Basel's Farmer's Market, Cheese, Chocolate, and Pastry Tour
Overview
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3 hours
Mobile ticket
History, art, treats, and pastries are waiting for you in Basel. Our Basel tasting tour offers the opportunity of a lifetime to discover significant places that bring forth the signature tastes of Switzerland. Start the journey by admiring historical landmarks that have endured the test of time. Then, dive further into understanding culture by indulging yourself with cheeses and eventually appreciating the process of making Swiss AOP cheeses. We will also take you to chocolate and pastry shops selling notable chocolates and traditional Swiss spice biscuits. End the tour by embracing the natural flavors you can only taste in Switzerland.
Additional Info
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
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‘s Included
Local specialty tasting
Farmer's market seasonal tasting
Cheese Tasting
Chocolate Tasting
All taxes and fees
Local expert guide
Lunch
What To Expect
Basel Minster
Our discovery will let you travel back in time by exploring the city of Basel and Swiss food. The guide will lead you through Swiss delights and historical events that define the city and Switzerland. Be amazed by the Munster Cathedral and the 500-year-old Roothus (Town Hall) that houses several unique paintings. Make a remarkable memory of observing the iconic Tinguely Fountain. Along the way, you will head directly to a traditional Swiss sweetshop to taste the authentic treats of Switzerland.
Basel's Old Town
Since Switzerland is known for its cheese, you will go beyond the usual tourist destinations in Basel to discover the process of making various kinds of Swiss cheese. Learn from a sommelier and master cheese ager to cherish the mild and strong flavors of young and aged Basel’s cheese. Try the country's pride called Gruyère AOP cheese, including other famous cheeses in Switzerland. By the end of the cheese tasting, you will admire the natural taste of a cheese free from preservatives, food colorings, and flavor enhancers.
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Basel's Farmer's Market, Cheese, Chocolate, and Pastry Tour
Reviews
99 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Tour guide cancelled tour due to limited support.
Mark H,
Jul 7, 2025
- Viator
1.00Our tour guide decided to cancel our tour to help another tour guide who was sick. We were given two options. 1) Take the tour the tour a week later which was unacceptable because we would be in another country or 2) take a different tour which had only little bit in common with the original tour. We were offerred one bakery and more of a history tour. This was unacceptable. We did not understand why our tour was cancelled and not the other way around.
I was disappointed with...
thomasandDeborah m,
Jun 15, 2025
- Viator
3.00I was disappointed with tour, . Wanted to hear more info on Basel . Disappointed in guides cheese and chocolate shop. Would have loved to buy some chocolate to take home, but it wasn’t a store. He didn’t offer us water during cheese/chicolate tour and there was only one chair to sit down in store. When we went to bakery, had to sit on a window ledge to eat pastry. This tour was not worth the money . He was late for our tour(he did email and let us know) and left us after tour to get back to hotel. Wouldn’t recommend this tour to anyone . Debbie marx
It is not a typical food...
Pamela B,
Jun 11, 2025
- Viator
4.00It is not a typical food tour. It is also a private tour. We were taken to a shop owned by the tour guide. Very knowledgeable about cheeses and chocolate. Tastings of cheeses wonderful. Scant on the chocolate tasting though. Would suggest increase hospitality to offer chairs to sit and water to drink. Then we began our walking tour. Very informative of old part of Basel. Stopped at a bakery and selected a pastry. Probably the best I had tasted during our travels. But again no place to sit and eat our pastry.
To Long to Stand in the Cheese and Chocolate Shop
DianandJesd P,
Jun 6, 2025
- Viator
4.00This tour was given by a very nice young man who took us to a pastry shop then to his store to taste cheeses and chocolate beans. He was very knowledgeable about where the cheeses came from and the flavors of each. A couple came in and spent quite a bit of time buying cheese in the middle of our tour. It was really a long time to stand without any chairs. We bought some cheese. We expected to be trying more chocolate pastries, not just chocolate beans with a couple of bites of chocolate. He did not have chocolate available to buy except one kid which we did not want. I hate to say this because he was so nice but I probably would not do this tour again.
Poor service
Michael W,
May 29, 2025
- Viator
1.00Terrible co cancelled at the last minute 6.22 pm the nite before while I was enroute suprised Viatour recommended them
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