Galway City Tour: Culture, Food, and Stories

Experience the best of Galway City on a 2.5-hour walking and tasting tour. Discover hidden gems, indulge in local cuisine, and immerse yourself in Irish culture with an expert local guide.

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • An Pucan Bar & Restaurant - First part of your ‘tasting’ during the tour.
    Please note that locations may vary in line with availability on the day
  • Eyre Square - Discover interesting stories about Eyre Square in the heart of Galway city
  • The Skeff Bar - Your second taste stop on your tour
    *Please note that locations may vary in line…
What's Included
  • Expert local guide-led walking tour
  • Included food and beverages
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities (optional)
Additional Information

Explore Galway on foot, absorbing the city’s flavors and tales from our well-informed resident guide. Delve into the city’s undiscovered spots, listen to significant anecdotes, and immerse yourself in our place’s vibrant culture.
Experience traditional cuisine and neighborhood delicacies, learn about Irish traditions and lineage from captivating Irish…

Location
Experience Galway - Walking Tours, Food Tours, Pub Tours and Whiskey Experiences in Galway, Ireland
Eyre Square
We meet at the Explore Galway kiosk in Eyre Square. **3pm Tour - Please check in for your tour with the staff at the 'Explore Galway' kiosk in Eyre Square.** **6pm Tour - You will meet your guide outside the 'Explore Galway' kiosk in Eyre Square. Give your name to check in for the tour**
Cancellation Policy

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

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Donaldjjj
Jun 10, 2025
Nice first night - This was a nice introduction to Galway. We had Lorraine as our guide. She was funny and also knowledgeable about the history of the area and it’s food and bar scene.
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Desmondphelan
Jun 6, 2025
Walk, Talk, & Taste: A great afternoon with an excellent guide - We did a food themed walking tour with Shane in May - in typical Galway fashion it was raining but Shane made the experience absolutely wonderful. We stopped in different food/drink establishments and learned plenty whilst laughing a lot. Many thanks from one tour expert to another! Luisa & Desmond (Desmond Tours)
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Lisama176tw
Jun 2, 2025
Fun in Galway - We didn’t know what to expect from the food tour but it ended up being both delicious and fun. The food was based on unique Ireland bar food (for when you need something to soak up the booze and each stop included a drink. Our guide John was knowledgeable and had a great sense of humour. Definitely a must do if you go to Galway.
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Beckymg8717hd
Jun 1, 2025
Fun, lots of Craic - Amazing. So much fun Our guide, John was fantastic. Very friendly, knowledgeable and entertaining. Took us to great pubs. GREAT FOOD AND DRINKS. We even ran into John thr day after our tour and he got us a seat at a pub and stayed and chatted with us all night. What a great way to learn Galway and see what we wanted to go back and check out. Highly recommend this tour. And if you get John... BONUS!!!
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Coastal635274
May 31, 2025
Tour is fun, informative-but not stuffy - Connor was a Great guide and we Loved this food/beer tour!! Lively history, story telling of food and culture of Galway and Ireland, and how it relates to the food/drink we were served. He also recommended bars, pubs, music to my college-age sons. We all would recommend—educational but not formal or stuffy.
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Greg_d
May 27, 2025
Great food, great drink, great tour guide. - Amazing tour! It is essentially a 3-course meal across 3 different pubs with historical stops in between. Our guide, Conor, was terrific! He walked us through the history of the foods we were eating and beers we were drinking, and shared a number of Galway stories of legend. As they say in Ireland, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” A terrific way to spend a couple hours learning about the history and experiencing the heart of Galway.
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Christopher
May 25, 2025
Great time with Sean - Great experience with Sean. Taught us some Irish Gaelic and our family name, cool bar stories, would recommend. Thank you!
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993barbarat
May 25, 2025
A stroll in Galway - Local knowledge was fun to learn, our host was exceptional. The food and drink were very good. Tour was a good balance of food, drink and stories. Would highly recommend.
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Journey56983478820
May 25, 2025
Fab - We had a great tour, despite the rain. Shaun was a great guide. It's much better than we expected for the food and drink. Local oysters, home-made bread, and filling locally soucedfood. Drinks that are local brewed were fab, too. We were left with one question. What's with the buffalo?
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Susan_b
Jun 10, 2025
Walking Tour - On time, Connor was very good, engaging, friendly and knowledgeable I was disappointed in the stops, the 'tastings' were very poor food items - a crisp (chips) sandwich, really? French fries (chips), with a piece of chicken at another stop and some sort of potato (?) ball. The tastings were 2 x beer, 1 kalhua shot and something that looked like a long island iced tea and was ghastly. There was no whiskey which I expected The description/itinerary shows we end at the Spanish Arch at an ice cream shop, we did not, we ended in a pub.
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up to 10 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).