Cancun Street Food Tour: Top 5 Local Dishes

Embark on a Cancun Street Food Tour and indulge in the best local street food dishes. Skip the lines and savor traditional recipes passed down through generations. Transportation and drinks included!

Duration: 3 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • EL POLILLA - The best carnitas tacos in town
  • Taqueria Coapenitos - Try a delicious a signature street dish from Mexico City.
  • Lonchería El Pocito - Yucatecan food
  • Paleteria and Neveria La Michoacana - Traditional ice cream and popsicles
  • Mercado 23 - Local Market visit: eating and strolling around
  • Bonampak - Murals from local artists to take pictures.
What's Included
  • Carbonated beverages
  • Lunch
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Bottled water
What's Not Included
  • Alcoholic beverages
  • Gratuities
  • Transport from Riviera M and Playa del Carmen has a cost of 15-20 usd depending on the location
Additional Information

Eat the best Cancun Street food trying a top selection of 5 local street food dishes, each one in a different place, including the Cancun Local Market.
With this skip-the-line tour, you’ll spend a day exploring our personal Cancun secret street food spots. You’ll avoid the long lines and hassle of ordering your meal onsite, which gives you more time to…

Location
La Parrilla Cancún
If you want to reach the starting point by yourself, we'll meet you at Restaurante La Parrilla Cancun. Our guide will wear a branded red t-shirt and will handle a branded banner.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Candace
Apr 15, 2025
Authentic Mexican Food - This was an awesome opportunity to try authentic Mexican tacos from different regions in Mexico. Without being with a local, it would be very difficult to find these excellent restaurants. 5 stars!!
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Ann_b
Apr 11, 2025
Loved this food tour! - I went on the food tour with my 12 year old daughter. Adrian and Angel were fantastic. Very informative and lovely people. We ate some great authentic Mexican food and got to experience downtown Cancun. Highly recommend!
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Ahmad
Apr 10, 2025
Amazing authentic trip! - Incredible time with a great tour guide and driver. I had a truly authentic meal and experience. I would like to thank our guide Alexi (likely spelling it wrong I sincerely apologize) and our driver! Thank you for an incredible time
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Jenniesu5298aw
Apr 10, 2025
Incredible Food and Guide G! - G was absolutely an amazing guide! And shoutout to our driver John as well. We had such a great time driving about downtown Cancun and the food was unbelievably amazing. I think the gorditas and the cochinita were my favorites. The portions were generous and each stop included some delicious drink options. We also enjoyed shopping at the market which was waaaay more fairly priced than the tourist one. I’m talking some items were 4-5 times cheaper. The tour was finished off with a visit to incredible and meaningful murals made by local students. I’d recommend this tour to anyone looking to leave their resort and experience a more authentic version of Cancun!
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Stephanie_l
Apr 9, 2025
Wonderful guide and amazing food - Adrien and Angel were super upbeat and seemed to really enjoy sharing their culture through food. The tour included a significant amount of food from places a typical tourist would not stop. All were delicious and the carnitas was exceptional. The time spent in Mercado 23 was great- no aggressive vendors and some fun and unusual food and souvenirs. We had a great time- highly recommend to anyone who wants to get off the resort for something special but not a full day
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Solow212
Apr 8, 2025
If you looking for excellent food and a excellent time do this tour - 5 out of 5,food was amazing and host and driver were amazing too. Would do it again this time I would take the cooking. Pictures were downloaded in case you want to see them
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Robin_m
Apr 7, 2025
Diego was an awesome... - Diego was an awesome guide. Responded well to having to change venues due to unforeseen circumstances. Delicious holes in the wall and local knowledge! Just what my wife and I were looking for in Cancun. Alex was an awesome driver.
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702arnieb
Apr 2, 2025
You Should Book This Amazing Tour - First of all, this tour picked us up at our hotel in the hotel zone--not all the tours will do that. I recommend that you eat a light breakfast. We had the best time! We ate and drank with the locals. We experienced the most authentic flavors in tacos, tamales, carnitas and tortas. I had the best horchata I've ever tasted. We visited a local, but very large market--again, we were the only tourists at this market. This was an excellent place to purchase gifts for our loved ones back home. We bought a dress shirt, t-shirts and obsidian there--all at amazing prices. This absolutely wonderful time was brought to us by our tour guide Adrian. He is very knowledgeable about local history, sharing some personal experiences and fun facts for excellent conversations. He personally chose our destinations and he was so right about each place. Shout out to Alex. Alex is a wonderful driver. Thanks, Adrian and Alex. This tour was amazing.
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Trebor1948
Apr 10, 2025
Nice intro to a variety of Tacos - A fun day trying tacos etc. from different areas of Mexico. Wish we had had at least one more taco stop-- the tour was shorter than expected but still worthwhile. Ice cream bars at the end was a nice way to wrap things up. The viewing of Street Art was just okay: wall drawings outside a middle school. Not true street art in the sense of murals by local artists.
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Carla_m
Mar 29, 2025
Beware - What a ripoff!! I booked this in November and my trip was this month in March. Now, this company sent an email in November confirming the reservation in which I didn’t know until March and sent it through the Viator app. We show up at 10:00am per the booking in the lobby. I never received instructions close to my reservation stating to meet this company in the lobby early. The company showed up at 9:30 and left. Did not try to contact me and I tried calling them, calling Viator to contact them and no one could get a response. Shady business is what I call this bc this company should have sent confirmation to me making sure I was aware of being in the lobby early bc I was there at 10:00 per my booking. I would not ever book with this company again.
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).