7 Food Tours in Lyon, Compared

1.Food Tour in Lyon – A Full Taste of France by Do Eat Better

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 603 reviews · 3 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $92Our pick

Spend about 3.5 hours walking Lyon with an English-speaking local guide, tasting wine, Rosette de Lyon, quenelle, sweets, praluline, and chocolate. The route starts and ends at Place Saint-Jean, includes a full meal in tasting portions, and is limited to 12 people.

“Excellent tour with great history information as well as food and wine sampling. Our guide, Elizabetya did a fabulous job. She is very knowledgeable and also very friendly. She has well maintained relationships with the owners of the establishments that we visited.”

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2.Lyon Old Town Food Tour with 6 French Delicacies & Fine Wine

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 575 reviews · 3 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $130

Walk from Temple du Change through Vieux Lyon and across to Place Bellecour, stopping for charcuterie, cheeses, pastries, wine, a bouchon lunch, chocolate, and Mokxa coffee. English-speaking guides such as Nathalie, Charlotte, Anna, and Oliver add Lyon’s food traditions and city stories. Groups are capped at 12.

“This tour was a comprehensive food experience of Vieux Lyon. Our guide, Nathalie, brought us to several local spots to test regional dishes from an apéro to a plate in a local bouchon (both featuring local wines) to sweets and chocolates from a notable sweet shop. Nathalie provided excellent guidance about the history of Vieux Lyon and some of its under-the-radar spots along the way. This was a great tour and I would recommend it as part of a well-rounded Lyon experience. Lyon is known as the Capitol of Gastronomy for a reason.”

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3.Vieux Lyon Food Tasting Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 453 reviews · 4 hours · from $104

Spend four hours walking Vieux Lyon with a French- or English-speaking guide such as Nathalie, Shirine, Nico, or Vincent. Visit five local food stops, taste about 14 savory and sweet specialties, explore traboules, and learn how Lyon’s food traditions grew from its streets, trades, and people.

“Awesome foodie experience in Vieux Lyon with Shirine. She was very knowledgeable and I enjoyed all of the food stops. Would definitely recommend.”

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4.Golden Stones Beaujolais Wine Tasting Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 387 reviews · from $113

Travel from Lyon to Southern Beaujolais in a small English-speaking group of up to eight. Taste local wines with pastries and a Lyon mâchon, stroll medieval Oingt, and meet a family winemaker. Guides such as Rachel, François, Yann, and Vladimir bring the region to life.

“Our Beaujalais wine tour was fantastic..The comfortable ride thru the Golden Stones countryside to the town of Oingt and Dominic's family winery was very scenic.Rachel our guide was delightful..Her knowledge and informtion certianly completed the tour. The wines we tasted were excellent and insight into the process and issues into running a family winery only added to this great tour..highly reommended..”

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5.4h Complete Lyon Experience: E-Bike, Food Tasting & Old Town Walk

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 228 reviews · 4 hours (approx.) · from $96

Ride an electric bike through Lyon’s historic center, along the Rhône, through Tête d’Or Park, and up to Fourvière. Your guide, possibly Shirine, Clara, Bruno, or Jean, leads the way in English, with a regional tasting, drink, and Old Town walk included.

“To be clear I'm rating a 2-hour ride without food that the tour operator swapped for the 4 hour ride I booked. Apparently I was the only one so they moved me to another excursion and refunded 1/2 of the cost. Bicycling around Lyon was super - the guide, Pierre, was entertaining and led a nice tour of the city. The bike lane infrastructure is great.. I recommend this tour as a nice introduction to the city.”

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6.Guided tour and wine tasting Northern Rhône Valley

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 198 reviews · 4 hours 15 minutes (approx.) · from $143

Leave Lyon with local guide Justine Poncet for a four-hour Northern Rhône wine tour. Ride in a small Mercedes van, admire steep Condrieu vineyards, and taste roughly 8 to 10 wines at two contrasting estates near Chavanay and Ampuis, with local snacks included.

“Knowledgeable guide, safe driver on some twisty roads I was glad not to drive on, tasted some excellent wines”

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7.Cultural Food & Wine Tour, in the famous Halles Bocuse

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 166 reviews · 2 hours (approx.) · from $48Best value

Meet Eillin at 9 a.m. for a roughly two-hour English walking tour built around Lyon’s food culture and Les Halles Paul Bocuse. Expect stories about bouchons, Michelin, silk-era traboules, local shops, cheese, wine, pastries, and Lyonnais dishes. Confirm tastings before booking, since the inclusions also state they are not provided.

“Wonderful tour of Lyon’s culture, food & wine. We appreciated Eillin’s enthusiasm for her beloved city. Thank you Eillin for sharing this beautiful city with us.”

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