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By Freewalk Cologne
Free cancellation available
The previous price was €45 and current price is €36 per adult

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  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h
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Overview

  • Nightlife in Cologne has to be explored but if you want to see your food scene at the “most Cologne”, your lunchtime tour will show you our, best-kept secret.

    No, not some restaurant, a area. Your lunchtime food tour takes you through Agnesviertel, the city's beloved “area of love,” where market culture, Roman roots, and immigrant communities created one of Europe's most quietly extraordinary food scenes.

    From Reibekuchen at a local market to Karneval staples at a century-old butcher, Italian focaccia to Turkish Lahmacun, each stop tells the storey of a city that built its identity one welcoming, working-class bite at a time.

    We finish where the neighborhood's heart beats loudest, in front of the beautiful Agneskirche, with dessert, kiosk culture, and the full storey of what makes Cologne so special.

    You'll leave the tour full, having met local owners, knowing hidden spots and recommendations, and understanding Cologne's food and culture more than many residents do!

Activity location

  • Sudermanplatz
    • Sudermanplatz
    • 50670, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Suderman
    • 3 Sudermanplatz
    • 50670, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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Taste Cologne An English Language Lunch Food Tour of Cologne

  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 11:11
Price details
€45.00
€36.00 x 1 Adult€36.00
Total
The previous price was €45.00 and current price is €36.00
20% off
Until Thu, 22 Oct

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Recommendations - after eating our way through Cologne, we'll provide you with our favourites!
  • Inclusions
    It wouldn't be an exploration of the culinary side of Cologne without a few drinks. If you don't drink, we'll find a substitute for you!
  • Inclusions
    Make sure to come hungry to our tour. With at least SIX stops, you'll need room to sample all the dishes we want to try.
  • Exclusions
    Gratuties for your guide - our guides love their jobs, if you liked it too, tips help them greatly!

Know before you book

    • Wheelchair accessible
    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
    • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
    • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
    • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
    • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Sudermanplatz

  • 25m
After meeting in front of one of Germany's most popular bars, we'll begin to explore Cologne's foodie scene in a staple of Agnesviertel, one of the city's most beautiful areas at the Sudermanplatz Weekly Market. Through a mix of stalls, get ready to explore and sample a variety of cuisines and flavours centred in Cologne's culture and fundamental to our taste-identity. With a hand from stall owners, we'll get our food journey started.

Focaccia Bar

  • 20m
Cologne's culture isn't just German in origin. We've got some deep roots that start in one of the most beloved food countries in the world: we're talking about Italy. Find out why Cologne, not Munich, is the most Northern Italian city and the Roman roots that still help define the city's lifestyle while tasting some of the food that rivals what you'd taste in Italy.

Parfümerie Becker GmbH

  • 5m
A quick journey into one of the most famous scents in human history, let's get to know more about the perfume that gives men's perfume its name, Eau de Cologne.

Werners Metzgerei

  • 15m
What makes Cologne's German food scene so special is its simplicity. No better place to test this than a traditional Metzgerei, a local butchery. We'll sample some of the best (and controversial) Karneval staples while getting into why we still treasure our post-war attitude and what it's meant in creating Cologne's culinary culture.

Brauhaus Stüsser

  • 5m
A tour of Cologne's food scene wouldn't be complete without a stop at a brewery. From outside of Brauhaus Stüsser, we'll learn about Kölsch and the beer traditions that are so ingrained in every Cologne resident's DNA.

Doña Pelos Mexikanische Lebensmittel

  • 15m
If you know Cologne, you'll associate a few cultures beyond German with the city. Mexican food isn't necessarily on that list. We'll show you why all cultures are welcomed to this incredibly diverse city with a tasting led by the shop-owners.

RONI'S

  • 20m
A food tour of Cologne wouldn't be complete without a stop fo one of the most important cultural staples of the city: Turkish Food. We've got you covered at RONI'S, one of our newer and favourite Döner shops. Learn the background of the German Döner and the Turkish culture that created this esssential part of our nightlife, lunchtime cuisine, and more. Sample some of the Turkish food we love so much here to get a better understanding of the flavours and tastes of the German version of this vast cuisine.

Weißenburgstraße (Pass by)

On one of the most beautiful streets in Germany, get to know about the growth of the city into the surrounding areas and how it helped the city emerge into the diversity it embraces today.

Neusserplatz- Cologne

  • 15m
In the centre of Agnesviertel, we'll end our tour in front of the church that gives the quarter its name and a piece of its steady heartbeat. The other piece of that heartbeat is where we'll finish our tour with dessert. At one of the most famous Büdchen in Cologne, we'll wrap up what we've learned and give you the recommendations we've collected over years of guiding so you can explore the city further! From there, explore Agnesviertel further, catch a tram or bus from a nearby station, or walk your way into the city within 20 mins or less.

Location

Activity location

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    Sudermanplatz
    • Sudermanplatz
    • 50670, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Suderman
    • 3 Sudermanplatz
    • 50670, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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