Culinary Market Tour in Thessaloniki: Eating like the Greeks

Price overview

• Culinary Market Tour in Thessaloniki - per person (12+) 95.-€
• Culinary Market Tour in Thessaloniki - per person (6-11 years) 95.-€
• Culinary Market Tour in Thessaloniki - per person (0-5 years) 0.-€

Booking option: Culinary Market Tour in Thessaloniki

This 4-hour tour through the markets of Thessaloniki for a maximum of 12 people will give you a good insight into the local delicacies from the Greek metropolis. Try olives, cheese and ring-shaped bread, filled (Bougatsa) or not (Koulouri) at different stands. On Athonos Square you will see old distilleries and bars and in one of the best of them you will be served an ouzo or tsipouro with a small snack plate called meze. Sweets in a confectionery complete the tour.

Overview

• Duration: ~ 4 hours
• Hours: 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM
• Days: daily except Sundays
• Months: possible all-year
• Languages: English
• Pick-up not included
• Starting points: Thessaloniki City

Included

• English speaking guide, drinks (coffee, ouzo), snacks (bougatsa, koulouri, meze, olives, cheese, sweets)

Detailed description

Culinary Market Tour in Thessaloniki: Eating like the Greeks

Join us on a delicious culinary market tour in Thessaloniki for a maximum of 12 people and visit the stalls with the most delicious specialities of the country for 4 hours. The English-speaking tour guide will take you to the booths where you can taste things like bougatsa and koulouri, special bread rings with sesame seeds or meze, a colourful starter plate. Of course, olives, cheese and sweets are also available. As far as drinks are concerned, the culinary market tour in Thessaloniki begins with a freshly brewed cup of coffee, and there is no getting around an ouzo.

After leaving Aristotle Square after a cup of coffee with your guide in the direction of the commercial districts and tasting the delicious breads on the way, you will learn a lot about the history of Greece. Koulouri as bread alone or Bougatsa, when filled or topped with cream, spinach, cheese, chopped meat and much more, date back to the Byzantine period. For your own dishes, you can shop as you please in the two most famous open-air marketplaces in Thessaloniki. Don't forget your bags or backpacks!

Finally arrived with the culinary market tour in Thessaloniki on the Athonos Square you will be amazed at the traditional distilleries and local pubs. Together with the guide you will enter one of the best distilleries and taste an Ouzo or Tsipouro, both typical local drinks. You will also be served meze. For a sweet end and as a digestive aid, visit a pastry shop and snack a little Siropiasta, a syrup delicacy made according to the original recipe of the Greek refugees from Asia.