8 Best Food Tours in Buenos Aires

Want to try a food tour in Buenos Aires? There are some fantastic foodie experiences in this city – here’s my personal pick of the bunch.

One of my favourite things to do in any city is to join a food tour to discover what I should be eating, how to order and where to eat.

In Buenos Aires, it’s no different. And this is a city that rewards appetite. With the smell of asado (barbecue) wafting from most corners, bakery windows filled with flaky pastries and bottles of wine selling for less than a glass back home, you won’t go hungry here.

But with thousands of restaurants to choose from and – for many visitors – quite often a language barrier, where do you even begin?

With a food tour of course!

Yes, you can eat well in the city’s many restaurants. But some of the best food experiences here are the ones found outside a restaurant door: the cultural foodie event held with Argentinians guiding you, the small-group asado experience where the asador (the grill master) explains what’s happening on the grill or the walking tour that helps you decode exactly how you should order your steak.

I love that there are so many more food tours and experiences available in Buenos Aires since we lived here. This roundup covers the food tours and foodie experiences in Buenos Aires that are genuinely worth your time and money.

Close-up of several steaks sizzling on a metal grill over hot coals, showing char marks and juices during the cooking process at a family asado in Buenos Aires at Betty and Marcelo.

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Quick guide: Which food tour should you book?

A food tour is one of the best things to do in Buenos Aires. But which one should you choose?

If you want one unforgettable splurge night: Fogón Asado
If you want to experience an asado like a Buenos Aires local: Asado Adventure
If you want something that feels like you’re in a local’s home: Betty and Marcelo
If you want a typical walking food tour with lots of variety in the tastings: Sherpa Food Tour, A Chef’s Tour or Culinary Backstreets
If you want something unique: Buenos Aires Pizza Tour
If you want a fun, interactive introduction to Argentine food: The Argentine Experience

The best asado tours in Buenos Aires

Argentina is known for its meat (it’s one of the most typical Argentine foods) – so you can’t go past these asado experiences to understand the different cuts and how to cook them.

Fogón Asado

How long: 2.5-3 hours
Group size: 10-35 people, depending on whether you choose the Tasting Menu or Chef’s Counter
Cost: From US$90 per person (wine pairings extra)
How to book: Book ahead and pre-pay to secure your spot (full refund available with 72+ hours’ notice)

Open-fire grill and glowing embers inside the Fogon Asado kitchen in Buenos Aires, showcasing the live-fire cooking experience.

Fogón Asado is technically a restaurant (a Michelin recommended one, no less), but it doesn’t really behave like one. It’s asado as an event: polished and theatrical, with a huge open parrilla at the centre of the room and every course built around what’s happening on the fire.

Instead of ordering a cut of meat and waiting for it to arrive, you’re taken through a progressive meal that shows off Argentina’s different parts of the grill tradition, with the staff guiding you through it as you go. (Read my full review of the Fogón Asado experience.)

Everyone is seated around the parrilla, so you’re close to the action. As each course arrives, you’ll learn about the craft of asado and Argentine ingredients, and be completely wowed by the skill of the chefs.

It’s social, but not forced: you can chat to the people next to you, or simply watch the team as they move around the parrilla in a well-rehearsed dance.

With wines added, this isn’t the cheapest asado experience in Buenos Aires, but it’s a standout if you’re planning a special occasion meal like a birthday or anniversary. It’s one of the best places to eat in Buenos Aires and a night you won’t forget.

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Asado Adventure

How long: 4-5 hours
Group size: Max 10 people
Cost: From US$230 per person (private tours also available)
How to book: Book ahead online (it only runs 2-3 times per week and often books out with groups) – use code RATW10 to get 10% discount!

Asados are part of Argentine culture, with families and friends gathering to spend time with each other around the parrilla. But as a visitor, unless you know some porteños or you get lucky, it’s difficult to experience an authentic asado.

That’s where Asado Adventure comes in. This is the experience to book to feel like you’ve actually been invited into someone’s home.

And it’s literally in someone’s home. The asado experience is hosted by Frank Almeida. He opens up his beautiful home in Palermo Viejo a few times a week so visitors can experience what a true asado is like. (Read my full review of Asado Adventure.)

The day starts with starting the fire and mixing up ingredients for the chimichurri, before the group leaves for a guided history and street art walk through the neighbourhood. There’s a stop at a wine store for wine and cheese tasting, before returning to Frank’s home for the main event: provoleta, mollejas, steak and vegetables all cooked to perfection on the parrilla.

