London
UK Brewery Tours
London Brewery Tour
Three working London breweries, a guide who knows every brewer on first-name terms, and a glass in your hand from the first stop to the last.
Southwark Food Walks
Borough Market Food Tour
Eight tastings across London's oldest food market, with the traders who actually made the thing you are eating.
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Group size
- 6 – 20 guests
- Location
- London, England
- Category
- Food & Market
About this experience
Borough is overwhelming if you turn up cold — a thousand years of trading, four hundred stalls and no obvious order to any of it. A guide turns that into a route with a beginning and an end.
Eight tastings, all pre-arranged so you skip the queues, and enough of the market's history between stops to explain why it is still here when every other London market went.
Highlights
- Eight tastings, enough to count as lunch
- Cheese, charcuterie, bread, oysters and a mince pie in season
- Traders introduced personally by your guide
- Skips every queue on the route
How the day runs
Market history
Meet at the southern entrance for the thousand-year version, told quickly.
The producers
Cheese, cured meat and bread, tasted with the people who make them.
The raw bar
Oysters and a glass of something cold, for those who want it.
Sweet finish
Chocolate or pastry, and the guide's list of the stalls worth the return trip.
What's included
- Guide for the full three hours
- All eight tastings
- A drink at the final stop
- A map of what to come back for
Good to know
All ages welcome
Vegetarian and most dietary requirements handled with notice
Market is busiest Friday and Saturday
Runs rain or shine — the market is covered
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