Town Food Tour in Saffron Walden

Overview

Available languages

English

3 hours

Mobile ticket

Food tasting and cultural tours of historic Saffron Walden with professional food guide. Taste award winning food and drinks, made in the town centre, enough for a satisfying meal! Meet the business owners and food producers. Explore Saffron Walden 900 year old market place and the history of the town named after the worlds most expensive Spice!

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

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

Tasting tour includes all drinks and snacks, enough for long leisurely lunch or breakfast

Retail and food history of the town

What To Expect

Saffron Walden

Visit multiple independent food venues and shops, tasting specialist food and drink products everywhere we visit. Hear the food and retail history of our ancient town centre streets and see landmarks including St Marys Church, the 900 year old market square and the Grade 1 listed Sun Inn on Church street.

3 hours • Admission Not Applicable

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Town Food Tour in Saffron Walden

Reviews

5.00

28 reviews

Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor

Fabulous food and drink tour of pretty Saffron Walden.
primroseunited,
Oct 8, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
What a wonderful experience eating our way around Saffron Walden. Rachel is a brilliant guide, full of interesting information and her passion for food is intoxicating. Highly recommended.
Great experience even for gluten free
S6695HNgraces,
Aug 24, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Could not get over what a great time we had! The whole tour was so well organised from the emails before to the day itself and the thoughtful follow up after. I was also impressed by how well my gluten free diet was accommodated.
Great tasting food & drink tour
ash7676,
Aug 20, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Having received a voucher for Hello Food Tours, we booked a tour of Saffron Walden, a town we often visit. Rachel introduced our small group to a number of places we had not tried before for generous tastings of delicious food and drink. She clearly knew her venues and owners and provided us with well balanced background on the food, the venue with an interesting amount of history on Saffron Walden itself. We really did enjoy this event and actually followed up by booking a long weekend stay in Saffron Walden so that we can return to some of the venues we tried.
A fantastic food, drink and history experience in pretty Saffron Walden
GerlaB,
Aug 16, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Eat and drink your way through pretty Saffron Walden! A delicious and very interesting way to learn about this market town. I joined Rachel on one of her food tours in Saffron Walden last Thursday, a place I called home many years ago. Over the last 16 years, there has been a significant transformation here. Once a sleepy market town with many chain coffee shops, it has now become a foodie heaven where coffee roasters, a bean-to-bar chocolate artisan, and a craft beer bar are amongst many excellent foodie businesses which have settled here. Of course, you can trail around Saffron Walden yourself, but it is much better with the guidance of a foodie who not only introduces you to delicious food and the owners of carefully selected businesses, but also shares the local history of the area you are visiting. I highly recommend joining this tour, having eaten my way around the world on many food tours, and I might even return with a friend or join Rachel's Bishop Stortford food tour.
beautiful town,delicious food
stone l,
Aug 15, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00
local breakfast bun,sea food ,fresh drinks, medieval architecture, very nice tour guide,everything is perfect. If you like local food and cultural ,this spot is highly recommended .
A completely different wonderful day out
barbie1949,
Jun 14, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
We were given this experience for a gift, and what an experience it was! Rachel was so knowledgeable of the lovely historic town of Saffron Walden which we walked around. The foodie venues she took us to, were so welcoming and fed us tasty homemade titbits. The owners and their staff obviously all worked so hard to make their businesses a success, which they had achieved. It was a very memorable day and one we would definitely recommend, and one we will be repeating.
A really unusual way to spend a morning
Freedom47727407182,
Jun 12, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
A really interesting and informative morning supported by regular stops at really good food shops with great tasting from the restaurant menus.. Rachel was an excellent guide full of enthusiasm for the restaurants food and the town.
A must for all foodies
HelenHCamb,
May 23, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Had a very enjoyable informative walk around Saffron Walden with our guide Rachel. She is very passionate about food & history. We were treated to the most delicious locally made/sourced food. The business owners were very friendly and it was very interesting hearing their stores of how they arrived here. I will definitely be back to visit more of the wonderful eateries of Saffron Walden.
Food tour
hannahbZ8983YR,
May 9, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
A very enjoyable informative tour that was great fun and tasted some delicious food. Rachel had really done her research. I would highly recommend this tour.
Amazing Food tour
paul r,
May 3, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Amazing birthday treat, our guide Rachel was awesome, so knowledgeable and passionate about history and food. We learnt so much the town and enjoyed amazing food and drink at 7 different stops. Couldn’t recommend it enough.