Savour Salvador Food Tour with 12+ Tastings
Description
Salvador’s food is one of the most distinctive in Brazil, shaped by deep Afro-Brazilian roots and centuries of trade. This tour is built to show you this food history though the streets, markets, and small neighbourhood kitchens of Pelourinho and Comércio. With 12 plus tastings across multiple stops, the experience moves between street stalls, market vendors, and long-standing eateries, giving you a broad view of Bahian cooking from iconic dishes like acarajé to slower, richer plates like moqueca. The setting is just as important as the food. Walking through Salvador’s historic centre and down into its old port district, you’ll see how the city’s past continues to shape its cuisine today. Led by a knowledgeable local tastemaker guide, and combining walking with short rides between neighbourhoods, this is Salvador's most generous food tour.
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Our Salvador food tour offers guests a culinary experience carefully curated food adventure, led by our team of Salvador tastemakers. Before we get started, our tour reflects the local cuisine, and the limitations of street food vendors and local eateries mean we cannot cater for every dietary restriction. Here's an honest appraisal for the tour, so no-one is disappointed: ✘ Unsuitable for vegetarian, vegan, halal diets, and severe allergies as the number of tastings would be very limited. ✔ No pork diets, pescatarian, gluten intolerance, lactose intolerance, mild tree nut / peanut allergies and no seafood diets are possible though some tastings do not have alternatives available and the menu would be more limited.
Explore Salvador’s Afro-Brazilian food culture on a 4-hour lunch tour through the cobbled streets of Pelourinho and the lively markets of Comércio. With 12+ tastings, you’ll move between street vendors and local eateries, discovering the Bahian dishes that make the food scene here so unique. Start with simple local staples before heading toward the old port district, where Salvador’s food story unfolds. Here, African, Portuguese, and trading influences come together in dishes like acarajé filled with vatapá and shrimp, rich seafood moqueca, and slow-cooked feijoada. Along the way, you’ll snack on coconut and cassava fritters, caramelised cashews, and market bites. Traveling on foot, with short rides between stops, this is Salvador’s food scene through the eyes of a local tastemaker guide. Finish with a glass of cravinho, the city’s signature clove-infused cachaça.
The tour concludes after 3.5-4 hours. You'll leave not only full, but with a much deeper understanding of Salvador’s food culture and the confidence to continue eating your way through Brazil.
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Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(1)
My solo tour with Gabriel was beyond fantastic. He was knowledgeable, kind, solicitous of my specific interests and fun to talk with. Awe walked, he seemed to know everyone on the street and was greeted warmly. In addition to the food tastings, we talked about the history of the dishes and the history of Bahia. THE highlight was a trip to the food market, where I experienced one of the key sources of food in Salvador, had the best moqueca and enjoyed the chaos of daily life (in the best sense of the word). A+++
