Is There a Food Tour in Bergen?

Yes. One dedicated food walk, and a short shelf of tastings and day trips around it. The walk runs three and a half hours, takes thirteen tastings across five cafés and restaurants, caps at eight people and finishes at Fløirestauranten on top of Mount Fløyen with the city underneath you. Return Fløibanen tickets are on the ticket. Beside it sit a new aperitivo tour, a lunch in somebody’s house, a ninety-minute cider tasting and a private two-hour walk. That is the whole list, and for a UNESCO City of Gastronomy it is a short one.

Dedicated food walksOne

The flagship3.5 hours, 13 tastings

Group sizeCapped at eight

Cooking classesNone

Brewery toursNone

Fish-market tastingsNone

What you can actually book

The food walk is the one to start with, because it is the only listing in the city that puts the food first from beginning to end. Eleven food tastings and two drink tastings, five venues, return Fløibanen funicular tickets on the ticket, and a guide whose job is to explain what is in front of you. Named along the way: fresh seasonal seafood, three cider tastings, traditional sardines, award-winning local chocolate, a brown-cheese cheesecake, a local meat and cheese platter, and seasonal meat and fish at the top of the hill. What a food walk involves.

The only real food walk

And what you cannot

There is no cooking class in Bergen. There is no brewery or beer tour. There is no tasting at the fish market, in the city whose fish market is the thing everybody photographs. If you arrived expecting to stand at a bench learning to press cod, that product does not exist here, and no amount of searching will turn it up. What exists instead is a guide walking you between rooms and translating — which, in a city where the famous cheese is not cheese and the famous soup is meant to taste sour, turns out to be the thing worth paying for.

The six-hour bus day is not a food tour

Search the food category and the first thing you meet is a six-hour bus day to the Hardangerfjord. Its entire food content is one freshly made Norwegian waffle and a small tasting of a local drink. It is a good day out and a bad food tour, and it is worth booking if what you want is the fjord and a waterfall you can walk behind. The fjord days, honestly.

Insider tip

Two of the listings are not suitable for vegans or vegetarians, and one house has a dog in it. Read the dietary page before you book, not after — it is the most common way somebody wastes a booking in this city.

The food walk, with live availability

Three and a half hours, thirteen tastings, five venues, capped at eight people, ending at Fløirestauranten with return funicular tickets included. Wheelchair accessible, free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead. Gratuities are not included, and nobody is waiting for one.

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Frequently asked questions

Is there a food walking tour in Bergen?

Yes, one: a three-and-a-half-hour walk through five cafés and restaurants with thirteen tastings, capped at eight people, finishing at Fløirestauranten on Mount Fløyen with return funicular tickets included. It is wheelchair accessible. The full list of what is bookable.

Is there a cooking class in Bergen?

No. There is no cooking class, no brewery tour and no tasting at the fish market. Bergen is a small city and its food-tour shelf is short. What is here is a food walk, a cider tasting, a home-hosted lunch, a new aperitivo tour and a private heritage walk. Compare the six listings.

Is the Hardangerfjord bus day a food tour?

No. It is a six-hour bus day out of the city and its whole food content is one waffle and a small tasting of a local drink. Everything else you eat that day you buy. Day trips with a meal in them.