Because the group is capped at 10, it stays intimate and relaxed – you’ll leave feeling like you’ve made a bunch of new friends.

If you want asado to be a cultural experience with storytelling and context, not just a meal, this is one of the best food tours in Buenos Aires.

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Betty and Marcelo

How long: 2.5-3 hours (evening experience, starts at 7pm)
Group size: Up to ~30 people (you’re seated at a communal table; there were 15 people when I went)
Cost: US$104 per person
How to book: Book ahead online (it’s popular and can sell out)

Betty and Marcelo is another asado experience in Buenos Aires – one where you feel like Betty and Marcelo (and their daughter Veronica) have invited you into their home for an evening with a group of friends.

This warm, generous experience involves a communal meal centred around the parrilla, with dishes arriving in waves as Marcelo works the fire and Betty and Veronica guide the room through what you’re eating and drinking. It really does feel like a dinner party – lively, social and surprisingly personal for a group setting.

Having been a “King of Asado” on Argentine YouTube channel Locos por el Asado, you know you’re in good hands with Marcelo behind the parrilla. He expertly bakes empanadas, loads up morcilla (blood sausage) bruschetta, mixes up chimichurri and grills various cuts of meat from matambre (pork flank) to colita de cuadril (rump steak) to ojo de bife (rib eye).

It’s also genuinely good value by Buenos Aires food experience standards. The night includes a welcome drink, a lot of food, and both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks throughout – you will not leave hungry.

If you’re choosing one asado experience and you want something friendly, relaxed and hosted by real humans, this is a very easy recommendation – especially for first-timer visitors to Buenos Aires and solo travellers who like the idea of a shared table.

You can read my full review of Betty and Marcelo’s asado experience.

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The best walking food tours in Buenos Aires

The following tours are more typical food tours in Buenos Aires, where you’ll be led by a guide to various restaurants, cafés and bars to try some of the city’s best eats. Consider adding one of these tours to your Buenos Aires itinerary.

Sherpa Food Tours

How long: 3-4 hours (starts at 11am or 5.30pm)
Group size: Small group, around 8-12 people
Cost: US$115 per person
How to book: Book online in advance (use code REBECCA5 to get a 5% discount on tours in Palermo and San Telmo)

Three golden-brown empanadas arranged on a white plate, served as a classic snack on a food tour in Buenos Aires.

Sherpa is the Buenos Aires food tour I’d point first-time visitors to when they want to try a broad cross-section of Buenos Aires classics in a short amount of time.

I’d also recommend doing this tour early in your Buenos Aires itinerary – you’ll gather the knowledge to confidently order food for the rest of your trip, know what food to look for and get plenty of tips for more bars and restaurants to visit while you’re here.

Running both daytime and evening tours, guides hit all the highlights: empanadas, pizza, steak, wine and ice cream, as well as dive into Argentina’s Italian and Spanish heritage. In between eating, you wander the streets, looking at street art and learning about the city’s history and culture.

I’ve done the Buenos Aires Local Foodie Adventure (read my Sherpa Food Tour review), which runs through the Palermo neighbourhood. It includes stops at local restaurants you wouldn’t find by yourself as well as a reserved table at one of Palermo’s hottest bodegones (walk straight past the waiting queue!). With 10+ tastings, I was very glad for the walks between stops so I could prepare myself for the next round of eating.

Sherpa also runs a San Telmo Street Food and Market Expedition tour, which weaves through the bohemian and historic neighbourhood of San Telmo.

While both are excellent tours, Palermo is my choice if you want to explore this trendy neighbourhood, while San Telmo is great for markets and a more historic feel.

Either way, don’t plan a big lunch beforehand or dinner afterwards!

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Buenos Aires Pizza Tour

How long: 2.5 hours
Group size: Up to 8 people
Cost: US$94 per person for the shared tour (private tours from US$124 per person)
How to book: Book online here – use code RATW10 for a 10% discount!

A bright red corner building with large windows and vintage-style signage stands between tall gray office buildings on a busy city street in Buenos Aires. The restaurant façade reads “Guerrin” in glowing red letters, with striped red-and-white awnings and people dining inside at street level. To the right, a modern black entrance sign for Teatro Apolo contrasts with the colorful historic storefront. The urban scene captures the lively atmosphere often featured on the best food tours in Buenos Aires.

A slice of cheese pizza sits on a small white plate on a café counter. Behind it are condiments, including a bottle of sauce and spice shakers, along with a container holding folded napkins.

