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On our Secret Food Tour of Belfast, you'll enjoy some of the best food in Northern Ireland. Your tour starts in front of Belfast City Hall.

During the tour, you will dine on a freshly prepared breakfast with the locals, relax in historic pubs, and enjoy traditional home-cooked Northern Irish dishes. We'll introduce you to our street art known worldwide.

At the end of your tour, you'll have sampled some of Northern Ireland's most delicious dishes and gained a better understanding of its local culture and history.

Quality drinks will be served at some stops, however if you would like more, a thoughtfully curated Upgraded Drink Package is available.

• First, we'll stop by one cozy Cafe for a warm cup of hot chocolate, a cannoli and a shot of chocolate liquor plus a great explanation from the staff on how everything is done.
• Next, you´ll enjoy a traditional Northern Irish Soda bread with sausage in a wonderful food emporium.
• You will enjoy a freshly caught Oyster opened right in front of you
• We'll take you to one of Belfast's oldest pubs - a perfect setting to relax over Irish Stew accompanied with a Guinness and samples of Chocolate Liqueur.
• Your next stop will be at a unique bar where you will be served a great local craft cider paired with a sticky Toffee pudding
• Your next stop will be at a unique bar where you will be served a great local craft beer
• You'll finish with the best Irish Coffee or Baileys Coffee
• As with all our tours, there's our delicious Secret Dish.
• Pint of Guinness
• Sample Irish Whiskey

* *Please note: the itinerary and menu may be subject to unforeseen change, based on the availability.

If a tour is fully booked, or you are looking to book a *Group or Private Tour - please email us about Group & Private Tours options.

*Please note - Group & Private Tours are specifically organised for your group and therefore subject to a premium price.

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• Soda bread with sausage
• Chocolate Liqueur
• Sticky Toffee pudding
• Our delicious Secret Dish
• Irish Coffee or Baileys Coffee
• ½ pint of Guinness
• ½ glass of white wine
• Hot Chocolate
• Non-alcoholic options

Due to the nature of creating a well balanced and thoughtful gastronomy experience,For more drinks see upgrade above many of our tours are unable to accommodate certain dietary restrictions. Please contact us prior to booking your tour to see if we are able to accommodate your dietary needs.

Our guide escort you around the two most lively areas of Belfast as they have the most to offer in terms of culture, history and, of course, delightful food. You will find Belfast has a wonderful mix of old and new. The area is packed with exciting narrow back streets and pubs, adding to its appeal as a unique destination.

But we believe that it is impossible to have a complete visit to Belfast without exploring the Cathedral Quarter, which a few decades ago was a no-go zone. Now it is experiencing a renaissance in terms of the food scene, pubs and fun. This is the place everyone now goes in Belfast.

Secret Food Tours Belfast

Monday – Saturday 11 a.m.

Belfast City Hall

That is very easy! Go to our "Book Now" page, where we give details on our tours. Select your tour and the time of your tour and book it!

Are you looking for something special? Are you organizing an event? Just email us at Group & Private Tours and we will do our best to arrange something that suits you.

After your booking is made, we will send you an automatic e-mail confirmation. If you have any questions before booking, feel free to contact us via email

*Please note if you are using a special promo code then enter it in the "Voucher Code" section before you select the amount of tickets you would like to purchase*

All the delicious food and drinks mentioned above, but if you want more alcohol (and who doesn't?) We offer an upgraded drinks package upgraded drinks package that gives you 2 drinks.

You can find the meeting spot here and if it's not clear you can always contact us.

We begin our tours at 11:00am. The meeting spot is at the main Belfast City Hall gate, Donegall Square North next to the public bike parking. The tour guide will be there with a purple umbrella and a big smile! »»CLICK HERE FOR DIRECTIONS««

The tour finish at Commercial Court.

Due to the nature of creating a well-balanced and thoughtful gastronomy experience, many of our tours are unable to accommodate certain dietary restrictions. Please contact us at [email protected] prior to booking your tour to see if we are able to accommodate your dietary needs.

Due to the nature of creating a well-balanced and thoughtful gastronomy experience, many of our tours are unable to accommodate children. Please contact us at [email protected] prior to booking your tour to see if we are able to accommodate your family.

This is not a problem. Just inform our guide before the tour starts.

Think of the tour as a tasting menu. As we travel you get many delicious treats that comprise a meal with dessert. But there is a lot of food, you will not be hungry after the tour.

Our tours are often sold out very quickly. If the date you requested is not available, please do not hesitate to email us and we can see if there is anything we can do. We cannot promise but we will try our best to sort something out for you.

To join our food tour, you must wear comfortable shoes. There will be approximately 25 minutes of walking but it is not too difficult and is broken up between food stops. During the duration of the tour we will walk just over 0.8 mile. Our guide walks at the pace of the tour members, you will never be rushed.

We take 12 people maximum. If you are more than 12 people, please do not hesitate to email us and we will try to see if we can accommodate.

You do not have to print your voucher. A confirmation on your phone will be fine!

All of our vouchers expire one year from the date of purchase.

