘s Included
Food: 16 little specialities
Drinks: 4 local wines
Gratuities
Options
Tapas Tour - Dinner Time
Duration: 3 hours
8 tapas and 4 wines/beer.
Evening time: On tours starting at 18:00 the indoor market is shut so we will visit the stalls outside, and some authentic tapas bars.
Tapas Tour - Lunch Time
Duration: 2 hours
16 food tasting and 4 wines
Stalls inside of the market
Reviews
460 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Yummy tapas tour
debo71,,Dec 4, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Isaac was an excellent guide. Very knowledgeable and friendly. Tapas offered was varied and allowed me to try new foods in a friendly environment. Small groups so could easily ask questions. Throughly recommended and would do your again if return to Alicante in the future. Written guide given with recommendations for bars and restaurants very helpful too.
Food tasting tour
Marion D,,Dec 2, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00The tour was excellent. Lots of different foods- savoury and sweet- to sample, as well as beer and wine. The guide Fernando was informative and entertaining.
Interesting tour, worth every Penny
Business Traveller38,,Nov 28, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Isaac was a really fantastic guide. He is so enthusiastic and really enjoys his job. He really brought the market and all of its traders and foods to life of us. Highly recommended!!
Enjoyed the experience
Helen M,,Nov 28, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00My friend and I really enjoyed sampling things we would never get opportunity to try normally. Fabulous to hear about the history of it all also . Tour Guide Issac was wonderful very friendly and informative
Would recommend
Laura K,,Nov 27, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Really fun experience. Great, knowledgeable guide. He was also really accommodating when we were late due to measures outside of our control
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Odyssey03649758533,,Nov 27, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Nadia was an excellent guide. We give her five stars. Amazingly knowledgeable and kind. Many thanks. We'll come again ..
excellent experience - worth the time
Todd A,,Nov 26, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00This was a fantastic tour of the Alicante Mercado Central. Our tour guide, Isaac, provided thoughtful history of the building and the market along with the owners of the stalls that we visited. The choices of food and wine were excellent and well paced. One bit of advice to visitors for this tour when scheduled during the afternoon (12:30-14:30) -make purchases along the way (particularly at the stalls that you visit), because the market begins to close down at 14:00 or so (particularly the seafood and produce stalls) and you will need to visit the next day to make purchases. Isaac was especially friendly and knowledgeable. Would seek him out to guide other tours (actually ran into him at the Castle Santa Barbera guiding a group at that site).
Mercado tapastour
Davidhveem,,Nov 23, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Great, lots of funfacts and interesting knowhows, small pizes to eat and drink, tasted good. The guide Isak was a real dictinary. East to hear hiss explanaitions thou it was saturday (crowded)
A great tasting experience.
Wells3105,,Nov 22, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Fran was a great guide. He gave us a two and a half hour experience, full of interesting stories and information. The variety of carefully chosen food and drink pairings were delicious. We’ll definitely return to experience some of the other tours on offer. We can thoroughly recommend The Alicante Tasting Club! Nick and Amanda Wells
Fantastic tour!
Lindsey S,,Nov 18, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00What a great experience! The guide Isaac, was brilliant and so informative. Would highly recommend for anyone visiting Alicante.
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