I’m sure you associate steak and wine with Buenos Aires – but pizza?!

Thanks to Argentina’s Italian heritage, pizza is definitely a thing here. But pizza in Buenos Aires is definitely its own thing. It’s thicker, cheesier and often eaten by the slice at the counter, usually with a piece of fainá on top if you want to do it properly.

On this Buenos Aires Pizza Tour – run by Frank of Asado Adventure – you’ll get to experience one of Buenos Aires’ most underrated food traditions: the Corrientes pizza crawl.

Rather than trying to cover all of Argentine food culture in one tour, this one goes deep on porteño pizza culture. The route is built around Avenida Corrientes, the city’s iconic late-night strip where grabbing a slice after a theatre show is practically a tradition. You walk, eat and get context on how pizza became such a defining part of the city’s night-out identity.

It hits exactly what visitors wouldn’t know to order. Expect classic Buenos Aires styles like fugazzetta and fugazza, the thin and crispy pizza a la piedra, and fainá, plus a proper gelato finish at one of the city’s most popular ice cream shops.

If you’ve already eaten your body weight in steak in Buenos Aires – then this is the next food tour for you!

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A Chef’s Tour: Chimichurri Trails

How long: 4 hours (11am-3pm)
Group size: Max 8 guests
Cost: US$99 per person
How to book: Book online (free cancellation up to 48 hours before)

A wooden plate holds several golden-brown empanadas arranged in a circle. A small bowl of dipping sauce sits beside them on a colorful tabletop. El Gauchito is one of the best places to eat in San Telmo.

A server cutting grilled chorizo into pieces on a white plate, showing a traditional dish sampled during the best food tour in Buenos Aires.

This is a new Buenos Aires food tour I haven’t tried yet. That said, I’ve done A Chef’s Tour in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Santiago and Bogotá, and what I like about their style is that it’s grounded in everyday local food – the things people actually eat – and the stories and history behind the dishes.

Their Buenos Aires lunchtime tour – called Chimichurri Trails – is a walking food tour through San Telmo, with a focus on the city’s immigrant influences and the classic porteño foods that grew out of them. The tour starts with traditional bakery staples, then moves into an old-school vermutería for house-cured jamón, pickled vegetables and chard fritters with a glass of vermouth.

From there, it’s all about the classics: empanadas, choripán with chimichurri, a local pizza stop for fugazza rellena and fainá (one of those Buenos Aires obsessions that only makes sense when you try it yourself). Of course, it’s not a food tour in Buenos Aires without asado – and that’s the finish: beef ribs cooked over charcoal and provoleta followed by a classic Argentine flan.

Having done their tours before, I know there’s a lot of food, so don’t eat a big breakfast beforehand!

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Culinary Backstreets: Backstreet Bites of Buenos Aires

How long: 5.5 hours (roughly 10am-3.30pm, Mon-Sat)
Group size: 2-7 people
Cost: US$135 per adult
How to book: Book online here

A hand holding a cone with a scoop of pink ice cream against a leafy green wall, capturing a sweet stop on a food tour in Buenos Aires.

Culinary Backstreets is a culinary powerhouse, running food tours as far and wide as Barcelona, Tokyo, Istanbul and Queens. Their tours tend to be in-depth and entirely food-focused, the kind where you come away understanding a city’s eating habits, not just ticking off a few tastings.

Buenos Aires is a newer addition to their line-up, and you can be sure that they’ll be exploring parts of the city that other tour companies aren’t going to. If you’re the sort of traveller who wants to get beyond the obvious tourist circuit, this is the Buenos Aires food tour that’s most likely to take you there.

Backstreet Bites is set up as a full-day walk that traces Buenos Aires’ food culture through the places locals still frequent: historic cafés, old-school parrillas and bodegones – the kinds of small businesses that don’t need to market themselves to tourists. Along the way, you’ll hear stories about how immigration and everyday rituals have shaped what Buenos Aires eats now, and why certain classics endure.

It’s deliberately small, which means you get more access, more conversation and a pace that feels like a great day out rather than a rushed march between tastings. If you’re choosing one tour that will genuinely deepen your understanding of Buenos Aires, this is the one that reads like it was designed for curious travellers who want context as much as they want to eat.

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The best cultural food experiences in Buenos Aires

Not quite a food tour, these experiences are about learning and education and understanding the culture and history behind the dishes you’re eating.

