Saffron Walden Food Tour: Taste Award-Winning Local Delights

Food tasting and cultural tours of historic Saffron Walden with professional food guide. Taste award winning food and drinks, made in the town centre, enough for a satisfying meal! Meet the business owners and food producers. Explore Saffron Walden 900 year old market place and the history of the town named after the worlds most expensive Spice!

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Saffron Walden - Explore a variety of independent food venues and shops, sampling unique food and drink products at each stop.

Learn about the culinary and retail history of our historic town center streets and view landmarks such as St. Mary’s Church, the 900-year-old market square, and the Grade 1 listed Sun Inn on Church Street.

What's Included
  • Snacks
  • Retail and food history of the town
Location
Saffron Walden Tourist Information Centre
Market Street
The Tourist Information centre is located on the corner of the central market place next to the town hall. Look for the guide outside the information centre with navy bag and Hello Food Tour purple fork logo.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Helenhcamb
May 23, 2025
A must for all foodies - Had a very enjoyable informative walk around Saffron Walden with our guide Rachel. She is very passionate about food & history. We were treated to the most delicious locally made/sourced food. The business owners were very friendly and it was very interesting hearing their stores of how they arrived here. I will definitely be back to visit more of the wonderful eateries of Saffron Walden.
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Hannahbz8983yr
May 9, 2025
Food tour - A very enjoyable informative tour that was great fun and tasted some delicious food. Rachel had really done her research. I would highly recommend this tour.
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Paul
May 3, 2025
Amazing Food tour - Amazing birthday treat, our guide Rachel was awesome, so knowledgeable and passionate about history and food. We learnt so much the town and enjoyed amazing food and drink at 7 different stops. Couldn’t recommend it enough.
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Mosiecambridge
Apr 17, 2025
Excellent food tour in historic, vibrant Saffron Walden - Thoroughly enjoyed Rachel’s food tour of Saffron Walden. Rachel is a delight, friendly and knowledgeable and although we shop fairly regularly in the town she showed us some shops and cafes which we didn’t know existed. All the venues and food tastings were impressive, from a wet fish shop, to a wonderful baker and a chocolatier. It was great to meet the hardworking and dedicated owners and staff and with its many vibrant independent businesses we can understand why Saffron Walden has been voted the number one place in the UK to live.
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Viajeramaryland
Mar 12, 2025
Day trip from Cambridge - If you go to Saffron Walden from Cambridge, it's likely to see St Mary's, the lovely, huge Perpendicular wool parish church included in Simon Jenkins' "England's Thousand Best Churches." Saffron Walden is also an ancient market town, full of wonky old buildings, where saffron was grown to dye wool yellow during the later Middle Ages. Rachel, the tour leader, is knowledgeable about the commercial history of the town and the old shops and markets, some with pargeting. The result is that you get a very good walking tour of the center of the town with a nice lunch along the way. Of the food establishments visited, the chocolatier, Hill St., is outstanding.
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Mobile36633908032
Mar 6, 2025
Sunny Saffron Walden Food Tour - Rachel was the perfect guide providing a highly informative and enthusiastic walk and munch around seven different establishments around Saffron Walden. With tons of great information about the food and social history of the town and a very warm welcome with delicious food and drink from passionate local independent businesses, it felt like a very special experience. Would highly recommend a food tour with Rachel!
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Shewhotreadslightly
Feb 27, 2025
A great day! - Had a brilliant tour. Lots of venues that we haven't tried before, interesting facts about the venues and owners and brilliant food.
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Juliahu9457ru
Dec 4, 2024
Hello Food tour of Bishops Stortford - Just been on a Hello Food Tours tour of Bishops Stortford - a 3 hour amble around the town, learning about its history and culinary heritage from the past and now. Explored (and tasted) a wide variety of foods from various cultures, while meeting and hearing the stories of the independent owners who have the passion for their food business. A very nice long lunch, and recommended.
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Josephines205
Nov 5, 2024
Fantastic experience - The tour was a gift and totally surpassed our expectations (which were already high!). Rachel was a mine of information and as well as introducing us to some delicious local food, she had some really interesting information about the town. It was my husbands birthday the day we did the tour, and all the places we stopped wished him a happy birthday.......he was thrilled! We would recommend the experience unreservedly!
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838lesleyf
Oct 30, 2024
Walking food tour - Really informative walk around town with some great food as well. Saffron Walden is a great town with lovely independent retailers
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From $80
up to 10 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).