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.

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Yasmine_b
Jul 11, 2025
Super fun and loved our... - Super fun and loved our tour guide and driver . Would recommend 10/10. We went with only two other people that had been a couple . I loved the smaller crew as it gave more 1-on-1 time with everyone.
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Wanda_h
Jul 9, 2025
An Experience Promoting Diversity - My spouse and I had a wonderful experience with our tour guide, Adrian. He was enthusiastic and knowledgeable in describing the various venues that we visited.. Each venue had his own unique food choices, service, and a different cultural settings within each community ethnicity. The experience was truly a delightful multifaceted experience. By no means did we feel rushed. Adrian , allotted us ample time to enjoy the various foods as well as recommending delicious cold drinks that were out of the ordinary for me. Being a senior, each, and every time exiting the bus, Adrian extended his hand to assist me. I thought that was very considerate and polite. Lastly, but not least, it was my birthday. As a surprise, I was presented with a birthday cake, candle, and a Sombrero. Memorable pictures were taken. I would also like to give a shout out to Alex. Alex was of little words however, he was a fantastic driver! All in all my spouse and I had a wonderful and delightful day. Many thanks to Adrian and Alex! PS, The history behind the Mural wall was definitely an attribute during the tour.
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Roving42751389640
Jul 8, 2025
Carne y más carne😁!! Miam miam - MARAVILLOSOOO!!! Guys!! Adrían y Alex without exaggeration 1000% They explain, listen, repeat, joke, wait, translate. The Adrían choice's (restaurantes) son deliciosos y 100% Mexicanos 0 regrets
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Oluwafunmikegrace_d
Jul 5, 2025
Very interesting, very... - Very interesting, very knowledgeable guide. My self and daughter were very happy with the food tour. I will use Viator again
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Paul_s
Jul 4, 2025
Great Experience - The tour guide G was fantastic! He made the experience very interesting and entertaining at the same time. I would highly recommend this tour.
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Johnettal2025
Jul 2, 2025
Solo black female traveler (Texas) - Overall the tour was great, I find it easy to do smaller tours to make for a more intimate setting to meet and talk to people. It was 8 of us total with plenty of space. G and Angel were very helpful and professional. Very worth taking. El POLILLA was the first stop on the tour it looks like it is in an area for local dining. You get two tacos and a bottle of water or soda and the food was pretty good. You have a choice between two different tacos. I got the mixed taco. Taqueria Coapeñitos was our second stop where they have actual restrooms for you to use and wash your hands. You get a beef sandwich here that was pretty good and another drink of choice. Then back to a local area where they have a local market to walk around and buy souvenirs if you choose, the people are not aggressive. Of course you have your vendors that calls out to you to sit at their food place or to buy something but that’s the norm for a tourist. We were given about 30 minutes to walk around or go back to the van. I walked around and took in the culture taking plenty of pictures. We did not go to Lonchería El Pocito which is on there ‘what to expect’ page but to Los Meros de Jalisco a very nice restaurant where we were served a platter of chips and salsa and one taco with a drink of choice. For Desert you get an ice cream bar at Paleteria y Neveria La Michoacana a very cute mom and pop ice cream stand and to finish the tour we went to see local artist artwork painted on old apartment buildings. It’s a very short walk and gives you opportunity to take pictures in front of the buildings. I made it back to my hotel about 1:30pm, not an all day trip great opportunity for taking in some local sites, food, and socializing with plenty of time for other activities.
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Krista_m
Jul 1, 2025
Adrian and Angel were... - Adrian and Angel were fantastic guides!!!Very knowledgeable and super friendly. We really enjoyed ourselves.
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Yihwen_h
Jul 1, 2025
We had a wonderful... - We had a wonderful breakfast tour with G and Alex. They are very friendly to our children and one grandmother. We got a taste of the locally known tacos, gorditas, carnitas, and the local market charm. We really enjoyed the local market to get a look at the day to day lives of folks here. Thank you
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Jeansimon_g
Jun 25, 2025
Fantastic food tour! - The food tour was amazing! Angel drove very well into traffic and was always convenient for those who wanted to stay in AC. I hardly recommend, G bringed us to very good places! And gave us good advices on how to properly choose our dishes to have the proper mexican local food and all background to those!
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Latearia_p
Jun 24, 2025
Good and Fun Activity - This was a really a good and fun trip. Was able to taste the local food and visit the market. Bring cash for the market, they have a lot of cool souvenirs. Lastly, the tour guides were very nice and informative.
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).