The Argentine Experience

How long: 2.5 hours (starts at 7.30pm)
Group size: 10-14 people
Cost: US$115 per person
How to book: Book ahead online – it often sells out (24-hour cancellation for a 100% refund)

If you want an interactive dining experience but aren’t quite keen on an actual cooking class, The Argentine Experience is a nice middle ground.

It’s interactive in a low-pressure way: you’ll do some hands-on elements (making empanadas and alfajores), but the focus is really on a structured evening of food, wine and cultural context. Most of the 14 courses (with five paired wines) will be done for you – and it’s done very well, with a few theatrics thrown in for good measure.

Guests sit around a shared table, with the hosts and chefs guiding everyone through each course with some historical and cultural context. I’ve always been lucky with a good group of people on the table, but either way, the hosts keep the night moving and provide a good balance of listening to them and chatting to everyone else.

I’ve done this experience twice (you can read my review of The Argentine Experience) and it’s now a really refined but fun way to learn about Argentine food and meet new people. It’s an excellent thing to do in Buenos Aires when you first arrive in the country. Afterwards, you’ll start noticing the cuts on restaurant menus and mate being drunk everywhere.

This experience isn’t fine dining and it’s not trying to replicate a traditional family asado. It’s more like a dinner party for visitors to the city.

(And if you do actually want to do a cooking class, The Argentine Experience also runs cooking lessons in Buenos Aires – designed by a Michelin Guide chef!)

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Final thoughts: Buenos Aires food tours

If you’ve only got a short time in Buenos Aires, then taking a food tour is a great idea. A good tour gives you context around what you’re eating, helps you understand what to order later, and takes the guesswork out of where to go.

There are so many different types of food tours in Buenos Aires – hopefully this guide has helped you decide which one (or why not two?!) is best for your trip.

FAQs: Food tours in Buenos Aires

Do I need to book food tours in advance?

Yes. If you’re travelling in peak periods like December to February or you have fixed dates, it’s worth booking as soon as your plans are locked in. Choose one with a flexible booking policy so you can shift your dates if you need to.

Which food tour is best for first-time visitors?

All of the tours I’ve listed here are great for first-time visitors. They’re all focused on providing historical and cultural context to the meal. It’s going to come down to your budget and how much time you have. Whichever tour you choose, I recommend doing it early in your trip to Buenos Aires so you can apply your new knowledge to the rest of your visit!

When should I schedule a food tour within my Buenos Aires itinerary?

Early in your trip is usually best, especially for a first visit. A walking tour in the first day or two gives you ideas for where to return, what to order and how to navigate menus.

Are these tours good for solo travellers?

Yes. In fact, some of them are ideal for solo travellers because the communal format makes it easy to settle in without it feeling awkward. The Argentine Experience is particularly good for this, and asado experiences with shared tables also work well if you like the idea of a social night.

How hungry should I arrive?

Hungry. Most tours and experiences include enough food to replace a full meal, and some are genuinely huge. Don’t plan a big lunch before a daytime tour, and don’t book a late dinner after an asado tasting unless you have a very ambitious appetite.

Are food tours in Buenos Aires worth the money?

They can be, if you choose the right one. Buenos Aires has excellent food at many price points, so you’re not paying just for the eating. You’re paying for context, logistics, access and a well-paced experience. If you’re the kind of traveller who enjoys understanding what you’re eating and doesn’t want to waste time on average choices, a good tour is usually worth it.

Do tours cater for dietary requirements?

Some do, but it varies a lot and Buenos Aires is a meat-forward food city. Most tours can cater for vegetarians, celiac and dairy intolerances, but check the websites or reach out to the operator to confirm.

What should I wear?

Comfortable shoes for walking tours. For the evening experiences, smart casual works well. If you’re doing a long tasting menu, wear something comfortable (hello stretchy pants!) because you will leave full.

Should I tip on food tours in Buenos Aires?

Tipping is not mandatory but it is appreciated. On a tour, it’s normal to tip your guide 10% if you enjoyed the experience. If gratuities are included, the booking page will usually say so. You usually tip in cash, but more guides are accepting tips by credit card.

Can I do more than one food tour without it feeling repetitive?

Yes, if you choose different styles. One asado experience plus one walking tour is a good combination because they focus on different parts of Buenos Aires food culture. Two similar walking tours can overlap more, so if you’re doing more than one, pick tours that focus on different neighbourhoods or have a different style.

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Best Food Tours in Buenos Aires: 8 Foodie Experiences Worth Your Time and Money