Our guide will take care of everything. Should you wish to try something special, please inform our guide and he will do his best to make you happy.

The food and drinks are top-quality, fresh and local!

Unfortunately, the weather is unpredictable in belfast. We do not issue refunds as per our terms and conditions. We also inform you that we never cancel a booking even if we have only 2 people! However we do reserve the right to cancel the tour if we feel the weather is extreme, and we cannot run the tour due to this for more info see our Terms and Conditions: https://www.secretfoodtours.com/terms-and-conditions/

You must book directly on our website. We do not accept cash payments. Our online payment is safe, secured and SSL protected.

The booking fee that you have to pay is up to our ticket provider and we can't change it. All our clients need to pay for it upon booking. The booking fee charged contributes to the cost of the ticketing system to provide an excellent service to our customers.

A few banks have charged their customer an extra fee while booking with us (this isn't the booking fee but another fee added by the bank). We think this is unfair, it his happens let us know by showing us in your bank statement and we will refund as a gesture of good will.

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Belfast Food Tour with Taste & Tour

On my tour of Northern Ireland last month, we went on an amazing Belfast Food Tour with Taste & Tour . On our third day in Northern Ireland, we wanted to get to know Irish food better, and we jumped on a tour with the amazing Olivia at Taste & Tour. 

Taste and Tour is a series of multi-award-winning Belfast food tour with a 5-star Tourism NI rating. With the signature Belfast Food Tour, Gin Jaunt and Belfast Bites Tour, amongst others, they’ve made it their business to lead guests to Belfast’s brightest and best flavours. The local guides will lead the cheer, helping guests discover the people, the history and the top tastes in the city.

First stop of the Belfast food tour was a visit to St George’s Market. It is the historical hub of Northern Irish food and one of the last surviving food markets in the UK. The tour would have usually visited a baker, butcher etc ‘gathering’ ingredients for an Ulster Fry and hearing their stories, as well as an Armagh Apple stall etc but they had not yet returned to the market due to COVID restrictions.

Then we went to the oldest independent coffee roaster in Ireland, one of the newest stalls in the market, Nomad Kitchen to show the old and the new and how well they work together in this environment. Another stop in the market was at Tom and Ollie’s to see again the wealth of local and more ‘modern’ ingredients and produce to be found in, what is usually seen, as a traditional market selling fruit and veg.

And what we found was that, even local Irish come on these tours, with people from Belfast, Dublin and Sligo on our Saturday morning Belfast food tour. The locals on tours, who maybe haven’t been to the market in a while, or indeed or have usually are amazed by the things they find on tour and go back the next week to get them!

Our next stop was at The Garrick Bar, another institution. It’s where locals go-to drink. Whereas many paint themselves as a traditional bar, the Garrick really is. Sessions happen at the weekend, their food and staff are lovely and all in all, it’s where the locals all go when they want a drink in a pub.

They are massive supporters of local beers, ciders and spirits and we loved the MacIvors Dry Cider as it’s a great ‘breakfast’ drink), we also tasted Irish Champ and the traditional pub sets the backdrop to this stop.

Moving swiftly on, we headed to Cocouture. The story behind Cocouture, and owner Deirdre, gives a little insight into an artisan product and her passion for it. The hot chocolate is addictive and it’s the spot that most people are surprised and delighted by, as they will have passed it for years and never known it’s there.

It’s hidden down a few steps into a basement where there are a shop and small cafe. A lot of guests return and, well, as drinking chocolate has such a link to Northern Ireland, it has to be done!

A short walk onwards and we stop outside Sawers. If you can’t find it in Sawers, you won’t find it anywhere… that used to be the slogan for Sawers and again, just the spelling of the name is a surprise for the locals who visit as we all call it Sawyers! It’s a riot of produce, local and international, Kieran has been there since he was 15 and it’s lovely to hear his story as well as that of the shop.

The brother’s Sawers (their relatives still visit yearly) brought tiles to the food industry. And every time you go in, you can always find something different. I was tempted to pick up some bits, but knowing how short on space I was in my suitcase I held back!! Next time!!

The penultimate stop on the Belfast food tour is Italian restaurant Coppi. The place burst onto the scene 6 years ago and is the go-to for dinner and cocktails night. It’s the ideal place for sharing which is a lovely thing to do with friends. The vibe of Coppi is a mix of the old to the new and a little bit of fizz usually relaxes everyone! Coppi uses a lot of local meats, fish, vegetables etc and all their pasta is handmade.

And last but not least, our final stop of the Belfast food tour was at Babel, the newest addition to the post-COVID tour. We headed here for a drink of Ireland’s famous gin, Jawbox. It’s got the outside areas which will be ever more popular. It was the perfect way to finish our Belfast food tour, looking over to the Holywood Hills whilst sipping on your Jawbox Gin and some chips in a box!

We had such a wonderful time on the Belfast food tour with Taste & Tour and I can’t wait to come back again another time and do one of their other tours!!!

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Includes: 3-hour guided tour visiting 5 venues with 4 food stops & 3 cocktails. Walking Distance: 1.3 miles and finishes in the Cathedral Quarter

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