Vallarta Flavours Food Tour with 14+ Tastings

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
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Duration4h
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LanguagesEnglish
Group sizeUp to 8 travelers

Overview

Skip the tourist restaurants and discover the real flavours of Puerto Vallarta on this immersive lunchtime food tour. With 14+ tastings across neighbourhood kitchens, street carts, and beloved local spots, this experience is designed to show you how locals actually eat.

Start at a traditional tortilla factory, where warm tortillas come straight off the grill, before sampling a wide range of favourites from crispy chicharrón and slow-cooked carnitas tacos to rich birria sopes served with lamb broth. Along the way you’ll learn about the ingredients, cooking techniques, and food traditions

Beyond the food, the tour takes you away from the main tourist strip and into everyday neighbourhoods, offering a deeper look at Puerto Vallarta’s local food culture. The experience finishes on a sweet note with tequila ice cream and a taste of raicilla, the region’s lesser-known agave spirit.

If you want to understand Puerto Vallarta through its food, this tour offers the perfect introduction.

What's included

  • Led by professional tastemaker guides
  • Some traditional alcoholic drinks
  • Movable food feast with 7-8 stops around Puerto Vallarta
  • 14+ food tastings included, more than any other Puerto Vallarta food tour
  • Max 8 exclusive guests, smallest group size in Puerto Vallarta (private tour or 9+ guests possible)
  • Bottled water included
  • Alcoholic drinks not scheduled in the tour plan
  • Pick up and drop off from hotel excluded

What to expect

  1. Puerto Vallarta
    30m
    Our Puerto Vallarta food tour offers guests a culinary experience carefully curated food adventure, led by our team of Puerto Vallarta 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, pescatarian and halal diets, and severe allergies as the number of tastings would be very limited.
    ✔ No pork diets, no seafood diets, gluten intolerance, mild tree nut and peanut allergies are possible though some tastings do not have alternatives available and the menu would be more limited
  2. Puerto Vallarta
    3h
    This four-hour lunchtime food tour explores Puerto Vallarta beyond the main tourist areas, focusing on the neighbourhood kitchens, street carts and spots beloved by locals. This isn't about fine dining, it's the real food of Puerto Vallarta.

    Our 14+ taster food tour begins at a local tortilla factory, where warm tortillas are served fresh from the grill with soft local queso and salsa. From there, you’ll sample a wide range of dishes including crispy chicharrón, slow-cooked carnitas on corn tacos, smoky marlin burritas, fresh ceviche on tostadas, birria sopes served with comforting lamb broth, and warm gorditas filled with creamy roasted peppers.

    The experience finishes with a sweet treat of creamy tequila ice cream, and a taste of raicilla, a local cousin to Jalisco's tequila. Join this daily crash course into Puerto Vallarta's local flavours.
  3. Puerto Vallarta
    30m
    The tour concludes after 3.5-4 hours. You'll leave not only full, but with a much deeper understanding of Puerto Vallarta food culture and the confidence to continue eating your way through Mexico.

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

The meeting point is at the Cerrajeria Francia booth outside the Pantheon Fifth of December. Uber is available in Puerto Vallarta and is the most convenient way to reach the meeting point. Here's a pre-filled map to our meeting point https://maps.app.goo.gl/KgHgTcB16tnHpZve7

End point

The tour concludes at the Parque Hidalgo Puerto Vallarta. The tour duration is approximately 3.5 to 4 hours depending on the pace of the group. Your guide can help you to find transport back to your accommodation if you wish.

Additional 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

Cancellation policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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