Buenos Aires: Private Tour with Wine Tasting & Local Food

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Free cancellationExcellent quality

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Duration4h

GroupPrivate

LanguagesEN · DE +3

PickupAt your hotel

Four neighborhoods, three food stops, one guide who knows where locals actually eat

You visit five major neighborhoods and landmarks — Caminito, Plaza de Mayo, Puerto Madero's Puente de la Mujer, Recoleta Cemetery, and Floralis Generica — with 15–20 minutes at each to photograph and absorb. Between stops, you eat a market pastry, a proper Argentine choripán, and taste selected wines at a boutique bar, all guided by someone who lives in the city. Hotel pickup and a bilingual guide are included, so you're not arranging transport or wondering what you're eating.

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Buenos Aires neighborhoods and cuisine

Visit Caminito street in La Boca
Walk along Avenida de Mayo from Plaza de Mayo
Explore San Telmo Market and try Creole patty
See Puente de la Mujer in Puerto Madero
Visit Buenos Aires Cathedral
Tour Recoleta Cemetery
Visit Athenaeum Grand Splendid bookstore
See Floralis Generica sculpture
Enjoy choripán at Porteño grill
Wine tasting at boutique wine bar

The Experience

What makes you want to slow down in a city? Usually it's the moment someone who lives there takes you somewhere you'd never find on your own. That's what this private tour does — it moves through Buenos Aires at your pace, not a schedule's pace, stopping in San Telmo, La Boca, Recoleta and Palermo with a local guide who builds the day around what you actually want to see and taste. The guide stays with you the whole time, which means no rushing between stops, no standing in a group waiting for stragglers. You get 15 to 20 minutes at each landmark — Caminito's 150-meter pedestrian street, the Recoleta Cemetery with its 90-plus historic mausoleums, Floralis Generica's 20-meter steel sculpture — long enough to really look, to ask questions, to take the photo that doesn't feel hurried.

The food part is what separates this from a standard city tour. You'll stop at San Telmo Market, one of the oldest in the city, and try a creole patty fresh from the oven. Then there's the porteño grill — a classic Argentine choripán with chimichurri, the way locals eat it, not the way it's plated for tourists. The guide knows which places have kept their character and which ones have turned into photo ops. After that comes a guided wine tasting at a boutique wine bar, where someone who understands Argentine wines walks you through what you're drinking and why it matters. It's not a rushed tasting; it's a conversation over a glass. The whole thing happens in an air-conditioned vehicle with a bilingual guide, so you're not translating menus or trying to figure out what the neighborhood actually is.

This works because it's built small. No large groups means the guide can adjust if you want to spend an extra ten minutes at the Athenaeum Grand Splendid — the bookstore The Guardian ranked as the second largest in the world, still housed in a former movie theater with its original frescoed ceiling and velvet curtain — or if you'd rather skip something and sit longer over wine. Hotel pickup is included, which saves you the negotiation of getting across the city on your own, and the vehicle is wheelchair accessible if that matters for your group. Soda and water come with the tour, and anyone over 18 can have wine included in the tasting.

What’s included

Your day includes hotel pickup in an air-conditioned vehicle, a bilingual local guide for the entire tour, soda and water throughout, a creole pastry tasting at San Telmo Market, an Argentine choripán with chimichurri at a historic porteño grill, and a guided Argentine wine tasting at a boutique wine bar. You'll also visit Caminito, Plaza de Mayo, Puerto Madero's Puente de la Mujer, Recoleta Cemetery, Floralis Generica, and the Athenaeum Grand Splendid bookstore, with 15–20 minutes at each landmark for photos and exploration.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleStroller friendlyInfant seats availablePets welcome

Operated by Depasseios

Is this one for you?Best for travelers who want to see Buenos Aires' main landmarks and taste real local food without the pace of a group tour — the private guide and small-group format are what make it possible to linger at each stop and eat where porteños actually go instead of where tour buses stop.