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Dubrovnik Food Tour: Local Dishes & Old Town Landmarks

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Three Hours, Five Tastings, and the Story Behind Dubrovnik's Food

You walk through Dubrovnik's Old Town with a local guide, stopping at five family-run spots to taste traditional sweets, award-winning olive oils, cured meats, and black risotto, with a glass of wine included. The tour passes the Church of St. Blaise, Rector's Palace, and Orlando's Column, so you cover the main landmarks while eating your way through the city's culinary heritage — all in three hours, small group, no separate tickets to buy.

Step-by-step itinerary

Dubrovnik Old Town food and history tour

Introduction at Orlando's Column
Learn about St. Blaise
Visit Rector's Palace
See the largest church and treasury
Try traditional sweets at morning market
Taste olive oils, cured meats, and wine

The Experience

So you're standing at Orlando's Column and your guide is already laughing at how many tourists think it's just a random pillar — but it's actually the heart of the Old Town, and that's where this food tour kicks off. You get the history of Dubrovnik right there, the whole UNESCO-listed setup, and then the real reason you're here: the food. The next three hours move through the characterful streets and squares of the Old Town, stopping at five hand-picked local spots where you taste everything from traditional sweets like arancini and broštulane mendule to award-winning Croatian olive oils, cured meats, and cheese with a glass of wine.

The guide steers you past the Church of St. Blaise — the patron saint's been watching over the city for centuries, which is kind of the whole vibe of Dubrovnik — and then to the Rector's Palace, where you hear about the Republic and how it actually worked as a city-state. It's a food tour first, but the landmarks aren't just background noise; they're woven in because the food tells the story and the story tells you why the food matters. You stop at the cathedral with its treasury of religious artifacts, then hit the morning market square where locals still buy their daily stuff, and that's where the traditional sweets come in. By the time you reach that dramatic staircase and the wine tasting, you've walked maybe a mile total, eaten your way through five stops, and somehow learned more about this place than you would have from a guidebook.

The group stays small, which means you're not herding through with thirty people, and the local guide actually knows which spots are worth stopping at — not the ones with the best Instagram angle, but the ones where the owner's been making the same thing for twenty years. The black risotto, the rozata, the oils that have won awards — these aren't tourist versions of Dubrovnik food, they're the real thing, and you taste them in the places where they matter.

What’s included

Small-group experience with a licensed local guide.
five food tastings at hand-picked local spots including traditional sweets, award-winning Croatian olive oils, cured meats and cheese, black risotto and rozata.
one glass of wine with the cured meat and cheese tasting.
walking tour of the Old Town passing the Church of St. Blaise, Rector's Palace, Orlando's Column and the morning market square.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyInfant seats availablePublic transport nearby

Operated by Free Spirit Tours Dubrovnik

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to eat your way through Dubrovnik's Old Town without planning five separate stops yourself — the guide knows which places matter, the tastings are already arranged, and the landmarks are built into the walk so you see the city and understand its food culture at the same time.